SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

One leader in SMB commerce is Lightspeed Commerce, founded way back in 2005. And their mix of software, payments and hardware revenue drives up the total deal size — but puts a lot of pressure on margins. 39% of their revenues from software, and going down. Driving up ARPU at scale key to growth with SMBs.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space. It was an Embedded Finance play starting with payments. [It

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Want to see more content like this? Hi, everybody.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. Both of you sell into SMBs, which is a notoriously difficult segment. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? Alex: The other side of the equation on customer acquisition is monetization. It’s a transaction business.

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Stax

APRIL 11, 2024

SMB owners wear many hats, managing everything from staff to sales. Adding to the already tough job of managing a small or medium business is the complex task of understanding how payment processing works, including managing the fees, equipment, accounts payable and more. Learn More What is a Payment Management System?

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Lifetime Value (LTV) is a metric that shows the average revenue generated by a customer before they churn. By calculating your customer’s LTV, you can get a better idea of how much each new customer will add to your overall revenue and how much you can justify spending on customer acquisition. In doing so, their LTV tripled.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Almost all revenue is from new contracts.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors. million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. Azure’s marketplace has over 4 million monthly visitors.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Clockify – Best Reporting Features Time Doctor – Best for Employee Monitoring Toggl Track – Best for Holding Everyone Accountable TSheets – Best for GPS Monitoring Tick – Best for SMB Time Management. By integrating with services like Quickbooks and PayPal, these tools can handle the job in a few clicks.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In other words, we are now in an era of subscriptions, in which businesses are progressively moving towards subscription-based business models. How is your digital business keeping up? Here are three reasons why you can’t overlook subscription services. Introduce another revenue stream.

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Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Although credit cards have been around since the 1950s, in recent years, they’ve started to dethrone cash from its position as king of payment methods. With a whopping 84% of American adults owning at least one credit card (the average is 3 credit card accounts per person), card payments reached $9.43 trillion in 2021.

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Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

Their marketing team may be using Account Based Marketing tactics to generate some leads, but majority of business is won by the Sales team prospecting, outreaching and closing deals and marketing plays more of a supporting function. Revenue Model – A description of how the company generates revenue. Business Resources.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

See what the top 10 platforms you should be looking at in 2021 are to make an informed decision for your business needs. Enterprise CRM vs. SMB CRM. Additionally, unlike small CRMs, enterprise CRM platforms are usually able to connect with many other tools. Looking for the TL;DR? 10 best enterprise CRM solutions for 2021.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

Stripe’s Head of North America Revenue & Growth, Jeanne DeWitt, on driving growth through customer expansion. Our Head of Sales Ops, Jeff Serlin, and our Director of Demand Generation, Brian Kotlyar, on how sales and marketing should work together to build a single revenue plan. Jeanne DeWitt talks driving expansion revenue.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

However, even though everyone is now aware of cohort analyses, and every major web, product, or revenue analytics product offers features for cohort analysis, it still requires time to fully comprehend everything you need to know about cohort analyses and, perhaps more importantly, to utilize them to obtain real, actionable insights.

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User Pilot

JULY 18, 2023

TL;DR Customer churn is the rate at which users discontinue their subscription or stop using a particular product or service. Types of churn rates you should calculate: customer churn rate, revenue churn rate , and involuntary churn rate. Monthly recurring revenue. The average revenue per user. Revenue churn calculation.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Churn Rate Churn rate basically defines the long-term trajectory of a business. Low churn allows recurring revenue to grow, improves growth rate, and reduces the risk of long-term value loss. SMB SaaS companies tend to have higher churn rates due to their lower demand and less sophisticated needs.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Annual Recurring Revenue. Analytics is the active study of different types of data with the aim of discovering meaningful patterns and translating these into insight (such as historical analyses and forecasts), or action (such as those intended to improve business performance). . AB Testing.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. In 2019 there will be an increase in subscription fatigue.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. Ultimately, the purpose of generating revenue is what gets you in the business loop. Why is it important?

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

Are you looking for a merchant of record that will help you grow your subscription software business? FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? This is also annual payments only. The bigger comment is divorce from contract; it’s just based on payments. If you joined late, we went through definitions.

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SaaS Payments Retention Metrics Payment Solutions 72

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

There are many vendor benefits, too — it is easier to sell and it embodies a customer success solution orientation that drives high customer lifetime value and revenue. Companies that do not need to lock customers in with minimum commitments, particularly in the SMB space, use these types of models. Less predictable revenue.

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Pricing Payment Solutions Outsourced Development Compensation 52

ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. In 2019 there will be an increase in subscription fatigue.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive. This is creating a new value proposition for your existing audience so that you can acquire, retain, and/or monetize them better. I have written more about platforms here. What gives?

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. During his time at Optimizely, the company grew from from $7 to >$90M in ARR and from 40 to 400 people.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? They need an upgrade your tools and infrastructure process, everything needs.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? So when Oracle acquired Siebel, funnily enough, they had this hidden gem, which was Siebel on Demand, which was a SaaS CRM platform, competing with the likes of SalesForce.com, that Oracle had acquired. How does Vikas think about professional services?

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SaaS Payments Cloud Technical Review Sales Hiring 159

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Note: FastSpring’s Revenue and Subscription Dashboards quickly show our customers where their revenue is coming from, the average order value or MRR per country, promotions performance per country, and more. “So I can see: is there an ecosystem around what’s happening that I can maybe try to tie into with my marketing?”

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Here are a few of the trends that we are hearing about from CFOs, investors and lenders: Flexible pricing models and payment terms: A couple of things are happening here. Many are experimenting with changing subscription lengths to accommodate new customers and conversely, extending contracts beyond 12 months to lock in enterprise customers.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Trends Payment Solutions 59

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Billion run rate (most of it not software, but that’s the revenue run rate), it’s growing at a stunning 31%. International Revenue Up +33%. 50% of Revenue Outside North America. Shopify has just 45% of its revenue in the U.S. Relatively speaking, SMB online is softer. #4. Holy cr*p Shopify. Maybe less.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Barely over five years old, the company has analyzed over 200 million subscriptions and over a billion customer transactions. Top companies have responded to shifting dynamics, moving from product to platform.

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