SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Revenue growth is up 21% overall, and subscription growth is up 33% — at almost $5 Billion in ARR. It’s driven Atlassian stock up +28% after the results: Is SaaS back? So Atlassian is on a bit of a tear. Wall Street is happy. Let’s dig in. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

As Checkr follows usage-based pricing, it’s a transactional business that needs to be managed differently than a typical subscription SaaS model since they only earn revenue when the customer is using the product. Strengthening the pre and post-sales process ensures a better long-term solution fit.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

As a growing SaaS company, there is a lot to think about in a day: How is my ARR doing? vary on how they handle sales tax and SaaS. As a SaaS company, you could even get flagged for an audit because of quick growth. SaaS company Basecamp discovered the nee d for these steps firsthand. “ Are we delighting our costumes?

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2024

Dear SaaStr: How Can a SaaS Business Reactivate Churned Customers? RevenueCat manages 30% of all mobile apps subscriptions, across 10,000+ paid apps. RevenueCat manages 30% of all mobile apps subscriptions, across 10,000+ paid apps. The post Dear SaaStr: How Can a SaaS Business Reactivate Churned Customers?

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

Q: How many SaaS companies have 1 million customers? There aren’t that many companies in SaaS with 1 million paying customers. And customer count varies a lot based on pricing / ACV: Dropbox may have the most customers of any SaaS company — 15m+ at $2B in ARR. More here. More here. More here. appeared first on SaaStr.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. The differences between SaaS and B2C companies. 2: Payment structure SaaS is paid on a recurring basis. But most SaaS organizations still have the luxury of long-term (2+ year) contracts.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

SaaS pricing isn’t static – it’s a living strategy that grows with your company. From your first paying customers to enterprise domination, here’s how successful SaaS companies level up their pricing game to maximize growth and profitability at every turn.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 21, 2025

Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months. The promise of SaaS is that growth in the early years leads to profits in the mature years.

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Cloud Pricing Payment Features Subscription 188

Stax

MAY 20, 2024

The concept of unearned revenue can easily trip up SaaS companies that offer subscription services and products on a recurring basis. Unlike when selling ordinary products, you cannot recognize the revenue earned from a subscription all at once. In the case of SaaS subscriptions, this could take several months—or even years.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 16, 2024

How FastSpring drastically simplifies the entire cross border payments process for SaaS, software, mobile game, and other digital product businesses. FastSpring handles the entire payment process from checkout to remitting end-of-year taxes for SaaS companies. Elimination of need to monitor changing tax laws and requirements worldwide.

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities.

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Merchant Services Payments Payment Features Subscription 158

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. But like “Cloud” and “SaaS”, its definitely has evolved. But like “Cloud” and “SaaS”, its definitely has evolved. Call it ARR.

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Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 360

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 28, 2025

Data from Stripe (below) shows the speed at which AI native companies are growing compared to SaaS companies. The bar to hitting escape velocity went up (in SaaS companies vs their on prem counterparts). So you can’t apply the same pattern match to AI company scaling that existed in SaaS company scaling.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2024

RevenueCat is the dominant solution to manage subscriptions in the mobile world. mobile apps with a subscription use their API/SDK, and they have a massive data set. But many of the largest SaaS and B2B vendors, from Notion to other leaders, use RevenueCat as well to manage mobile subscriptions. Over 30% of U.S.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

With everything in AI moving so rapidly, what’s the best way to price Artificial Intelligence products or SaaS tools with custom AI features and integrations? Should it be subscriptions, usage, solutions, or something entirely different? If so, keep a simple subscription model. Is the most important thing for them a fixed cost?

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 3, 2025

SaaS has revolutionized how we work, but let’s be honest, managing all those subscriptions can feel like juggling flaming torches. This blog is your guide to conquering SaaS chaos. Whether you’re a seasoned sysadmin or just starting to dip your toes into the SaaS world, we’ve got you covered.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By Inga Broerman How Usage-Based Pricing is Transforming Subscription Billing The subscription economy is undergoing a transformation, driven by the rising popularity of usage-based pricing. The days of flat-rate subscriptions being the default option are gone. Your ERP cannot bill usage subscriptions.

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Payment Features Subscription Pricing Artificial Intelligence 52

FastSpring

JANUARY 28, 2025

Are you a Digital River customer in emergency need of a new payment and subscription provider ASAP? FastSpring has already helped many Digital River customers make the switch , and if youre looking for a new merchant of record to help your digital business with payments and subscriptions, were here to help you, too.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 141

Clouded Judgement

DECEMBER 20, 2024

The promise of SaaS is that growth in the early years leads to profits in the mature years. It shows the number of months it takes for a SaaS business to payback their fully burdened CAC on a gross profit basis. Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA.

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Cloud Banking Payment Features Subscription 144

SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2024

Let’s talk about Vimeo and what it’s really like to make a large public SaaS company profitable in a short amount of time. They also have a media segment, a separate business supporting creators who want to do subscription-based video monetization. One of the more interesting experiences is Adam is now a major SaaS buyer.

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AI Search SaaS Advertising Sales Hiring 271

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The current public market environment might look like a great SaaS crash for many people. As things appear to slow, how do we get back to the fundamentals, find the things that are great about SaaS that are measurable, and help people see the value in your business? It captures the predictability of SaaS revenue and built-in growth.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2021

Indian SaaS hybrid super success stories. but with 3,800 of 4,300 employees in India, and customers spread across the globe — Freshworks is a great example of the future of SaaS. Many of us older timers in SaaS will continue to think of Freshworks as mainly Freshdesk, but that’s hardly the case.

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Scale SMB Scaling Payment Features 361

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

Moving some, all, or simply more of your software offerings from a one-time perpetual license model to a software as a service (SaaS) subscription model can be daunting, but it’s so powerful for building dependable, recurring revenue. Letting FastSpring handle the subscription infrastructure. So that gets complex.

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Payments SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

SaaStr Annual has always been the go-to event for SaaS founders, executives, and investors, but 2025 is shaping up to be the best one yet. AI is transforming SaaS, and were dedicating two massive stages to the SaaStr.AI 300+ World-Class Speakers This years lineup includes 300+ speakers from the best SaaS and AI companies worldwide.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months. The promise of SaaS is that growth in the early years leads to profits in the mature years.

Enterprise 157

Enterprise AI Cloud Artificial Intelligence 157

Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 10, 2024

If your SaaS business’s customer base is rapidly growing, you would require a more scalable billing platform to handle high volumes of transactions for you. If a business wants to shift to an entirely new model, such as it wants to move from a traditional model to a subscription based one, it needs to migrate to a new billing system.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services Systems Review SaaS Payments 105

BetterCloud

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Is your SaaS budget feeling like a leaky bucket? With the proliferation of SaaS tools, it’s easy to get caught up in the excitement of new shiny objects without considering the long-term costs. What is SaaS spend management? This often leads to duplicated services and unnecessary expenses.

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SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2022

So is Square a SaaS company? And yet … and yet … its engine is all software and really SaaS. Let’s see what we can learn from a SaaS perspective: #1. Going international takes a lot of work in many fintech SaaS. Subscriptions and services are growing 72% at a $3B run-rate. Going upmarket.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Revenue 297

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 7, 2025

Quarterly Reports Summary Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months. The promise of SaaS is that growth in the early years leads to profits in the mature years.

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Cloud Forecasting Payment Features Subscription 157

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Rather, it charges for software subscriptions to take payments on its websites. It’s very helpful to see this called out for SMBs, and is pretty low for a public SaaS company. 70% annual, 30% monthly subscriptions.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Fair and competitive pricing, especially in the SaaS arena has emerged as a strong requirement for businesses looking for operational stability. Dynamic pricing SaaS can certainly be a winning strategy for businesses looking to stay relevant to the consumers interests. What is Dynamic Pricing SaaS?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 18, 2022

But for the most part, SaaS and software companies didn’t SPAC. For the most part, SaaS companies that were strong and wanted to bypass a traditional IPO instead did a Direct Listing, allowing them to “go public” with no dilution and minimal costs. 105% NRR from its subscription customers. Let’s dig in.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2024

750k-$4m checks for SaaS, Cloud and B2B startups at from $10k-$200k MRR. RevenueCat is the market leader for managing mobile subscription apps, with over 30% of U.S.-based based mobile subscription apps using their SDK and API to manage mobile subsriptions. A big week at SaaStr Fund! Some great news this week: #1.

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