SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2021

Q: What is a good model for SaaS product sales commission? The average package price is USD 500 for subscription/month. Sometimes for very transactional, low ACV sales, the percent can be lower. Sometimes for very transactional, low ACV sales, the percent can be lower. That’s pretty do-able for inside sales.

Scale 230

Scale Sales Compensation Churn 230

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We are excited to share the release of three new groundbreaking features designed to turbocharge your subscription revenue! They also complement several other subscription focused capabilities we have released over 2023. Check out our announcements for the Proration Preview and Subscription Plan Change History APIs. Interested?

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Subscription Payment Features Payment Methods Payment Solutions 167

FastSpring

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Further still, if you want redundancy in your ability to accept cross border payments — which everyone should have to ensure they never lose sales to payment system down time — this at least doubles your complexity in each region. You can’t get fast, meaningful revenue expansion with slow, piecemeal geographical expansion.

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Outsourcing Services 158

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 7, 2022

The promise of live chat for sales teams is being able to connect faster with higher quality leads. But any target-focused sales professional will want to know: how well does live chat actually work? Want to get started with live chat for sales? Why live chat is the missing ingredient in your sales funnel. Opportunity.

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Sales Funnel Sales Headcount Subscription 245

FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

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. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally?

Merchant Services 158

Merchant Services Payments Subscription Payment Features 158

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.

Payment Features 167

Payment Features Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 167

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Inga Broerman How High-Performing Subscription Businesses Maximize NRR For subscription-based businesses, Net Revenue Retention (NRR) is the ultimate measure of growth and sustainability. If a business is retaining and expanding existing customer revenue , it can grow without constantly chasing new sales.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

By Kegham Khrigian The New Standard for Subscription Renewals: Intelligent, Automated, and Scalable For subscription businesses, renewals are the foundation of predictable revenue and long-term growth. Subscription models thrive on automation, accuracy, and data-driven decision-making and renewals should be no different.

Payment Features 59

Payment Features Subscription Payments Payment Services 59

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Everything from hiring on the GTM side to layering in a sales-led motion into PLG. From a Go-To-Market perspective, Zapier uses a hybrid model that involves a combination of freemium offerings, subscription plans, and partnerships. Let’s dive into what’s making that hybrid model successful: PLG and Sales Led?

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Scale Sales Hiring Sales Marketing 314

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As always, our support and sales engineering specialists are available to help if you need assistance along the way. Add a Subscription to Cart PHP & Javascript <? Add a Subscription to Cart PHP & Javascript <? > Expand Subscription Creation via FastSpring Webhook PHP & Javascript <?

Subscription 158

Subscription Payment Features Merchant Services Payment Methods 158

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.

Merchant Services 136

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 136

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

How do you build a sales organization from scratch? What about moving from founder-led sales to building a sales team and scaling your revenue growth? Build a predictable sales process. Before you hire your first sales reps, you need to have a justifiable reason to do so. Cold calling.

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Sales Hiring Scale Revenue Sales 246

FastSpring

AUGUST 12, 2024

Throughout the year, sales and subscription management teams juggle hundreds or thousands of subscription upgrades, add-ons, and renewals across customer accounts. Create accurate proforma invoices for subscription renewals, upgrades, downgrades, and add-ons to streamline budgeting and pre-approve costs.

Payment Features 147

Payment Features Payments Subscription Payment Services 147

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Hear from Duo Security’s VP of Inside Sales America on how to build a $2.3B sales team. Jennifer Lawrence | VP, Inside Sales @ Duo Security. Today I’m going to start by telling you a little bit about me, a little bit about Duo, and then the secrets to building a killer inside sales org. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 292

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

An open discussion with Sam Blond, CSO at Brex, and Kristen Habacht, VPS at Atlassian, about adjusting their sales process during Covid-19. Kristen Habacht runs EDR sales at Atlassian, which I got a check today, $40 billion-$50 billion company. Four, people in the sale? Kristen Habacht: Well, there’s none in sales.

Merchant Services 256

Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 256

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You might be surprised to know that SaaS companies can learn a lot from their consumer subscription counterparts. So even though you do need to continually win your subscriber on an ongoing basis, by the time it comes up for that first renewal, the sales rep may be long gone. 1: Balance acquisition, engagement, and retention.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Subscription Payment Features B2B 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Sales up 22%! Owner.com has distinguished itself by consolidating dozens of point solutions into a single, integrated platform that helps small business owners compete effectively online. A huge congrats to Team @owner for a record start to 2025!! New restaurants up +31% in 1 month! Join a rocketship.

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AI Technical Review Artificial Intelligence Systems Review 220

SaaStr

DECEMBER 25, 2022

RevenueCat (where I was lucky enough to be the first investor) automates subscription management for mobile apps. It recently published its annual review of data from the 10,000+ mobile apps it powers subscription management for and I learned a few interesting things: Longer Trials Are Better.

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Mobile Payment Features Subscription Data 327

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Wondering how your SaaS business got slapped with a multi-million dollar sales tax bill from one or multiple states? Probably because you, like so many other SaaS companies out there, didn’t even know you had to collect and remit sales tax. Sales tax laws across the United States are pretty inconsistent, especially for SaaS solutions.

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New CTO SaaS Sales CTO 223

SaaStr

MAY 10, 2024

So HubSpot had a great quarter, despite there being many challenges in the sales and marketing segments overall in the past 18 months: $2.5B This is probably what most of you are seeing for pure-play B2B SaaS sales, too. What about outside of sales and marketing software etc? mobile subscriptions. It just hasn’t.

B2C 279

B2C Mobile B2B Subscription 279

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

How do you win with a high-velocity sales strategy in a fast-moving, competitive market? In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process. Sign up for free.

Sales Hiring 199

Sales Hiring SMB Sales Recruiting Payment Methods 199

Blulogix

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Centralizing pricing data not only reduces the chance of errors but also helps ensure that all teams—from sales to finance—are working with consistent information. Automate Proration and Usage-Based Adjustments : One common challenge for UCaaS companies is managing proration and changes to subscription levels mid-cycle.

Pricing 110

Pricing B2B Subscription Payment Features 110

SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2024

A magic cure for sales costs that are just too high. Sometimes in great ways — forcing B2C subscription businesses to relentlessly provide a great end-user experience. Every month, the meal kit, the clothing, the game subscription, the video subscription almost has to be better than the month before.

Retention 315

Retention B2C B2B Churn 315

SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2022

5 Interesting Learnings: #1, 16,000 customers at an average of $100,000 per customer — with a mix of inside sales, field sales, and free trials. CrowdStrike has admirable sales & marketing efficiency. They’ve crossed $1.7 Billion in ARR growing a breathtaking 65% year-over-year. ” Wow!

Scale 310

Scale Cloud Scaling Subscription 310

SaaStr

APRIL 8, 2020

Click here for ChartMogul’s free-forever launch plan that will give SaaS businesses access to the world’s first subscription data platform so they can analyze and improve key metrics like MRR, churn and LTV. Mixmax is the #1 sales engagement platform for the complete sales cycle. What are they all about?

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Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence SaaS Consulting 301

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

1 Sales tax. Have you memorized the sales tax rates for all 14,000 jurisdictions in the U.S.? This means collecting and reporting on sales tax isn’t just a time-suck—it’s a liability. Save yourself the hassle by automating your sales tax collection and reporting. Your accounting team hasn’t either.

Business 327

Business Marketplace as a Service AI Search compliance 327

Chart Mogul

JANUARY 9, 2025

So read on, and hopefully, your SaaS sales journey will be less about trial and error and more about steady progress toward success. Whats important to note is that each model targets a distinct customer persona and, therefore, has a unique approach to the customer journeyfrom brand awareness to sales and, ultimately, conversion.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This is where traditional SaaS methods like subscription pricing only, driving growth through headcount only, or a pure sales GTM strategy only live. PLG is about investing in product and data instead of sales and marketing. Another huge cost of goods or sales is Cloud spend. You don’t want to be there.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payments Headcount 297

SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2021

This is pretty impressive for a high ACV SMB sale, although pretty consistent with where Zendesk is today as well at 120%. #3. 62% of revenue from annual subscriptions. A reminder that, like Zoom , you don’t have to force annual subscriptions. NRR of 118%. 49% revenue growth from 20% customer growth.

Scale 361

Scale SMB Scaling Subscription 361

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Meghan Gill, SVP of Sales Ops and Sales Dev at MongoDB, shares different consumption-based compensation models that drive the right behaviors. Then, we moved to a more customer-friendly model with SaaS and subscription-based pricing. They reoriented their sales team and de-incentivized reps from making deals upfront.

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Compensation Sales Azure AWS 173

FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2025

Justin Sacks (02:08) Taking me back, I think I got a summer job in high school so that I could pay for my own WoW subscription. Back in the day, games, well, at least large online multiplayer games, required a subscription rather than just a one-time fee. How many years you recall did you pay for the subscription?

Payments 164

Payments Mobile Payment Methods Revenue 164

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 24, 2025

It might also boost sales forecasting accuracy by using your enterprise’s historical transaction data to predict future trends more reliably. Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4).

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Enterprise AI Cloud Artificial Intelligence 157

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2024

RevenueCat manages 30% of all mobile apps subscriptions, across 10,000+ paid apps. Whatever you do, create a dedicated marketing (and if you can sales) effort here. This may sound simple, but the #1 thing you can and should do is create a series of marketing campaigns targeted only to churned customers. What does it see?

Churn 310

Churn Business SaaS Mobile 310

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Cyvatar is a technology-enabled cyber security as a service (CSaaS) provider disrupting a $150 billion industry by introducing and delivering smarter, measurable managed security subscriptions to help you achieve compliance and security faster and more efficiently.

Banking 260

Banking Payment Features Venture Capital Subscription 260

SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2021

Since the dawn of the age of the subscription, forcing people to keep paying to use some small part of a web service has been a common strategy. And making it hard to leave a subscription has probably been a strategy employed by some since the very first gym opened. Sales teams and many others forget this.

Social Media 297

Social Media Scale Churn Subscription 297

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Folks churn out of their Verizon plan, their Netflix subscription, etc. In a low-end subscription model for a tool, not a solution (e.g., But you, your VP of Sales, and your VP of Customer Success should know which Big Customers are at risk almost immediately upon signing. semi-commodity storage, semi-commodity hosting, etc.

Churn 362

Churn Sales Hiring Systems Review B2C 362

Clouded Judgement

OCTOBER 11, 2024

For software companies, this phenomenon can be a tailwind, as it drives accelerated deal closures and increased sales velocity, sometimes with less price sensitivity from buyers looking to quickly deplete their budgets. Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA.

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Cloud Cost optimization & reporting GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Software Review 167