Finance
Explore the financial intricacies and strategies that underpin pricing excellence.
How Are SaaS Companies Pricing AI?
AI is transforming SaaS, but it's driving up costs. Todd Gardner explores how companies are thinking about AI pricing—whether to charge more, offer it for free, or use consumption-based pricing. If you're adding AI, this blog offers valuable insights to help guide your pricing decisions.
Manage billing for all pricing models in a single tool
With m3ter Recurring Charges, B2B SaaS vendors can automate bill calculation for subscriptions, and also combine these with usage-based pricing to creatively design hybrid models.
A powerful solution for flexible usage drawdowns
With m3ter, vendors can enable their end-customers to draw down from any number of Balances in any currency, all tracked in real-time.
Transforming raw SaaS usage data into billing metrics
Find out more about how Metering by m3ter, can turn any data into a billable metric, no matter how complex your pricing is.
Announcing the m3ter Connector for Salesforce
We are pleased to announce the m3ter Connector for Salesforce! This tool automates syncing customer agreements from Salesforce to m3ter, reducing errors and manual work while speeding up order provisioning. Drive growth effortlessly with our seamless integration, now on Salesforce AppExchange.
The 4 key steps in a usage-based billing workflow
Curious about the ideal Usage-Based Billing workflow? This article highlights four crucial steps: sourcing and preparing data, loading and calculating data, delivering calculations to billing systems, and establishing continuous billing.
How to build a high-impact pricing committee
In this article, James Wood from m3ter breaks down the ins and outs of pricing committees for SaaS businesses, covering what they are, why they matter, who's involved, when they come into play, and how they work.
The 5 biggest pricing challenges in Fintech—and how m3ter can help
Fintech systems tend to struggle with the data requirements of usage-based pricing. Yet, most modern fintech companies implement some form of it. m3ter’s goal is to help eliminate these pricing and billing pain points with seamless integrations and near-real-time access to client usage data.
Tips on building a hybrid pricing model for SaaS
Looking for guidance on crafting a hybrid pricing model for your SaaS venture? Todd Gardner provides insights on choosing the optimal metrics, analyzing their performance, and determining when to proceed or abstain.
Stop leaving money on the table: How subscription + usage pricing boost revenue
Unsure how to implement hybrid pricing for your business? This playbook covers planning, pricing experiments, customer research, readiness, and gradual launch.
How does your growth strategy impact your pricing strategy?
Pricing can be a puzzle. In Todd Gardner's latest blog, he digs into the often overlooked factor in pricing—your company's growth strategy.
How m3ter supports Saas businesses at every stage of the pricing journey
In our last blog, written by Griffin Parry, co-founder of m3ter, we discussed alignment during pricing transformation. Here, Griffin explains how m3ter facilitates this process with common data, shared tools, and support throughout the process.
Validating pricing in sales-led SaaS
In the blog post titled "Validating Pricing in Sales-led SaaS," author Todd Gardner discusses the importance of pricing validation in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) market, offering insights from pricing experts Chris Mele and Nick Zarb.
Changing your pricing strategy is useless unless you fix this first
In his latest blog post, Todd Gardner explores the topic of pricing chaos and its potential impact on a business's bottom line. Gardner interviews Chris Mele from Software Pricing, who offers valuable insights into the root causes of pricing chaos and the most effective strategies for addressing it.
6 Ways Consumption-Based Pricing Can Reduce Churn in a Downturn
In times of economic uncertainty, businesses must do all they can to remain competitive and retain their customers. Fortunately, six steps can help optimize your consumption pricing for retention during a downturn.
Comparing growth trends in consumption vs subscription SaaS
Gain insights into consumption and subscription SaaS performance during downturns with Todd Gardner's guest blog. This data-driven analysis offers crucial knowledge on pricing and revenue growth trends.
How to improve Net Revenue Retention (NRR), according to a SaaS finance expert
Are you looking to boost your SaaS company's net revenue retention but unsure where to start? This blog will provide you with strategies to improve NRR. By breaking up the ways to improve NRR into 2 main categories. Read on for more.
3 ways to maximize customer retention with your SaaS pricing strategy
Want to boost customer retention for your SaaS business? Check out our article that provides an overview of 3 pricing approaches. While not exhaustive, it is a great starting point to unleash your creative pricing potential and keep your business flourishing.
Preparing your board for usage-based pricing
Uncover the keys to successfully implementing usage-based pricing and ensuring buy-in from your board. In this guest blog, Todd Gardner shares valuable insights on preparing your board for usage-based pricing, outlining both its benefits and drawbacks.
Not All Churn is the Same
In this guest blog, Todd Gardner, explains where the early warning signs of a “churn wave” might first appear and when UBP can be deployed.
A coming wave of churn?
In this guest blog, Todd Gardner, explains why he thinks that there's a wave of churn about to happen for SaaS companies.
How to select the best pricing metric?
Todd Gardner founded SaaS Capital, a leading venture debt fund, and has deep domain knowledge in SaaS. In this guest blog, he talks us through the seven criteria to look at when assessing a potential usage-based pricing metric.
How m3ter deals with billing complexities for customers
Our first two articles in this series walked you through the effects of UBP on billing operations and what your financial teams need to know about implementing a UBP strategy. Now that we’ve gone in-depth on this topic, we’ll run you through how m3ter deals with these complexities in billing.
Implementing Usage-Based Pricing: What Your Financial Teams Need to Know
In our latest blog, we run through what financial teams need to know for the smooth implementation of usage-based pricing.
How Usage-Based Pricing Affects Billing Operations
We examine the opportunities and pitfalls of usage-based pricing as well as how finance teams can mitigate the challenges involved.
The impact of net revenue retention on SaaS company valuations
Todd Gardner founded SaaS Capital, a leading venture debt firm, and has deep domain knowledge in SaaS. In this guest blog, he explains why Net Revenue Retention (NRR) has such a profound impact on a SaaS company’s valuation, and provides some basic tools to quantify the valuation impact.
Usage-based pricing is the best way to drive net revenue retention
Todd founded SaaS Capital, a leading venture debt fund, and has deep domain knowledge in SaaS. In this guest blog, he discusses why NRR is the single most important metric for a SaaS business, and how usage-based pricing can improve it.
Foundations of usage-based pricing in SaaS
Usage-based pricing is being increasingly used within the SaaS space. This short guide explains what it is, highlights the trends that are driving its adoption, explores its advantages, and reviews common deployment challenges.
Here's what usage-based pricing means for your operations and GTM
Deploying usage-based pricing requires new operational and GTM capabilities. We review four of the key challenges, and discuss how they all share an underpinning - usage and spend data.
Is usage-based pricing right for my SaaS business?
Todd Gardner founded SaaS Capital, a leading venture debt fund, and has deep domain knowledge in SaaS. In this guest blog, he considers the circumstances in which usage-based pricing is a good fit.
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