With a low price point, I think you might have trouble converting them to a subscription. Like you mentioned, I think you need to offer a perk or repackage the product with a new name and a few more hooks (features, better value) to get them to convert to a new pricing model which would be more expensive for them in the long run.

In my experience and industry, it helps to be in the ballpark as the competitors but not the same. If you are much higher, you better have a great story and message. If you can't differentiate your product for the price sensitive buyers then it is hard to stay in the running. Pricing is a hard topic and you might have to experiment a bit.

We mainly invoice our enterprise customers who pay by check or ACH. However, some do have purchase cards that they use and make payments as high as 100K on a credit card.

Customer acquisition and retention. And your customer acquisition cost (CAC). Will it be scalable at some point or are the sales economics just not there. I.e. you continue to burn cash even though ARR is growing.

I agree. I live in a long sales cycle world for software subscriptions so the typical monthly SaaS metrics don't tend to tell me much or work.

I think the same metrics are important but you might calculate them on different time horizons.

I still look at net churn by customer and dollar, ARR, CAC, LTV, ACS, and more.

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I see Sales and Revenue as the same thing. I think when you say Sales you are referring to Bookings? We track bookings (signed contracts) and GAAP revenue by customer. I think it is important to track both and you will be asked for your average ARR or MRR per customer and even a waterfall of GAAP revenue by customer.

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