scaling operations in the subscription economy (subscribed13)
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Quo$ng Ordering Fulfillment/Shipping Invoicing Payment/
Collec$on Accoun$ng
The Quote to Cash Process in the Subscription Economy
Traditional one-time charge economy
What is different with the Subscription Economy?
Quote Order Subscription
Revenue event
Revenue event
Revenue event
Invoice Payment
Invoice Payment
Invoice Payment
Revenue Recognition Upsell
Upsell
Upsell
Order Order
Order
Provisioning
Quote to Cash to Accounting in the Subscription Economy
Quote Order Subscription
Revenue event
Revenue event
Revenue event
Invoice Payment
Invoice Payment
Invoice Payment
Revenue Recognition Upsell
Upsell
Upsell
Order Order
Order
Provisioning
Sales Ops (aka Front End)
Billing Ops & Revenue Ops (aka Back End)
Two Sides of the Same Coin
• Quoting • Ordering • Sales Commission • Subscription Management • Provisioning • Upsells
• Invoicing • Collection/Payment • Churn Prevention • Revenue Recognition
Subscription
Sales Operations
Billing & Revenue Operations
Two Sides of the Same Coin
• Quoting • Ordering • Sales Commission • Subscription Management • Provisioning • Upsells
Sales Operations
Sales Operations: The Fundamental Changes Your Sales Organization
Reducing cost of sales 1
2 Continuous Revenue Increase of Install Base
3 Optimizing Sales Team for Max Efficiency
Sales Operations: Sales Compensation
COO
How do you deal with churn or downsell?
What are your business objectives?
Market Capture?
ACV on bookings or collections is a good base for the compensation
plan.
Long-term success & comittment?
TCV, upsells, and renewals are good elements of a
compensation plan.
How do you pay your sales reps?
Dimensions Available:
ACV
TCV
Contracted Ramp
Upsell
Usage / Overage
Marketing Automation
Freemium Website
Big Data
Trend & Pattern of Usage
Provisioning
Entitlement
Online Sign-up & Account Mngmnt
CRM
CPQ
Sales Operations: Systems and Automation
Marke$ng Usage Analysis
Provisioning Quo$ng automa$on
Sales Operations: The Metrics That Matter
• Cost of Sales Ops/Sales – From 1/2 to 1/12
• Operational Metrics – Web visits to hand raise – Hand raise to opportunity
(Freemium?) – Qualified Freemium users – Opportunity to close – Upsell, Add-ons: MRR growth
per customer – ACV; TCV; Contracted Ramp – Down-sell and Churn
Awareness to Hand Raises
Hand Raise to Opportunity
Qualified
Closed
New Customers MRR Growth Via
Upsells & Add-Ons
Two Sides of the Same Coin
• Quoting • Ordering • Sales Commission • Subscription Management • Provisioning • Upsells
• Invoicing • Collection/Payment • Churn Prevention • Revenue Recognition
Subscription
Sales Operations
Billing & Revenue Operations
Two Sides of the Same Coin
• Invoicing • Collection/Payment • Churn Prevention • Revenue Recognition
Billing & Revenue Operations
Billing & Revenue Operations: Billing Organization
• Billing processes • Invoice complexity • Payments
Scaling and Automation
This is a mindset change • Churn prevention (with
Customer Care) • Upsell opportunity (with Sales)
Build Customer Relationships
Understanding the subscription is critical to managing a complex Revenue Recognition process.
Managing a Complex Process
Billing & Revenue Operations: The Metrics That Matter
Revenue Recognition
Deferred revenue balance MRR Growth
DSO / Collections $ of Billing Operations
per $ of MRR
Time to Bill Churn Prevention
= Customer
Satisfaction
Sales & Billing Operations Need to Be Integrated/Automated to Be Successful
ü Transactions growth ü Customer interactions ü Sales channels
ü Cost of sales ü Introductory price point ü Cost of operations
Lessons From Our Customers 1. Consider putting Sales Ops and Billing Ops together
2. Remember that Commerce is about relationships so interactions are important
3. Commerce is multi-channel
4. It needs to be designed as an end-to-end process around the subscription
5. Without automation, there is no scale
The COO Perspective Meet The Panelists
DemandForce Andre Pimentel, VP Ops
Medrio Ray Letulle, COO
Motorola Elias Dayeh, Sr. Dir Ops
Box Dan Levin, COO
Zuora Guillaume Vives , SVP Product Management
@gyvives
Zendesk John McGuire, Controller
Panel – Share Your Input 1. Renewals – How do you do it today? Key
challenges? Lessons Learned?
2. Sales Ops and Billing Ops Collaboration – Key opportunities and challenges
3. (Bonus) Sales compensation – What works best: model focused on market capture or long term revenue optimization