We’ve just solved the hardest problem we’ve had for years: easily and accurately working out, displaying and digging into our Software as a Service (SaaS) metrics…. and it’s all thanks to ChartMogul.
Honestly, we’ve never found a better tool for simply hooking into your payment providers (for us, Stripe and PayPal, but they also support Braintree, Recurly, Chargify and more) and providing you with the data you really need to see how you are going, make informed decisions and, put simply, grow your business better.
Oh, and we’ve got you a $600 off coupon too 🙂
Read on…
So, we figured that given many of our readers also run their own subscription-based business, we’d tell you about it!
And get you whopping $600 ($50 a month for 12 months) off their “Mogul” plan, so if you like it as much as we do you can join the club.
Just sign up for their free trial and then enter the coupon: wpmupromo2016 (expires November 30).
Anyway, here’s why we absolutely love them:
As you may be aware, WPMU DEV is Software as a Service (SaaS) subscription-based business – always has been, always will. And what’s the hardest thing about that? Metrics! Especially when, like many people, we moved from PayPal to Stripe and so have two completely different payment systems to manage.
2016 BC (Before ChartMogul)
Here’s how we used to do metrics…
If you ever want to see a withering look on a developer’s face, ask them to either completely change a payment and pricing system or come up with a bespoke internal stats package.
Yep, we’ve been pretty much running our own stats for the past, phew, seven years?
And they’ve been confusing, sometimes inaccurate, hard to maintain and, perhaps most of all, a massive drain on developer time… which would be better spent making awesome WordPress goods for you, dear reader.
So we decided to look for an alternative and found…
2016 AC (After ChartMogul)
It’s hard to describe just how simple this tool makes a previously really, really complex task.
First up integration with PayPal and Stripe is *literally* one-click, and that means that without having to upload CSVs, ChartMogul just slurps up all the data and gives you some pretty cool information, like your Annual Run Rate…. all the way back to 2010 (and prior).
