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When we come to the end of our year in the midst, I'd love to review the tasks we've accomplished over the last several months . We've completed three cycles of six weeks in which we generally slow down between intervals. There's lots to talk about so let's get to it.

Big Batch projects

Six "big groups" projects, balancing betting on future updates in response to client feedback and improvement to our technical infrastructure.

1. A new metrics experience

The earlier model offered a "standard problems" set of SaaS metrics that customers could use to analyze their performance. As time passed, we realized that the indicators weren't sufficient in two different ways: being inaccessible to those who were not experts in dataanalysis, or providing enough details and information for customers with strong analytical skills (or even internal analytics teams). This led to a lack of trust in the data we were surfacing.

This year we started rolling out a completely new API for Data Collection and a metrics layer, to set the groundwork for better, more personal experience using metrics that are geared towards member. The process involved eliminating some of the older metrics, adding more, and improving their reliability and precise.

     Our new Trials metrics dashboard    

We are still able to offer orders-based legacy metrics, while new metrics tend to be focused on trends and analysing the business's health over a longer duration.

They share a design framework based around analysing patterns over a month-to-month timeframe. We think this is better suited for companies with periodic subscriptions using . These trends are tracked in time using segmented columns. Below, you will find an infographic that breaks down each specific segment for each month.

     Our new Churn metrics dashboard    

You can click each cell to see a summary of the data graph during the month, as well as a complete list of the individual information elements that comprise the data (whether it's subscriptions or members).

Simply put, it is possible to follow the path through cells until the electron. The idea behind them was to aid creators easily understand what's working within their laboratory, as well as where to double down.

Most recent trends indicators are the following: MRR. Examine the variables that make up a part of the monthly recurring income: carryover from the prior month, renewals, new members, upgrade, cancellations, downgrades and also failed payments. Also, take a examine ARPM and LTV. Also, it is possible to determine the amount of paying members. Simple, check out the ways your membership of paying members changes over the time. It's the same way to segment as is available through MRR (upgrades or downgrades and so on.). -• Net Revenue. It is a quick glance at your cash flow for the month determined from your total revenue less refunds. - Churn. There are many potential issues under the surface watching revenue churn break down involuntarily (cancellations) or involuntary (failed payment). Also, you can see rates and counts for each segment (i.e. The X-payout failed to meet the percentage of Y). - Trials. Review the results of both your free and paid trials throughout the duration. Each month you'll be able to see the amount of trials you've signed up for and the expiration date and the ones that changed to regular memberships as well as the overall percentage of conversions for your trial. - Plan comparison. Choose up to five plans to compare one another by using one of the above-listed metrics.

2. Likes and comments on blog posts

Posts permits customers to communicate with paid members in a direct way, via email and publishing their blog posts on their own. Posts can be used to serve a range of purposes; for example, as an alternative to newsletters, or to provide benefitsor simply to contact and update.

     New Comment feature    

For better creating space to facilitate dialog and to build community It is now possible to make comments and likes accessible to blog posts (and the ability to like comments). They can enabled at a global and per-post basis. Also, you can make a state read-only when a discussion has completed its course.

You can deep link to comments, load new comments immediately without having to refresh the page or display badges for comments made by employees, and handle any comments that are abusive made by malicious users. Members can also enable notification notifications to their web browsers whenever new comments are posted.

Posts continue to be a source of constant investment for us, We're very excited about the new possibilities for that the future this could bring for our customers.

3. Improved group subscriptions

Customers can sell subscriptions in groups. These can include numerous seats. They can be paid and managed with a single point of contact. They are usually used in institutions or for commercial uses.

The feature has gone through the ring many times over the years, but have made several important improvements in response to the observations of use and customer complaints.

     The latest interface for Group Subscription interface    

Six upgrades were delivered to Group Subscriptions:

• Plan group members are now able to self-serve upgrade from subscriptions for individual members to a group , which was previously required to be manually done by the administrator.
• Managers switching It's now feasible for group managers to hand over the management of the group to a different member also. This makes it much easier for the administrators on site as well. Managers cannot take a seat and customers are able to specify whether the person who manages the group is counted to count the total number of seats included with the membership or not.
• The auto-renew option available for subscriptions paid for by another source. When a subscription for a group is paid externally (via check or some other means) that's why we don't display auto-renewal choices in their account since it is managed by the admin of the website.
• Show seat usage in administration: We improved our dashboards to better display the seat usage in every subscription to groups.
• Generic link to manage members In the past, to add a user to the part of their account where allows them to manage the entire team, you had to give them a unique URL with their ID. Today, you can use a single routing URL, so users can streamline their customer support.

4. Updating our marketing site

After we revamped our marketing site in the first quarter of the year 2020, we've made several new features and enhancements to our website, but hasn't been revisited to ensure we ensure that our website was current and present our message in the most efficient method we could.

     Changes made to .com    

We performed a full content audit, reframed our position for our products according to what we've learnt we created new landing pages and enhanced our images on screens with more sophisticated branding, and updated our Customer page to showcase the features they're making use of.

      Changes to .com

This all aims to bring to light the modularity of the ways that we can integrate into a variety of use scenarios.

5. Improvement in performance

The system is employed by many major creators who each generate millions of dollars in annual revenues, as well as hundreds of thousands of clients. While we've been onboarding our customers We noticed that certain aspects of our administration became extremely difficult and slow in everyday use, indicating the poor performance of our system and level of craft.

The entire cycle was focused on improving the efficiency of some key areas: Activities, Dashboard, Dashboard, CSV exports, and the view segmented of members who are free. The experience of using accounts with a large audience has become more responsive in addition to seeing drastically shorter load times as well as a reduction in the workload for our employees through our instrumentation.

6. Cancellation surveys

In order to provide additional information to creators about the reason that customers cancel their subscriptions, we're sending cancelation surveys to show to subscribers after they have decided to cancel. These data are compiled in the updated perspective of cancellations.

     's brand new Cancellation survey feature    

The data does not just aid the owners in regaining these customers. It also provides feedback loops that aid them in understanding the importance of their membership program over the long term, and assist in aligning it with their customer's expectations.

     Our new Cancellation surveys    

The new dashboard gives creators an overview of two categories: cancelled subscriptions that haven't yet churned (and may be returned) as well as ones that have expiring and have already been turned over. Additionally, it is possible to see the cancellation causes which are broken down into each segment. It is possible to sort this data and exported to a CSV similar to other information in .

Surveys are able to be enabled or disabled but it's disallowed by default.

On-the-fly and small-scale batch projects

These are little projects they were delivered in conjunction with the larger tasks described above (not consisting of bugs or support tickets). They typically span from two days, up to two weeks of work. They are influenced by the feedback of our customers and insights by our team members who are client-facing. We [email protected]

• A preferred partners page on our site for marketing to highlight some of our best development partners and make contact with potential customers.
• pagination of our blog posts for SEO improvement and to increase the amount of visitors who visit our blog.
• New security measures in the case of podcast RSS feeds provided by ACast.
• assistance for Hungarian and Czech as options for localization
• New coupon-targeting feature has been added, meaning coupons are now applicable to any/all of the following: new purchases or purchases previously made, when you renew subscriptions that are expired, and when you change your subscription.
• API options that block some text links hindering iOS app store acceptance for some customers.
• New options for tax processing new tax handling options Canada and clients are getting accurate amounts in accordance with their revenue and new nexus
• Banners for cookies on the site that promotes EU and UK customers who visit the UK as well as EU sites.

We also automated some internal software which we employ to help customers stay away from rivals like Substack and Pico. In addition, we analyzed and further limited the use of third -party cookies to enhance privacy.

In all of our new releases, they represent a group effort from researching and design through to aiding in documentation, customer support as well as marketing. Thank you to the team for their hard work and hugh thanks to our partners and customers. We wish everyone a Happy Christmas!

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