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Subscription Business Metrics

MRR, churn, retention, cohorts and unit economics for SaaS, membership and subscription box businesses

£20

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Subscription Business Metrics

Overview

A subscription business lives or dies by recurring revenue: how much comes in each month, how much leaks out through cancellations and downgrades, and whether each new customer is worth more than it cost to win. Billing systems hold the raw data but rarely answer those questions clearly. This workbook takes a simple log of your subscriptions – plan, seats, price, start date, any upgrade or downgrade, and the cancellation date and reason – and turns it into the measures investors, lenders and boards ask for: MRR and ARR, the monthly MRR waterfall, logo and revenue churn, net and gross revenue retention, ARPU, a 24 × 24 cohort retention table, LTV, CAC, LTV:CAC, CAC payback, quick ratio, the Rule of 40, deferred revenue for annual plans and a 12-month forecast.

Price
£20
Who it’s for
Planning & Finance
Works with
Microsoft Excel for Windows and Mac
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See how it works

A walk through the main sheets

The sheets you will use most, in the order you will use them – shown with the sample data every workbook comes with.

Step 1

Plans

Your price list and how each plan is performing. What you do: enter the yellow columns.

Plans
Subscriptions

Step 2

Subscriptions

The heart of the workbook – one line per subscription. What you do: enter columns B to N.

Step 3

MRR Waterfall

24 months of MRR movements, customers, churn and retention. What you do: nothing – read it.

MRR Waterfall
Unit Economics

Step 4

Unit Economics

Key metrics with targets and traffic lights, CAC by month and why customers leave. What you do: nothing.

Who it is for

Made for people like you

  • Example – text
  • Software (SaaS) – Per-user or per-seat software sold monthly or annually.
  • Memberships – Gyms, clubs, professional bodies, online communities – charge per member.
  • Subscription boxes – Food, coffee, beauty, pet or craft boxes – one 'unit' per box per month.
  • Service retainers – Bookkeeping, IT support, maintenance or marketing packages billed every month.

Quick start

Up and running in minutes

  1. Example – text
  1. Setup – Enter your business name, the report month (your last complete month) and your gross margin. Check the targets, Rule of 40 inputs and forecast settings.
  2. Plans – List your plans with the monthly price per unit and the discount you give for paying annually.
  3. Subscriptions – Enter or paste one line per subscription. Most billing systems (Stripe, Chargebee, GoCardless, Xero repeating invoices) can export this.
  4. Sales & marketing spend – On Setup, enter what you spent each month on winning new customers.
  5. Check – Look down the Check column on the Subscriptions sheet and the Check column on the MRR Waterfall – everything should say OK.
  6. Read the results – Start with the Dashboard, then the MRR Waterfall, Unit Economics, Cohorts, Deferred Revenue and Forecast.
  7. Each month – Add new subscriptions, upgrades and cancellations, then move the report month on by one.

Key features

  • A subscriptions log for up to 4,000 subscriptions – plan, seats, monthly or annual billing, discounts, upgrades and downgrades, cancellations and reasons.
  • A 24-month MRR waterfall – new, expansion, reactivation, contraction and churn – with ARR, customers, logo and revenue churn, NRR, GRR, ARPU and quick ratio.
  • A 24 × 24 cohort retention table by start month (customers or MRR), deferred revenue for annual plans, and a 12-month trend forecast.
  • Unit economics: LTV, CAC from your sales & marketing spend, LTV:CAC, CAC payback, the Rule of 40 and why customers leave – all on one dashboard.

What’s included

  • Dashboard – Subscription health at a glance
  • Setup – Report month, targets, spend and settings
  • Plans – Your price list and plan performance
  • Subscriptions – The subscriptions log
  • MRR Waterfall – Monthly MRR movements and churn
  • Unit Economics – LTV, CAC, payback and Rule of 40
  • Cohorts – Retention by start month
  • Deferred Revenue – Annual plans billed in advance
  • Forecast – The next 12 months
  • Guide – How to use this workbook

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