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Centage SaaS pricing is 5x legacy on-premise annual maintenance fees

Barry Clapp · 809: How This $12m Accounting Biz Moves from On-Prem to SaaS Model · Oct 11, 2017 · at 10:22

Centage CEO Barry Clapp explains the price differential between legacy annual maintenance fees and new subscription pricing for Budget Maestro 9.

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“If you were to approach us today and want to buy Budget Maestro Nine, our new product, you would pay something much more, maybe five times as much as a current customer is paying for their annual maintenance and support.”

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Centage derives roughly one third of revenue from onboarding and training
“About a third of our revenue.”
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Disclosure
Clapp: Centage spent $3M-$4M rewriting its on-prem software into SaaS
“And it was an on-prem model until last year. And we converted the product, we invested it on a few, three or four million dollars, and rewrote the entire product. To be a cloud-based, you know, a hundred percent SaaS-based product.”
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“No, 13 and a half million, we raised originally nine and a half million, and a lot of that went to recapitalize the company actually.”
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Clapp: Centage's ACV is $35,000 to $40,000 per year
“The average customer is about 35, 40,000 per year.”
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Clapp: Centage has around 1,000 customers and 10,000 users
“So we've got about a thousand customers probably 10,000 users, because each customer has an average of 10 or so users.”
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Clapp: Centage customer base is 30% subscription and 70% on-prem
“So I would say it's probably about 30% subscription and 70% on-prem.”
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