Curious about Auto-Renews

User: "Kevin Burnett"
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Updated by Heather Wendt

At my last company, we offered many SaaS offerings billed in a typical fashion - licenses for "x" years, with or without auto-renew. Since moving into payments, the pricing model is different, but reading some threads here has spurred my curiosity once more about auto-renewing SaaS contracts.

What I'd like to ask the community is:

  1. What percentage of your customers are on auto-renewing contracts?
  2. What percentage of those customers on auto-renewing contracts KNOW they will auto-renew?
  3. How will they be notified before the renewal date?
  4. Does your company do enough to notify customers before their auto-renew?
  5. How often are your CSMs having to "hold the line" about a contract after an auto-renew is invoiced?
  6. Are poorly notified (or otherwise silent) auto-renews happening for SaaS clients with or without the CSM and Sales leadership awareness?
  7. Do you think this is a bad practice?