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Sales Contracts: Elements, Process & Best Practices

Salesforce

” A written sales contract should accurately reflect the verbal agreements made — or else you risk the buyer backing out of the deal or having a very unhappy or potentially litigious client after the deal is done. Sales contracts are vital to completing any business transaction. What you’ll learn What is a sales contract?

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The Top 10 Important Finance Mistakes First Time Founders Make

SaaStr

Take a read if you are still running finance yourself, or just have an part-time outsourced resource. In the old days, we didn’t have to worry about finance too much. SaaS accounting and finance has gotten pretty complicated, and the impacts of getting it wrong have gone up substantially. Accounting and Finance.

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Dear SaaStr: Should We Allow Refunds in a Multi-Year SaaS Contract Paid Upfront?

SaaStr

Q: Dear SaaStr: Should We Allow Refunds in a Multi-Year SaaS contract Paid Upfront? They’ll say never allow refunds in a multi-year contract: Sales will hate it, especially if there is an explicit or implicit clawback if they do. Finance will hate it because they have to deal with reserves, or a financial hit. If pushed.

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Maximizing sales efficiency with deal desk software

PandaDoc

Deal desks can incorporate large teams of relevant stakeholders within sales, finance, product marketing, product management, legal, customer success, and more as needed. Professional services : consulting firms and other large, complex professional services with many moving parts in the contract process.

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How to negotiate a contract

PandaDoc

Contract negotiation is essential for modern businesses, but it isn’t always easy. Let’s talk about contract negotiation in more depth. What is a contract negotiation? Contract negotiation is when two or more people discuss the current terms of a contract and come to a new, legally binding agreement.

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Dear SaaStr: What Was Your Very First Sales Story? How Did It Go?

SaaStr

For our First Big Customer, we’d been negotiating a $6m/year contract for quite some time (they always take time). And they told us the deal was completely approved, AND they’d back us in the market, AND they’d even give us $1m in debt financing to help us. But at that price point, I couldn’t stay in business. At 0% interest!

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My First Big Sales Deal. It Was For $6,000,000.

SaaStr

For our First Big Customer, we’d been negotiating a $6m/year contract for quite some time (they always take time). And they told us the deal was completely approved, AND they’d back us in the market, AND they’d even give us $1m in additional financing to help us. But at that price point, I couldn’t stay in business. In one room.

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