---
title: "SaaS Finance Leader guides For SaaS and Cloud |Ordway"
description: "SaaS finance leader guides - Designed to help manage the complex operations of the recurring revenue business model"
url: "https://ordwaylabs.com/resources/guides/"
type: "Page"
publisher: "Ordway"
language: "en-US"
published: "2022-07-24T21:11:26+00:00"
updated: "2026-01-20T21:08:54+00:00"
---

# SaaS Finance Leader guides For SaaS and Cloud |Ordway

## SaaS Finance Leader Guides

**Pricing, Metrics, Billing, Payments, and Rev Rec**

## Usage-Based Pricing

[![abstract image showing cover of usage based pricing guide](/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/usage-based-pricing-guide-ordway-1400x800-1.jpg)](/resources/guides/usage-based-pricing-guide)

Get an overview of usage-based pricing or dive deep into topics such as [volume and tiered discounting](/resources/guides/usage-based-pricing-guide/discounting-models/) or [prepaid credits and monthly minimum contracts](/resources/guides/usage-based-pricing-guide/capacity-contracts/). Learn about consumption metering and [rating engines for billing](/resources/guides/usage-based-pricing-guide/usage-based-billing/).

[View Guide](/resources/guides/usage-based-pricing-guide)

## ARR Guide

[![abstract image showing cover of annual recurring revenue guide](/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/annual-recurring-revenue-ARR-guide-ordway-1400x800-1.jpg)](/resources/guides/annual-recurring-revenue-guide)

Learn what ARR is and why it is so important to investors. See examples of [how SaaS companies define, report, and calculate ARR](/blog/how-saas-companies-define-arr/) for subscription and [usage-based pricing models](/blog/cloud-usage-based-pricing-report-arr/). Understand ARR movements (expansion, contraction, churn).

[View Guide](/resources/guides/annual-recurring-revenue-guide)

## Net Retention

[![abstract image showing cover of net revenue retention guide](/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/net-revenue-retention-guide-ordway-1400x800-1.jpg)](/resources/guides/net-revenue-retention-guide/)

Understand what Net Revenue Retention (NRR) is and why it is so important to investors. See examples of [how SaaS companies define, report, and calculate NRR](/blog/how-saas-companies-calculate-net-revenue-retention/) and [Gross Revenue Retention (GRR)](/blog/gross-revenue-retention/). Learn strategies to boost NRR to 110, 120, and beyond.

[View Guide](/resources/guides/net-revenue-retention-guide/)

## Subscription Billing

[![abstract image showing cover of subscription billing guide](/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/subscription-billing-guide-ordway-1400x800-1.jpg)](/resources/guides/subscription-billing-guide/)

[How subscription billing works](/resources/guides/subscription-billing-guide/how-recurring-billing-works/) for SaaS, cloud, streaming, and media publications. Learn the key steps in the subscription management lifecycle for B2C and B2B including new customer acquisition, expansion, and retention.

[View Guide](/resources/guides/subscription-billing-guide/)