Our sales approach for maintenance renewals is:
Auto-invoicing or administrative.
Dedicated services team with specific renewal quota.
Corporate sales team with specific service renewal quota.
Corporate sales team with aggregate product/service quota.
We report renewal rates with precision in these specific segments:
Strategic accounts vs. SMB accounts
By product line
Direct vs. indirect
We measure overall renewal rates only
Our channel partners have the following results with contract renewals:
Good: > 85% renewal rates on average
Fair: 50-85% renewal rates due to focus on product sales
Poor: < 50% renewal rates consistently
Uncertain: cant assess partners performance
We manage international renewals by:
Regional sales offices renewing in native languages.
Renewing all transactions from the U.S.
Focusing only on English speaking countries.
Allocating dedicated renewal resources in each native country.
We booked the following renewals on time (before expiration):
> 90%
81-90%
50-80%
< 50%
We use auto-invoicing or evergreen contracts to manage:
< 5% of our renewal contracts
5-25% of our renewal contracts
26-50% of our renewal contracts
> 50% of our renewal contracts
The following best describes our current discounting practice:
We discount up to 10% without approval.
All discounts must be approved by sales management.
Discounting is rampant.
We never discount.
Our customer data set is:
95% complete and accurate.
50% complete for contacts but accurate for contract data.
25% complete for account & service information.
Cant be relied on.
Entitlement is tightly managed with reinstatement penalties for clients not renewing on time:
True
False
Accurate forecasts and detailed closed sale reports are available real-time:
True
False