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HR & Payroll Software
Explain the people and modules. Keep payroll funds separate.
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Software revenue metricsACV · MRR · ARPU
These describe contract and recurring revenue economics. No purchase AOV benchmark is supplied for this category.
- MRRMonthly recurring revenue
Subscription revenue normalized to one month across a business. One-time charges are excluded.
MRR = sum of monthly recurring subscription amounts
Stripe · Monthly recurring revenue- ARPUAverage revenue per user
Revenue per user over a defined period. For subscription comparisons here, the denominator is active paying subscribers and the numerator is MRR.
Monthly subscription ARPU = MRR ÷ active paying subscribers
Stripe · Subscription ARPU- ACVAnnual contract value
The recurring value of one customer contract normalized to a year, excluding one-time charges. It measures contract size, not total company revenue.
ACV = recurring contract value ÷ contract duration in years
Stripe · Annual contract value
Questions, answered.AOV, context & using this research11 answers
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Can payroll disbursements represent an HR software order value?
Gusto prices software plans with base and per-person components. Separate the provider's software charges from wages and other payroll funds administered. Money paid to employees is not the software vendor's purchase revenue.
Why distinguish employee payroll and contractor-only offers?
Gusto publishes contractor-only and employee payroll plan choices. Identify the advertised worker scope and included modules before inviting signup. Do not assume every plan covers the same employment or geographic requirements.
Should a payroll software demo request count as a paid implementation?
Rippling's payroll demo form asks for company size and headquarters. Track demo requests, qualified evaluations and signed purchases separately. A scheduled demo does not establish a purchased deployment or implementation fee.
Which payroll software differences belong in a product demonstration?
Gusto's plan comparison distinguishes payroll, time tracking and HR features. Demonstrate a task included in the promoted plan and label its scope. Do not imply that a payroll-run button proves legal compliance or a universal productivity improvement.
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Is an AOV benchmark available for this category?
No publishable AOV benchmark is available.
The exact category cohort does not support a publishable AOV aggregate. Parent and sibling benchmarks are not substituted.
Software revenue metrics
What is MRR for a software business?
Subscription revenue normalized to one month across a business. One-time charges are excluded. MRR = sum of monthly recurring subscription amounts
Definitions only; no ACV, MRR or ARPU benchmark or measured correlation is supplied.
What is ARPU for a software business?
Revenue per user over a defined period. For subscription comparisons here, the denominator is active paying subscribers and the numerator is MRR. Monthly subscription ARPU = MRR ÷ active paying subscribers
Definitions only; no ACV, MRR or ARPU benchmark or measured correlation is supplied.
What is ACV for a software business?
The recurring value of one customer contract normalized to a year, excluding one-time charges. It measures contract size, not total company revenue. ACV = recurring contract value ÷ contract duration in years
Definitions only; no ACV, MRR or ARPU benchmark or measured correlation is supplied.
Does purchase AOV measure MRR, ARPU or ACV?
These describe contract and recurring revenue economics. No purchase AOV benchmark is supplied for this category.
Definitions only; no ACV, MRR or ARPU benchmark or measured correlation is supplied.
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Benchmark status reviewed 11 October 2026.
The exact category cohort does not support a publishable AOV aggregate.
Median and middle 50% of account-level average order values. Each account value is purchase ROAS multiplied by cost per purchase in USD. Successful classifications, including manual corrections, with positive finite spend, purchases, ROAS and cost per purchase. Accounts are counted once with equal weight. Quartiles use linear interpolation. Root cohorts include direct root classifications and their child categories; exact-child cohorts exclude parent and sibling categories. The source selects the highest-spend coverage row per account among snapshots dated within the preceding 30 days; the underlying reporting period is not supplied. This is a dated aggregate advertising-data snapshot, not business-wide AOV or a census. Parent and sibling benchmarks are never substituted.
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