Metrics · Retention · Monetization · Monthly · %

Seat Utilization Rate

The percentage of purchased seats or licenses that are actively used by real users.

Formula

Active seats used / Seats purchased x 100

How to measure

Divide the count of seats with recent login or activity by the total number of seats a customer has purchased.

Why track it

Low seat utilization is both a churn risk, since unused seats look like wasted spend to a buyer, and an upsell opportunity if utilization is actually high.

Example

An account purchasing 50 seats but only actively using 30 has a 60% seat utilization rate, flagging renewal risk.

Seat Utilization Rate — Growth metric · Cofounderbase