Add products
Creating and amending subscriptions in the Zuora Billing UI is:
- Only relevant for existing Subscribe and Amend customers who have not transitioned to Orders or Orders Harmonization. Any new customers will not see this UI.
- Restricted if you are an existing Subscribe and Amend customer and have enabled Order Metrics only. See Known Limitations in Orders and Order Metrics.
Using the Zuora Interface to Add a Product
Use the following steps to add a product to a subscription. These steps must be followed for each product you want to add.
- Click on the subscription you want to change.
- Click Amendment.
- Enter an Amendment Name. Optionally, enter a Change Description.
- Select New Product from the Amendment Type list, and click Save.
- Click Add New Product & Rate Plan. Using the Select Product drop down, select the product you want to add, then click Select to choose a rate plan.
- Click Contract effective, then enter a Contract effective Date and click Save.
- The contract effective date should be set to the date you want the new product to take effect.
- Most companies make product additions effective immediately during an invoice period.
- If proration is enabled the next invoice will include a prorated charge for any recurring fees for the partial period and full charges for any usage and one time fees for the partial period. Recurring fees will be prorated based on the billing timing setting.
- If proration is disabled, the next invoice will only include one time fees for the partial period and will not include and recurring or usage fees for the partial period.
- If you want to make product additions effective for the next invoice period or next term, set the contract effective date to the first day of the next invoice period or the first day of the next term.
- If you have Service Activation and Customer Acceptance dates enabled:
- Click Service Activation and enter the Service Activation Date
- Click Save.
- Click Customer Acceptance and enter the Customer Acceptance Date.
- Click Save.
Using the SOAP API to Add a Product
See the API documentation about Adding a Product and follow the instructions based on your WSDL version.
Set the contract effective, service activation, and customer acceptance dates to the date you want the new product to take effect.
Most companies make product additions effective immediately during an invoice period.
- If proration is enabled, the next invoice will include a prorated charge for any recurring fees for the partial period and full charges for any usage and one time fees for the partial period.
- If proration is disabled, the next invoice will only include one time fees for the partial period and will not include and recurring or usage fees for the partial period.
If you want to make product additions effective for the next invoice period or next term, set the contract effective date to the first day of the next invoice period or the first day of the next term.
Add Products with Future-dated Amendments on Subscription
You can add products when certain types of future-dated amendments exist on the subscription.
See Future-dated Amendments for more information about supported types of future-dated amendments.