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Zuora Billing overview

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Zuora Billing overview

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Zuora Billing is a flexible recurring billing software that scales with your growth.  It allows you to easily manage your transactions and dynamically bill your customers as needed.

Zuora Billing offerings provide the following capabilities:

  • Flexible pricing and packaging: With Zuora Billing, you can quickly design, deploy, and iterate on pricing and packaging to deliver the most value to your customers. Zuora's variety of charge models enable you to configure your pricing and packaging faster and more flexibly for your customers. 
  • Subscription order management and hybrid billing: Zuora Billing provides dynamics for all the ways you do business with options for one-time charges, order line items, recurring charges, consumption, and hybrid usage. It also allows for adjusting pricing and billing mid-cycle without any disruption of downstream financial processes.
  • Usage-based metering and billing: With built-in mediation and rating engines, Zuora Billing streamlines the pricing for usage or hybrid models including pay-as-you-go, prepaid credits that can be used over time, minimum commitment levels, apply overages, define tiered usage, and more.
  • E-invoicing and tax compliance: Zuora Billing empowers you to meet compliance through country-specific templates, tax management reports, and e-invoice archiving capabilities. With Zuora’s native tax engine or pre-built connectors, taxation can be applied accurately to billing documents.
  • Global payments orchestration: Packaged together with Zuora Payments, Zuora Billing optimizes payment success across multiple payment gateways with a central payment orchestrator. It globally supports 40+ pre-built payment gateway connectors and 20+ payment methods.
  • API-first and built to scale: Zuora Billing allows for scaling sign-ups, invoices, and payments without impacting system performance. You can easily integrate Zuora capabilities into customer channels and the extended ecosystem using our full-range APIs and SDKs.
  • Built-in extensibility: You have the flexibility to configure custom business logic, objects, events, business process flows, and UI pages to customize your customer transaction lifecycle, and billing and payments workflow.
  • Integrated quoting: You can configure quotes across the customer lifecycle, from new sign-ups to upsells to renewals, and ensure all key metrics and downstream billing are accurately captured.

With Zuora Billing purchased, you can complete the following business tasks and beyond:

  • Build your product catalog with a variety of charge models, including usage-based charges
  • Manage the whole lifecycle of your customers' accounts, subscriptions and orders, and order line items
  • Bill your customers and allow them to pay your billing documents
  • Generate and export reports on subscription, usage, billing, and payment metrics
  • Auto-upload transactions to Zuora Finance, Zuora Revenue, or your own accounting software 
  • Monitor transactions and audit your systems with extensibility and flexibility

See Zuora Editions for more information.