Zuora Quotes Overview
Overview
Zuora Quotes is a native Salesforce application that lets you create Zuora accounts and manage subscriptions, amendments, and renewals in Salesforce. With Zuora Quotes, your sales teams can easily build customer-ready quotes, using your Zuora subscription catalog, and send the resulting accounts and subscriptions immediately to Zuora for invoicing and subscription management.
Zuora Quotes is the only CPQ solution purpose-built for subscriptions. It allows you to easily guide your sales reps through the most complex deal. With Zuora Quotes, your sales reps can handle a mixed bag of different contract durations, charge models, billing frequencies, and bookings metrics within one quote.
In the Zuora Quotes workflow, a quote involves:
- A customer account
- An optional opportunity linked to that customer
- A quote, linked to the opportunity or to the customer account, which contains the details of a proposed subscription including a catalog product, a rate plan, and one or more rate plan charges which can be edited
The quote page displays all this information plus the MRR and TCV of the proposed contract. Zuora Quotes can create a PDF version of the quote, formatted and styled for your company. When a deal is reached, clicking a button sends the quote to Zuora, which creates a corresponding subscription and manages it from that point forward - invoicing, collecting payment, auto-renewal, etc.
With the addition of Zuora 360, you can complete the circle by synchronizing the resulting customer and invoice data back to Salesforce.
The following are highlights of Zuora Quotes:
Configure a deal fit for the enterprise
- Configure On One Screen - Quote for a new subscription, extend the terms & conditions of the contract, transfer ownership, cancel and more
- Multi-Year Arrangements - Book complex multi-part deal arrangement over any time period and ramp up any variation of quantity, price, or swap out different products
- Rules Engine - Control your quoting experience with fully configurable rules that automatically add, remove, or update your products based on your business needs
- Bundling - Intuitively group popular features into editions to maximize your deal value
Leverage pricing strategies to maximize customer lifetime value
- Mix and Match Charge Models - Combine any variation of one-time, recurring, or usage-based charges to optimize your pricing
- Tailor Price By Customer - Add and remove volume tiers, apply discounts, switch from flat fee to per unit directly in the quoting flow
- Multi-Currency - Price in over 180+ currencies around the world without proliferating your product catalog with redundant SKUs
- Plan-Based Product Catalog - Create endless options for monthly, annual, promotional, or discounted price plans per product
Proactively quote for the subscriber experience
- Contract Utilization - Monitor how much of the contracted volume each customer has used to find new volume upsell opportunities
- Usage Intensity - Measure how heavily each customer is using your product compared to others to find new cross-sell opportunities
- Churn Probability - Use machine learning algorithms to tell you a subscriber’s churn probability and decompose the probability into the underlying causes of churn
- Engagement Score - Trend each customer’s level of engagement to find opportunities to extend the terms of their contract
Forecast bookings with ease and accuracy
- MRR - Measure sales and cash flow dynamics with the amount paid monthly for a subscription and predict future monthly revenue
- TCB - Tracks billed versus unbilled revenue and ensures your order management processes are primed for the new ASC 606 / IFRS 15 revenue standards
- TCV - Measures the value a customer has committed to you so you can plan expenditures and manage the growth of your business
Limitations
Currently, Zuora Quotes does not support suspending or resuming quotes.