“You'd be crazy to build your own billing system — just get a subscription to Zuora.” Zack Urlacher, COO - Zendesk
New Features
Every month Zuora releases a new set of functionality based on guidance from our customers.
High-Volume Usage Loader
Zuora's plan-based product catalog was designed for the Subscription Economy. It's easy to setup one-time, recurring, and of course, usage based charges. In the January '12 release, we're helping you charge for usage services on a massive scale with the High-Volume Usage Loader. Now you can upload millions of records in minutes and start charging by the megabite, the minute, the article, or any other usage metric you can think of.
Editable Custom Charge Fields
Every business needs to work with different information, from customized data about your accounts, to unique promo codes applied to want to add to your service charges. Now in January '12, you've got more flexibility than ever to add and now update any custom fields on your subscription rate plan charges.
Unleash Subscription Commerce inside Salesforce
Sign-up now for a full-featured 30-day free trial of Z-Force, including Z-Force Quotes and Z-Force 360. Empower your direct Sales team with the full power of Zuora, including creating Quotes and Subscriptions with your Zuora Product Catalog directly in Salesforce. Automatically sync Billing, Subscription and Invoice information from Zuora to Salesforce, to provide 360-degree visibility to your Sales and Service reps.
Navigate Customer Hierarchy in Salesforce
For Z-Force 360 customers, your customer account hierarchy information is synced to Zuora at the Billing Account level. With the new Parent Field, you with the ability to traverse the customer account parent-child relationships from right inside Salesforce.
View Invoice PDFs within Z-Force
Today, you can view invoice PDFs in Z-Force without having to re-login to Zuora! Just another way Zuora is centralizing your billing operations from within Salesforce!
New Opportunity Pipeline Reports
In this release, we have added a new feature for Z-Force Quotes to enable consolidated pipeline reporting on new subscriptions, amendments, and renewals at the Quote Charge level.
Simplifying the Upload Subscriptions Process
With the recent release of enterprise billing, Zuora enabled our customers to specify the invoice owner and subscription owner individually when creating new subscriptions. With this month's release, we have updated the mass order import template to allow Zuora customers to specify these separate fields on their subscription imports.
New Payment Gateway, GlobalCollect
In the Subscription Economy, providing your customers with the flexibility and options is key. This month, Zuora is proud to announce the seamless integration between Z-Payments and GlobalCollect Payment Gateway. Now, Zuora customers can benefit from GlobalCollect's robust capabilities.
More Filters for Better Reporting
Our customers love the ability to pull detailed reports to track the metrics that drive their business. With this months release, we now handle more filters than ever before, enabling our customers the flexibility to create granular reports with ease.
Increased Visibility with Z-Reporting
The single most requested feature Zuora has ever had is finally here — Z-Reporting! This powerful reporting tool has over two dozen pre built reports, based on the metrics you measure your business by. Invoice Aging, MMR and TCV by Sales Rep, Upcoming Renewals, Credit Cards Expiring by Month, and many, many more are all at your fingertips. And we didn't stop there -- today, you can customize reports based on which records the report pulls from, the layout of the report and which columns to sum, just to mention a few. With the ease and power of Z-Reporting in your hands, you now have visibility to understand the state of your business at any given moment.
Enhanced Invoice Notification
Today you have the ability to create notifications tailored to your specific business operations. Before this release, only Auto-Post Bill Runs had their own notification. Now you can now segregate the notifications based on all three ways in invoice can be posted -- via the API, manually in the UI through the invoice screen, or included in a Bill Run when Auto-Post is enabled. This allows much more control over the messaging to your customers that goes out from the system.
Modify Line Items with Ease
Zuora allows you to quickly modify line items on invoices, however, with this month's release this capability has been expanded to discount and tax items. Previously you had to adjust the overall total of the invoice if the tax or discount amounts were incorrect. Now you can edit all the line items on an invoice in one place with a single transaction.
Next Steps
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Zuora Resources
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