“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.
Introducing Z-Payments Page
The Z-Payments Page is fast and easy way to collect credit card information on your e-commerce checkout page in a PCI compliant manner. Today, you can conveniently build and customize an iFrame from within the Zuora application that collects specific payment information that you specify. It's up to you to control the look and feel of the iFrame so that it seamlessly fits within your e-commerce checkout experience. Z-Payments Page also integrates with Salesforce so embedding it on a Salesforce VisualForce or Salesforce Sites page is a cinch.
Note: This is a premium feature. Contact Zuora Global Support to learn more about using this feature.
On-Demand Usage Rating
The "Usage" charge model is a powerful tool for driving revenue as well as upgrades. While Zuora has always supported subscription services with usage based charges, with our February '12 release, this weapon gets even more powerful. Now you can use on-demand usage rating to both calculate and bill for usage charges at any point within a billing cycle...as frequently as you need to. Let's say you'd like to lock a customer into a committed annual plan with a yearly fee coupled with usage charges. Now there's no need to wait until the end of the year to collect the usages charges. You can rate them every month, week, or even on a daily basis.
On-Demand Sync
If you use Z-Force Quotes to create subscriptions in Zuora, you now have the ability to sync newly created subscriptions and billing data back into Salesforce on an on-demand basis. This means you no longer have to wait for a scheduled sync before your users can see the subscription and billing data in Salesforce. Additionally, if you use Order Builder to create Products in Zuora, you can also sync them back into Salesforce with On-demand Sync.
Note: This is a premium feature. Contact Zuora Global Support to learn more about using this feature.
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.
Next Steps
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