Zuora for Media
Print circulation revenue is dwindling, advertising revenue is unreliable, and giving away content for free isn't sustainable. But what's the right pricing model for online content? Is it monthly all-or-nothing access like the Wall Street Journal or a metered approach like the Financial Times? Is it pre-paid accounts and micropayments?
Powering Media for the Digital Age
Publishers need a flexible solution that will enable them to create, launch, and test new products and pricing plans. Traditional systems like SAP and Oracle are built for the manufacturing world, not the online commerce and subscriptions world.
Zuora for Media to the rescue - the first online commerce platform making it easy for publishers to monetize their online content, immediately. Now publishers can use the same proven platform that is already the de facto standard for subscription businesses in the technology industry, but designed specifically for the Media industry.
Whitepaper:
A single system for all customer subscriptions, billing, and payments
One system of record for all customer subscriptions, amendments, invoices, and payments means you get a single source of truth about customers, revenue, and forecasts.
Case Study: GigaOM
Automating Your Quote to Cash Process
Easily create and test new products and offers
The media product catalog gives publishers full pricing and packaging flexibility so you can launch new products to market quickly. Better yet - Zuora for Media supports any subscription pricing model so you can tailor and test offers to maximize revenue.
Case Study: VNU
VNU Media Deploys Pricing & Packaging the Way Their Market Demands
Offer pay-as-you-read option with micropayments
Have some readers with commitment issues? 1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents... you set the price for your articles and let them pay-as-they-read without any strings. Online readers simply pre-pay $5 and start reading.
Automate recurring payments and collections
Zuora for Media makes it easy to receive, reconcile, and manage recurring payments at any frequency - ad hoc, daily, weekly, monthly, annually, etc. Your online readers can make their recurring payments with popular payment gateways such as PayPal, Cybersource, and Authorize.Net.
Full visibility into the key metrics for your online business
Centralized, real-time access to all the metrics you need to test, optimize, and grow your online subscription business.
Additional Resources
Whitepaper:
Pricing & Packaging: The Key to Success
“Zuora's productized solution gives us an incredible level of transparency into our customer relationships and transactions to understand where our business stands day by day, as well as the accuracy and efficiency to maintain our competitive edge and perform at our peak.” — Hans Platschorre, CFO, VNU Media
Next Steps
Zuora Demo
Watch this short demo and learn how Zuora can help you.
Zuora Resources
Subscription Management Resources.