Zuora Demo: Operationalizing Usage-Based Revenue from Pricing to Rev Rec

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Turn Usage Pricing Complexity

Into Finance Clarity

Go to market with usage-based pricing with a single source of truth,
from event ingestion through invoice to revenue recognition—driving
accuracy, trust, and predictable growth.

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Create flexible usage pricing in a finance-aware product catalog

Configure usage models out of the box 

Bring finance to the forefront of pricing

Enable sales to quote for usage-based offers

A pricing breakdown shows a $199 one-time platform fee, $150 recurring fee for 10 users, and $500 usage tier fee for 250,000 units, with options for additional charges below.

Support pay-as-you-go, prepaid, volume discounts, tiers, thresholds, overages, and commitment models with clicks not code.  

Invoice summary showing usage charges, tax, and total of $790; revenue recognition bar for Q2; adjustment log details a $500 credit for billing correction dated 09/01/2026.

Configure usage pricing with accounting controls built in, so every invoice, recognition event, and adjustment can align seamlessly across order to cash 

Contract selection interface showing "Usage Contract," a usage agreement for 100,000 units at $0.002 per unit, a 3-year term, and an option toggled for subscription.

Ensure accuracy from the first sales order with the ability to quote usage contracts, add top-ups, create multi-year agreements, or bundle usage with subscriptions. 

Visibility that builds trust: from ingestion to invoice to revenue.

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Dashboard showing 53,142 usage events today, combined usage bars for 10K, 20K, and 30K+, and a balance over time graph peaking between Wednesday and Friday.

Monitor usage balances in real time
Usage events are rated in real time, giving billing teams live insight into exactly how much each customer has used, even mid-cycle.

Dashboard showing 160,000 of 200,000 units used (80% usage). Detailed usage: 50,000 units at $0.05 and 50,000 units at $0.02, totaling $3,500.

Build trust with customers through transparency 
Configurable widgets, real-time threshold notifications, alongside detailed usage invoices give customers control over their spend, avoid surprise overages, and reduce billing disputes.

Line graph showing revenue data from January to July for four metrics: Deferred Revenue Start, Revenue Recognised, New Billings, and Deferred Revenue End, each trending differently.

Simplify audits with usage waterfall reports
Reduce manual reconciliation with a detailed, unified view of recognized and deferred revenue across pre-paid and committed usage contracts

Dashboard showing 3.0B raw events, a processing rate of 34,700 events/sec with a rising line graph, and horizontal bar charts for data pipeline and audit trail.

Accurately meter billions of daily usage events 
Align with your product service to directly ingest, enrich, aggregate, and transform events equipped with a full audit trail across the entire data pipeline. Scalable to 3B raw usage events per day

Recognize usage revenue as soon as an event is ingested
Confidently estimate and adjust variable considerations based on actual, real time, usage data. Track usage revenue on a product-by-product basis

Line graph showing total, billed, and unbilled revenue by quarter from Q1 2023 to Q2 2025, with a peak in Q3 2023 and a decline through Q1 2025.

After outgrowing spreadsheets, Zoom adopted Zuora as their order-to-cash platform in 2015, before raising Series C. Zoom continues to run their multi-billion dollar business on Zuora today.

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Zendesk became a Zuora customer in 2010 when they had 5000 accounts. They’ve scaled with Zuora through the years and continue to run their entire order-to-cash process on Zuora today. 

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“It’s reassuring to know that with Zuora we can continue to scale our business to meet the needs of our growing global customer base.” 

Lauren Feeney, Financial Controller, Secureframe 

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Forecast, predict, and refine with usage intelligence

Forecast usage, grounded in actual customer data


Leverage actual customer usage coupled with machine learning to accurately forecast and detect anomalies

Uncover growth opportunities with AI

AI-driven account scoring provides predictive scoring based on usage to proactively identity upsell opportunities or churn risk 

Bar and line graph showing usage trends and forecast over six periods, with actual usage, expected baseline, forecast, confidence interval, and detected anomalies marked.
Bar chart showing sales and outstanding amounts from Jan to Apr 2025, with a sharp sales increase in Apr. Below, a "Promise to Pay" of $16,567,791 is dated 04/01/2025.

Frequently Asked Questions Usage Based Pricing

What is usage based pricing software?

Usage based pricing software enables companies to set prices based on how much customers actually use a product or service such as API calls, bandwidth, or compute hours, instead of relying only on fixed recurring fees.

Zuora’s usage based pricing software collects and meters usage data in real time, applies your pricing models (tiered, block, or overage), and automatically turns that into accurate price calculations that feed invoices, forecasts, and compliant revenue recognition.

Zuora’s usage based pricing software supports prepaid, committed, overage, and hybrid usage contracts, allowing you to combine consumption-based pricing with subscriptions or one-time fees in a single flexible agreement.

Zuora’s usage based pricing software seamlessly handles revenue recognition by linking every usage event to accounting rules, automatically recognizing revenue in compliance with ASC 606 and IFRS 15 and giving finance teams daily, audit-ready visibility into earned revenue.

Zuora’s usage based pricing software handles usage disputes and pricing discrepancies by providing full transparency into every metered event and rated amount, so you can trace each price back to its source data and resolve disputes with confidence.

Yes, customers can view their usage and projected costs in real time with Zuora usage based pricing platform. It lets you embed real-time usage dashboards in customer portals or CRMs, showing billed and unbilled usage, thresholds, and forecasted charges based on your pricing models.

You can easily forecast revenue with Zuora’s usage based pricing software via the platform’s forecasting and simulation tools that project future usage revenue based on historical trends and live metering data, helping finance teams model growth and cash flow accurately.

Yes, Zuora’s usage based pricing software is fully compliant and auditable. Every usage record, rating rule, price, invoice, and revenue entry is tracked end to end, ensuring auditability, compliance, and full traceability across your entire pricing, billing, and revenue lifecycle.

The best usage based pricing software should include real-time metering, flexible pricing engines for tiered and hybrid models, automated rating and revenue recognition, global currency and tax support, forecasting, and audit-ready compliance.
Zuora’s usage based pricing software includes all these features — built to scale from startups to global enterprises.

Getting started with usage based pricing in Zuora is easy. Simply request a demo or talk to a Zuora expert in usage based pricing. Setup includes defining your usage metrics, configuring pricing tiers and charge models, integrating metering data sources, and automating pricing, billing, and revenue workflows across the Order-to-Cash process.

Trusted by 1,000+ companies worldwide for nearly 2 decades, Zuora unifies quoting, billing, payments, AR, revenue, and analytics into the most complete monetization solution.

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