Zuora's May '10 Release Delivers Major New Features Across Entire Subscription Billing Product Line

Z-Billing, Z-Payments, Z-Force, and Z-Commerce all receive new enhancements

Redwood City, CA — May 13, 2010

Company News

Zuora, the company that defined and continues to lead the subscription billing industry, today announced the availability of its May ’10 release. May ’10 includes enhancements and additions across Zuora’s entire subscription billing product line, including Z-Billing, Z-Payments, Z-Force, and Z-Commerce.

Customers continue to express excitement about each and every one of Zuora’s monthly releases:

“Supporting ACH payments with Chase Paymentech is critical to our business. Zuora listened to our needs and delivered. Thank you Zuora!” says Robert Maynard, Chief Executive Officer, PrivacyMaxx.

Jeff Zie CEO of Moviestorm, a leading provider of digital animation software, says, “It’s amazing how Zuora continues to deliver on this constant pace of innovation month after month.”

“My monthly projections just got a whole lot more accurate with Zuora’s API Support for charge segments,” said Ben Saren of CitySquares.com. “Being able to better calculate today’s MRR or the next services start-date is critical to accurate reporting.”

“We told Zuora we needed support for Litle in order to scale our global business with Z-Billing,” said Owen Tripp, COO of Reputation Defender, the world’s leading online reputation management and privacy company. “They had the integration up and running quickly. Now that is some serious customer focus.”

“Billing with variable upfront costs and changing recurring fees can be confusing to manage. The additions to the Product Rate Plan and Product Rate Plan Charge fields in the API will give us greater flexibility to extend existing Zuora subscriptions and dynamically apply one-off and recurring charges for our customers,” said Roland Flanagan of Online Marketing Group.

Juan Delard, CTO of Quotify/LifeEvents Media, uses Zuora to develop all of the packaging and pricing for quoting and lead generation business and says, “Zuora’s new releases always include something new that helps us improve and simplify our business processes.”

“Zuora is like a giant aspirin. No more payment processing headaches,” said Perry Tancredi, Sr. Director Products, Quova Inc. “My team has more time to dedicate to solving the IP geolocation puzzle, bringing new Quova products to market, faster.”

Zuora Commentary

“The world is clearly moving to what we have been calling the Subscription Economy, as evidenced by our latest quarterly results,” said Tien Tzuo, CEO and founder of Zuora. “And Zuora’s monthly releases, built in conjunction with some of the world’s best subscription companies, are at the heart of this transformation.”

The latest enhancements to Zuora solutions include:

  • Subscription Preview allows users to see billing charges before finalizing a subscription, preventing data entry errors
  • API Visibility into Full Subscription Charge History helps better calculate key subscription metrics, such as today’s MRR or the next services start-date
  • Support for processing ACH payments in Chase/Paymentech gateway means more payment options
  • Support for Litle Payment Processor and more API Fields– Product, Product Rate Plan, Product Rate Plan Charge allow greater flexibility and visibility into your Product Catalog and Pricing
  • Tenant Admin Control allows administrative users to turn users on and off with ease

 

Over the last 17 months, Zuora has committed to a monthly new feature release schedule that delivers an unprecedented pace of innovation, even by SaaS standards. Each monthly release contains major updates to Zuora’s entire product line, including Z-Billing, the first billing application designed specifically for subscription businesses; Z-Payments, a complete payment solution built for subscription businesses launched with PayPal;
Z-Force, a quoting, renewal management, and a 360 degree customer view built 100% natively on top of Force.com; and Z-Commerce, the Business Cloud developer platform available at developer.zuora.com.

About Zuora, Inc.

Zuora’s subscription billing and commerce platform changes the way subscription businesses manage and sell to customers, allowing them to bring new products to market in less time, with more flexibility and less hassle. Zuora customers are up and running within 30 to 90 days and often recognize 200% ROI within weeks. Zuora is built from the ground up by SaaS industry visionaries and veterans from salesforce.com, WebEx, Accenture, Google, eBay, Oracle and Vitria. Zuora customers include Reed Business Information, Coremetrics, InsideView, Marketo, Ricoh, Box.net, Xactly, HD Cloud, Cloud Central and Sun Microsystems. To learn more about Zuora, please visit zuorainternprd.wpengine.com.

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