Zuora

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Zuora offers the first and only products created specifically to help companies build, manage, and grow their subscription business. Z-Billing and Z-Payments products make it fast and easy to launch new products, scale operations, and automate recurring billing and subscription payments in one solution. The Z-Force product integrates Z-Billing and Z-Payments with salesforce.com so you can better sell subscriptions and service those customers. The Z-Commerce Platform makes it easy for developers to monetize their cloud services by simply plugging in commerce-as-a-service with a few lines of code. And Z-Commerce for Media is their first vertical solution that gives publishers an easy way to start monetizing their online content.

• The first complete billing solution for subscription businesses
• Z-Billing 2.0 is the first product designed from the ground up for the subscription business. With Z-Billing 2.0, you can launch new products to market quickly, invoice customers, scale operations, and gain full visibility into the metrics that drive your subscription business.
• Built with PayPal X, Z-Payments 2.0 allows your subscription business to accept any form of payment, automate exception handling, reduce billing and payment disputes, and shorten collection cycles.
• If you use salesforce.com, chances are you’d like to manage billing and payments in Salesforce as well. That’s what you get with Z-Force — a 100% native Force.com application that includes powerful e-commerce, quoting, and customer support features to help you sell your subscription service and keep your customers happy.
• If you're a Java, Ruby, Force.com, or Facebook developer building in the cloud you know that monetizing and operationalizing cloud services is hard. But it shouldn't be. The Z-Commerce Platform provides a full commerce-as-a-service solution that lets developers plug in billing, payment, and subscription management services with just a few lines of code — and start getting paid.
• With Z-Commerce for Media publishers get the full power of Z-Billing and Z-Payments, an easy way to define online content rules and control access to content based on a reader's entitlements, and get up and running with a proven solution quickly.
• 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.
• Customize content and access rules for productsWant to offer a sports pack?
• Want to test a local news edition? Z-Commerce for Media makes it easy to define content access rules for each of your products.
• Automated entitlement verification
• Ability to support any subscription pricing model - including one-time, recurring, usage and metering charges, volume tier pricing, and any combination thereof so you can tailor and test offers to maximize revenue.
• 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. Micropayments are debited as they go and they can top up their account or upgrade to a subscription at anytime.
• Automate recurring payments and collections - Z-Commerce 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.
• Ability to scale efficiently - Z-Commerce for Media enables you to scale operations to any number of products, offers, subscribers, and payments – whether you're a major media conglomerate or a small regional news site.
• 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.
• A single system for all customer subscriptions, entitlements, billing, and payments
• Integrates with content management and financial systems - Secure Web services API makes it easy to integrate with your core internal systems and financial packages.

How is Zuora different? I'ts team of top-notch subscription management experts, its vision for a world where businesses and consumers subscribe to services instead of purchase products, and the platform and products which are designed from the ground up specifically for subscription businesses.

Backed by Benchmark and Marc Benioff, Zuora was built from the ground up by SaaS industry visionaries and veterans from salesforce.com, WebEx, Postini (now Google), and Oracle. The Zuora team grew up in the subscription services world. In addition, Zuora has assembled a world-class Board and Advisory Team, with industry experts from Accenture, Cisco, and most recently, Scott Thompson from PayPal.

Their flagship product, Z-Billing, has attracted over 100 customers since its launch in May 2008. Scalable, powerful, and easy to use, Z-Billing was named "the Salesforce of online billing" by TechCrunch. Z-Payments, which they launched just five months later with online payment pioneer PayPal, is now built with the PayPal X platform, allowing for even greater flexibility. At salesforce.com’s Dreamforce 2008, they introduced Z-Force, the first billing and payment solution fully integrated with salesforce.com. They followed that with their Z-Commerce Platform which makes it easy for developers coding in the cloud to plug in their commerce-as-a-service solution so they can start getting paid. The Z-Commerce Platform is now the de facto platform for subscription businesses in the technology industry. And Z-Commerce for Media gives publishers an easy way to start monetizing their online content.

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