Running a subscription business is completely different from running a traditional product-centric business, from how you price to how you recognize revenue. From its inception, Zuora was built especially for subscription business models. In this session, we’ll discuss the challenges intrinsic to a subscription business model, from quote to cash. And, through a live demo, you’ll discover how the 6 Engines of the Zuora platform work to manage all subscription order-to-cash processes.
5. Businesses needs a single
Subscription Management Hub for their dynamic order-
to-cash process
quote
renew
order
provision
invoice
collect
measure
recognize
CRM ERPSubscription
Management Hub
8. CHARGE
MODEL
PROMOTIONS CURRENCY
Flat fee
Per unit
By volume
By tiers
Blended
% of discount
Fixed discount
Free trial
VIP discount
Promo codes
USD
EUR
HUF
GEL
+ more
OTHER PRICING
FACTORS
Price uplift
Tax inclusion
Tax exclusion
BILLING
FREQUENCY
Per month
Per year
Per quarter
Per week
By term
Issue based
Specific weeks
Specific months
BILLING
TRIGGERS
Upon Sign-up
Upon Fulfillment
Upon Activation
BILLING
TIMING
Batch in-advance
Batch in-arrears
Ad-hoc
USAGE
RATING
Overage charge
Tiered overage
Overage smoothing
Overage rollover
Pay as you go
Prepaid drawdown
Multi-attribute
Minimum commitment
Pricing Engine
Create new pricing in minutes,
without having to re-code or re-engineer your rating and billing processes
9. Future-dated
Event
Subscribe
Consume
Upgrade
Downgrade
View Subscription
Early or Late Invoice
Renew
And more
RECURRING
BILLING
AD HOC BILLING
FUTURE BILLING
SIMULATION
● Automatic proration & taxation
● Easy billing batches to segment customers by billing
date, payment type, and other settings
SUBSCRIPTION EVENTS FLAWLESS BILLINGRATING ENGINE
Real-time
Charge
Calculator
Taxation
Service
Usage
Ingestion
Service
Time-based
Invoice
Generator
● On-demand rating and charge calculations for real-
time invoice generation
● On-demand rating, charge calculations, and invoice
generation for future-dated events
● Trigger-date billing
● Simulate future billings to better forecast billing and cash
● Simulate billing over and beyond the entire lifecycle of a
subscription to keep a customer informed
Rating Engine
Flawlessly bill customers at scale for any monetization or account model
10. Customer Inc.
Customer EMEA
Customer N.Am
Customer West
Customer East
Reseller A
Reseller B
Your Company
Old World: Hierarchy
Customer Inc.
Customer EMEA
Customer N.Am
Customer West
Customer East
New World: Network
Today’s systems were designed for rigid account hierarchies,
not networks of relationships
11. OwnershipAssociation Payment Responsibility
Who “owns” the
subscription?
What family of companies,
units, or people is the
subscription associated with?
Who is paying for the
subscription?
● Ownership & payment responsibility are not always contained in a single hierarchy
● These can change over time
The Challenge:
There’s 3 concepts when it comes to managing
subscription relationships
12. COMPAN
Y A
SUB.
1
SUB.
2
DEP
T 1
DEP
T 2
COMPANY
B
INVINV
OWNERSHIP ASSOCIATION
PAYMENT
RESPONSIBILITY
Subscription 2 Department 2 Company A Company B
In other systems, the
invoice for Subscription 2
can’t be sent to Company B
unless it belongs under the
same hierarchy as A
Unlike systems with rigid hierarchies, Zuora decouples ownership, association, and payment responsibilities.
This lets companies easily change account relationships over time.
Designed to let you manage a network of subscription relationships
13. INV: Motor Trend
and Surfer Mag
Bill To: California
Use Case Example 1: Gifting in B2C Relationships
Example of a subscription that spans 2 family associations
TEN: Motor Trend
Subscription
TEN: Surfer
Magazine
Subscription
TEN: Super Street
Subscription
INV: Super Street
Subscription
Bill To: New York
Use Case Description
Dad pays the bills for his kids
Grandpa, who lives in New
York, gives his grandson a
subscription as a gift and pays
for the first 6 months
TOM TAMMY
GRANDPA DAD
14. INV: Motor Trend,
Super Street, and
Surfer Mag
Bill To: California
Use Case Description
After 6 months, the son decides to keep
the subscription
The payment responsibility transfers
ownership to the dad
Use Case Example 1: Gifting in B2C Relationships
Example of a subscription that spans 2 family associations
TOM TAMMY
GRANDPA DAD
TEN: Motor Trend
Subscription
TEN: Surfer
Magazine
Subscription
TEN: Super Street
Subscription
15. Digital Service
Start Date: 2/1/17
Term: 12 months
HW + Maintenance
Start Date: 1/1/17
Term: 24 months
Use Case Description
Customer buys hardware and value added maintenance through the channel
Customer buys digital service direct from vendor
INV: $170,000
Hooli HW+Main.
Piper HW+Main.
INV: $5000
Service Period:
1/1/17 - 3/31/17
Hooli CDW
Use Case Example 2: B2B Cross-Channel Commerce
Modern enterprises are now engaging the channel differently due to the proliferation of digital services
16. Use Case Description
Customer’s departments all have different buying preferences
Some departments even purchase from different resellers
Use Case Example 2: B2B Cross-Channel Commerce
Which becomes more complex with multidivisional Enterprises
Hooli Marketing Hooli Support
Hooli
Digital Service
Start Date: 2/1/17
Term: 12 months
HW + Maintenance
Start Date: 1/1/17
Term: 24 months
Digital Service
Start Date: 2/1/17
Term: 12 months
HW + Maintenance
Start Date: 1/1/17
Term: 24 months
INV: $25,000
Hooli Subscription
Piper Subscription
INV: $70,000
Marketing
HW+Main.
[____] HW+Main.
INV: $100,000
Marketing
HW+Main.
[____] HW+Main.
CDW Ingram
17. Saudi Arabia
Exploration
Company
Dubai Geological
Exploration
Truck 1: Device + Software
Activation Date: 1/1/17
Term: 12 months
Truck 2: Device + Software
Activation Date: 2/15/17
Term: 12 months
Truck 150: Device +
Software
Activation Date: 6/1/17
Term: 15 months
Truck 1: Device + Software
Activation Date: 12/1/16
Term: 12 months
Truck 2: Device + Software
Activation Date: 1/15/17
Term: 12 months
Truck 100: Device +
Software
Activation Date: 5/1/17
Term: 15 months
Use Case Description
Oil company has two vehicle
fleets who are subscribing to
remote monitoring devices
Each device is activated
separately with it’s own term
and billing frequency
INV: All active
trucks
Bill To: Saudi Arabia
INV: All active
trucks
Bill To: Dubai
Use Case Example 3: Connected IoT Device Movement
A subscription moves from one association to another
18. Truck 1: Device + Software
Activation Date: 1/1/17
Term: 12 months
Truck 2: Device + Software
Activation Date: 2/15/17
Term: 12 months
Truck 149: Device +
Software
Activation Date: 5/1/17
Term: 12 months
Truck 1: Device + Software
Activation Date: 12/1/16
Term: 12 months
Truck 2: Device + Software
Activation Date: 1/15/17
Term: 12 months
Truck 100: Device +
Software
Activation Date: 5/1/17
Term: 15 months
Use Case Description
Truck 150 from the Saudi fleet
is reallocated to the Dubai
fleet, changing subscription
ownership
Dubai company pays for
remainder of service on Truck
150’s device subscription
Truck 150: Device +
Software
Activation Date: 6/1/17
Term: 15 months
Saudi Arabia
Exploration
Company
Dubai Geological
Exploration
INV: All active
trucks
Bill To: Saudi Arabia
INV: All active
trucks
Bill To: Dubai
Use Case Example 3: Connected IoT Device Movement
A subscription moves from one association to another
20. Subscription Orders Engine
Manage the subscription lifecycle and automatically recalculate billing, payments,
and revenue for every customer event
2017 2018 2019
Jan 1, 2018
Add Product
Add Services
MRR: $1,000
2020
BILLING
PAYMENTS
METRICS
REVENUE
Jan 1, 2017
Create Subscription
MRR: $500
Jan 1, 2019
Remove Service
MRR: $750
PROVISIONING AND
NOTIFICATIONS
21. Subscription Accounting Engine
Audit-ready revenue management without sacrificing business agility
REVENUE MANAGEMENT
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+
x
=
÷
∞
±
≅
≈
≤
≥
$
¢
£¥
€invoice
allocate
distribute
recalculate
recognize
MODEL
Per unit pricing
Tiered pricing
Volume pricing
Ramp pricing
Usage pricing
Pay as you go
Overage rollover
Multi-attribute
Pre-paid
drawdown
and more!
calculate
audit
account
analyze
record
post
verify
Consume
Upgrade
Downgrade
Add-On
Remove
Rextend
Resume
Renew
EVEN
T
22. BUSINESS METRICS
BEHAVIORAL
METRICS
PREDICTIVE SCORES
MRR, ACV, TCV, Bookings, Billings,
Cash
Usage Intensity, Contracted Utilization
Churn probability, Engagement Score
FINANCIAL, BEHAVIORAL AND
DEMOGRAPHIC DATA SOURCES
INTERNA
L
INGESTION
TRANSFORMATION
QUERY
ANALYSIS
METRICS & SCORESMETRICS & SCORING ENGINE
Subscription Metrics Engine
Instant insights into business performance and customer engagement
23. Monetize with any model
Combine one-time, recurring and usage-
based charges to design strategic and
tailored pricing plans
Sell one product many ways
Leverage different pricing levers such as
different billing frequencies, different
currencies, different billing triggers,
different time periods, and more
Automate downstream impacts
Apply billing and revenue rules to each
pricing plan to trigger the Rating and
Subscription Accounting Engines
Pricing Engine
Price and package in minutes without having to re-code back office systems
24. Subscription Orders Engine
Manage the subscription lifecycle, and automatically recalculate billing,
payments and revenue for every customer event
Manage any customer event
Capture customer events, such as
when subscribers consume, suspend,
resume, renew, downgrade or cancel
their subscriptions
Trigger backend automation
Translate customer events into easy to
understands bills, timely collections,
accurate revenue recognition and up-
to-date subscription metrics
Keep the customer informed
Automate service provisioning, trigger
customer notification, and ensure
subscription information is accurately
represented across all channels
25. Rate for complex account
relationships or pricing models
Rate for complex charge calculations,
hybrid monetization models,
distributed billing, and changes in
account relationships.
Rating Engine
Bill customers flawlessly at scale for any monetization or account model
Rate usage in real-time
Ingest usage and rate for recurring or
ad hoc charges in real-time. The same
service can simulate future billings to
better forecast billing and cash.
Bill for anything
Generate tailored invoices for any
pricing model ad-hoc or on a recurring
basis. Trigger billing for individual
subscribers or groups of subscribers.
26. Global Payments Engine
Maximize recurring cash collections at scale
Enable Global Payment Options
Connect to 30+ pre-built payment gateways, 10+
global payment methods, and 100’s of
currencies
Enable Efficient Payment Operations
Allow subscribers to pick their preferred
payment dates down to the time and batch them
into groups for optimal processing times
Minimize involuntary churn
Dunning settings such as payment retry rules,
collection workflows, and payment method
updaters prevent unnecessary revenue leakage
31 Pre-built Payment Gateway Integrations
27. Subscription Accounting Engine
Audit-ready, automated financial operations for maximum business agility
Automate revenue recognition
Leverage pre-configured rules and logic
to calculate, distribute and recognize
revenue for any pricing model or change
in the subscription lifecycle
Optimize efficiency for
accounting and finance teams
Pre-built functionality for FX conversion,
GL connectors, GL segmentation rules,
AR Aging, AR Roll-forward, and more
Enable financial compliance
With audit trails of financial changes,
accounting period lock-down
capabilities, and user permissions and
controls for multi-entity enterprises
28. Blend financial and behavioral
metrics
Ingest data across multiple sources to
blend financial metrics (like contract
utilization) with behavioral metrics (like
product usage intensity)
Compute key metrics in real-
time
Calculate subscription metrics like
MRR, TCV or Net Retention across
quotes, subscriptions, orders, reports
and other areas of the application
Subscription Metrics Engine
Instant insights into business performance and customer engagement
Predict future outcomes
Use machine learning algorithms to
understand which subscribers are
most likely to renew or churn and
take preventative action
29. Platform Infrastructure
Gives businesses the agility they need with a secure, scalable,
and open and extensible microservices platform
Integration framework
Easily integrate with Zuora’s
object mapping, notifications
service, batch or real-time sync,
data transformation and other
services
Enterprise-grade scalability
Scale your business on infrastructure
that handles
- 1B API transactions per month
- 99.97% uptime reliability
- 29.89ms API response times
- Micro services architecture
Application marketplace
Accelerate your pace of innovation
with 100+ prebuilt apps that offer
- 3rd party data sync
- Bespoke charge models
- Custom rev rec rules
- Custom dunning flows
- Pre-built integrations
- Geo specific compliance
Secure & Compliant
Highest standards of certification
✓ PCI DSS
✓ SOC 1 Type 2
✓ SOC 2 Type 2
✓ ISO 27001
✓ HIPAA
✓ FIPS 140-2 Encryption
✓ 2-Factor Authentication
✓ IP Range Restrictions
30. CHANNELS
WEBCRM
Zuora Quotes Zuora 360
TAXATION
Sales Team
Support Team
Online Users
Partners
GL
3RD PARTY
PAYMENT GATEWAYS
API Based Integration
Manual
Out of the Box Integration
Zuora fits within a wider ecosystem
Notification Engine/Callouts