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Zuora Overview

What is Zuora?

Zuora Billing is enabling companies to monetize new innovations fast, while scaling and automating billing processes. Companies leveraging Zuora Billing are able to unlock new growth strategies with 50+ out of the box pricing models, configurable discounting, and billing triggers. Pricing is sychronized with Zuora CPQ to support direct sales, APIs to support consumer channels, and the abiltiy to enable self serve and partner portals to nurture customers across any sales channel. Last, Zuora Billing allows companies to automate their billing operations at scale by automating prorations, orchestrating provisioning, general ledger interation, connecters to tax engines, and support for 40+ payment gateways.

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Zuora’s billing solutions help businesses monetize their innovations through flexible pricing strategies and simple, automated billing operations.


Seller Details
Seller
Zuora
Year Founded
2007
HQ Location
Redwood City, California
Twitter
@Zuora
19,562 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
1,676 employees on LinkedIn®
Ownership
NYSE: ZUO
Phone
(888) 976-9056

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Yana P.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"A pretty good experience in viewing mode"
The calm layout, no unnecessary shapes, buttons, colours or pop-ups. The fact that the Back button on the browser is enough to get you on the previ...
Raj S.
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Raj S.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"ZUORA--A great accounting software"
* A single platform for all accounting and finance for a product * Friendly interface and easy to learn * Each sub category for accounts, billin...
Elias W.
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Elias W.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"i would say it in one word, "Professional""
the UI, that pretty easy to use and business applications is also easy
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Zuora Media

Zuora Demo - Monetize new innovations
Monetize new innovations fast with out of the box pricing models
Zuora Demo - Quote for the entire subscriber lifecycle
Quote for the entire subscriber lifecycle with support for quoting amendments, ramp deals, and any combination of recurring and one time charges
Zuora Demo - Unify billing operations
Unify billing operations with subscriptions, physical goods, and other one time fees combined into a single order
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What do you like best about Zuora?

it keeps things simple through automation. UI is nice, UX is good, overall its not too complicated to use. Fairly simple, simple is good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zuora?

i am not sure if there is really a dislike. I've never used any other service. but its pretty good. i think it works out for Zuora because i am of the mindset that if a first time user uses this and likes it, they wont leave. If anyone starts looking elsewhere then thats where the problem lies and you will need to spend money to figure out what made this particular user go searching for something else to use. if they like it, thats great because now you will have a regular user. Most poeple are lazy, and only change if they are forced to. by doing something bad, tweaking your product to something not user friendly or confusing or anything that is a turn off, it will give the user an incentive to leave. so, like i said earlier, i'm not sure if there is really a dislike, which means your product is pretty good. dont give me a reason to leave. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What problems is Zuora solving and how is that benefiting you?

There is one consolidated place for everything. it saves me a lot of time, the more time saved, the more time i have to do other things. Consolidation is awesome also because i dont have to remember a separate password for each site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zuora?

Zuora's billing is solid. We just don't have issues with billing. CPQ is relatively straight forward to use in Salesforce given our transactional sales cycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zuora?

I've used Zuora for about 10 years now - spoke for them at their Subscribed events, Dreamforce, etc. The top 3 issues that continue to recur:

1. Under pressure to deliver wall street results, they pass that along to their customers upon renewal. It's never about how can we make sure you're happy and we're charging you based on the value received, but it's about retaining ACV and trying to grow ACV from each customer every single year. And their tactics are dirty ones that I've never experience from any other vendor.

2. I've had multiple challenges with their professional services in the past (granted, the last engagement was about 4-5 years ago now).

3. Their platform data model is complicated, so it can be difficult to figure out how to pull billing metrics from it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zuora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Billing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zuora?

Zuora is powerful and there's features to pull data and create reports that you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zuora?

Confusing and difficult to learn. It takes time to really understand all the components. Very difficult to get trained on or train others on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Zuora is difficult to use, and I would honestly look at other options out there first. You spend a lot of time trying to fix things and trouble shoot things. It's very non user-friendly. Their support team is also impossible to reach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zuora solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Zuora to invoice customers and track our outstanding invoices/balances for each of our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zuora?

I like the Zuora integrates in with Salesforce Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zuora?

I dislike that their base package is missing a lot of features, and it isn't just a few hundred dollars to bump your plan up, it costs a significant amount more. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zuora solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are having issues with mass editing and discounts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zuora?

It is a software that offers a really solid billing system to incorporate into different types of companies no matter how small or large they are. One of the things that I like about the program is that they add functionalities constantly so it is noticeable that its developers are constantly moving in order to make Zuora one of the best platforms in its field. Among the features featuring invoice management, sales tax, payment processing and many others. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zuora?

- The documentation is not the best, this forces you to go to the articles of help and even contact the support to solve any issues that arise.

- The customization of the tool is not one of its strengths, with limited options for the user.

- The complexity of the tool sometimes results in a double-edged weapon as it creates an immense learning curve that doesn't allow you to be productive out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Zuora:

I consider Zuora to be one of the most complete software in terms of a billing system focused on large companies for which it has important scalable qualities. Among the different applications that this tool integrates are Paypal Business, Stripe, Salesforce, Amazon Pay which makes sure to cover the most popular payment platforms present in the market. The ability to extract information from customers as well as the creation of reports is above average so I recommend to any type of company to take their time to use this software, you will love it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zuora solving and how is that benefiting you?

The company I work for needs to monitor many important variables for us, one of the main requirements you had was to keep track of all the money we receive as well as which products are most requested and the profits that these they leave us. Because Zuora was developed by entrepreneurs who own software-as-a-service companies and with extensive experience in managing the most powerful companies in the market so it makes Zuora offer with an untotal amount of business functionalities that adapt to all kinds of billing operations and subscription system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Richie N.
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What do you like best about Zuora?

It was the only quoting tool at the time and did the work we needed for the most part. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zuora?

Lacked ease of modifying and changing items in the catalog. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Zuora:

Make sure you understand what it takes to make changes and get updates accomplished. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zuora solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a quoting tool and it was the easiest we could get and implement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zuora?

Zuora Insights is an information base that, besides the data, provides us with expertise and the foundations for a successful marketing collection. It is just like a digital library. However, it gives us ideas to extend it and make it work the best and the most efficient at the same time. His multifaceted reviews are a gateway to our company's needs and shortcomings, regardless of whether they reflect new ideas or the transformation of a few that have already been developed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zuora?

The product will not adapt to the business, so that its plans can be implemented and the desired effect can be achieved, the service must be guided to adapt it to the product in some degree. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Zuora:

Using Zuora Insights as a constant consultant, you can start from below and change the company's bases as necessary. Only Zuora Insights will underestimate software with a high potential to make any business grow when it is used for making shallow changes with little impact within the culture rooted in the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zuora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Zuora Insights provides us with the necessary reports to know what needs to be improved within the company and what's going well and we start making the relevant changes from there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zuora?

Ease of access, easy to visualise information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zuora?

The customization of the tool is not one of its strengths, with limited options for the user.

The complexity of the tool sometimes results in a double-edged weapon as it creates an immense learning curve that doesn't allow you to be productive out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zuora solving and how is that benefiting you?

I consider Zuora to be one of the most complete software in terms of a billing system focused on large companies for which it has important scalable qualities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zuora?

Focused on subscription management, fast. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zuora?

Bug ridden, unhelpful support, very overpriced, over complicated, clunky UI Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Zuora:

If you want to integrate Zuora with ANY 3rd party software including your own you will be best to look elsewhere. They talk a good game but are unhelpful in reality. Each thing they appear to promise is half-baked and not fit for purpose. I sorely wish we had never used it and begrudge the exorbitant payment we yield to them that I think they happily receive knowing that since Zuora is utterly tied into our systems we can't easily remove it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zuora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Subscription managment out of the box. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Zuora?

Zuora does it's function of billing our customers. Zuora is pretty easy to manage on a daily basis. The reports and billing and payments runs are easy to review and audit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Zuora?

I think the biggest pet peeve is that when entering a new payment method for a customer there is no way to make that the default payment type without editing the account after you enter it. There should be a way to make a payment method the default when entering it in the system. There are other small things like this that make users frustrated on a daily basis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Zuora:

Take your time with implementation! Really think out and discuss the ramifications of how the system is set up. There are settings and product set up that will make things difficult if you want to change it later on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Zuora solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recurring billing. Customers are billed on a recurring basis and service periods are tracked automatically. There are many reports that track revenue and make it easy to make accounting entries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.