beehiiv vs. Zoho Billing

Based on the analysis I made of various newsletter providers, beehiiv is the most suited for high-growth ones. If you ever plan or try to grow to 200k users, beehiiv has the best cost/value ratio.

[Zoho Subscriptions is great] for startup agencies or businesses that charge monthly subscriptions of some kind. For most other [softwares,] you are paying at least $100 per month just to have the software. Zoho [Subscriptions] gives you the chance to take advantage of starting at [zero dollars,] which keeps your cost down until you understand the software before you have to upgrade. I feel like you can easily bootstrap your startup business to keep costs down. As you [are] moving forward, and are bringing in several thousand per month in revenue, it can scale up without costing a lot. [The subscriptions] [...] [start] to cost more, [...] if you have one time payments; you then need additional software from Zoho [Subscriptions] to handle the needs, and it starts adding up to typical [back- end] management software, with multiple log in points which start to drain your time budget. [At] that point, I ended up looking for a more all in one software that manages both contacts, one time and recurring invoices, reminders, etc. By the time our revenue exceeded [$5,000] per month[,] I [needed] to save time and looked for other options. [However,] I have other friends who still use it and they are generating $10k or more per month.

Incentivized

• Signup forms
• Ease of use
• Available documentation and video tutorials

• Integrating with other ZoHo modules
• Pricing

• Pricing model - too steep
• Weekly demo sessions or Q&As

• You need other Zoho tools like CRM and Books or Inventory.
• When changing an email in Subscriptions it changes it in the Zoho CRM.
• No notification of a failed payment.

Zoho Billing covers our subscription and invoicing needs well and fits nicely into our Zoho setup, but its broken GA4 integration is a real limitation for our use case.

I found beehiiv the best suited for growth. The pricing model for other providers means your costs go up faster and steeper than with beehiiv.

Beats doing it manually...

Incentivized

• Ease of use translates into more time focused on core business

• Professional look to billing and reminders which retains clients.
• Save time setting up recurring payments.
• Simple system to learn to get value quickly from software.

Incentivized