Cloudflare vs. Quadient Accounts Receivable

It is easy to set up, and within 10 minutes it is up and running. You can add many domains in one dashboard. So no need for a separate Cloudflare account. I can access all my domain DNS, and customize/add it further. For example by adding the Google Webmaster DNS key or my email provider.

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Amazing tool for workflow automation, customer self service, housing customer information in one repository, risk assessment for customers. Less helpful for cash forecasting and a bit more rigid for workflow set ups if the customer has multiple accounting pathways to send notifications to.

• Registrar and DNS services are impeccable, with registrations done at cost and without ADs. DNS services setting standards for speed of resolution.
• DDOS protection. With their content distribution network to back them they have the bandwidth and tools to be both proactive and reactive to bad actors.
• WAF - Their Web Application Firewall helps mitigate common site vulnerabilities and has active zero-day protection running for breaking exploits

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• User friendly dashboard
• Ease of use setting up workflows
• Easy to follow aging report to reconcile
• DSO on the front home page

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• In some cases, using Cloudflare can actually lead to slower website speeds if the network is congested or if the website's traffic is particularly heavy.
• Some website owners may find that the level of customization offered by Cloudflare is limited, especially in comparison to other solutions.
• While Cloudflare is easy to set up and manage, it may be too complex for users who are not familiar with web technologies.

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• Workflows are not set up to easily choose different billing contact choices (invoice, inquiry statements to different aliases)
• Cash forecasting graphics are unhelpful and can be refined
• DSO calculation is set at 365 day average only - there are no options to view DSO averages by collector or 90 days averages

lower cost

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Amazing tool which we love. Definitely something to consider if you have a high volume of customers or your team runs lean as it does a lot of the touches without human support

Everything is extremely concise and all settings apply immediately and take effect globally. There is no reason to explicitly plan/think in terms of individual regions as one would have to traditional cloud offerings (AWS, OCI, Azure). All Cloudflare products integrate seamless as part of a single pipeline that executes from request to response.

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Super easy set up - does not need Admin support to create workflows or templates - anyone with a sense of receivables processes can do it

In 6+ years of relying on Cloudflare, I think we experienced one or two brief outages that were Cloudflare's fault.

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Their Argo for the global network is the core feature we love.

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We really like to talk to a person on the phone or using chat. But the system is very slow and sending to much email to get the issue solve. Something we don't like to spend time writing on the community forum our issue because we don't want to share detail information of our POC.

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Very well executed implementation where our team was able to handle the implementation with guidance.

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Firebase can be a good starter for basic projects but as I scaled up, I found it lacking the maturity Cloudflare has. Naturaly, I opted for Cloudflare for bigger projects. I still use Firebase, but for small scale hobby projects only.

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Quadient stacked up pretty well. Pricing was a bit higher than what we wanted to spend; however, based on the value we are receiving in a streamlined product, we pulled the trigger on it. Dunning was a bit more limited and manual process in the collections process so we opted for Quadient.

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They are built for scale and have the capacity to handle all the traffic we could ever expect to get.

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• A lot of requests are cached and so egress costs from downstream providers are mitigated.
• DDoS protection has also managed to keep our site up and our cloud computing bill down.
• Setting up a proxy with a worker made putting various Google Cloud Functions running behind a single URL very easy and performant. Plus they offer API Shield on top of this.

• Decrease in our DSO which was relatively high before
• Ease of use by our customers to gather statements or invoices
• Ease of use platform for all employees

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