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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Conexiom

    Score8.5 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Conexiom is a SaaS platform that transforms emailed trade documents from customers and suppliers into fully automated digital transactions with accuracy across order-to-cash and procure-to-pay processes, and with no change required for how documents are submitted.N/A

    Zuora

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AZuora is one of the best-known subscription billing platforms. Zuora is an enterprise-level product and, as such, provides comprehensive metrics, tax automation, and support for multiple currencies. It also offers Salesforce and NetSuite integration out-of the-box. It often replaces cumbersome ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems that does not focus exclusively on billing.N/A
    Pricing
    ConexiomZuora
    Editions & Modules
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    Pricing Offerings
    ConexiomZuora
    Free Trial
    NoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeRequiredNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsConexiom is priced flexibly to client preferences including annual SaaS fee per trading partner no matter how large the volume of documents they submit, on a per document basis, or as a mix of both annual fee and per document fee.—
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    User Ratings
    ConexiomZuora
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (135 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    1.0
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.0
    (18 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.3
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
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    1.0
    (13 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    9.3
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.4
    (9 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    6.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ConexiomZuora
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Conexiom
    Conexiom is well suited for companies that have an EDI-capable ERP and receive searchable PDFs containing vendor invoices, vendor acknowledgments, and/or customer orders that must be manually processed with regularity. Conexiom provides huge time savings to this type of company, allowing headcount to be minimized and stopping employees from doing tedious work. Conexiom is less suited to companies whose invoices/acknowledgments/orders come only sporadically or via methods that aren't searchable PDFs.
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    Zuora
    Zuora is great for smaller subscription businesses that have a limited number of simple or basic products. As more products are added to the catalog, the ability to report on specific product performance has become more challenging. Similarly, as our number of customers has grown significantly over the past few years, the extraction of data through export files is more of a challenge to capture all data points.
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    Pros
    Conexiom
    • Great customer service
    • Amazing mapping accuracy
    • Fast processing times
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    Zuora
    • The implementation of Zuora is very helpful. Their interactive training guides are one of the best I've used. It is very thorough and any salesperson can learn how to use it very quickly.
    • Their subscription management offers many ways to sell a subscription. These subscriptions can be evergreen (renewing every month) or termed subscriptions. The subscriptions can be amended to add/remove products very easily.
    • The ability to quickly pass through large amounts of usage data for our clients is allowing us to perform billing in a time-effective manner. Once usage data is loaded, a few clicks and all of the invoices for our client base can be generated. Invoices are clean and detailed which help us maintain a good customer experience even with our somewhat complex billing model. The reporting is extremely helpful in calculating the end of month commissions, recognizing and deferring revenue, and overall bookkeeping.
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    Cons
    Conexiom
    • Online Portal Functionality
    • Training Videos for new users
    • Error Trapping Functionality
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    Zuora
    • User Interface - Zuora's UI is still a weak point, however, this is negated through the use of its API's. Zuora has done a lot of work in releasing new products to limit its UI experience and the addition of Orders allows for more functionality to reduce the UI issue.
    • Complex system - This is both a pro and a con, but in this instance, it is a con because we may not have taken the time to truly understand the implications of all the options that were available. the Flexibility is great however if you do not take the time to understand the product and what problem you are trying to solve, you can make life difficult for yourself later down the track. Take the time to map out your approach end to end and ensure your assumptions at the start are robust.
    • Reporting - reporting is weak as such we have moved away to our own reporting data warehouse.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Conexiom
    No answers on this topic
    Zuora
    Our business is now, more than ever, focused on our core business rather than homegrown support tools for quoting, contracts, billing, invoicing, payments and the rest of the subscription economy. We evaluated other solutions and found this the best and most viable solution given the strong ties to Salesforce and it's integration. Zuora works, and it works well.
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    Usability
    Conexiom
    The portal was good enough but lacked some functionality, not a big problem since you were able to open support tickets but a more robust portal would be great. Anyone with some tech background can navigate the portal
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    Zuora
    I had 20+ years of accounting experience before taking on the revenue role. I had several things to [learn] but was able to easily master the software in a matter of weeks. Zuora is our preferred billing platform that we currently use - very efficient and much more automated than our other platform/process.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Conexiom
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    Zuora
    There have only been a few days/instances in the past 2.5 years of using zuora that I, personally have had issues or been notified of issues relating to Zuora.
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    Performance
    Conexiom
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    Zuora
    Zuora does a superb job for all the tasks I use it for. Billing - it is trustworthy and accurate. Customer data- it holds it and keeps past records for even cancelled accounts, and subscription builds - it has the ability to make very difficult subscriptions seem easy.
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    Support Rating
    Conexiom
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    Zuora
    A support request is emailed to their support team, then an automated response is sent to you in a couple hours saying "Hey, someone will take a look at your support request soon". Then somewhere around 12-18 hours later, an actual support member responds with "Have you checked out our tutorials? Here's one that sounds like it might help you". I don't want a tutorial given to me that I've already read through that only exists because of the terrible user design of Zuora's user interface
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    In-Person Training
    Conexiom
    No answers on this topic
    Zuora
    The onsite was so helpful and worth the hours spent. All three people that came to represent Zuora had a lot to offer.
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    Online Training
    Conexiom
    No answers on this topic
    Zuora
    It was reliable.
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    Implementation Rating
    Conexiom
    No answers on this topic
    Zuora
    I think Zuora did a great job. However, they could have provided more guidance on how to deal with out Payment Gateway and Processor provider, as well as guidance around providing a Mobile Responsive experience for sites using the Zuora HPM.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Conexiom
    No answers on this topic
    Zuora
    Zuora provides way more functionality than Recurly or SaaSOptics as a billing engine. However, it is not a general ledger system like NetSuite ERP, it is still designed to be primarily a billing function that feeds into a general ledger via automated general entries. It has simplified our invoice management and automated billing while connecting with Salesforce for high-powered reporting and cross-departmental collaboration. The automation of revenue recognition has the potential to significantly reduce the time spent on accounting close by a few days.
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    Scalability
    Conexiom
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    Zuora
    The product is capable of a lot, small companies and large companies can utilize it with ease
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    Return on Investment
    Conexiom
    • Gave us more resources (time and manpower)
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    Zuora
    • Poor support has slowed down our implementation of features and resolution of issues
    • Lack of flexibility has led to some complex and unwieldy workaround solutions
    • No useful built in AR reporting so we had to come up with our own solution
    • Challenges with finance due to unreliability of Salesforce sync
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    ScreenShots

    Conexiom Screenshots

    Screenshot of Conexiom Express, a third-generation AI product, boasts a training set across 95,000 trading partners and over 1 billion order lines per year.Screenshot of a dashboard with dynamic and customizable reports that provide rich insights into the status of transactions for each trading partner and across all trading partners.Screenshot of Conexiom's pre-configured library of over 70 standard and ERP-specific validations, conversions, and transformations so repetitive exceptions can be handled once and auto-corrected forever.