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    Fusebill

    Score7 out of 10
    N/AFusebill is designed to simplify subscription and billing management by automating many manual accounting and financial processes and workflows. This cloud-based platform aims to give companies the freedom to grow their businesses, the flexibility to capitalize on new product opportunities, and the agility to maintain a competitive edge.

    $250

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    Zoho Billing

    Score7.9 out of 10
    N/AZoho Billing is a comprehensive billing management solution designed to facilitate one-time invoicing, recurring billing, Subscription Management, and multi-model usage-based billing. The platform automates the entire Quote-to-Cash (Q2C) cycle, ranging from plan configuration to payment collection, revenue recognition, and financial reporting. Zoho Billing functions as a revenue management platform engineered to manage every stage of the Q2C process within a unified…

    $25

    per month per organization (billed annually)

    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
    FusebillZoho BillingZuora
    Editions & Modules
    Startup
    $295.00
    per month
    Growth
    $895.00
    per month
    Standard
    $25
    per month per organization (billed annually)
    Premium
    $59
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    Enterprise Edition
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    Zuora
    Chose Zuora
    Most of our use cases have been met only by Zuora. We based our decision on the following factors:
    1. Choosing the software that meets 80-90% of our needs.
    2. Awesome customer support
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    WooCommerce Subscriptions
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.0
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    6.0
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    8.0
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    1.0
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    Usability
    7.0
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    6.0
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    Availability
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    9.3
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    Performance
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    9.7
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    Support Rating
    2.0
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    1.0
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    In-Person Training
    -
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    9.3
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    Online Training
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    7.0
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    7.4
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    Configurability
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    6.6
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    Ease of integration
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    6.0
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    Product Scalability
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    10.0
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    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    FusebillZoho BillingZuora
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Fusebill
    Fusebill is great for a simple business that doesn't have a lot of moving pieces to their subscriptions. One of our two companies that uses Fusebill it is perfect for it because it is small and straightforward. The second you get into complicated scenarios for billing, subscriptions or detailed accounting reports, [and] Fusebill no longer serves those needs.
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    Zoho
    [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.
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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
    Fusebill
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    Zoho
    • Integrating with other ZoHo modules
    • Pricing
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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
    Fusebill
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    Zoho
    • Declined payments, there wasn't a big alarm that went off automatically when a payment was declined. I have set up different notifications when this happens in the future though.
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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
    Fusebill
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    Zoho
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    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
    Fusebill
    It works great for the simple scenarios and gives you configurability options to make it fit your business, but doesn't handle the complicated scenarios.
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    Zoho
    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.
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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
    Fusebill
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    Zoho
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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
    Fusebill
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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
    Fusebill
    This is pretty non-existent. After we came on we had a dedicated person for a few months and then never heard from them again. Support requests seem to be forgotten about and we rarely got answers to the questions we were needing.
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    Zoho
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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
    Fusebill
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    Zoho
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    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
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    Zuora
    It was reliable.
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    Implementation Rating
    Fusebill
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    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.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Fusebill
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    Zoho
    Zoho [Subscriptions] is a lot easier to set up recurring payments and notifications than [Stripe] or [PayPal] alone. They offer notification reminders that will help manage clients, versus setting up an API [..] communication system [to] your own with the others. Clients have an easier time changing credit cards around in Zoho [Subscriptions,] whereas in Stripe and Paypal, you have a lot more manual work.
    Thryv is [an] all in one [package] for both one time and recurring payments, which I prefer over Zoho [Subscriptions], without having to create new client files in each system; [Thryv] [...] also has notification options which is a time saver. Thryv can also send test email review requests after a trigger or an [invoice] has been paid, whereas you would have to create an API integration with another service to do so in Zoho [Subscriptions]. Overall, Zoho [Subscriptions] is a great system, for most of my personal clients logging into different systems for different needs. [In] addition to subscriptions, [this] is the downfall, but it [is] still a great option for many businesses.
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    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
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    Zoho
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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
    Fusebill
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    Zoho
    • We no longer worry about missing payments or tracking the rental program.
    Incentivized
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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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