Zuora - a flexible billing platform for an ever-changing business
November 01, 2016
Zuora - a flexible billing platform for an ever-changing business
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Zuora
Zuora is Branch's billing engine. We're working with the Zuora API and our backend to determine how much and when to charge our customers. We leverage flat rate plans as well as usage based plans. We've integrated Zuora into Salesforce to empower sales reps to generate quotes and quickly close deals. Our billing support team manages customer accounts directly in the Zuora UI. Zuora is an extremely cross-functional product that touches product, sales, operations, and engineering.
- Zuora makes it easy to set up various billing plans
- Zuora is powerful enough to meet the demands of most billing models and methods
- Zuora connects with Salesforce so sales reps never need to log into Zuora ever
- Zuora has good documentation, allowing the technical team to execute
- Zuora's basic email support can be very generic and lacking overall
- The REST API and SOAP API are not comparable, making some development needs very challenging to meet
- Zuora, like any complex software, requires close oversight and ownership, as there are tons of settings and things to configure
Recurly was too basic for our needs. We didn't believe that we could scale with that technology.
Stripe would have required that we integrate it along side 3 other pieces of technology in order to hack together a billing system. Chargebee was too new a player for us to trust their brand and business. We wanted best in class.
All in all, we felt that Zuora was the industry leader with the most robust product. We also felt confident that Zuora would scale with our business. For the other platforms we considered, we felt like we would have had to rip them out at some point in the future and replace them with Zuora. This felt like a waste and we didn't want to do it.