Comments on: Zuora Raises Another $15 Million For Integrated Online Billing And Payment Solution

By: Zuora Brings Subscription Billing To Facebook Apps

Zuora Brings Subscription Billing To Facebook Apps — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:53:00 +0000

[...] such as Paypal or credit cards. In return, it takes 2 percent of each subscription. Zuora has raised $21.5 million so far for its billing-as-a-service [...]

By: The Far Edge » Blog Archive » Zuora Brings Subscription Billing To Facebook Apps

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:01:27 +0000

[...] such as Paypal or credit cards. In return, it takes 2 percent of each subscription. Zuora has raised $21.5 million so far for its billing-as-a-service [...]

By: jz

jz — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:54:31 +0000

These guys aren’t cheap, but they have a very full SOAP API that, of course, hooks through to Salesforce CRM.

By: Kelli

Kelli — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:56:09 +0000

word on the street is they don’t even have a real sales team yet…they just hired someone to start hiring.

Maybe you’ll get a call back after their sales team is trained…oh…and hired!

By: frustrated

frustrated — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 06:11:26 +0000

I interviewed with them recently and what a bunch of snobs. Looks like they have traction, but that still doesn’t justify the way they treat the candidates – starting with the worst recruiter that I have ever come across.

Does anyone have a similar experience?

By: Benjamin Curtis

Benjamin Curtis — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:10:51 +0000

These days it’s pretty easy to “go hardcore” with setting up a merchant account and doing it yourself, with code out there like my SaaS Rails Kit. It provides all you need to get going with recurring billing, even account upgrades and downgrades, without the “world of pain”.

http://railskits.com/saas/

By: Another Benioff Bet Holds On. Zuora Raises $15M More For Online Billing : tinyComb

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:04:01 +0000

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TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Zuoraが総合オンライン決済ソリューションで$15Mの追加融資確保 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:01:54 +0000

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By: mini micro

mini micro — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:59:05 +0000

Check these guys out today at 4pm at the http://www.rockstarfair.com event. They will be exhibiting. I am not sure if there any invites left, but maybe TechCrunch can post some?

By: Kelli

Kelli — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:39:40 +0000

Both companies (Zuora and Boomi) are johnny come lately’s imho.
These gigantic press releases do nothing more than make me wonder why anyone would do business with a company that is burning through cash the way Z is.

By: akkdio

akkdio — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:31:59 +0000

the video is not working.

By: videol

videol — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:49:04 +0000

Zuora provides an on-demand platform that simplifies the way online subscription services are billed, purchased, and provisioned Here we go!!

By: dMix

dMix — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:33:47 +0000

Yeah I tried to find out more information, I even gave a sales rep my phone number and told her to call me. Day and a half later and no response.

By: 7P

7P — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:57:07 +0000

I believe these guys are using Boomi for their integration, which is another start-up here on TC that’s making some noise.

By: Jason M. Lemkin

Jason M. Lemkin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:32:54 +0000

Congrats to the Zuora team! (And nice timing) They will be one of the clear next generation on demand success stories.

By: yongfook

yongfook — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:28:08 +0000

For the first time in a while on TC, a startup has really excited me. I read through Zuora’s sales pitch and my mouth started watering – the current solutions for recurring billing are pretty awful unless you go hardcore and set up a proper merchant account with a bank etc. The easiest one is paypal, which supports recurring billing but try, for example, to upgrade one of your customers to a higher pay rate (because they want to access more features etc on your SaaS site) and you’ll enter a world of pain.

So I hurriedly “signed up” for Zuora and got this mail:

“Thank you for your interest in Zuora. Our co-founders built the billing systems for WebEx & Salesforce. Our vision is to enable subscription businesses of all sizes to spend less time on operations, and more time growing their business. Our products, Z-Billing and Z-Payments, give SaaS companies and subscription businesses the right tools to support their complex needs.

Z-Billing automates your recurring billing, and integrates with CRM applications, like Salesforce, and accounting systems like Oracle, Quickbooks, Netsuite, and Intacct. It supports all change orders and amendments, pro-ration, overage, usage, and metering charges, creates invoices and charges, and posts these charges to your accounting system.

Z-Payments manages your entire recurring payment lifecycle. It handles customer payment information, automates failed electronic scenarios, and helps collect past-due payments. And it integrates with popular payment gateways, like PayPal and Authorize.net.

If you’d like to learn more on your own, you can:

Read the latest news on Zuora here: http://www.zuor...news/index.html

Read more about Zuora products here: http://www.zuor...ucts/index.html

Feel free to contact us at (650) 641-3777 if you have any questions.”

um…

is this service launched or what? Or do I have to wait for some manual approval process before I can actually access the payments system?

All very cryptic. And to think, their sales pitch pages were so clear…

By: william

william — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:27:18 +0000

very coool system….how ever this is not technology hard to do….a good development could easily do this with paypal and i believe that amazon also can do this……We think that micro payment and affiliate reselling are are the next wave. We have built a very cool e commerce system into our social network that does this….and we are also adding a subscription service

By: PayLocator.com

PayLocator.com — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:24:57 +0000

lets hope they dont try to take that domain mainstream. sounds like a japanese night gown or under garment of some type. and you thought joongel had issues. i like there products its just there channels have issues. it will “really” be interesting if they take this domain mainstream.

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