Outsource Your Subscription Billing

ScreenshotWe’ve written before about the difficulties that independent web workers have creating and supporting useful (and salable) products by themselves. One key is to outsource as much as you economically can. Now Z-Billing, from Zuora, offers a custom billing service designed to hit the sweet spot of “Web 2.0″ companies. Their key strength is in handling the sort of multiple-service-level, monthly-billed subscriptions that are everywhere these days, from Basecamp to Flickr Pro.

Z-Billing takes care of a bunch of things that would take you forever to code: multi-currency support, metered charges, reporting, Salesforce and QuickBooks integration, canceling and re-starting service, and more. They’ll take 2% off the top of your revenue for all this – which is cheap compared to the months you would lose writing code to do the same. Worth a look if you’re thinking of an online product launch.

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