How Manual Processes can be Hindering Growth of Subscription Billing Business

Subscription Billing and Recurring Billing

Recurring Billing and Subscription Billing involves a significant change in the way a business sells and collects revenue.

As you first start with Subscription-based sales and recurring revenue it’s more than likely that the tools and processes are not known and excel is what you are likely to use to keep things simple. Subscription-based sales by their inherent nature are smaller-sized sales! However successful subscription-based businesses are not small!

The important thing with subscription-based sales is that they are smaller bills over longer periods of time and over larger volumes of customers!

Subscription-based businesses thrive and grow through growth from their existing customer base while simultaneously continuing to acquire new customers. It’s a cumulative effect, each customer is a building block. Once you get a grasp of this the only way to build a successful Recurring, subscription-based business is through automation and the deployment of the right tools for your internal teams and your customers.

Humans are error-prone and they don’t want to do repetitive tasks. No matter what kind of safeguards are in place, expensive mistakes are likely to happen as you scale and grow. Automated processes for billing, subscription management, and invoicing are the foundation elements to grow a Subscription-based business model through recurring revenue.

How to increase revenue in your cloud business?

5 quick tips to improve revenue with smarter and
efficient provisioning and subscription management

How Work 365 Helps you Growth

All subscription data including the number of licenses, custom bundles of services and products, discounts, billing and payment information, billing terms, etc. are all in one place using Dynamics
Provisioning can be automated with Cloud Providers like Microsoft through Partner Center or Distributors like TechData and Synnex.
Automated Billing– helps with creating, sending, and collecting cash for invoices that are accurate every single time whether a customer is paying monthly, quarterly, or annually.
Self-Service Portal for your end customers allows them to see all their purchased services, billing history and most importantly adjust quantities of existing services and purchase new services!

Partners that deal with hundreds of Microsoft products are constantly looking out for ways in which they can streamline and standardize the services they offer to their customers.

For such partners, adopting an integrated solution that is built on the CRM platform is a great way to automatically implement new updates, integrate changes into their product catalog, and have all the necessary information needed to drive value.