Don't miss out on July's Community Table Talks where you can connect with Zuora experts and peers to tackle your toughest questions. This month, we're diving into Gateway Routing and Orders for Developers. We're also thrilled to share how your ideas are accelerating our product roadmap, with increased engagement from our Product Managers directly on the Ideas Portal to ensure your voice is heard and acted upon. Make sure to check out the latest ideas "In Review" where we need your use cases.
July 2025 Community Table Talks
Don't use Zuora alone! Work through some of your toughest Zuora challenges in real-time with your peers and the guidance of a Zuora expert at a Community Table Talk where you can bring your questions, tips, and topics that are top-of-mind so that you will leave the session feeling more confident with Zuora.
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Product Chat: Gateway Routing with Our PM
When: July 17, 2025, Thursday at 9am PT
Speaker: Tyler Schemmel, Principal Product Manager, Payments Orchestration, Zuora
Come learn about Zuora's new Gateway Routing feature and how it can help you optimize your payments stack from a completely no-code interface!
Orders for Developers
When: July 23, 2025, Wednesday at 9am PT
Speaker: Richard Sawey, Developer Advocate, Principal Architect, Zuora
In Zuora, nearly every monetizable event such as sign‑ups, upsells, and renewals, routes through a single call: Create an order (POST /v1/orders). Master this call and you will control account creation, subscription lifecycles, upsells, downsells, suspension, resume, renewal and even, sadly, cancellation, with one payload instead of stitching together multiple endpoints. We have new sample code in new tutorials which we will review but more importantly, bring your use cases for discussion.
FLASH FORWARD - AUGUST 2025
Zuora Account Verification
When: August 21, 2025, Thursday at 9am PT
Speakers:
- Megan Aaron, Sr. Product Manager, Payments, Zuora
- Ben Winterroth, Principal Partner Development Manager, Zuora
Zuora's new Stripe Financial Connections integration lets your customers link and verify their bank accounts instantly-reducing payment failures, improving cash flow, and giving you full control over how ACH payments are processed. Join us to learn how this seamless new experience can help you get paid faster and smarter.
Expert Insights from Our June Table Talks
Zuora University - What's New and What's Next
In our latest Table Talk, the Zuora University team shared exciting updates designed to make it easier-and faster-for customers and partners to build expertise and earn certifications.
Custom ERP Integration Best Practices
Integrating Zuora Billing with your ERP system doesn't have to be daunting-even when there is no out-of-the-box connector. In this Table Talk we reviewed the three common ERP/Billing integration points along with code samples and alternatives for each allowing you to confidently build an integration that meets your unique business needs.
Ideas Monthly Review
21 ideas whose statuses we've updated in last month:
Delivered: The idea has already been developed and you can begin using this feature.
- Adding Merge Fields on Payment Email Notifications
- How can you create one account with multiple Bill-to or Sold-to contacts?
- Invoice History added to Snowflake share
- Subscription Transfers: Update Revenue Recognition
- Support for Pre-defined billing period 4 years
In Review - The product team needs further investigating for it to progress. Continue adding your use cases and feedback!
- $0 invoice generated when attempting to bill for overage with negative price amount
- Ability to aggregate volume usage across an enterprise
- Ability to align charge to Fiscal Year
- Ability to amend a Billing Period
- Ability to Filter and Search on Order Action
- Add API data to Data Query or other way to pull and report with more detail
- Better Enumeration of Schema Through REST API
- Data Query - missing fields
- Data Query Custom Events
- One-time charge should not be included in the Delta TCV in a renewal quote.
- PowerBI Connector
- RatePlanCharge.BillingPeriod can be updated in the middle of a ramp deal.
- To discount X% to charges on a RatePlan with multiple Charges once the total quantity exceeds Y.
- Usage - additional details in commitment section
Planned - Ideas have been reviewed and accepted and are currently waiting to be scheduled for development within the next 1-2 fiscal years.
- Consolidated OAuth Client ID Page
Not Planned - The idea is not on the short-term product roadmap.
- Bill Run Target Date
Conversations That Need You
Decimals in Quantity on Quote Rate Plan Charge
"Is there a way to define the decimal scale for the Quantity field on the Quote Rate Plan Charge object? I can't change it at the field level (it's set to 5 Decimal Places and can't be edited). I looked at the Display Scale Settings in Quote Studio Settings, but that excludes quantity. We want to merge this field onto our pdf quote, but do not want the decimals to show."
Amendments are not showing "correct" values in CPQ
"We have the issue that when we do an amendment in a multiyear deal, the prorated value that we see is not until the next invoice date, but rather until end of term. This makes it really difficult for our AEs to visually understand how much they're quoting for.... do any of you have the same issue? and if yes, how are you currently solving it?"
From the Community
Best Practice Checklist: Reviewing the Month-End Close Process in Zuora Billing
Strengthen your Zuora foundation with best practice checklists from the Community, Knowledge Center, and Self Service Solutions so that you can confidently use Zuora. This checklist focuses on Accounting Close Process for Month-End Close in Zuora Billing.
Create And Configure A Sample Quote Template In Zuora For Salesforce
This tutorial walks through the steps to create and configure a sample Quote template in Zuora for Salesforce. A sample template for a new Subscription Quote has been configured in detail using the mail merge feature and the steps to upload in Zuora tenant and finally configure the same template in Salesforce to generate Quote Pdf has been shown in the demo.
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Lana Lee
Zuora Community Senior Community Manager and Strategist
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