Still stuck with Stripe’s disjointed billing and revrec?

Cut developer dependency for billing and revenue recognition

Stripe billing’s platform limitations can be augmented with the help of custom development. The robust API, extensive developer documentation and communities mean you can tailor it to your needs if you have developer support. If not, you’re better off not trying.

Zenskar is built with the vision to reduce human dependency in the pricing, billing and revenue recognition process. This includes providing a developer-free billing experience for those who need it. The platform is designed for non-tech users and is intuitive and easy to use, without steep learning or coding skills.

Some of our features that empower non-tech users to own and manage billing include - drag-and-drop pricing model configuration, point-and-click contract creation with advanced terms and provisions, no-code usage aggregation.

(FYI, we also have API access, documentation for developers to code their way through with minimum effort.)

Implement any pricing structure without restrictions, without code

Stripe billing is great for vanilla subscriptions. But like most legacy tools, it is configured to handle limited complexity and finite variations. So the only work around is for developers coding the intricacies for your advanced pricing models. 

Zenskar is designed to minimize engineering bandwidth across finance workflows, making it accessible to both technical and non-technical users. The platform is intuitive, easy to use, and reduces reliance on developers for routine tasks, ensuring faster implementation and management.

Its graphical data model builds custom pricing models as a series of nodes and connectors to accommodate advanced logic. All through a drag-and-drop editor without requiring any code.

• Go beyond simple subscriptions: Configure variable recurring payments, create contracts with custom billing periods, discounts, tax components, prepaid or postpaid options, and more.
• Price for value with usage-based pricing: Align your pricing with your customer needs and stay ahead of the competition. Offer minimal commitment and total flexibility with usage-based pricing.‍
• Configure complex pricing models: Zenskar’s graphical data model allows you to create complex pricing models with ease as a cascade of simpler pricing nodes.

Handle your usage data like a pro

Like most legacy billing and revrec tools, Stripe’s usage data handling is not as advanced as dedicated usage based billing platforms. It treats usage data as a mere input to process invoices, which reflects in its limited usage capabilities - rate limits, aggregation at source, limited reporting capabilities and range of connectors with data sources.

Usage metering and monitoring is one of Zenskar’s core offerings. Here’s why Zenskar can be the source of truth for your usage data:

• It can reliably ingest data from data warehouses without any code. You can pull data via APIs too or simply upload spreadsheets or manually enter data.
• You can send raw data or usage data aggregates. Zenskar supports complex aggregation through SQL query or a no-code visual query builder.
• Decoupling usage from billing and pricing enables pricing experimentations at any time and independent from metering.
• Set up usage monitors, create alerts and email updates based on your usage trends. Get valuable insights from usage analytics and reports.

Personalize, automate and customize to your scale

Stripe billing is a one size fits all solution that works well for small businesses and e-commerce. There is very little customization and personalization possible.

Zenskar is designed to cater to the needs of large businesses and enterprises, and offers customizations at every step.

• Create your invoice templates based on your branding needs. Generate invoices dynamically based on the invoice templates.
• Customize communication schedules - with invoice emails, payment reminders, and receipts - based on specific user segments.
• Configure your own RevRec rules to reconcile your finances.

Streamline your workflows without burning pockets

As your business grows, Stripe’s pricing structure can become increasingly costly. Their pay-per-feature model and restrictive ecosystem limit your choice of tools, often forcing you to overpay for the convenience of staying within Stripe’s suite. This can lead to significant expenses, especially for businesses with high transaction volumes or complex billing needs.

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Zenskar prioritizes growth by offering transparent and scalable pricing. You pay for the platform once, not for every invoice sent or payment collected. We don’t charge a percentage of your revenue, ensuring you keep more of what you earn.

Our pricing is tailored to your business’s specific needs and scale, using proxy metrics such as:

• Number of customers.
• Number of invoices.
• Volume of usage events.
• Total value of billings collected.

At Zenskar, we value long-term partnerships and aim to create pricing that reflects the impact we deliver while ensuring mutual benefit. Learn more about our pricing here.

Streamlined revenue recognition for every usecase

Stripe’s revenue recognition module is a separate product from its billing platform, leading to disjointed workflows and inefficiencies. Customizing revenue recognition rules or managing non-Stripe revenue often requires significant developer involvement, making it challenging for non-technical teams.

Manual intervention is frequently needed to reconcile data and handle complex scenarios like usage-based billing or advanced subscription models, limiting scalability for growing businesses.

Zenskar not only offers more flexibility and scale, it also offers more in terms of revenue recognition and accounting than Stripe:

• Journal entries can be automatically created on Zenskar and synced with ERP of your choice.
• Journal entries can be populated to revenue, receivables and credit liability sub ledgers and updated/edited at any time.
• Create custom rules to tailor revenue recognition to your business model and needs.
• Schedule your revenue recognition periodically, manually or through specific events or triggers.
• Control your accounting periods - set revenue periods irrespective of contract period.
• Automatically derive performance obligations from contracts and products or define them on contracts yourself.
• Integrate with CRMs for contract and customer information, payment gateways for received revenue to eliminate manual reconciliation.
  

Connect seamlessly with any stack

Choose your stack to best fit your needs, not due to platform rigidity. Unlike Stripe’s limited integrations that restrict you to its own product suite, Zenskar seamlessly integrates with most common tools across all categories. 

• Connect your CRM with Zenskar to sync your customer data, contracts, and communication emails.
• Automatically send customer invoices, credit notes, payment status, and refund information into your ERP.
• Add your tax computations to the invoices automatically with integrations with tools like Avalara.
• Collect payments via Adyen, Razorpay or offline payments methods. With Zenskar, you’re not tied to Stripe payments - its pricing structure or its limited reach to global markets.

Get the best of both worlds with Zenskar + Stripe

Integrate your Stripe payments with Zenskar to enjoy Stripe’s payment security and success rate without compromising due to its billing and revrec capabilities.

• Connect with payment methods of choice with Stripe payments
• Redirect your customers from invoices to Stripe checkout
• Track all your payments on a single dashboard with Zenskar