What does Zenskar implementation entail?
Important
Integrating Zenskar with your system takes only 3-6 weeks, depending on the complexity of your requirements.
The optional pilot program
The primary objective of the pilot program is to showcase the capabilities of Zenskar: a modern, flexible, no-code billing infrastructure for your business. However, the pilot program is optional if you have already chosen Zenskar as the billing infrastructure for your business.
Implementation roadmap
| Objectives | Time frame | Zenskar's responsibilities | Your responsibilities (Zenskar will be your guide) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. 🤝 Align on the requirements, and get 🆗 approvals from all relevant stakeholders. 2. 😊 Fulfill custom feature requests, if any. | Weeks 1-2 | 1. Align with you on the requirements for going live, such as: • contracts, • invoice formats, • usage data structure, • revenue recognition/AR nuances. 2. Build and ship custom feature requests, if any. | 1. Get stakeholders' approvals on the requirements for going live, such as: • contracts, • invoice formats, • usage data structure, • revenue recognition/AR nuances. 2. Get approvals on custom feature requests. |
| ⚙️ Configure your Zenskar sandbox account with contracts, customers, usage data/aggregates, and journal entries. | Weeks 1-2 | Configure your sandbox based on mutually agreed-upon requirements for contracts, customers, usage data/aggregates and journal entries. | 1. Share contracts and customers data. 2. Usage data: • Let Zenskar pull usage data from your data sources, such as data warehouse and spreadsheets. 🚧 Note: you do not need to allocate engineering bandwidth. • Alternatively, push usage data using Zenksar's data-ingestion API. 🚧 Note: you must allocate engineering bandwidth. |
| ℹ️ Optional: Connect test/production accounts of your CRM/ERP/Tax/Payment software with Zenskar’s sandbox account. | Week 3 | Assist you in connecting test/production accounts of your CRM/ERP/Tax/Payment tools with Zenskar’s sandbox account. | Connect test/production accounts of your CRM/ERP/Tax/Payment software with Zenskar’s sandbox account. |
| 🧪 Testing: Compare Zenskar with the existing process for a sample set of contracts, invoices and journal entries for the last billing cycle in the sandbox account. | Week 4 | Assist you in comparing the invoices and journals generated by Zenskar with the invoices and journal entries in your existing setup. | Generate invoices and journal entries on Zenskar and compare them with the invoices and journal entries generated by your existing setup. |
| ⚙️ Configure your Zenskar production account for automation. | Week 5 | Assist you in configuring live contracts, customer details, and setting up ongoing usage data, and aggregates in your Zenskar production account. | Configure live contracts, customer details, and set up ongoing usage data and aggregates in your Zenskar production account. |
| ℹ️ Optional (if you want to migrate historical data into Zenskar): Import historical contracts, customer details,invoices, and journal entries into your Zenskar production account. | Week 6 | Assist you in importing and configuring historical contracts, customer details, invoices and journal entries into your Zenskar production account. | Import/configure historical contracts, customer details, invoices and journal entries into your Zenskar production account. |
| 🚀 Sign-off and go live. | Week 6 | Ensure everything is ready to go live. | Go live on your Zenskar production account. |
Data migration and integration options
The documentation on data migration and integration options describes various options for migrating historical data and for integrating contemporary data for both sales-led and product-led motions.
Updated 3 months ago