Occurly and Zuora
Teams comparing Occurly with Zuora want enterprise billing capabilities with a faster implementation, a modern API and pricing that fits.
written for people who already use it
Side by side
Two approaches, stated plainly.
Not a scorecard. Both columns describe how each platform chooses to solve the job, including where Zuora goes further than Occurly does today.
| The job | Zuora | Occurly |
|---|---|---|
| Implementation | Configured to the business, which is the source of both its depth and its timeline. | Opinionated defaults that cover most structures out of the box, with configuration where it earns its place. |
| Developer experience | Comprehensive APIs built across a long product history. | Resource-oriented REST, idempotency keys, replayable webhooks and a sandbox that mirrors production. |
| Enterprise edge cases | Goes further than anyone on unusual contract and revenue-recognition structures. | Covers the common enterprise shapes well and is candid about the ones it does not yet reach. |
| Commercials | Enterprise agreements, typically with an implementation engagement alongside. | Flat annual fee quoted on volume, with migration included rather than scoped separately. |
Why teams look at Occurly
Usually when pricing gets hybrid, or a second entity appears.
The evaluations that end in a move tend to start with the same four requirements.
- Weeks to live rather than a multi-quarter implementation
- A modern REST API, signed webhooks and SDKs
- Usage, subscriptions and analytics unified rather than assembled
- Lower total cost of ownership, with a flat annual fee
Migration
Moving without skipping a cycle.
Zuora migrations are usually decided by the complexity of the contract structures rather than the volume of records. We map your product catalog, amendment history and revenue schedules first and tell you plainly which parts are a straight import and which need a decision.
- Week one
We map what you have.
Your catalog, entities, currencies and contract structures, against how they would be modelled in Occurly. You get the map whether or not you go ahead, including anything that has no clean equivalent.
- Weeks two and three
Everything imports into a sandbox.
Plans, customers, subscriptions and invoice history load into an environment that mirrors production. We run parallel cycles against it and reconcile them line by line with your current system.
- Cutover
One cycle boundary, and you are on.
The switch happens on a cycle boundary, not mid-period. Payment methods stay with your existing processor, so no customer is asked to re-enter a card and no invoice is missed.
What comes across
Nothing is left behind on purpose.
The parts of a migration that go wrong are almost always the unglamorous ones: open receivables, part payments and the invoice history reporting depends on. Those are the parts we reconcile first.
- Plans, add-ons and price points import as a catalog
- Customers, subscriptions and their full history come across
- Historical invoices import, so reporting stays continuous
- Open receivables and part payments are reconciled before cutover
- Payment methods stay with your processor, untouched
- Parallel cycles run until the numbers agree
FAQ
Moving from Zuora
How long does a migration actually take?
For a typical multi-entity SaaS business, weeks rather than quarters. The timeline is driven by how many bespoke contract structures need remodelling, which is exactly what the mapping exercise establishes before any commitment.
Can Occurly handle our amendment history?
Subscription history, amendments and their financial effects import as history so reporting stays continuous. Where a structure has no direct equivalent, we say so during mapping rather than discovering it at cutover.
Bring us your current setup.
We will map it against Occurly and tell you what a move would take, in writing, including the parts that would not be an improvement.
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