Tenant splits
Tenant splits facilitate the separation of data and operations for entities undergoing legal or organizational changes, ensuring isolated access and management.
Tenant splits are for customers who are undergoing a legal entity separation, divestiture, and Mergers & acquisitions. This results in a requirement to isolate data between entities and stringent separation of access and operations.
- Corporate carve‑out / spin‑off
A business unit or legal entity is being divested or separated from a group and needs its own Zuora tenant. The goal is to isolate accounts, billing operations, payment flows, and reporting for the spun‑off company.
The goal is to isolate accounts, billing operations, payment flows, and reporting for the spun‑off company.
- Group restructuring / M&A realignment
Post‑acquisition or internal reorg, customers want to re‑partition tenants so that specific brands/lines of business live in their own environments, or move out of a group tenant into a new standalone tenant.
Align Zuora operations with the new org structure, simplify governance, and hand off control to the right finance/IT teams.
- Operational and configuration isolation
An entity within a multi‑entity tenant wants autonomy: separate product catalog, workflows, integrations, and release/change cadence, without being constrained by shared settings or object sharing from the parent.
- Cost / complexity rationalization of a multi‑entity setup
Over time, a multi‑entity tenant can become an awkward grouping; splits are requested to either:
Simplify a too‑complex hierarchy (one entity pulled out into its own simpler tenant)
Prepare for eventual consolidation/deactivation of low‑usage entities/tenants elsewhere
Considerations
Tenant splits involve ‘un-linking’ an entity from a Multi-Entity Tenant and moving it to a Standalone Tenant with a new physical ID
Tenant splits can also occur via a ‘split and merge’ approach, i.e. splitting from one source tenant and merging it into another target tenant
There is no change or transformation to the entity data, however, integrations and dependencies must be analysed as part of pre-split activities (internal)
The customer intake form and the commercial order form must be submitted prior to initiation of tenant split internal operations