Bill runs automate the creation of invoices and credit memos for customer accounts, supporting both scheduled and ad hoc billing processes.

Bill runs automatically create invoices for your customers on a set schedule, as well as create invoices for your customers, as needed. A bill run gathers information from one or more customer accounts and generates invoices for those accounts. Because of this, bill runs are also referred to as invoice runs.

Also, if you have the Invoice Settlement feature enabled, bill runs can automatically generate credit memos for negative charges based on your invoice and credit memo generation rule. The number of billing documents, invoices, and credit memos that are generated during the bill run is displayed on the bill run individual page.

Each bill run can be for a single customer, a group of customers (for example, those in a batch, or those that have the same bill cycle day), or for all customers. Bill runs can be scheduled in advance (for example, they can be scheduled to run every day at a set time), or run on an ad hoc basis (this means that you can initiate a bill run manually).

Zuora billing and rating engine generates chargeable events for timely and accurate invoices. The invoices are generated automatically and driven by the configuration of products, rate plans, and billing schedules. When it is time to invoice, you can process them thousands at a time, do it on-demand, or one at a time as your customers need it. You can generate real-time invoices immediately after refunds on payments or subscription changes. The prorated charges can be included in the invoice amount calculation to ensure that your customers are billed correctly when subscriptions start part way through a billing period.

After invoices have been created in the bill run, they are now ready to collect for payments. This is where payment runs come in: they are used to collect cash from your customers.