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Required Zuora Billing settings

Ensure proper revenue accounting by configuring essential settings in Zuora Billing, including billing rules and subscription settings.

We recommend the following required configurations practices to achieve proper revenue accounting results in Zuora Revenue.

Make sure that you configure the following settings in Zuora Billing as given below.

  • The following table lists the billing rule settings with the required values for the Order to Revenue feature to work:

Billing rule setting

Required value

Bill recurring charges for partial month (with monthly based billing periods)?

Yes

Bill recurring charges for partial week (with weekly based billing periods)?

Yes

Bill usage charges for partial month (with monthly based billing periods)?

Yes

Bill usage charges for partial week (with weekly based billing periods)?

Yes

Create credit memos mirroring invoice items?

Yes or Yes but do not create for zero balance invoice items

When prorating a month, assume 30 days in a month or use actual days?

Use actual number of days

When prorating periods greater than a month, prorate by month first, or by day?

Prorate by day

When bill credit for recurring charges, based on billed period or credit period

Based on the total billing period amount and charged amount

Invoice Past End-of-Term when Auto-Renew is OFF?

No

Invoice Past End-of-Term when Auto-Renew is ON?

No

  • Contact Zuora Global Support to enable the Subscription Term for Revenue feature. For more information, see Subscription term for revenue generation .

  • Contact Zuora Global Support to enable the Finance feature. Also, complete the following Finance settings:

    • Home Currency

    • Reporting Currency

  • Contact Zuora Global Support to enable the Subscription Term for Revenue feature. For more information, see Subscription term for revenue generation .

  • Contact Zuora Global Support to enable the Finance feature. Also, complete the following Finance settings:

    • Home Currency

    • Reporting Currency

  • The following table lists the default subscription settings with the required values:

    Default subscription setting

    Required value

    Allow update Subscription trigger dates

    No

    Update Rate Plan Charge trigger condition

    No