Explore how to customize and control your payment operations through various settings in Zuora, including payment methods, gateway integrations, retry rules, and fraud protection.

Payments settings overview

Learn how to configure payment retry rules in Zuora to manage failed payments effectively, including setting retry intervals and customizing retry logic for different payment methods.

Configure Payment Retry Rules

The default application rule in Zuora determines how payments and credit memos are allocated across invoice or debit memo items, offering flexibility in payment applications for complex billing scenarios.

Default Application Rule

Learn how to configure your company's payment policies, including credit balance adjustments, credit card expiration validation, and payment method cascading.

Define payment rules

Learn how to activate payment features in Zuora using the self-service interface, ensuring the necessary permissions are enabled for your user role.

Enable payment features by yourself

The Gateway Authentication setting allows you to create and manage authentication credentials for various payment gateway integrations, including OAuth tokens and merchant IDs.

Payment Gateway Authentication

Learn how to define, activate, and manage payment methods, including API operations and audit trail records for changes.

Payment Method

Learn how to configure payment schedules to auto-collect overdue invoices and define mapping rules using fuzzy logic.

Payment Schedule Mapping Rule Setting

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This topic explains  how to process payments in Zuora using various integration methods and configure payment settings to meet your business needs.

Process payments

Customize and control payment operations by configuring settings in the Payments section.

Payments settings

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Overview

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