SAP Subscription Billing

Keeping customers delighted with innovative monetization of subscriptions, usage plans, bundles, and more.
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Innovative monetization of subscriptions

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Grow recurring revenues with flexibility, agility, and scalability

With the SAP Subscription Billing solution, you can improve monetization with:
  • Flexible pricing and billing
  • Accelerated launch of new offers
  • An automated order-to-cash process
  • Fast implementation
Experience SAP Subscription Billing

Take a guided tour that shows you how to manage subscriptions, create customer-specific offers, and ensure a smooth delivery with SAP Subscription Billing.

This guided tour is included in the free 14-day SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition basic trial.

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Key benefits

Growing recurring revenues faster

Launch innovative offerings faster by using a variety of pricing, billing, and bundling options​.

Maximizing customer lifetime value

Create customer-specific offers and options that can be delivered smoothly and automatically​.

Scaling for growth and complexity

Streamline your integrated quote-to-cash process with automation to meet current and future requirements.

Key features

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Flexible subscription lifecycle management

  • Create subscriptions with mix-and-match pricing, such as one-time, recurring, and usage-based fees

  • Manage the subscription lifecycle with flexible contract changes, such as updates and auto-renewals

  • Model and update complex pricing logic with support for real-time and offline rating

Personalized customer-centric offerings

  • Devise customer-specific offers and promotions automatically based on customer attributes

  • Provide customers with flexible payment options

  • Tailor bundles of products, services, and subscriptions provided by you or your partners

Accurate and detailed customer bills

  • Combine and aggregate data from multiple sources into a single billing stream

  • Generate unified customer invoices and partner statements with relevant details included

  • Offer invoice-level discounting based on amount, percentage, or rules

Management of customer entitlement

  • Gain a 360-degree view of customer entitlements

  • Minimize revenue leakage by tracking consumption

  • Orchestrate downstream processes required to provision and fulfill entitlements

Data collection, verification, and enrichment

  • Collect data from multiple systems with scalability to handle high volumes of data in real time

  • Bill with greater accuracy by automating data enrichment, aggregation, correlation, and splitting

  • Validate data quality by applying error-detection rules

Order-to-cash process automation

  • Recognize and report revenue instantly with native integration to SAP S/4HANA Cloud

  • Process large volumes of invoices with automated accounts receivables management

  • Manage customer payments with centralized subledger for receivables

Pricing

SAP Subscription Billing
  • In blocks of 12500000 Revenue and expense per year

  • Contract duration between 12 and 60 Month

  • Auto-Renewal

  • Has prerequisites

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Features:

  • Metric:

    • This service is priced by blocks of Revenue and Expense per year in your local currency supported by SAP.
    • Revenue and Expense is the total amount of revenue and expenses processed via the Cloud Service.
    • The metric has a yearly entitlement and is depleted with usage.

  • What's included (tenant details):

    • One production tenant for SAP Subscription Billing.
    • One test tenant for SAP Subscription Billing.
    • One development tenant for SAP Subscription Billing.
    • One SAP Business Technology Platform production tenant (if not already in place).

Connect with our subscription billing community

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See how our customers are succeeding with SAP

Pioneering usage-based models

FInd out how KUKA, the manufacturer of industrial robotics, is innovating consumption-based business models to meet customer requirements.

Unifying order-to-cash for subscriptions

See how SaaS CRM company LeadSquared manages complex subscriptions and gives customers more transparency with automated order-to-cash processes.

Offering digital subscription services

Learn how biotech company F.Hoffman-La Roche is leading a data-driven industry revolution by automating order-to-cash processes for its new digital offerings.

Resources

Fundamentals

What is subscription management?

Learn about subscription business models and what to look for in a subscription management software.

Read the SAP Insights article
Infographic

Strategies for growing your subscription business

Transform into a monetization marvel by building an affordable and scalable foundation for recurring revenue capabilities with SAP Subscription Billing and GROW with SAP.

View the infographic
Fundamentals

The organizational impact of subscriptions and XaaS

See examples of how sales, finance, marketing, and product development teams should evolve during a company transition toward as-a-service and subscription models.

Read the SAP Insights article
Guidebook

Emerging business models innovation

Find out how you can innovate with new business models to grow market share, increase customer loyalty, and generate recurring revenue streams.

View the guidebook
Solution Brief

Subscription monetization in a public cloud

Monetize products, services, and subscriptions with greater ease and speed by using SAP Billing and Revenue Innovation Management solutions in a public cloud environment.

Read the solution brief
Report

Five tips for service-based models

Take a look at how you can maximize your business value by transitioning to subscription- and service-based business models.

Read the report
News Article

Manufacturers monetize beyond product

Explore how AlignTechnology and Lenovo partnered with SAP to evolve toward subscription and as-a-service business models to build customer relationships.

Read the article
News Article

Three market leaders share their service-based journey

Hear HPE, Autodesk, and SAP discuss what it takes to become a service-based business, highlighting options such as subscriptions and everything-as-a-service models.

Read the article

Additional value for quote to cash

Quote complex business offerings

  • Instant configuration of complex quotes
  • Ability to sell through any channel on any platform
  • Accelerated quoting with embedded AI

Automate your entitlement process

  • Dynamic authorization management
  • Management and performance tracking for offers and related entitlements
  • Transparent view of entitlements for customers

Manage high volume receivables

  • Contract-based subledger accounting
  • Complex account hierarchies
  • Group postings on account level

Technical and security information

Protect your enterprise with the built-in security features and add-on solutions from SAP.
SAP Subscription Billing is deployed in the cloud and is available as software as a service (SaaS), so you can access your software from any Web browser.

Installation and setup

Follow these setup instructions so you can start running your SAP software quickly and confidently.

Configuration

Optimize the configuration of SAP products with our comprehensive configuration guide.

Integration

Find out how you can integrate SAP products with your existing IT landscape.

Data security

Help protect confidentiality and data integrity.

Business process security

Support compliance with regulatory requirements.

Risk and threat mitigation

Drive continuous improvement across your operations.

Cloud delivery options

Enable a smooth transformation while meeting security and compliance requirements.

What are analysts saying about SAP?

SAP named a Leader among recurring billing applications

Explore why Gartner® named SAP as a Leader in its 2024 Magic Quadrant™ report for recurring billing applications.

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Jump-start your implementation and drive ROI by collaborating with industry experts, consultants, and support engineers throughout your journey.

Services

Transform your business quickly and effectively by taking advantage of our holistic service and support plans, expert consulting services, custom application development, proven best practices, and deep industry and technical knowledge.

Support

Help keep your SAP solutions running at peak performance with our IT experts and support services, including long-term plans, embedded teams, remote technology support, self-service portal, and innovation strategies.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Recurring Billing Applications, Mark Lewis, Robert Anderson, 6 August 2024.

 

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