The Telegraph and The Seattle Times are First to Market with Zuora
and Amazon Pay
SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Zuora,
Inc. (NYSE: ZUO), the leading cloud-based subscription management
platform provider, today announced at its Subscribed™
New York conference, that the company has been named a Premier
Partner in the Amazon Pay Global Partner Program. Merchants can now
easily integrate Amazon
Pay into their subscription checkout experience. Publishers
including The
Seattle Times and The
Telegraph are now using the powerful combination of Zuora® and
Amazon Pay to accelerate the shift to the subscription model and help
increase their digital readership.
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Amazon Pay provides customers around the world a fast, easy and secure
way to pay for products and services using the information already
stored in their Amazon account. Now available to Zuora’s customers with
tens of millions of subscribers, Amazon Pay on Zuora creates an
incredible solution for joint merchants seeking to succeed in the
Subscription Economy™. Available across the EU, UK and US, Zuora’s
integration with Amazon Pay supports merchants looking to drive the
growth of their digital goods subscriptions and offer their customers a
payment solution that is trusted, easy and familiar.
"Subscriptions are The Telegraph's top strategic priority,” said Chris
Taylor, Chief Information Officer, The Telegraph. “The convenience
and reach of Amazon Pay has significantly reduced friction and increased
speed of sign up for our subscribers. In combination with Zuora, the
benchmark for subscription management, this is incredibly powerful."
“We’re thrilled to be launching with Amazon Pay as a payment method
while running our subscription business on Zuora,” said Curtis Huber,
Senior Director, Circulation and Audience Revenue, The Seattle Times. “To
us, a subscriber-centric business model means building a technology
stack that supports our customers with a seamless experience to consume
our content on any device. We believe Amazon Pay and Zuora are essential
to our subscription business growth. In fact, since adopting Zuora,
we’ve already improved retention rate by 30 percent. With the ease of
use of Amazon Pay, we expect to see retention rate increase even more.”
“Zuora has shown the value of subscription models. By extending the
trust and convenience of the Amazon experience to Zuora, merchants
around the world can now streamline the subscription checkout experience
for their customers,” said Patrick Gauthier, Vice President, Amazon
Pay. “We are excited to be working with Zuora to accelerate the
Amazon Pay integration process for their merchants and provide a fast,
simple and secure payment solution that helps grow their business.”
“Zuora’s integration with Amazon is huge for our B2C customers whose
buyers love the convenience of using Amazon Pay to easily access their
favorite subscription services. As companies expand their digital
payment options, the importance of integrating with Zuora - their core
billing platform - is even greater. Merchants can easily add additional
payment methods, like Amazon Pay, without adding complexity or
disrupting a seamless buying experience,” said Tom Krackeler, Senior
Vice President of Product, Zuora.
Amazon Pay Director of Global Marketing Kelly Wenzel will speak today at
Zuora’s annual conference Subscribed™
New York.
About Zuora, Inc.
Zuora provides the leading cloud-based subscription management platform
that functions as a system of record for subscription businesses across
all industries. Powering the Subscription Economy™, the Zuora® platform
was architected specifically for dynamic, recurring subscription
business models and acts as an intelligent subscription management hub
that automates and orchestrates the entire subscription order-to-cash
process, including billing and revenue recognition. Zuora serves more
than 1,000 companies around the world, including Box, Komatsu, Rogers,
Schneider Electric, Xplornet and Zendesk. Headquartered in Silicon
Valley, Zuora also operates offices in Atlanta, Boston, Denver, San
Francisco, London, Paris, Beijing, Sydney, Chennai and Tokyo. To learn
more about the Zuora platform, please visit www.zuora.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements that involve a
number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including but not
limited to statements regarding the expected benefits of Zuora’s core
billing platform. Any statements that are not statements of historical
fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Actual results
could differ materially from those stated or implied in forward-looking
statements due to a number of factors, including but not limited to,
risks detailed in the "Risk Factors" section of Zuora’s Quarterly Report
on Form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on
September 12, 2018, as well as other documents that Zuora may file from
time to time with the SEC. The forward-looking statements in this press
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forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.
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