B.A.M. is SaaS Billing, Subscriber Administration & SaaS Marketing

You can read this overview or go to our product specific website:  www.saasautomation.com

When you offer and deliver software as a subscription-based service, you need to take care of some critical delivery processes to be successful. Processes such as:

• SaaS Billing (metering, invoicing, credit card and bank payment processing).
• Subscriber Administration  (online registration, subscription license management & end user self service)
• Marketing (creating and managing product catalogs, pricing, free trials & promotions)

You might be thinking this sounds easy and consider coding it yourself. Many company’s have done exactly that and found out the hard way that SaaS Billing, Subscriber Administration and Marketing systems for a subscription-based business is allot more complex than they ever imagined. It's not just about billing or subscriber administration, it is about the business logic that manages your entire subscription-based business.

IP Applications has solved business problems for our customers you may not even think of until the need arises and by then it may be too late or to complex to implement. Download our capabilities matrix on the left sidebar to gain a better understanding of the features you may need to successfully manage your SaaS subscription business.

IP Applications SaaS Enabling software is over 500,000 lines of code and growing as we add new features to keep our customers at the top of their game. 500,000 isn’t just a big number to sound impressive. That is what it takes to do this right. We have put 10 years in to perfecting our systems. Companies such as AOL, Bell, Melaleuca and Sage Telecom have trusted us to run their online subscription businesses for years and we now offer these same systems to manage yours.

Our software (itself an on-demand SaaS application) easily integrates with your software to provide all of the following functionality and much more. You simply integrate with our session manager using our fully documented SOAP or XML API's and we handle all the processes and business logic for you.  

Plans / Options / Pricing

At the heart of every on demand offering is choice. Your marketing department needs it and your customers want it, because one product or one payment option may not be right for every person or business. SaaS Automation lets you create your product catalog with unlimited product plans, product options, free trials, promotions, pricing and payment plans, and then automatically manages those plans for you.

Subscriber Registration

Registering new accounts and users online, and customer self service are critical processes for any On Demand offering. Our system provides registration of new subscribers through multiple methods, including branded online sign up pages, an administrative portal, bulk imports or integration to other systems.

Subscriber Self Service

Once subscribed to a plan let your customers administer their own licenses, add or change services and have the system capture it for you and make sure it is accurately billed.

Subscription Licensing & Access to Services

Provide either named user or concurrent license models. Subscribers are authenticated and then provisioned access according to the plans purchased. You set up your business rules and our systems manage access accordingly. As an example  multi level business rules can be set around what happens if payment has not been received, or what happens at the end of a free trial period.

Payment and Billing

Billing may sound simple but it is definitely not. When selling subscription services you may find the needing to support

• Multiple currencies & multiple taxation requirements by both jurisdiction and service type
• In advance and in arrears billing or both combined (as in the cell phone model)
• Discounts, prorating, special or negotiated pricing, bundling
• Monthly, quarterly, annual subscriptions and one off charges

The full list is pretty extensive but chances are if you need to do it, our billing system can. 

We also enable choice for how you want to get paid. Collecting credit card or electronic bank payments online provides your customers with a convenient way to pay for services, and your company with an automated payment strategy that controls cash flow and reduces administration.  Let IP Applications PCI Compliant payment processing systems handle it all for you. If online payment is not part of your strategy, our billing engine provides detailed, complete and accurate invoicing and statements.

Easy Integration

These on-demand services are easily integrated with your software through standard SOAP and XML API’s. You connect to our session manager and we handle all the business logic. You don't have to build your software on our platform or imbed a bunch of code to fully utilize the services we deliver.  As you develop your solution, you may find there are opportunities to integrate with other applications to enhance the value or market opportunities for your software. With SaaS Automation we make it easy to combine other applications and options in to a single service offering to your customers.

Choose IP Applications and our SaaS Automation Platform to support your SaaS offering and

B.A.M. you are in business

For more information on our SaaS enabling capabilities please visit our product specific website at www.saasautomation.com.