Top 5 advantages of using Subscription and Recurring Billing Management for managing subscriptions within Dynamics 365 CRM

In the last decade, the subscription economy has shown a significant growth of 437%. Moreover, the recent surveys reveals that out of 78% international adults that currently have subscription services;

• 75% feel people will subscribe more services in future,
• 64% feel connected to companies that they regularly subscribe from,
• 42% choose subscriptions because of convenience,
• 35% choose because of cost savings and varieties offered.

This proves that subscription-based economy is here to stay. With this fast growing subscription economy, there comes the need for automation as streamlining and managing vast scale of subscriptions has become a tiresome job for Dynamics 365 CRM users. However, there are plenty of third party apps available in the market which help in manging subscriptions. And Inogic’s – Subscription and Recurring Billing Management  – is one of the popular apps that provides a robust platform for all subscription-based businesses to seamlessly manage subscriptions and streamline recurring billing process within Dynamics 365 CRM.

Now, let’s have a brief look at some of the key features of this Microsoft Preferred App:

Create and manage multiple subscriptions plans, add-ons & pricing Models

Managing subscriptions can become quite tedious when multiple products/product lines, plans, add-ons and pricing models are involved. So it is feasible to have an app which supports multiple products and pricing plans like Flat Fee pricing, Per Unit Pricing, Tiered Pricing, Volume Pricing, Stairstep pricing, etc. And this is what our Subscription and Recurring Billing Management offers. It becomes quite easy to handle each product’s own pricing plans, add-ons, etc. effectively without any complexities. This further helps in bringing new products and plans seamlessly, upselling additional offerings, and improving cash flow of the business.

Automate and streamline recurring billing processes

Generating invoices as per the subscription cycles of various products in a recurring process in subscription business line. Moreover, when a customer changes their subscription plan like either upgrading their ongoing plan in the middle of the subscription cycle or downgrading it, then adjusting the bill amount and ensuring that the customer is charged only the amount for the remaining days of the ongoing subscription is also a daunting and recurring task for CRM users. But with Subscription and Recurring Billing Management, all of these processes can be automated and streamlined. This would highly reduce the billing workload of CRM users and help them concentrate on more productive tasks.

Send automated subscription renewal & payment reminders

Sending reminders for renewals and payments is quite taxing yet important task which cannot be avoided. However, if done manually there are high chances of mismanagement causing delays in sending out reminders. This would inevitably affect the renewals and receipt of payments. However, automating these tasks would eliminate such mishaps in subscription management. And this is what Subscription and Recurring Billing Management does.

Detailed reports providing insights on subscription revenue and business health

Every subscription business needs to monitor key SAAS metrics such as MMR (Monthly Recurring Revenue), CAC (Customer Acquisition Cost), Churn rate, ARR, ARPU, CLTV, etc. As a famous mathematician had once said, “If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it.” A user-friendly dashboard with the visual representation of all these metrics can give you intricate insights and help you to consequently plan for future business growth. Subscription and Recurring Billing Management with the means of Dashboards, graphs and charts helps you to analyze the same effectively.

Simplify and automate tax calculations

Subscription businesses have clients from all over the world. This means invoices involve tax calculations with different tax rates and regulations. Subscription and Recurring Billing Management automates these tax calculations and eliminates any complications that arises due to manual calculations. It also offers integration with Avalara AvaTax which further makes these recurring tax calculations error free and stress free.

This is just the tip of the iceberg! Subscription and Recurring Billing Management has many more such interesting features.

So, get first-hand experience of these amazing features by downloading the free 15 days trial from our website or Microsoft AppSource.

Reach us at crm@inogic.com for personal demo or more information on managing subscriptions and recurring billing processes in Dynamics 365 CRM.

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