NetSuite vs Zuora: Which is a better fit?

Svetlana: I'm Svetlana and I'm the executive director of an organization that has a staff of three. I would recommend NetSuite and give it a five star rating. For NetSuite we used a manual process, mostly spreadsheets, and Excel. That was very cumbersome and time-consuming. So NetSuite consolidated all of our data, keeping record tracking processes into one place and made it a lot cleaner and a lot smoother for us. NetSuite was a great option for us because they have a pro bono program and is a not-for-profit organization that appealed to us right off the bat. Being a user now for 11 years, we have found so many other reasons to continue to use NetSuite, they've been wonderful to us. Getting started with NetSuite took a little bit of a learning curve. It was definitely for someone with a background in IT or databases, but once we got going and figured out how to implement the system, continuing to use it and learn with the system, they give you all the right tools to grow and learn. So although it was a difficult learning curve, it's paid off in the end. If you're considering getting NetSuite, make sure that you have someone designated for the implementation process and map out how you plan on using the software. Have at least an idea of what types of things you're going to be using it for because it will make things smoother and easier down the road. But also don't feel like you have to know everything. The team is wonderful and they do help you along the way. So if it looks like a good fit for you, I say, go for it.

Jared D.: I'm Jared, customer success manager. And I would give Zuora a four out of five stars. And for more reviews like this, click the link below. So with Zuora, we are able to charge and manage all of our subscriptions for our SaaS company. So for our annual agreements, if customers are charged annually, quarterly, monthly, we're able to house all of those different products for those different subscriptions within Zuora. And manage those and update those as needed. And then all those funds can be paid out into our bank and recorded on our financials. What we liked most about Zuora was how well that it integrated with our platform. Also, their support team was great. Their onboarding team was great. So getting it implemented, which I know I didn't directly oversee, but I knew there was a lot of concerns about getting everything implemented and migrated over from Strike that we were using before. But from what I saw post import and migration, everything went extremely well and their team was very responsive and very happy to help work out any kinks to get us set up with Zuora correctly. The thing that I'd say I'd like the least is Zuora is... You do have to have a good amount of training in it and be well versed in it to navigate the platform itself. It's not extremely intuitive. And it's a little bit complicated to make certain adjustments and changes and tweaks for different products that you want to set up. And especially with different packages that we were selling, to get all of that set up in the platform definitely took some time. And we had people on our billing team that were Zuora experts that we had to go to for things that you would think would be a little bit more simple. So very powerful tool, able to do a lot. It's just that you do have to work with it quite a bit to get familiar with it. And the actual interface itself maybe feels a little bit dated and a little bit clunky.