billwerk – made in Germany for European subscription companies
Looking for an Alternative to Zuora?
You are in the right place!
You don’t just want to automate recurring business processes, but maximise your growth and scalability? billwerk is the solution!
billwerk..
- is a German subscription management provider tailored to the challenges and specifics of European subscription businesses
- scales your subscription business and accelerates your growth sustainably
- enables full EU-DSGVO and GoBD compliance
- stores all your data securely and encrypted – server location Germany
- integrates effortlessly with all leading financial accounting systems
- has all common European payment methods
- understands you. We offer multilingual support and full customer service
Are you looking for an alternative to Zuora and Co.? Trust billwerk!
Zuora is an expert in the US subscription market. With a generalistic global approach, the Zuora Subscription Management Platform aims to simplify the management of subscription-based services for subscription companies.
billwerk is a “Made in Germany” solution tailored to the European subscription market. As a pioneer of the German subscription economy and with its many years of expertise in the subscription business, billwerk is shaping the Europe-wide subscription transformation.
Do you operate a digital, collaborative or circular subscription business model in which the provision of services must be controlled and billed on a recurring or consumption-based basis? Then billwerk is the right partner for you! We scale and automate your subscription processes reliably and efficiently.
With billwerk, you can unleash the full potential of your subscription business model. Our platform increases scalability and accelerates the growth of your business while reducing monetary and resource-related efforts. The reliable automation of all your recurring business, financial, sales and marketing processes is done in compliance with EU regulatory requirements – initially, continuously and ongoing.
billwerk was developed with the needs of European subscription companies in mind – from MVP in the Public SaaS to the operation of a dedicated system in the Client Private Cloud.
We accompany our customers from the very beginning, every step of the way. billwerk’s best-of-breed solution is suitable for SMEs, enterprises and fast-growing start-ups across all industries.
billwerk’s Best-of-Breed vs. Zuora’s Best-of-Suite Solution Approach
Best-of-Breed
- Combination of different specialised software solutions.
- Individual customer needs are better met by combining specialised solutions.
- Very good and cost-effective integration into the existing IT system landscape.
- Increased flexibility, agility and a competitive advantage through the combination of various different modern state-of-the-art software technologies.
Best-of-Suite
- Generalistic, holistic solution from one product bundle.
- Comparatively investment-intensive solution for which costs & benefits must be weighed.
- Personalised adjustments are often difficult and can only be implemented through customising.
- Complete solutions are often only compatible to a limited extent and difficult to integrate. Reduced functionality and a delayed reaction to market changes are the result.
Book your billwerk product demo
Find out in 45-60 minutes how well billwerk, in comparison with Zuora, suits your specific Subscription Business Case. In the personal product demo, our business analysts will show you the billwerk functional scope and determine the degree of fit based on your requirements.
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“Within a short period of time, we were already able to use the billwerk-solution to make a large number of decisive optimisations to our processes and the contract-relevant features, as well as to the business and pricing models themselves.”

“In addition to simple subscription management, we have steadily expanded our services with billwerk so that we can now also conveniently bill our customers for one-off purchases, such as the purchase of a digital rental contract or shipping via the interface to billwerk.”

“By introducing the billing and payment solution from billwerk, we were able to achieve better scalability due to the high degree of automation of the processes. A major advantage for our further growth was the integration of a business intelligence tool and debt collection provider. A high degree of control over processes and finances thus brings planning security.”

“When analysing different subscription management systems, it was important for us to find a provider that could demonstrate a GoBD certificate for consolidating accounting upstream systems, and here billwerk was the only provider we found. Thanks to this consolidated accounting in billwerk, we can completely dispense with mapping the business models in our group ERP.”







billwerk – The Zuora Alternative
billwerk – the Subscription Management Platform with strong & open REST API
billwerk is a powerful state-of-the-art subscription management platform with a strong and open REST API. To achieve profitability and streamlining, billwerk orchestrates the subscription processes between all systems involved. In contrast to billwerk, Zuora offers a best-of-suite solution from one product bundle.
Automation, scaling and orchestration of your subscription processes
Holistic and sustainable automation, scaling and orchestration of all business-relevant subscription processes.
Highest Compliance – EU-DSGVO and GOBD Compliant
Full compliance with regard to European regulations. The server is located in Germany.
Easy integration into your existing IT infrastructure
High integration capability as well as standard connectors to leading ERP systems (SAP FI, SAP SD, MS D 365 FO and SalesForce).
High accuracy of fit of the demand-oriented functional scope of the platform
The proven and established billwerk platform is specially tailored to the requirements of European subscription companies.
Flexible selection of multiple operating modes
billwerk offers the possibility to choose between the operating modes PublicSaaS, PrivateSaas, and On-Premise.
Automated support
Automated support for invoice payment/bank transfer, order data processing, and e-invoicing (e.g. ZUGFeRD, xRechnung).
Participation in shaping the product roadmap
You have the opportunity to actively shape the features of the product roadmap.
Multilingual support in German and English
Experience what quality personal support really means.
Payment methods for recurring billing
SEPA direct debit and payment on account in addition to credit card payment and PayPal.
Multi-client capability
Multi Tenancy allows you to scale your subscription business across different companies.
Are you looking for an Alternative to Zuora and Co.? Rely on billwerk!
We help our clients initially, continuously and on an ongoing basis…
- to reduce process costs and effort.
- to minimise error rates
- to comply with the European regulations
= to rationalise effectively
- to reduce the time to market
- to convert better and faster
- to enable customised subscription services
- to reduce churn, optimise marketing ROI & CLV
- to maximise customer loyalty
= to grow continuously and scale & to be more competitive
billwerk vs. Zuora
The Alternative to Zuora
billwerks fully automated Subscription Business Process HUB
The subscription management software and recurring billing solution for your European subscription business. Our open platform complies with European standards according to EU-DSGVO and GoBD and is integrated into the ecosystem of leading third-party providers. With the strong REST API and the ready-to-use integrations to the most important payment providers, you are ready to go.

Prices
Plans at billwerk
Powerful API, excellent support and 100 % customer satisfaction – that’s billwerk. Best price-performance ratio.
PLAN M
Net revenue share: 2,8 %
up to 1.000 contracts
contract management
discounts and coupons
dunning
account reconciliation
role rights management
PLAN L
Net revenue share: 2,4 %
unlimited contracts
contract management
discounts and coupons
dunning
account reconciliation
role rights management
ENTERPRISE
Customised
unlimited contracts
contract management
discounts and coupons
dunning
account reconciliation
role rights management
PLAN M
Net revenue share: 2,8 %
up to 1.000 contracts
contract management
discounts and coupons
dunning
account reconciliation
role rights management
PLAN L
Net revenue share: 2,4 %
unlimited contracts
contract management
discounts and coupons
dunning
account reconciliation
role rights management
ENTERPRISE
Customized
unlimited contracts
contract management
discounts and coupons
dunning
account reconciliation
role rights management
Customized
Test billwerk free of charge
- create your Sandbox-Account without obligations
- try out all functions and features
- of course with Support: Tutorials & FAQs
- if desired with free Online-Product demonstration
About Zuora
Zuora’s history
Founded in 2007 by K.V. Rao, Cheng Zuo and Tien Tzuo, Zuora is a US-based company that develops and markets enterprise software and delivers it as SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) applications for companies with a subscription business model. Zuora has offices in North America, Europe, China, India, Japan and Australia.
Zuora’s focus
Zuora applications aim to automate billing, trading and financial operations. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California. Zuora’s product portfolio includes the Zuora Central Platform, Zuora Billing, Zuora Revenue and Zuora Collect. Zuora’s pricing varies depending on the scope of services selected.
Case Studies & References
Your goals, our mission – a large number of German and European medium-sized companies, as well as “fast growing” start-ups and globally operating corporations rely on the benefits and reliability of our platform. Get to know some of them here.

Ingo Voormanns

Björn Hoffmann

Dr. Carsten Block

Christian Storch
>>> here you can find more billwerk Case Studies & References