A subscription in Zoho Billing is a recurring agreement between your business and a customer, where the customer pays a set amount at regular intervals in exchange for ongoing access to your product or service. Zoho Billing manages the full lifecycle of each subscription: creation, billing, renewals, upgrades, downgrades, pauses, and cancellations, all automated according to the rules you configure.<\/p>\n
A subscription typically begins with a trial period (optional), moves to an active paid state after the first successful payment, and continues renewing automatically at each billing cycle until the customer cancels or the subscription expires. Zoho Billing handles payment collection, invoice generation, and dunning (automated retry for failed payments) for every active subscription without manual intervention.<\/p>\n
In Zoho Billing, the subscription record is the central object that links a customer, a plan (the pricing structure), any add-ons, the billing cycle, and the payment method. All revenue metrics, invoices, and customer communication flows connect back to the subscription. Understanding subscriptions is fundamental to using Zoho Billing for any recurring revenue business model.<\/p>\n
Yes. A single customer record in Zoho Billing can hold multiple active subscriptions, each with a different plan, billing cycle, or product. This is common for customers who buy more than one product or service tier from the same company. All subscriptions for a customer are visible from the customer record and contribute to their total billing history.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Zoho Billing’s dunning system kicks in when a payment fails. It automatically retries the charge according to the retry schedule configured in your dunning profile, sends reminder emails to the customer, and can optionally suspend or cancel the subscription after a defined number of failures. The dunning workflow runs without manual intervention, protecting revenue while giving customers time to update their payment details.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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