# Billing Tech Enables the Future of Business Featuring **Lily Varon**, Senior Analyst, of the independent analyst firm – **Forrester**. ## Recurring Revenue Challenges for SaaS As SaaS pricing and contracts grow more complex, finance teams wrestle with complexity in billing and revenue management. --- ## Ordway Videos ### Subscriptions, Usage-Based Billing, and SaaS Metrics ## Ordway Product Overviews Learn more about [Ordway’s suite of quote-to-cash applications](https://ordwaylabs.com/products), including subscription billing, revenue recognition, accounts receivable automation, and SaaS metrics reporting software, in this series of two-minute videos. ### Ordway Product Overview With Ordway you can automate billing, revenue recognition, and investor KPI reporting for recurring revenue models based on subscriptions or usage-based pricing. ### Ordway for Finance Teams Customers that switch to Ordway typically realize immediate benefits in both cost savings and processing times. Monthly bill runs go from weeks to days. ## Customer Case Studies High-growth SaaS and cloud companies share [case studies](https://ordwaylabs.com/customers) of how Ordway’s billing and revenue management software has enabled them to automate complex invoicing, simplify monthly close, and accelerate payment collections. ### Paubox Automates Billing & Accounts Receivable Watch a short video of Paubox’s Director of Finance discussing how they shifted from a massive spreadsheet and painful manual processes to a fully automated approach to billing and AR. ### GTI Automates Month End Close & Revenue Recognition Watch a short video of the Head of Finance from Group GTI explains how Ordway was able to simplify the month-end close process by automating the company’s revenue recognition processes. ### CareAcademy Usage-Based Pricing Case Study Watch a short video of the Director of Customer Success from CareAcademy, an online training site for home caregivers, discussing how Ordway has helped the organization launch new pricing models and scale their billing 3-6X… ### Casepoint CFO Video Interview Watch a short video of the CFO of Casepoint, a SaaS-platform for e-Discovery, explaining how Ordway has been able to decrease Days Sales Outstanding (DSOs) by 30% with automated dunning and customer communications. ## Recurring Revenue Revolution Ordway’s CMO, [Steve Keifer](https://ordwaylabs.com/company/leadership/steve-keifer-cmo-ordway/), shares the challenges that SaaS finance teams face with scaling recurring revenue business models, including the challenges with subscription billing, usage-based pricing, payment collections, revenue recognition, and SaaS metrics reporting. ### Recurring Payments Challenges Steve Keifer, Ordway's CMO, outlines the challenges that SaaS companies face with collecting recurring payments from business customers. Discussion topics include auto-pay with credit cards, sending invoices to accounts payable, and tracking inbound payments from… ### SaaS Metrics Reporting Challenges Steve Keifer, Ordway's Chief Marketing Officer, discusses the challenges finance teams face with reporting SaaS metrics to investors. Discussion topics include the complexities of reporting customer counts, annual recurring revenue (ARR), and net revenue retention… ### Revenue Recognition Challenges Steve Keifer, Ordway's CMO, explains the complexities associated with recognizing revenue for software contracts. He outlines the diverse range of revenue streams that accountants must consider ranging from subscription and usage-based pricing to professional services… ### Usage-Based Billing Challenges Steve Keifer, Ordway's CMO discusses the challenges that cloud businesses face with usage-based billing. Discussion topics include telemetry, metering consumption, and rating engines. Steve also explains the challenges with calculating charges for capacity contracts with… ### Subscription Billing Challenges Steve Keifer, Ordway's Chief Marketing Officer, explains the challenges that SaaS businesses face with subscription billing processes. Discussion topics include discounts, mid-contract prorations, early renewals, and billing frequency. ## Conference and Event Presentations Ordway’s CEO and Founder, [Sameer Gulati](https://ordwaylabs.com/company/leadership/sameer-gulati-ceo-ordway/), shares his perspective on launching startups, raising capital, and building an awesome product that delights customers in various entrepreneur and venture conferences. ### Scaling a Software Company Sameer Gulati shares insights on scaling a startup outside of Silicon Valley at the Tom Tom festival in Charlottesville, Virginia. ### Winning Product Playbook Ordway CEO and Founder shares his experience with attendees at the SaaSNorth Conference about how to build a winning product team. ### 3Rs Guide to Your Product Roadmap SaaStock Remote - Ordway's CEO & Founder discusses how 3Rs - Revenue, Reach, Retention - can guide your product roadmap. ### Reducing Customer Churn Presentation from the 2019 Recurring Revenue Conference on strategies to reduce churn through automated and manual communication. ### Performance Economy Sameer Gulati at FiNext conference shares his thoughts on the emerging performance economy and smart automation.