Are you a publisher trying to figure out how to start charging for online content? Do you want the flexibility to experiment with different products and offers? Can you not afford to wait another year? If so, you're not alone.
Print circulation revenue is dwindling, advertising revenue is unreliable, and giving away content for free isn't sustainable. But what's the right pricing model for online content? Is it monthly all-or-nothing access like the Wall Street Journal or a metered approach like the Financial Times? Is it pre-paid accounts and micropayments?
Publishers need a flexible solution that will enable them to create, launch, and test new products and pricing plans. Traditional systems like SAP and Oracle are built for the manufacturing world, not the online commerce and subscriptions world. Hiring consultants is expensive and leaves publishers with hard coded systems that may not support future pricing models. Everyone's talking about solving this problem for publishers, but everything is still one to two years away.
Introducing Z-Commerce for Media: the first online commerce platform that makes it easy for publishers to monetize their online content - immediately. Now publishers can use the same proven platform that is already the de facto standard for subscription businesses in the technology industry to create and test new products, start taking subscriptions online, and manage all their backend recurring billing and payments.
With Z-Commerce for Media publishers get the full power of Z-Billing and Z-Payments, an easy way to define online content rules and control access to content based on a reader's entitlements, and get up and running with a proven solution quickly.
Easily create and test new products and offersThe media product catalog gives publishers full pricing and packaging flexibility so you can launch new products to market quickly. |
Customize content and access rules for productsWant to offer a sports pack? Want to test a local news edition? Z-Commerce for Media makes it easy to define content access rules for each of your products. |
Automated entitlement verificationVerify what content a visitor is entitled to view based on their current subscriptions. Control access to content and encourage new visitors to subscribe to continue reading. |
Ability to support any subscription pricing modelIncluding one-time, recurring, usage and metering charges, volume tier pricing, and any combination thereof so you can tailor and test offers to maximize revenue. |
Offer pay-as-you-read option with micropaymentsHave some readers with commitment issues? 1 cent, 5 cents, 10 cents... you set the price for your articles and let them pay-as-they-read without any strings. Online readers simply pre-pay $5 and start reading. Micropayments are debited as they go and they can top up their account or upgrade to a subscription at anytime. |
Automate recurring payments and collectionsZ-Commerce for Media makes it easy to receive, reconcile, and manage recurring payments at any frequency - ad hoc, daily, weekly, monthly, annually, etc. Your online readers can make their recurring payments with popular payment gateways such as PayPal, Cybersource, and Authorize.Net. |
Ability to scale efficientlyZ-Commerce for Media enables you to scale operations to any number of products, offers, subscribers, and payments – whether you're a major media conglomerate or a small regional news site. |
Full visibility into the key metrics for your online businessCentralized, real-time access to all the metrics you need to test, optimize, and grow your online subscription business. |
A single system for all customer subscriptions, entitlements, billing, and paymentsOne system of record for all customer subscriptions, amendments, entitlements, invoices, and payments means you get a single source of truth about customers, revenue, and forecasts. |
Integrates with content management and financial systemsSecure Web services API makes it easy to integrate with your core internal systems and financial packages. |
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