Subscription and Billing Management Market

Subscription and Billing Management Market Insights:

Subscription and billing management also refers to subscription management software that allows automation of payment collection of subscriptions. It offers the ability to manage operational side of subscriptions. Customer lifecycle operations such as assigning credits, issuing refunds, managing trials, and making mid-cycle subscription changes are performed by this software. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies, eCommerce sites, education portals, media outlets, and various businesses intend to turn customers into recurring subscribers. Adoption of subscription and billing software is leading to increased revenue streams, along with more confidence and stability in their projections. Effective subscription management software enable businesses to eradicate problems accompanied with subscription-based business models. 

Impact of COVID-19 on Subscription and Billing Management Market: 

• The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic had a damaging and quick impact on the global economy. However, among these supply chain restrictions, operational disruptions, and a global recession situation, subscription businesses are sustaining to be resilient. 
• Various subscription-based companies have not observed an impact on their subscriber growth; which is leading subscription and billing management market to keep pace with the economic slowdown. 
• As the population enforced to stay home, subscription services such as OTT video streaming, E-learning, digital news and media, and communications software are accelerating. Also, the subscription services for B2B and B2C software and Information services is observing limited impact. 
• However, some of sectors are observing negative impact on its growth, which include consumer Internet of Things (IoT), Travel & hospitality, business IoT services, Sports-related services, and Software for small businesses. 
• Due to the fluctuating adoption of subscription services in various industries, it is anticipated that the COVID-19 pandemic may not harm growth of the market; however, it is both healthy as well as hampering the market to some extent in respective industries. 

Top impacting factors: Market Scenario Analysis, Trends, Drivers and Impact Analysis

Factors such as increase in need of improved customer retention and reducing subscriber churn, growth in adoption of subscription-based models, and regularities by governments majorly drive growth of the subscription and billing management market. The customer churn is the major problem for organizations, as creating new customers is far expensive as compared to retaining existing ones. To eliminate this challenge, numerous organizations are implementing subscription & billing management solutions. However, higher upgradation and deployment costs of subscription & billing management software hamper growth of the market. On the other hand, surge in Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as well as cloud-based services adoption leading to be opportunistic for the market growth. 

The global subscription and billing management market trends are as follows:

Rise in adoption of subscription-based business model 

There has been a growing trend in recurring revenue from subscriptions for both B2C and B2B companies. Subscription as a service (SAAS) reached is widely being adopted across businesses as customers prefer to rent the software rather than buying it. As per the survey, it is estimated that around 15% of shoppers online are enrolled in any of the subscription plans and receives products to on a recurring basis.

For instance, prominent technology companies such as Uber, Spotify, Apple Inc., and Google LLC have transformed their business models to adapt to evolving customer demand and are moving from a static & linear product offering to a subscription-based model to encourage predictable, recurring, and stable revenue.

Need of paperless billing & invoicing 

Organizations are considering the adoption of efficient billing strategies to create agile business processes and reduce capital expenditure. The paperless billing processes helping businesses save cost of paper, printing, and delivery. It is helping customers to better organize their payment schedules, finances, and avoid unnecessary late fees through streamlined financial management.     

Key benefits of the report:

• This study presents the analytical depiction of the global subscription and billing management industry along with the current trends and future estimations to determine the imminent investment pockets.
• The report presents information related to key drivers, restraints, and opportunities along with detailed analysis of the global subscription and billing management market share.
• The current market is quantitatively analyzed to highlight the global subscription and billing management market growth scenario.
• Porter’s five forces analysis illustrates the potency of buyers & suppliers in the market. 
• The report provides a detailed global subscription and billing management market analysis based on competitive intensity and how the competition will take shape in coming years. 

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