Quote-to-Cash

SAP Subscription Billing

SAP Subscription Billing is the core of the BRIM Public Cloud Edition – and your central solution for designing, managing, and billing modern subscription models. Whether recurring fees, one-time services, or usage-based pricing: Subscription Billing brings maximum flexibility to your offer logic – and ensures a seamless, fully automated order-to-cash chain from quotation to invoice. Entirely cloud-based, highly scalable, and ready for innovation in the subscription era.

Cut your time-to-market by up to 95% with SAP Subscription Billing.

SAP Performance Benchmarking

Create products with flexible pricing – recurring, one-time, or usage-based – perfectly matched to customer needs.

Your Benefits at a Glance:

Cut Time-to-Market by up to 95%

Bring new subscription models and bundles to market up to 95% faster with SAP Subscription Billing – giving you the agility to seize opportunities and meet customer expectations.

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Accelerate Growth of Recurring Revenues

Grow faster with new revenue streams – powered by flexible pricing, billing, and bundling for scalable subscriptions.

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Implement contract changes in real time

Customers can upgrade, pause, or cancel – and your billing adapts instantly. This strengthens the customer experience and reduces support efforts.

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Boost Customer Lifetime Value

Deliver personalized offers with flexible terms and options – automated and always adaptable.

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Scalable Across All Business Models

End-to-end automation for your quote-to-cash process – scaling effortlessly with growth and complexity.

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Real-Time Customer Insights

Centralized view of activities, contracts, and usage – for smarter decisions and better customer service.

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Error-Free Scaling for Growth

Automation cuts manual work and errors – boosting efficiency across sales, service, and billing.

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Core Functionalities

Manage Subscriptions on SAP BTP

Cloud-native on SAP BTP – SAP Subscription Billing enables flexible extensions beyond the ERP core.

End-to-End Support for the Entire Lifecycle

End-to-end lifecycle management – from product creation to contracts, with real-time billing sync for renewals, changes, and cancellations.

Agile Pricing

Bill flat fees, tiered, volume-, or usage-based charges – including pay-per-use – at any point in the contract lifecycle.

Automated Invoice Integration

Seamless integration: Subscription Billing hands over invoice data automatically to CI or S/4HANA Sales Billing – enabling consolidated invoices across all services.

Multiple Integration Options

Out-of-the-box integration with SAP and third-party systems – perfect for hybrid or non-SAP billing scenarios.

Open APIs & Extensibility

API-first design makes Subscription Billing easy to integrate into existing IT landscapes – perfect for media companies with complex architectures.

Clean Core-Ready and Future-Proof

Extend with industry-specific features on SAP BTP – fully Clean Core-compliant, with no ERP core modifications.

Use Cases

SAP Subscription Billing shows its strengths wherever flexible subscription models, usage-based services, and scalable digital offerings are required:

Newspaper Publishers & Media Companies

Billing for print and digital subscriptions with different durations, content, and access levels – including freemium models, pay-per-article, and bundled offers across print, web, and app. Subscription Billing ensures seamless processing and high transparency for both readers and editorial teams.

Software & SaaS

Licensing of applications, add-ons, or usage-based services – e.g., by number of users, data volume, or transactions. Customers can flexibly subscribe to, expand, or cancel packages – and automatically receive updated invoices.

Digital Platforms & Marketplaces

Providers of managed services, IT solutions, or cloud packages benefit from flexible subscription models for their service offerings. With SAP Subscription Billing, dynamic service packages can be designed, individual pricing mapped, and billing automated as the customer base grows – ideal for scalable service contracts and hybrid IT business models.

Industry & Mechanical Engineering

Monetization of connected machines via pay-per-use: billing based on operating hours, functions, or service levels – integrated into IoT and ERP environments.

Telecommunications

Providers of digital value-added services (e.g., streaming, cloud storage, security) use Subscription Billing to manage and bill supplementary services.