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Zoho Billing

FINANCE
Velocity6.3

Zoho Billing can take money outside a subscription — and is now deciding who may touch what.

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◆Current state
The window splits three ways. Collection expanded first: hosted payment pages for individual items, shareable as a URL, QR code, iframe or HTML button, followed by a redesigned single-page checkout in early access with abandoned-cart recovery and saved progress. Reporting was cut along subscription-planning dimensions — active subscriptions by country and by product, plus a payment-method summary flagging cards near expiry. The newest thread is access control, with role-based permissions arriving on the SKU field in July and on extensions in August.
◆Where it's heading
Two of these directions matter. Zoho Billing now collects for a single item outside any subscription, records the payment and raises the invoice, which puts it in reach of transactions it previously had no surface for. The access-control work points somewhere else: per-field and per-extension permissions are what a catalog shared by a larger team needs, not what a small biller asks for. Reporting by country, product and card expiry is groundwork for retention and dunning rather than accounting output.
◆Prediction
Expect the redesigned checkout and item payment pages to leave early access and reach organizations created after the July cut-off, with role-based access continuing to spread field by field.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Extension access can be restricted to chosen user roles

    Extensions join the SKU field in gaining role-based access control, with the permitted roles editable later from the extension's details page. On its own it is a small permissions change; alongside the SKU work it reads as access control arriving one field and one surface at a time.

  2. 1mo ago

    Active subscriptions can now be broken out by product and country

    Two new reports break active subscriptions out by country and by product, comparable across time periods. Straight reporting work, but along the dimensions a subscription business plans retention and expansion against.

  3. 1mo ago

    Redesigned single-page hosted checkout enters early access

    The single-page checkout template was redesigned to show order summary, coupons and pricing together, and now supports portal sign-in, abandoned-cart recovery and saved checkout progress. In early access, and limited to organizations created before 24 July 2026.

  4. 1mo ago

    Items get shareable hosted payment pages, in early access

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    Hosted payment pages for individual items give Zoho Billing a way to take money outside a subscription entirely — the clearest instance of the collection-surface expansion in this arc.

  5. 1mo ago

    Duplicate feed capture of the item payment-page release

    A second capture of the item hosted-payment-page announcement, published the same day with a body byte-identical to the early-access entry above it. Not a separate release — the feed emitted this item twice.

  6. 2mo ago

    SKU field gains per-role read, write and hidden permissions

    Role-based permissions can now be set on an item's SKU field — read and write, read only, or hidden. Narrow, but the kind of field-level control that shows up once larger teams share the same catalog.