Built specifically for an On-Demand world, Nexus is a highly flexible solution that allows On-Demand companies to develop and bill for simple or complex pricing plans – whether they are based on simple subscription models or complex multi-transaction pricing. Further, Nexus offers advanced functionality such as: Revenue management, partner revenue sharing, invoicing and bill presentment, revenue recognition, integration with multiple payment gateways, and automated payment processing. Best of all, This means, no expensive software and no lengthy implementations. The service can be quickly and easily integrated with your existing applications to deliver a comprehensive pricing, billing and revenue management solution.

Pricing Nexus provides a simple and intuitive user interface for developing pricing plans for different online products and services. Nexus enables business level users, including sales and marketing teams the power to create innovative pricing plans. Products and services can be easily bundled or unbundled to create unique offerings at different price levels, and for different market segments. Companies can capture market share using competitive and flexible pricing models and enable any service for any subscriber. Back to top

Billing Built specifically for the On Demand world, Nexus's Dynamic Billing Engine gives users the capacity to rate and price any set of product or services. The Billing Engine can take any transaction as input, apply user defined rules, and rate simple and complex transactions in real time or batch. Some example of ratings are Fixed charges, Tier based charges, Minimum charges, Maximum charges, One-off charges, Time based charges, Volume based charges, and many more. Back to top

Revenue Management and Compliance The Nexus solution automates and streamlines the entire revenue management lifecycle from processing transactions, to Pricing, Billing and Renewals, Revenue Recognition, Revenue Analysis and Reporting. With Nexus a comprehensive audit trail exists for all revenue, pricing, billing, contract, payment, and revenue sharing data. You can easily answer auditor's questions about how, why, when and by whom every revenue related event was processed. The result is a solid foundation for complying with requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. Back to top

Metering The Nexus Metering infrastructure captures application level events for the purposes of billing. Application events can be captured for On Demand or SAAS applications as well as traditional packaged software using different API's and agents (client or server based). For the purposes of billing, events captured from the application can be further transformed through application of user defined rules. Back to top

Invoicing and Bill Presentation Nexus comes with powerful invoicing and bill presentment capabilities. Using the invoicing and bill presentation facilities, users can easily develop simple or detailed customized invoices based upon specific customer needs and requirements. Invoices can be delivered via XML or many other supported electronic formats. Back to top

Revenue Sharing In an On Demand world, partnerships and strategic alliances allow service providers to introduce, integrate and deploy new services quickly. Nexus's Revenue Sharing features allows partners and allies to share revenue for any kind of product or service. Simple or complex revenue sharing agreements are easily constructed, and thus allow royalties and commissions to be easily calculated and distributed to the partners and alliances. Back to top

Payments Nexus provides comprehensive online payment facilities. It supports bank account debiting and crediting through the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network, and also integrates with major credit card processing gateways. Furthermore, the Nexus online payment system reduces your cost of doing business by eliminating the costs associated with check processing and posting. Back to top

Security Nexus provides robust data encryption and User Access Management (Authentication & Authorization) features. It uses 128-bit SSL to protect data and communications over the Internet. The Nexus data security model prevents users and companies from accessing another's data. Users can access Nexus only with a valid username and password combination, which is encrypted via SSL. Users are prevented from choosing weak passwords through specific security policies. Back to top

Integration The Nexus web services API provides comprehensive tools to integrate with both front end systems like CRM, as well as back end accounting systems. Most functionality of the Nexus - Billing Metering, and Revenue Management solution is also available through a Web services API. Back to top