6 platforms you could integrate with Zuora for subscription ecommerce
If you’re selling subscription products, your technology stack can make or break your business. Learn more about the available options.
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5 platforms you can integrate with Zuora (and 1 you should!)
The six providers below can all do ecommerce and handle subscriptions to some degree. For your convenience, we’ll explain how to integrate each one with Zuora.
Adobe Commerce Cloud
Adobe Commerce Cloud is a commerce platform designed for B2B and B2C subscription businesses. It includes various features, including native AI, and offers extensive omnichannel personalisation. For example, AI can boost productivity and provide subscribers with personal recommendations based on behaviour, product popularity, and other key factors.
The Commerce Marketplace also offers thousands of premium extensions and applications. These empower you to customise different areas of your company, including order management and customer support. You can also use Adobe Commerce Cloud to monitor multiple sites from a unified interface and deliver a tailored checkout experience to subscribers worldwide.
How to integrate Adobe Commerce Cloud with Zuora
Adobe Commerce Cloud lists a Zuora application built by IBM IX Consulting on their marketplace.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is an open-source ecommerce platform for businesses looking to sell subscription products and services online and those who want to create stores for others to use. Thousands of online stores worldwide use WooCommerce.
Stores built with WooCommerce can be customised to align with your branding and subscription commerce businesses can use WooCommerce to sell products and services online, using various add-on extensions. .
How to integrate WooCommerce with Zuora
If you’re looking for solutions to help with WooCommerce and Zuora integrations, Skyvia is one option to consider. You may also need to develop an integration to your payment gateway via Zuora's Universal Payment Connector.
Shopify Plus
Shopify Plus is a highly customisable full-stack platform, allowing you to manage your business from one centralised point. You can integrate various third-party systems into your configuration, which is a significant benefit if you want to make more of your subscription commerce business’s online presence.
Numerous extensions let you provide subscribers with a high-end experience that will keep them engaged and satisfied. With Shopify Plus, you can also access detailed reports and enjoy peace of mind with wide-ranging built-in security.
How to integrate Shopify Plus with Zuora
You will need a middleman service to integrate Shopify Plus with Zuora, like Integrate.io. You may also need to develop an integration to your payment gateway via Zuora's Universal Payment Connector.
Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Salesforce Commerce Cloud is designed to simplify subscription commerce operations, taking you from setting up a storefront to growing your revenue.
You can build a unique storefront with a wide range of templates and composable storefronts, helping you streamline the process of starting or overhauling a subscription commerce business with an AI-guided setup.
Plus, Salesforce Commerce Cloud features customer acquisition tools to win new business and grow your subscriber base. This can help you deliver a strong subscriber experience across your site, boosting engagement and loyalty.
Real-time insights help you make informed decisions based on accurate data, while social channel integrations make it easier to interact with subscribers on popular platforms. Salesforce Commerce Cloud also provides guided learning to help you get started.
How to integrate Salesforce Commerce Cloud with Zuora
Similar to WooCommerce or Shopify Plus, you'll need to set up middleware to have Zuora and Salesforce Commerce Cloud integrated together. You may also need to develop an integration to your payment gateway via Zuora's Universal Payment Connector.
BigCommerce
BigCommerce is a scalable and flexible ecommerce platform designed to support businesses looking to grow their online presence, including those focused on subscription commerce.
It offers a wide range of built-in features that allow for customisation without needing extensive development work. With a strong API-first approach, BigCommerce enables seamless integrations with third-party applications.
It also supports multi-storefront functionality, allowing merchants to operate multiple brands or regional stores from a single account. Additionally, BigCommerce provides enterprise-grade security, ensuring compliance with PCI DSS and other industry standards to protect subscriber data.
How to integrate BigCommerce with Zuora
To integrate BigCommerce with Zuora, you will need a middleware solution, such as Celigo or Tray.io, to synchronise data between the two platforms.
The issues with all those options
While other Zuora ecommerce integration options have their strengths, they fall short when it comes to handling subscriptions natively. Most require you to purchase add-ons from an app store, often managed by third-party consultants, to stitch together a workable solution. This not only adds cost but also complexity. And when something breaks, who is accountable? Where does the data really live?
Payments are another major stumbling block. Take Shopify as an example. If you use Shopify Payments, you cannot transfer payment tokens into Zuora, which means every renewal attempt will fail. Alternatives such as Zuora Hosted Payment Method Pages or Payment Form are not supported, since Shopify does not allow third-party iFrames in its checkout.
If you switch to another gateway instead of Shopify Payments, you face surcharges ranging from 0.6% to 2% and still need to manually integrate the payment tokens into Zuora. And if you allow Shopify to manage payments entirely, you have to ask yourself: why use Zuora at all?
In short, these options force you into costly workarounds, fragmented data, and poor subscription support.
Limio
Limio is different. It is built from the ground up for subscriptions, natively integrated with Zuora and Salesforce, and designed to manage complex commerce without hidden costs or broken renewal flows. With Limio, you get a platform that just works, without compromise.
So how do you integrate Zuora with Limio? The answer is simple: you don’t. Limio comes with a native, out-of-the-box integration that seamlessly syncs catalogues, orders, subscriptions and payments between systems. We also stay aligned with Zuora’s latest features, so you don’t have to. No middleware, no middlemen, no app stores, no custom development. Just connect to Zuora and build your shop.
And we go further than Zuora. Limio also integrates with identity systems, entitlement systems and CRMs like Salesforce. We’ve sweated the details so you don’t have to.
If you want to minimise integration and development effort while maximising value from Zuora, Limio is the simplest and most effective option.
Try Limio for Zuora ecommerce
Limio makes integration with Zuora fast, easy, and convenient for your subscription commerce company. Customers running on Zuora such as CH Media and OpenText trust Limio to power their ecommerce.
To find out more about how we can help you, get in touch today.
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