Streamline Classroom Webinars and Instructional Videos with Subscription DNA

Do you market your services via webinar or instructional videos, sharing information with anyone interested in subscribing? Have you found yourself struggling to handle the administrative duties of the subscriptions, taking precious moments of your time away from your tasks?

Webinars and instructional videos have proven themselves to be wonderful ways of spreading information to those connected; yet like any other online marketing system, they require diligence on behalf of the owner to manage tasks such as billing, subscriptions, and the protection of content. Our platform, however, can simplify the process; in fact, with Subscription DNA, you can set aside these menial chores, and focus more on what’s important to you.

Benefits of Webinars and Instructional Videos

Truly the benefits of these types of videos cannot be overstated for those wishing to provide tutorials, education, or other types of information for a wide-spread audience. Unlike simple manuals, videos let the provider show the audience in real-time, which can be extremely useful in hands-on projects and tasks. Furthermore, webinars and instructional videos allow interested audience members to subscribe, as opposed to offering the information within free of cost. Here, this greatly benefits the provider, allowing him or her to receive compensation for his or her demonstrated skills.

Simplifying the Billing Process with Subscription DNA

Perhaps one of the most tedious yet time-consuming tasks associated with providing webinars or instructional videos involves billing those interested in joining. Without a comprehensive software managing this aspect, the group owner is left billing clients individually and routinely.

Enter Subscription DNA: this comprehensive platform affords webinar and instructional video group owners the opportunity to fully customize billing and payments. With Subscription DNA, viewers can submit secure one-time or routine payments, and in a variety of manners, from credit cards, to cash, to even Paypal. Furthermore, the group owner can set up customized payment schedules, add in taxes or setup fees, and delay billings to whenever necessary.

Manage Subscriptions and View Administrative Reports

Of course, the administrative duties of a group owner are not complete simply after billing has processed. To be sure, the owner is still responsible for adding and removing members as necessary, managing the overall nature of each subscription, and protecting assets behind the paywall. Furthermore, the owner may still be interested in viewing administrative reports to better understand the success of the videos, and react accordingly.

Again, group owners can rely on Subscription DNA to handle these tasks. Through this platform, the owner can add or remove members as he or she sees fit, and manage subscriptions, which is extremely useful if varying degrees of content exist in the videos that correspond to certain payment amounts. The platform also lets the owner view and respond to administrative reports, and, to protect information from being dispersed from one user, it incorporates varying levels of security, ensuring that only paying customers are granted access.

Spread the Word with Subscription DNA

Don’t let administrative duties cause your craft to suffer. Incorporate Subscription DNA into your webinar or instructional video services, and allow our platform to work for you.

Simplicity of Billing with Subscription DNA®

Perhaps one of the most important tasks of any revenue-generating business owner is the billing of clients. Of course, without the products and services offered by the business, there would be no customers; in turn, without the gathering of revenue, the business would eventually cease to exist. And as any business owner knows, handling customer billing can be a tedious and time-consuming process, and is often best left to an automated software built to manage payments.

Unfortunately, not all billing software is created equally, with some lacking vital functions necessary for the automation of your payments. Instead of relying on technology that may falter, or that may not fully automate the billing process, consider utilizing Subscription DNA®, a cloud billing software with a host of functions that will ensure your satisfaction. In fact, Subscription DNA® utilizes the following billing functions and more, which can take your mind off collecting payments and let you focus on the growth of your business.

Customization of Payment Methods

Do your customers prefer to pay online using a credit card? Or would they rather process a one-time payment from a Paypal account? Or do some who mistrust Internet payments, and would rather send in their check or cash in the mail?  With Subscription DNA®, you can fully customize the methods of payment, from credit to cash or purchase orders, allowing your clients to pay for your services in any way they wish.

Auto-Invoice for Your Services

Setting frequent reminders to invoice your clients for services rendered can be a hassle, and can prevent you from focusing on other, more pressing matters related to your business. Implementing Subscription DNA®, however, can streamline this process; our technology allows you to send an invoice for your services to gather payment on any schedule that you would like.

Consolidate Transactions

In many cases, clients may have multiple purchases set to renew on a single day. And instead of demanding multiple payments for each individual subscription, Subscription DNA® can consolidate the purchases into a common transaction, providing a sense of efficiency for both you and your customers.

Utilization of the Virtual Terminal

Once customers settle on a purchase and head to check out, you can automatically process the checkout through Subscription DNA® to track the transaction in your account and pass along order description. The built-in Virtual Terminal can handle one-time charges and refunds, as well as add a check/cash transaction.  Process multiple subscriptions, as well as one-time purchases, and instantaneously offer a streamlined payment program for your members to enjoy.

Automate Subscription Benefits

Many businesses offer discounts to customers after a number of purchases, or lower subscription rates for clients who have shown loyalty for a given period of time. With Subscription DNA®, you can set a subscription rate for the first period, and set a recurring billing plan to charge your clients the lower rate in the period thereafter. And best of all, this subscriber benefit rate can be fully automated; set the recurring billing schedule in the beginning, and leave it be as it works on its pre-programmed routine.

Token Payments

Using tokenization security, Subscription DNA® offers protection of sensitive payment information of your clients through a host of major payment platforms. Thus, your clients can rest easy knowing that their payment information has not been stored in the system, a concern shared by consumers in today’s society.  The payment gateway

Depletion of Funds/Credit

DNA includes a crediting tool that calculates any potential pro-rated balance leftover from the user’s subscription period. That credit is then applied and discounted when upgrading their subscription, or towards any next auto-bill.  In addition, we also offer tools for those companies who require a pre-populate funding model. You can set a minimum amount to automatically process a card or send an invoice to the customer to replenish their balance.

Automate Your Billing Tasks with Subscription DNA®

Would you rather stress over picking the right software to automate your billing, or incorporate a user-friendly, efficient and streamlined technology into your business that will automate all of your billing needs? Don’t waste any more time on billing issues than necessary; consider implementing Subscription DNA® to fully automate your payment program.

Administrative Pressure

Finding Time is Easier Than You Think!

It never fails. You are knee deep in the daily grind. Sending out membership renewal notifications, modifying user accounts, adjusting billing cycles, or handling customer account issues and there is a knock on the door. “We need the monthly summary reports ASAP!” or “Marketing needs the web statistics!”

You drop what you are doing and rush to fill the requests. Now all of the little tedious jobs that normally take you a couple of minutes have piled up and you are behind. You are not alone. Juggling the every-day aspects of your job with the time-critical functions that seem to pop up from nowhere can be a stressful and sometimes overwhelming, especially when you are responsible for managing thousands of user subscriptions.

Of course there are a lot of subscription billing software options available in the market today that could help you handle the repetitive administrative work, but how do you know which one is right for you? Most account management software is constructed and designed as a suite of applications that has tools that you may never even use.

Can you say that your job fits into a cookie-cutter shape with all of the other CRM specialists? No. Your job has unique struggles and you need a software suite that was designed from the ground up to be flexible, efficient, and powerful. You need a software option that makes managing your subscriber accounts virtually effortless.

Finding the right software could make all of the difference. Subscription DNA® is a web application suite that offers robust tools that not only streamline a large assortment of day-to-day administrative functions, but can also automate them.

You need live user stats? How about a list of users from a specific market segment? Subscription DNA® can instantly sort though the most complex subscriber account databases to provide instantaneous results for multiple level search criteria.

With Subscription DNA® you can streamline your day to day functions and answer the most complicated account information questions. The efficiencies that you will gain by using Subscription DNA® Subscription Billing and Member Management Platform will help to make the stressful days of account management and administrative pressure a distant memory.

For more information, contact Subscription DNA.

Offering Cloud Computing with Your Feet on the Ground

Being a model of efficiency can be your biggest advantage in swaying undecided clients.

As recent as five years ago, the approach to offering business software was reliant on end users dictating what they need and how they will get it. This approach, while seemingly effective, would often handcuff vendors and limit their ability to provide optimal service. Everything from creating media disks and designing packaging to shipping and delivery added extra costs into the process that would eventually need to be passed on to the customer.

One solution designed to help reduce costs to customers and sway them to particular products was to supply the software options digitally, via download. While this approach solved many problems it also incurred some new ones. The download server or mirrored server always seems too slow and customers don’t seem as comfortable buying software that they don’t have a physical disk to reinstall if there is a system crash.

This is where SaaS has gained a strong foothold in the market and is steadily gaining ground. Now you can offer Platform Software and System Software on a Cloud Infrastructure where anyone who is licensed to access it can log on and run the software through a secure internet connection. Now software can be run in a virtual environment and doesn’t need to be installed on each machine before use and, in most cases, because the software is internet based, it can run on virtually any operating system.

Selling and servicing this virtual environment can be a challenge. You will still need to convince consumers that running business software online is safe and secure. You will also need to establish organizational efficiencies to track user subscriptions. Now instead of offering a license and validating a seat, it is critical to efficiently create user accounts, secure personal information, track permissions and billing status, query member information, manage and even generate encrypted URLs and even track user statistics.

It is important to note that in a virtual software marketplace customers will be won or lost on the ability to efficiently and securely service each account. How can you convince anyone that you can offer efficiency if you fail to be efficient in your own business? Marketing your business as efficiency experts will gain extra leverage in your pursuit for market share. Your success or failure in this could ultimately be the difference between customers transitioning to SaaS or continuing to purchase software in conventional ways.

Fortunately there is an excellent solution available that was specifically designed with the SaaS market in mind. Subscription DNA® is a world-class Subscription Billing platform that does so much more than just manage Subscription renewals. Subscription DNA® has a robust member management platform that will support customers throughout their entire business lifecycle. Subscription DNA® offers CRM notes and reminders, branded secure subscriber portals, flexible web services, automated billing cycles, customizable data export, an extensive and comprehensive logging system and much, much more.

With Subscription DNA® it can be easy to stay efficient and relevant in an ever-evolving world of business software solutions. Contact Subscription DNA® and find out how they can help improve your business efficiency.

Change is the Only Constant

In the fast-paced world of online gaming, staying current is the biggest obstacle.

It has been widely generalized that on average computer technology and hardware performance doubles every 1-2 years. Video and CPU processors have become faster and able to support even more onboard memory. Even memory devices, like portable flash devices, Solid State Hard Drives and RAM are becoming faster and more reliable.

A black and white photo of the backs of a man's hands, with computer keys commonly used by each hand in online gaming controls.Because of this ever-changing technology landscape there have been substantial gains in the world of online gaming. One study showed that 62% of gamers play online and that there were 217 million online gamers worldwide by the end of 2007.* Online subscriptions had even reached over $1 billion annually in the United States by the end of the first quarter of 2008.*

Given these dramatic statistics it is a little hard to comprehend exactly how far the gaming industry has actually come. The advancements become evident when you look at how far the ripple effects extend into technology fields. Manufacturers of gaming consoles are struggling to meet the demands of the growing market. Hardware manufacturers have even invented new technologies for CPU’s and graphics processors. There has even been an increase of sites that offer dedicated gaming servers. Even video game programmers and graphic artist jobs have even increased. Virtually every technology field is fighting for a piece of the better than $1 billion in online gaming revenue.

One often overlooked element in the online gaming market is Subscription Management. Unlike many other competitive markets, the ability to efficiently manage what are often very complex subscription account systems can be the difference between maintaining a customer base and losing them to the next company down the road. Overlooking essential business elements like subscription management could lose a piece of the estimated 217 million online gamer accounts. How many of the 217 million accounts can a company lose and still be competitive in the market? How many can be sacrificed for a company to even stay afloat?

In the race to gain the lion’s share of the online gaming market the companies that have a reliable and efficient subscription billing platform will be the winners at the end of the day. Relationships between companies and consumers are the deciding factor for a vast majority online gaming consumers. Why mess around with subscription billing and member management platforms that are simply not able to offer the best services and most flexible API available?

Subscription DNA® is the best Subscription Billing and Member Management Platform available in the market today. It is scaleable to fit any size user base. It is customizable to seamlessly fit into any existing system and has automatic subscription management tools that will allow you to keep track of all users and their accounts with just a few clicks of a mouse.

Subscription DNA® will provide real-time user statistics and allow for account changes on-the-fly. It is the most intuitive, powerful and fluid option available. Shouldn’t it be possible to stay in the forefront of a market that is as dynamic as the services provided? With Subscription DNA® it is not only possible, it is simply the only option.

Visit www.SubscriptionDNA.com today to find out how your company can benefit from the world’s finest Subscription Billing and Member Management Program, Subscription DNA®.

* Online gaming statistics provided by:
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