Billing news and trends

FIS and Oracle Team to Digitize Utility Bill Payments
Digital Payments // November 12, 2024

FIS is teaming with Oracle to remove paper checks from the utility billing process. The FinTech company announced Tuesday (Nov. 12) that its BillerIQ solution, running on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, will allow Oracle — which manages billions of utility customer bills each year —...

Nue Launches Platform That Unifies CPQ and Billing
B2B Payments // May 29, 2024

Nue has launched a platform that unifies configure, price and quote (CPQ) and billing, and accelerates finance operations across every B2B model. The new Everything Billing product brings together direct sales and product-led growth, subscription- and usage-based pricing, and bundling across software, physical goods and...

Stripe Reports Total Payment Volume Rose 25%, Topping $1 Trillion
Digital Payments // March 13, 2024

Stripe surpassed $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2023. That milestone marked a 25% increase from the previous year and meant that businesses running on Stripe accounted for about 1% of global gross domestic product (GDP), Stripe co-founders Patrick Collison and John Collison wrote...

Metronome Raises $43 Million to Expand Usage-Based Billing Platform
Investments // January 31, 2024

Metronome has secured $43 million in a Series B funding round to simplify and streamline usage-based billing for Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies. The company aims to address the challenges faced by businesses in building and maintaining usage-based and subscription billing infrastructure, Metronome said in a Wednesday (Jan....

Interviews & Exclusives
Real-Time Data Breaks Monthly Accounting Rituals

March 29, 2023
Contextual real-time data, not Advil, is helping CFOs solve lingering spend management headaches.  Flurries of payments and accompanying reports have kept chief financial officers on their toes for years. Still, Oded Zehavi, CEO at Mesh Payments, tells PYMNTS that the spend management landscape can be divided into two key periods: before COVID and after COVID.  “COVID pushed […]

Cedar CEO: Solving For Healthcare’s ‘Black Box’ Of Patient Billing

July 06, 2020
It may be the blackest of black boxes. The pandemic, with its public health fears, has trained a spotlight on the labyrinth of the healthcare industry — specifically, billing, the...

Why Data-Backed Innovation Is The Medicine Healthcare Needs

May 04, 2020
Among the more unnerving surprises of the coronavirus pandemic for most people was learning just how vulnerable and thinly stretched some areas of our healthcare system really are. Between the...

Keeping Hospital Billing Systems Healthy In A Pandemic

April 10, 2020
On a good day, healthcare providers do a difficult job. In the last several weeks, that difficult job has become a heroic labor nationwide as workers on the front lines...

Quick Reads
Worldline Launches FlexPricing for Independent Software Vendors

December 18, 2024
Payments services company Worldline has introduced FlexPricing for independent software vendors (ISVs). The new offering, which Worldline calls the first of its kind, lets ISVs implement flexible pricing strategies that include charging a percentage fee on bank transfer transactions, adding custom fees, and allowing Worldline to take on their billing duties. “FlexPricing empowers partners to enhance their revenue […]

FIS and Oracle Team to Digitize Utility Bill Payments

November 12, 2024
FIS is teaming with Oracle to remove paper checks from the utility billing process. The FinTech company announced Tuesday (Nov. 12) that its BillerIQ solution, running on the Oracle Cloud...

Nue Launches Platform That Unifies CPQ and Billing

May 29, 2024
Nue has launched a platform that unifies configure, price and quote (CPQ) and billing, and accelerates finance operations across every B2B model. The new Everything Billing product brings together direct...

Stripe Reports Total Payment Volume Rose 25%, Topping $1 Trillion

March 13, 2024
Stripe surpassed $1 trillion in total payment volume in 2023. That milestone marked a 25% increase from the previous year and meant that businesses running on Stripe accounted for about...