Zuora Billing

Zuora is a leading subscription management and billing platform that helps businesses launch, manage, and scale subscription-based services, offering tools for pricing, billing, revenue recognition, and analytics to support recurring revenue models.

Power end-to-end data operations for your Zuora Billing API with Nexla. Our bi-directional Zuora Billing connector is purpose-built for Zuora Billing, making it simple to ingest data, sync it across systems, and deliver it anywhere — all with no coding required. Nexla turns API-sourced data into ready-to-use, reusable data products and makes it easy to send data to Zuora Billing or any other destination. With comprehensive monitoring, lineage tracking, and access controls, Nexla keeps your Zuora Billing workflows fast, secure, and fully governed.

Features

Type: API

SourceDestination

• Seamless API Integration: Connect to any endpoint as source or destination without coding, with automatic data product creation
• Visual Composition & Chaining: Build complex integrations using visual templates, chain API calls, and compose workflows with data validation and filtering
• API Proxy: Expose curated slices of your data securely with a secure and customizable API proxy that validates and transforms data on the fly
• Request optimization with intelligent batching, retry, and caching to minimize API calls and costs

Prerequisites

Before creating a Zuora Billing credential, you need to obtain your Zuora API Base URL, Username, and Password from your Zuora account. Zuora Billing uses Basic Authentication for all API requests.

To obtain your Zuora Billing credentials, follow these steps:

1. Sign in to your Zuora account using your administrator credentials.

2. Navigate to your Zuora account settings or API configuration in your Zuora dashboard.

3. To obtain your Zuora API Base URL, identify your Zuora environment. The Base URL depends on your Zuora environment:

   • Production: https://rest.zuora.com
   • Sandbox: https://rest.apisandbox.zuora.com
   • US Cloud: https://rest.zuora.com
   • US Central: https://rest.zuora.com
   • EU Cloud: https://rest.eu.zuora.com
   • US Performance Test: https://rest.test.zuora.com

4. To obtain your Username and Password, these are your Zuora account credentials. If you need to create API-specific credentials, navigate to Settings > Users > API Users in your Zuora dashboard to create or manage API users.

5. Store all credentials securely, as you will need them to configure your Nexla credential. The Password is sensitive information and should be kept confidential.

The Username and Password are used in Basic Authentication for all API requests to the Zuora Billing API. If your credentials are compromised, you should immediately change your password in your Zuora account settings. For detailed information about Zuora API authentication, API base URLs, and available endpoints, see the Zuora API documentation.

Authenticate

Credentials required

Field	Required	Secret	Description
Zuora API Base URL	Yes	No	Enter the Base URL for your Zuora environment. See https://www.zuora.com/developer/api-guides/ for details.
Username	Yes	No	Zuora Username
Password	Yes	Yes	Zuora Password

Create a credential in Nexla

1. After selecting the data source/destination type, click the Add Credential tile to open the Add New Credential overlay.

New Credential Overlay – Zuora Billing

2. Enter a name for the credential in the Credential Name field and a short, meaningful description in the Credential Description field.

3. Enter your Zuora API Base URL in the Zuora API Base URL field. This should be the Base URL for your Zuora environment. The default value is https://rest.zuora.com for production environments. The Base URL determines which Zuora environment will be accessed. See https://www.zuora.com/developer/api-guides/ for details about different environment URLs.

4. Enter your Username in the Username field. This should be your Zuora Username. The Username is used as the username in Basic Authentication for all API requests to the Zuora Billing API.

5. Enter your Password in the Password field. This should be your Zuora Password. The Password is used as the password in Basic Authentication for all API requests to the Zuora Billing API. The Password is sensitive information and must be kept confidential.

   Your Zuora Billing credentials (Base URL, Username, Password) can be found in your Zuora account settings. The Base URL depends on your Zuora environment (production, sandbox, etc.). The Username and Password are your Zuora account credentials, which are used in Basic Authentication for all API requests to the Zuora Billing API.

   If your credentials are compromised, you should immediately change your password in your Zuora account settings. The credentials provide access to your Zuora Billing account data and should be treated as sensitive information. Keep your credentials secure and do not share them publicly.

   For detailed information about Zuora API authentication, API base URLs, and available endpoints, see the Zuora API documentation.

6. Click the Save button at the bottom of the overlay. The newly added credential will now appear in a tile on the Authenticate screen during data source/destination creation.

Use as a data source

To create a new data flow, navigate to the Integrate section, and click the New Data Flow button. Select the Zuora Billing connector tile, then select the credential that will be used to connect to the Zuora Billing instance, and click Next; or, create a new Zuora Billing credential for use in this flow.

Endpoint templates

Nexla provides pre-built templates that can be used to rapidly configure data sources to ingest data from common Zuora Billing endpoints. Select the endpoint from which this source will fetch data from the Endpoint pulldown menu. Available endpoint templates are listed in the expandable boxes below.

Get All Entries of a Resource

This endpoint template retrieves all entries of a resource from your Zuora Billing account. Check out the API documentation for optional filter criteria. Use this template when you need to access resource data, such as orders, payments, subscriptions, or other Zuora Billing resources for analysis, reporting, or integration purposes.

• Enter the Resource Name in the Resource Name field. This should be the type of resource to be fetched (e.g., orders, payments, subscriptions, accounts, etc.). The default value is orders. The Resource Name determines which Zuora Billing resource will be retrieved.
• Enter the Array Name in Response (usually same as resource name) in the Array Name in Response (usually same as resource name) field. This should be the name of the data array in the response. Usually the same as the resource name (e.g., orders, payments, etc.). The default value is orders. The Array Name determines which array in the API response will be used to extract data.

This endpoint retrieves all entries of a resource from your Zuora Billing account, including resource IDs, properties, and other resource metadata. The endpoint uses page-based pagination to handle large result sets efficiently. Nexla will automatically follow the pagination to fetch subsequent pages of resource data.

For detailed information about Zuora Billing resources, API response structures, pagination, optional filter criteria, and available resource data, see the Zuora API documentation.

Retrieve Data Source Export

This endpoint template creates and retrieves data source exports based on ZOQL queries from your Zuora Billing account. Try not to trigger TEST on this endpoint before creation as depending on the query Zuora can take time to process and create report. Use this template when you need to export data using custom ZOQL queries for analysis, reporting, or integration purposes.

• Enter the Export ZOQL query in the Export ZOQL query field. This should be a valid ZOQL query to be executed. The default value is SELECT * from RatePlan. The ZOQL query determines which data will be exported. See https://knowledgecenter.zuora.com/Central_Platform/Query/Export_ZOQL for details about ZOQL query syntax.

This endpoint creates and retrieves data source exports based on ZOQL queries from your Zuora Billing account. The endpoint processes data in a 3-step sequence: first creating an export request, then polling for completion, and finally downloading the exported file. Try not to trigger TEST on this endpoint before creation as depending on the query Zuora can take time to process and create report.

For detailed information about ZOQL queries, export operations, API response structures, and available export data, see the Zuora API documentation and ZOQL query documentation.

Once the selected endpoint template has been configured, click the Test button to the right of the endpoint selection menu to retrieve a sample of the data that will be fetched. Sample data will be displayed in the Endpoint Test Result panel on the right, allowing you to verify that the source is configured correctly before saving.

Clicking the Test button for the "Retrieve Data Source Export" template may take time to process depending on the ZOQL query, as Zuora needs time to process and create the report.

Manual configuration

Zuora Billing data sources can also be manually configured to ingest data from any valid Zuora Billing API endpoint, including endpoints not covered by the pre-built templates, chained API calls, or custom request parameters. Select the Advanced tab at the top of the configuration screen, and follow the instructions in Connect to Any API to configure the API method, endpoint URL, date/time and lookup macros, path to data, metadata, and request headers.

Zuora Billing API endpoints typically follow the pattern {base_url}/v1/{resource_type}, where {base_url} is your Zuora API Base URL and {resource_type} is the resource type (e.g., orders, payments, subscriptions). Basic Authentication is handled automatically by your credential configuration.

Once all of the relevant settings have been configured, click the Create button in the upper right corner of the screen to save and create the new Zuora Billing data source. Nexla will now begin ingesting data from the configured endpoint and will organize any data that it finds into one or more Nexsets.