Ideal for online courses

Zenlearn

Easily combine as many video, audio, text and downloadable files as you want into a complete, well-structured course, in as many modules and sub-modules as you need to organize your content.

Add an online discussion forum, where you can interact with your participants, and where they can learn directly from one another, without your involvement. This is killer.

Videos are automatically converted into formats that work with all browsers as well as with iPads and iPhones and other mobile devices, in high quality but with small file sizes. And we also create an audio-only version, so your customers can choose that option when it makes sense.

Your customers can choose to view the content online, to download it, or to use the handy 'podcasting' feature, which automatically delivers the content onto their computer, iPhone, iPad or other device.

Everything is handled automatically: Registration, signup, billing, invoicing. Just link to the order form from your website or email newsletter, and people will automatically pay you, get a welcome email, get access to the online course, and be on their way. You just get an email saying you got paid.

You can offer them to pay in installments, all handled automatically. If they need to get a refund, you can give them that with one click, and their access will automatically be revoked, a credit note issued, money given back to them, etc. You can offer discounts and freebie seats at the course. Everything is super-easy and handled automatically.

So just produce your content, upload it, structure it, tell us what to call it and how to charge for it, link to it from your website, and you're on your way to helping your customers while making money for yourself on auto-pilot.

Great for physical events

Physical-event

zenbilling takes care of registration, payments, and invoicing for you. You can even let your customers pay in multiple installments, without any hassle on your part whatsoever. Every participant is automatically collected on an email list, so you can email them all at once, and you can even see who opened or clicked on a link in the email you sent out. Or you can send them an SMS, if we have their mobile phone number.

If someone changes his or her mind, you can easily issue them a full or partial refund, and they'll automatically be taken off both the email list, the SMS list, and the list of participants. You don't even have to think about it.

You can do special discounts for early signup or as a treat for existing customers, and you can also invite people to sign up and join for free - great if you have special guests or assistants.

If you want to give them access to downloadable content before or after the event, you can easily do that, too - video, audio, PDF files, anything digital. Or you can even give them access to a full-blown online forum, where they can communicate with each other, and you can add all the content you'd like over time.

It works great whether it's a single one-day event, or a full-blown extended course or educational program with several meetings over many months, and anything in-between.

One of the greatest ways to teach is with a mixture of online digital content, and "offline" physical live interactive meetings. Delivering the knowledge digitally to your customers on their own schedule frees up time during the live events for more interactivity and deep integration of what you have to teach.

Downloadable digital products made easy

Selling a PDF, an audio mp3 download, a video, or a series of text emails? Or some combination of these?

Then zenbilling is the answer to your prayers.

zenbilling lets you easily define your product, upload the files, and then you just link to the order form directly from your own website or from your email newsletter.

When someone buys your product, the money automatically ends up in your bank account, they automatically get access to the downloads, and you don't need to lift a finger. Nothing to do on your part whatsoever. All you'll see is an email in your inbox that tells you you've just made money (and you can turn that off when it gets too noisy).

You can also let them pay in installments, all handled automatically, and you can give special discounts to certain people.

Oh, and you don't need to worry about video formats. Just upload what you have, and it is automatically converted to work with all browsers as well as with iPads and iPhones and other mobile devices, in high quality but with small file sizes. And we also create an audio-only version, so your customers can choose that option when it makes sense.

If you're selling an email course, you can set it up to automatically deliver your predefined emails on a set schedule, eg. once a week, or after 3 days, then 8 days, then 2 days, etc. And they all go out 100% automatically, you don't need to do anything.

Should someone have the right to a refund, you just go in and give them a full or partial refund, and their access to the content is automatically revoked, they get their money back, they're taken off the email lists, etc. All with one click. It just couldn't be easier.

So just produce your content, define the product, link to it from your website, and you're on your way to making money on auto-pilot.

On-going subscriptions are a snap

Are you selling a product where people pay each month (or week or quarter or year) to have access to your content or your services or whatever?

Then zenbilling is the solution you've been looking for.

With zenbilling, you just define your subscription period (weekly, monthly, 3 months, a year, whatever you like) and what the charge for each subscription period is ($99/month, $9.95 /month), and everything is handled automatically.

As long as they're active subscribers in good standing, they'll have access to the content or online forum you provide them with, they'll be on the email list for this product, they'll received the text messages you send them, and so on. When they cancel, or a charge doesn't go through, they'll automatically be taken off of all those things.

A subscription product can give access to online content, discussion forums, email newsletters, physical meetings or events - anything you'd like.

And it's all handled automatically, so you don't need to lift a finger.

On-going subscriptions are a great way to make a predictable, steady income, because over time you'll get to know roughly how many members sign up each month, and how long they stay members, which makes things predictable and steady, which is good for business.

Easily integrates with what you have

zenbilling works with any website and mailing list tool you have today - or don't have.

In order for thing to work, all you need to do is give your customers a link from which they can purchase your products.

You can put that link on a sales page on your existing website, you can put it in an email, or you can sing it with a sing-o-gram. Or you can let zenbilling host your sales page. It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter what type of content management system you use, where your website is hosted, or how you send out emails to your email list, or even if you have one. zenbilling just works with what you have.

Newsletters and email campaigns

zenbilling can also manage your newsletter for you, and you can run targeted email marketing campaigns right from within zenbilling.

Create an email list of people interested in a particular product or topic, and have them sign up to get useful content, news, and information about the topic, and offers for products they can buy.

You can send them beautiful emails with links and attachments any time you like, and track who opens the emails, who clicks which links, and so on.

Everything is handled automatically. People subscribe and unsubscribe without you needing to lift a finger, you can track when people subscribed and from where, you can see which email prompted them to unsubscribe. You can schedule emails to go out at a specific time in the future, you can track who opens, clicks, unsubscribes, marks your email as spam, etc.

You can even pre-create complete email campaigns that are automatically delivered on a fixed schedule, depending on when people signed up to hear from you.

…and so much more

zenbilling does much more, which you'l discover when you dive in.

Affiliate tracking: If you have people driving sales for you, you can give them a special affiliate link, and zenbilling will automatically track all sales back to them, calculate the percentage of revenue that you owe them, track any affiliate fee payouts, and so on.

Multiple payment options: You can use either PayPal or PBS/Nets to process your payments, depending on your needs.

Track key metrics: It's easy to see the life-time value for each of your customers, the average life-time value of your customers, the average life-time value and a lead, and other key metrics that let you optimize your business and learn how much you can spend on acquiring new customers and leads. (Don't worry if this is gibberish to you. You'll learn it easily if you ever need it.)

Complete overview: The dashboard that you see when you log in shows you in an instant how your sales are going, how your latest campaigns have been doing, and anything that you need to take action on.

Easy customer service: Ever need to look up a customer? Just enter their email or part of their name in the search field, and you immediately get a complete birds-eye view of that customer, including when he or she signed up, from where, what email lists they're subscribed to, what they've purchased from you, what and if they've had refunds, and everything else you could need to know about them.

Automatic collection: If a customer is due a payment - either an installment or a subscription renewal - and we can't charge the card on file, we'll automatically let them know and try again a few more times. If after that we still fail, the customer is notiified, and the purchase is automatically invalidated, their access to any content or online courses revoked, and they'll no longer receive email or SMS related to the product. It all happens automatically, and you don't need to do anything.