Revenue Lifecycle for Salesforce: A Salesforce CPQ Alternative

Is SAASTEPS the Future of Revenue Lifecycle Inside Salesforce CRM? The End of Siloed Revenue Systems and the Rise of Declarative Power with AI-Ready Data

In the dynamic world of the Revenue Lifecycle for Salesforce, businesses have long faced the challenge of managing siloed systems for key processes like commerce, payments, CPQ, subscriptions, billing, renewals, and revenue recognition. Tools like Salesforce CPQ and Revenue Cloud promise integration, but they often fall short without extensive customization, middleware, and consulting efforts. These fragmented approaches leave businesses with high costs, long timelines, and ongoing maintenance challenges.

With the introduction of SAASTEPS, a new era of Revenue Lifecycle for Salesforce has arrived; offering a fully unified single-data model, declarative, AI-ready solution that eliminates silos and transforms how businesses manage their revenue operations with their data.

The Problem: Why Siloed Revenue Lifecycle Solutions for Salesforce Are Holding Businesses Back

For decades, companies have relied on disconnected systems to manage their revenue lifecycles, creating several challenges:

• Data Silos: Revenue-critical data scattered across tools, preventing a single source of truth.
• Custom Code Dependency: Inflexible and expensive solutions prone to failure.
• Prolonged Implementations: Multi-year projects that are often obsolete before launch.
• Unpredictable Costs: Endless consulting and implementation cycles draining resources.

Even with CRM giants like Salesforce offering CPQ and Revenue Cloud, businesses still require 9–12 months of System Integrator (SI) consultants, middleware, or custom code to create even a semi-unified revenue system but they fall short to fully create a flawless revenue lifecycle solution.

The Evidence:

A Forrester study found that businesses operating siloed systems experience 30% slower time-to-market for new revenue models. Similarly, McKinsey highlights that fully unified Revenue Lifecycle platforms reduce operational expenses by up to 40%, enabling companies to pivot faster in subscription-based models.

The SAASTEPS Solution a Unified Data Model for automating the entire Revenue Lifecycle

SAASTEPS delivers a revolutionary approach to Revenue Lifecycle for Salesforce customers by eliminating silos altogether. Built 100% natively on Salesforce, SAASTEPS seamlessly integrated seven revenue-critical systems into a harmonized single-data model, offering a fully declarative, no-code, AI-data ready platform.

How SAASTEPS Transforms your Revenue Lifecycle inside Salesforce?

1. 100% Declarative Configuration
   • No custom code or middleware needed. Businesses can self-implement and manage the system with ease. Start with a three month trial and try the solution before your buy the solution.
   • Designed for scalability, flexibility, and self-service, ensuring businesses remain agile without relying on developers or consultants.
     
2. Seven Revenue Systems in One (eliminated siloes)
   SAASTEPS connects and automates the entire Revenue Lifecycle process, including:
   • Lead-to-Order: Streamlining the entire customer buyer journey.
     • B2E Commerce: Increase revenue velocity with a Frictionless Buyer Journey (guest users)
     • B2B Commerce: Turn any community into a Personalized Buyer Journey (login users)
     • Pre-Built Payment Gateways Connectors: For Stripe, Authorize.Net, and CyberSource.
     • Quoting (CPQ): Configure your products, Price them, and create a quote or proposal.
     • Contract Management: Track agreement meta data including start dates, end dates, term.
   • Order-to-Renewal: Manage everything after the initial quote or order.
     • Subscription Management: Simplify upgrades, downgrades, cross-sells, and add-ons.
     • Billing & Invoicing: Enabling automation like merging, auto-billing, and auto-pay.
     • Renewals Lifecycle Management: Visualizing and automating contract renewals.
     • Self-Service Portals: Empowering customers and partners with direct access to commerce, payments, and billing tools.
     • Revenue Recognition: Delivering flawless, AI-ready data accuracy with a single-data model.
       
3. Streamlined Implementation
   • Businesses can go live in days to weeks, not months or years.
   • Guided self-implementation eliminates the need for costly consultants, empowering Salesforce Admins to lead the process.
     
4. Unified Data Architecture
   • Built entirely on Salesforce core objects, ensuring a single source of truth for all revenue operations inside SAASTEPS harmonized single-data model.

Why SAASTEPS Is the Future of Revenue Lifecycle for Salesforce customers?

Lower Costs

By replacing custom code and middleware with a declarative, no-code solution, SAASTEPS reduces upfront and ongoing costs. A recent Gartner report confirms that no-code platforms can cut development expenses by 50–75%, making them a smart investment.

Faster Time-to-Value

Implementations measured in days or weeks, not months or years. According to IDC research, businesses leveraging unified systems see a 45% reduction in manual data entry and faster error resolution.

Predictable Services

Fixed-scope implementations simplify budgeting, protect vendor margins, and maintain flexibility for customers.

Scalability

With being building 100% Native and Lightening withing Salesforce core, SAASTEPS is a future-proof system that grows with your business needs.

Why Now? Why Trust SAASTEPS?

SAASTEPS isn’t just another revenue solution; it’s a paradigm shift in Revenue Lifecycle thinking. After 12 years of development, SAASTEPS delivers a fully standardized, declarative solution that eliminates the need for custom builds and offers businesses:

• Faster Implementations: Salesforce Admins can implement the solution in hours.
• Comprehensive Use Cases: A library of 3,000+ pre-built scenarios ready to deploy.
• Proven Results: Customers have successfully used this technology for over 8+ years.

Supporting Data:

Forrester’s research report over 92% of the organizations are interested in consolidating the underlying technology platform for all business applications. Platform consolidation plays a key part in improving application and data security, followed by instant access to data to make real-time decisions and building simplified technology architecture, which is more easily managed. However, organizations are struggling to consolidate multiple complicated technology architectures. Additionally, research from McKinsey shows that declarative solutions enable faster pivots to meet changing market demands, a key strength of SAASTEPS.

The Future Is Declarative

The future of Revenue Lifecycle is a unified single-data model, which is a declarative, no-code solutions that eliminate silos, reduce costs, and accelerate time-to-value. While traditional CPQ systems like Salesforce CPQ and Revenue Cloud continue to evolve, SAASTEPS has already delivered what businesses need today: a fully unified, scalable, and declarative revenue lifecycle single-data model platform.

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Move beyond the limitations of siloed single point solutions and systems, that require a ton of resources to build and maintain integrations with different middleware, while trying to maintain multiple systems custom code and data models.

Experience the power of a unified and harmonized Revenue Lifecycle with SAASTEPS.

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