Customer Lifecycle APIs

nue's customer lifecycle apis provide comprehensive programmatic access to subscription lifecycle management and commerce operations these apis are designed for developers who need to integrate nue's powerful revenue management capabilities into their own applications, platforms, and workflows choosing between nue's commerce apis and revenue lifecycle apis depends on whether you use nue for billing and your performance requirements commerce apis for customers who use nue billing and need high performance, customer facing experiences high performance commerce platform for customers who run billing through nue provides real time pricing, invoice generation, and amazon like user experience with asynchronous salesforce synchronization choose commerce apis if you use nue for billing and invoicing need real time pricing for customer facing applications want high performance, amazon like commerce experience require invoice generation and management need live pricing updates in customer portals want asynchronous salesforce sync for better performance what you get real time pricing, invoice management, high performance operations with async salesforce sync, draft orders, magic links, and multi currency support revenue lifecycle apis for customers with external billing who need direct salesforce integration direct salesforce integration for customers who don't use nue billing these apis perform actions directly in salesforce and are dependent on salesforce response times choose revenue lifecycle apis if you don't use nue billing (have external billing system) only need to perform actions directly in salesforce don't need real time pricing or invoice generation are comfortable with salesforce response time dependency focus on back office subscription management have salesforce first architecture need native support for salesforce opportunities what you get direct salesforce subscription changes, native opportunity integration, quote generation in salesforce, and seamless salesforce workflow integration key differences feature commerce apis revenue lifecycle apis billing system nue billing required external billing systems performance high performance, async salesforce sync dependent on salesforce response times real time pricing yes, live pricing updates no real time pricing invoice generation yes, full invoice management no invoice capabilities user experience amazon like commerce experience back office operations salesforce dependency asynchronous synchronization direct salesforce synchronization opportunities not opportunity based native salesforce opportunity integration