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Form 10-Q ZUORA INC For: Oct 31

December 8, 2022 5:26 PM EST
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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, DC 20549
_____________________________ 
FORM 10-Q
_____________________________ 
(Mark One)
QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the quarterly period ended October 31, 2022
OR
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the transition period from __________ to __________
Commission File Number: 001-38451
_____________________________ 
Zuora, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
_____________________________ 
 
Delaware 20-5530976
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
 (I.R.S. Employer
Identification Number)
101 Redwood Shores Parkway,
Redwood City, California
 94065
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(888) 976-9056
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Not Applicable
(Former name, former address and former fiscal year, if changed since last report)
_____________________________ 

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each classTrading Symbol(s)Name on each exchange on which registered
Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per shareZUONew York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes  ☒ No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically every Interactive Data File required to be submitted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit such files).    Yes  ☒    No  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.
Large accelerated filerAccelerated filer
Non-accelerated filerSmaller reporting company
Emerging growth company




If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).     Yes  ☐    No  

As of November 30, 2022, the number of shares of the Registrants Class A common stock outstanding was 125.5 million and the number of shares of the Registrants Class B common stock outstanding was 8.1 million.



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PART I.
Item 1.
Item 2.
Item 3.
Item 4.
PART II.
Item 1.
Item 1A.
Item 2.
Item 6.




SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Unless the context otherwise requires, references in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (Form 10-Q) to “Zuora,” “Company,” “our,” “us,” and “we” refer to Zuora, Inc. and, where appropriate, its consolidated subsidiaries. Our fiscal year end is January 31. References to “fiscal” followed by the year refer to the fiscal year ended January 31 for the referenced year.
This Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. All statements contained in this Form 10-Q, other than statements of historical fact, including statements regarding our future operating results and financial position, our business strategy and plans, market growth, and our objectives for future operations, are forward-looking statements. Words such as “believes,” “may,” “will,” “estimates,” “potential,” “continues,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “expects,” “could,” “would,” “projects,” “plans,” “targets,” and variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements contained in this Form 10-Q include, but are not limited to, statements about our expectations regarding:
trends in revenue, cost of revenue, and gross margin;
economic uncertainty and associated trends in macroeconomic conditions, including recession, inflation and rising interest rates;
currency exchange rate fluctuations;
trends and expectations in our operating and financial metrics, including customers with Annual Contract Value (ACV) equal to or greater than $100,000, dollar-based retention rate, annual recurring revenue, and growth of and within our customer base;
future acquisitions, the anticipated benefits of such acquisitions and our ability to integrate the operations and technology of any acquired company, including our acquisition of Zephr Inc Limited (Zephr);
industry trends, projected growth, or trend analysis, including the shift to subscription business models;
the duration and impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on our business and the economy;
our investments in our platform and the cost of third-party hosting fees;
the expansion and functionality of our technology offering, including expected benefits of such products and technology, and our ability to further penetrate our customer base;
trends in operating expenses, including research and development expense, sales and marketing expense, and general and administrative expense, and expectations regarding these expenses as a percentage of revenue;
our existing cash and cash equivalents, investment balances, funds available under our loan and security agreement, and cash provided by subscriptions to our platform and related professional services being sufficient to meet our working capital and capital expenditure needs for at least the next 12 months;
the impact of actions that we are taking to improve operational efficiencies and operating costs, including the workforce reduction we approved in November 2022; and
other statements regarding our future operations, financial condition, prospects and business strategies, including our ability to sublease office space in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Such forward-looking statements are based on our expectations as of the date of this filing and are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions, including but not limited to, risks detailed in the “Risk Factors” section of this Form 10-Q. Readers are urged to carefully review and consider the various disclosures made in this Form 10-Q and in other documents we file from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that disclose risks and uncertainties that may affect our business. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing environment. New risks emerge from time to time. It is not possible for us to predict all risks, nor can we assess the impact of all factors on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements we may make. In light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the future events and circumstances discussed in this Form 10-Q may not occur and actual results could differ materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-looking statements.
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You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. The events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements may not be achieved or occur. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, performance or achievements. In addition, the forward-looking statements in this Form 10-Q are made as of the date of this filing, and we do not undertake, and expressly disclaim any duty, to update such statements for any reason after the date of this Form 10-Q or to conform statements to actual results or revised expectations, except as required by law.
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PART I—FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1.    Financial Statements
ZUORA, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
 October 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents$182,261 $113,507 
Short-term investments218,341 101,882 
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for credit losses of $2,079 and $3,188 as of October 31, 2022 and January 31, 2022, respectively
75,835 82,263 
Deferred commissions, current portion15,735 15,080 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets19,537 15,603 
Total current assets511,709 328,335 
Property and equipment, net28,978 27,676 
Operating lease right-of-use assets27,583 32,643 
Purchased intangibles, net13,930 3,452 
Deferred commissions, net of current portion26,875 26,727 
Goodwill52,618 17,632 
Other assets4,500 4,787 
Total assets$666,193 $441,252 
Liabilities and stockholders’ equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable$10,612 $6,785 
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities22,903 14,225 
Accrued employee liabilities32,926 32,425 
Debt, current portion 1,660 
Deferred revenue, current portion152,321 152,740 
Operating lease liabilities, current portion9,636 11,462 
Total current liabilities228,398 219,297 
Debt, net of current portion208,393  
Deferred revenue, net of current portion639 771 
Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion40,103 45,633 
Deferred tax liabilities3,255 3,243 
Other long-term liabilities1,501 1,701 
Total liabilities482,289 270,645 
Commitments and contingencies (Note 13)
Stockholders’ equity:
Class A common stock13 12 
Class B common stock1 1 
Additional paid-in capital840,218 734,149 
Accumulated other comprehensive loss(2,769)(108)
Accumulated deficit(653,559)(563,447)
Total stockholders’ equity183,904 170,607 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$666,193 $441,252 
See notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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ZUORA, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS
(in thousands, except per share data)
(unaudited) 
 Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
 2022202120222021
Revenue:
Subscription$86,567 $73,775 $248,878 $210,415 
Professional services14,505 15,455 44,168 45,631 
Total revenue101,072 89,230 293,046 256,046 
Cost of revenue:
Subscription21,727 17,279 60,024 50,190 
Professional services18,553 18,416 55,140 54,218 
Total cost of revenue40,280 35,695 115,164 104,408 
Gross profit60,792 53,535 177,882 151,638 
Operating expenses:
Research and development28,413 21,738 77,639 61,565 
Sales and marketing46,973 37,004 132,576 105,130 
General and administrative19,327 16,370 55,433 46,931 
Total operating expenses94,713 75,112 265,648 213,626 
Loss from operations(33,921)(21,577)(87,766)(61,988)
Change in fair value of warrant liability452  9,348  
Interest expense(4,444)(39)(10,647)(111)
Interest and other income (expense), net1,187 (663)98 (923)
Loss before income taxes(36,726)(22,279)(88,967)(63,022)
Income tax provision308 610 1,145 1,221 
Net loss(37,034)(22,889)(90,112)(64,243)
Comprehensive loss:
Foreign currency translation adjustment(973)(127)(1,648)(386)
Unrealized loss on available-for-sale securities(337)(27)(1,013)(61)
Comprehensive loss$(38,344)$(23,043)$(92,773)$(64,690)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(0.28)$(0.18)$(0.69)$(0.52)
Weighted-average shares outstanding used in calculating net loss per share, basic and diluted132,579 125,141 130,461 123,230 
See notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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ZUORA, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
Nine Months Ended October 31, 2022
Accumulated
Class AClass BAdditionalOtherTotal
Common StockCommon StockPaid-inComprehensiveAccumulated
Stockholders’
SharesAmountSharesAmountCapitalLossDeficitEquity
Balance, January 31, 2022119,008 $12 9,048 $1 $734,149 $(108)$(563,447)$170,607 
Conversion of Class B common stock to Class A common stock 1,276 — (1,276)— — — — — 
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options49 — 349 — 2,097 — — 2,097 
RSU releases 4,418 1 — — — — — 1 
Issuance of common stock under the ESPP615 — — — 4,485 — — 4,485 
Charitable donation of stock101 — — — 1,000 — — 1,000 
Stock-based compensation — — — — 80,045 — — 80,045 
Issuance of warrants— — — — 18,442 — — 18,442 
Other comprehensive loss— — — — — (2,661)— (2,661)
Net loss — — — — — — (90,112)(90,112)
Balance, October 31, 2022125,467 $13 8,121 $1 $840,218 $(2,769)$(653,559)$183,904 
Three Months Ended October 31, 2022
Accumulated
Class AClass BAdditionalOtherTotal
Common StockCommon StockPaid-inComprehensiveAccumulatedStockholders'
SharesAmountSharesAmountCapitalLossDeficitEquity
Balance, July 31, 2022123,833 $12 8,122 $1 $810,636 $(1,459)$(616,525)$192,665 
Conversion of Class B common stock to Class A common stock111 — (111)— — — — — 
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options— — 110 — 575 — — 575 
RSU releases1,523 1 — — — — — 1 
Stock-based compensation— — — — 29,007 — — 29,007 
Other comprehensive loss— — — — — (1,310)— (1,310)
Net loss— — — — — — (37,034)(37,034)
Balance, October 31, 2022125,467 $13 8,121 $1 $840,218 $(2,769)$(653,559)$183,904 
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Nine Months Ended October 31, 2021
Accumulated
Class AClass BAdditionalOtherTotal
Common StockCommon StockPaid-inComprehensiveAccumulatedStockholders'
SharesAmountSharesAmountCapitalIncomeDeficitEquity
Balance, January 31, 2021109,900 $11 11,004 $1 $635,127 $796 $(464,022)$171,913 
Conversion of Class B common stock to Class A common stock 4,074 — (4,074)— — — — — 
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options398 1 2,117 — 15,691 — — 15,692 
Lapse of restrictions on common stock related to early exercise of stock options — — — — 25 — — 25 
RSU releases 2,513 — 26 — — — — — 
Issuance of common stock under the ESPP388 — — — 4,005 — — 4,005 
Charitable donation of stock61 — — — 1,000 — — 1,000 
Stock-based compensation — — — — 51,778 — — 51,778 
Other comprehensive loss— — — — — (447)— (447)
Net loss — — — — — — (64,243)(64,243)
Balance, October 31, 2021117,334 $12 9,073 $1 $707,626 $349 $(528,265)$179,723 
Three Months Ended October 31, 2021
Accumulated
Class AClass BAdditionalOtherTotal
Common StockCommon StockPaid-inComprehensiveAccumulatedStockholders'
SharesAmountSharesAmountCapitalIncomeDeficitEquity
Balance, July 31, 2021115,312 $12 9,123 $1 $682,202 $503 $(505,376)$177,342 
Conversion of Class B common stock to Class A common stock 963 — (963)— — — — — 
Issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options85 — 913 — 5,505 — — 5,505 
Lapse of restrictions on common stock related to early exercise of stock options — — — — 7 — — 7 
RSU releases 974 — — — — — — — 
Stock-based compensation — — — — 19,912 — — 19,912 
Other comprehensive loss— — — — — (154)— (154)
Net loss — — — — — — (22,889)(22,889)
Balance, October 31, 2021117,334 $12 9,073 $1 $707,626 $349 $(528,265)$179,723 
See notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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ZUORA, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
(unaudited)
 Nine Months Ended October 31,
 20222021
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net loss$(90,112)$(64,243)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash (used in) provided by operating activities:
Depreciation, amortization and accretion13,725 12,642 
Stock-based compensation80,045 51,778 
Provision for credit losses1,403 1,859 
Donation of common stock to charitable foundation1,000 1,000 
Amortization of deferred commissions14,250 11,956 
Reduction in carrying amount of right-of-use assets5,859 7,230 
Change in fair value of warrant liability(9,348) 
Change in fair value of contingent consideration(1,800) 
Other575 678 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable5,666 4,645 
Prepaid expenses and other assets(2,454)(559)
Deferred commissions(15,418)(14,887)
Accounts payable3,415 1,196 
Accrued expenses and other liabilities2,819 2,781 
Accrued employee liabilities282 1,513 
Deferred revenue(2,607)1,152 
Operating lease liabilities(9,979)(10,421)
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities(2,679)8,320 
Cash flows from investing activities:
Purchases of property and equipment(8,471)(6,044)
Insurance proceeds for damaged property and equipment 344 
Purchase of intangible assets (1,349)
Purchases of short-term investments(205,464)(77,386)
Maturities of short-term investments89,013 82,592 
Cash paid for acquisition, net of cash acquired(41,000) 
Net cash used in investing activities(165,922)(1,843)
Cash flows from financing activities:
Proceeds from issuance of convertible senior notes, net of issuance costs233,901  
Proceeds from issuance of common stock upon exercise of stock options2,097 15,692 
Proceeds from issuance of common stock under employee stock purchase plan4,485 4,005 
Principal payments on debt(1,480)(3,333)
Net cash provided by financing activities239,003 16,364 
Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents(1,648)(386)
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents68,754 22,455 
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period113,507 94,110 
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period$182,261 $116,565 
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing and financing activities:
Lapse in restrictions on early exercised common stock options$ $25 
Property and equipment purchases accrued or in accounts payable$64 $123 
Purchase of intangible assets included in accrued expenses and other current liabilities$ $225 
See notes to unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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ZUORA, INC.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(unaudited)
Note 1. Overview and Basis of Presentation
Description of Business
Zuora, Inc. was incorporated in the state of Delaware in 2006 and began operations in 2007. Zuora’s fiscal year ends on January 31. Zuora is headquartered in Redwood City, California.
Zuora provides a cloud-based subscription management platform, built to help companies monetize new services and operate dynamic, recurring revenue business models. Our solution enables companies across multiple industries and geographies to launch, manage and scale a subscription business, automating the entire quote-to-cash and revenue recognition process, including quoting, billing, collections and revenue recognition. With Zuora’s solution, businesses can change pricing and packaging for products and services to grow and scale, efficiently comply with revenue recognition standards, analyze customer data to optimize their subscription offerings, and build meaningful relationships with their subscribers.
References to “Zuora”, “us”, “our”, or “we” in these notes refer to Zuora, Inc. and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, which include the accounts of Zuora and its wholly owned subsidiaries, have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP) and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding interim financial reporting. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet as of January 31, 2022 included herein was derived from the audited financial statements as of that date, but does not include all disclosures including certain notes required by GAAP on an annual reporting basis. The unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements reflect all normal recurring adjustments necessary to present fairly the balance sheets, statements of comprehensive loss, statements of cash flows and statements of stockholders' equity for the interim periods, but are not necessarily indicative of the results of operations to be anticipated for the full fiscal year ending January 31, 2023 or any future period.
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and related notes included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 28, 2022 (Annual Report).
Use of Estimates
The preparation of unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make certain estimates and assumptions. These estimates and assumptions affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities at the date of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements, as well as reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates.
Our most significant estimates and assumptions are related to revenue recognition with respect to the determination of the relative standalone selling prices for our services; the expected period of benefit over which deferred commissions are amortized; valuation of stock-based awards, our convertible senior notes and warrants, and contingent consideration; estimates of allowance for credit losses; estimates of the fair value of goodwill and long-lived assets when evaluating for impairments and for assets acquired from acquisitions; useful lives of intangibles and other long-lived assets; and the valuation of deferred income tax assets and contingencies. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that are believed to be reasonable under the circumstances. Accordingly, actual results may differ materially from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions.
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Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Our significant accounting policies are discussed in Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Recent Accounting Pronouncements in our Annual Report for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2022. There have been no significant changes to these policies during the nine months ended October 31, 2022, except for updates resulting from our issuance to Silver Lake of the Initial Notes and Warrants (see Note 9. Debt for details) in March 2022, and updates resulting from the acquisition of Zephr, as discussed below. Additional information regarding our issuance of these convertible notes and warrants is included in Note 9. Debt and Note 17. Warrants to Purchase Shares of Common Stock, respectively, and additional information regarding our acquisition of Zephr is included in Note 19. Zephr Acquisition.
Derivative Financial Instruments
The accounting treatment of derivative financial instruments requires that we record certain embedded features and warrants as assets or liabilities at their fair value as of the inception date of the agreement and at fair value as of each subsequent balance sheet date with any change in fair value recorded as income or expense. In connection with our issuance of the Initial Notes to Silver Lake on March 24, 2022, we adopted a sequencing policy in accordance with ASC 815-40 whereby financial instruments issued will be ordered by conversion or exercise price.
Deferred Debt Issuance Costs
Costs directly associated with obtaining debt financing are deferred and amortized using the effective interest rate method over the expected term of the related debt agreement. We determine the expected term of debt agreements by assessing the contractual term of the debt as well as any non-contingent put rights provided to the lenders. Unamortized amounts related to long-term debt are reflected on the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets as a direct deduction from the carrying amounts of the related long-term debt liability. Amortization expense of deferred loan costs was approximately $2.0 million and $4.6 million for the three and nine months ended October 31, 2022, respectively, and is included in Interest expense on the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss.
Earnings per Share
Basic earnings per share (EPS) is calculated by dividing the net income or loss available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding for the period without consideration for common stock equivalents. Diluted EPS is computed by dividing the net income or loss available to common stockholders by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding for the period and the weighted average number of dilutive common stock equivalents outstanding for the period determined using the if-converted method (convertible debt instruments) or treasury-stock method (warrants and share-based payment arrangements). For purposes of this calculation, common stock issuable upon conversion of debt, options and warrants are considered to be common stock equivalents and are only included in the calculation of diluted earnings per share when their effect is dilutive.
Acquisitions
We assess acquisitions under ASC Topic 805, Business Combinations (ASC 805) to determine whether a transaction represents the acquisition of assets or a business combination. Under this guidance, we apply a two-step model. The first step involves a screening test where we evaluate whether substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired is concentrated in either a single asset or a group of similar assets. If the screening test is met, we account for the set as an asset acquisition. If the screening test is not met, we apply the second step of the model to determine if the set meets the definition of a business based on the guidance in ASC 805. If the second step is met, the transaction is treated as a business combination. If the second step is not met, it is treated as an asset acquisition.
A business combination is accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting. Under the acquisition method, assets acquired and liabilities assumed are recorded at their respective fair values as of the acquisition date. Any excess fair value of consideration transferred over the fair value of the net assets acquired is recorded as goodwill. The allocation of the consideration requires management to make significant estimates in determining the fair values of assets acquired and liabilities assumed, especially with respect to intangible assets. These estimates can include, but are not limited to, the cash flows that an asset is expected to generate in the future, the appropriate
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weighted average cost of capital, and the cost savings related to the business combination. These estimates are inherently uncertain and unpredictable. Contingent consideration incurred in connection with the business combination is recorded at its fair value on the acquisition date and is remeasured through credits or charges to the unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss each subsequent reporting period and is classified as contingent consideration in the unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheet until the related contingencies are resolved.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In August 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-06, Debt - Debt with Conversion and Other Options (Subtopic 470-20) and Derivatives and Hedging - Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity (Subtopic 815-40): Accounting for Convertible Instruments and Contracts in an Entity’s Own Equity, which simplifies the accounting for convertible instruments by removing certain separation models previously required under U.S. GAAP, including the beneficial conversion feature and cash conversion models. This ASU also simplifies the diluted earnings per share calculation in certain areas. The standard was effective for us beginning February 1, 2022 and we utilized the modified retrospective transition method of adoption. The adoption of this standard had no impact on our retained earnings or other components of equity as of the February 1, 2022 adoption date and had no impact to our earnings per share during the period of adoption.
In October 2021, the FASB issued ASU 2021-08, Business Combinations (Topic 805): Accounting for Contract Assets and Contract Liabilities from Contracts with Customers. The standard requires an acquirer in a business combination to recognize and measure contract assets and contract liabilities acquired in a business combination in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers, as if it had originated the contracts. The standard is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2022, with early adoption permitted. We retroactively adopted this standard as of February 1, 2022. The adoption of this standard on February 1, 2022 had no impact on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.
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Note 3. Investments
The amortized costs, unrealized gains and losses and estimated fair values of our short-term investments were as follows (in thousands):
October 31, 2022
Amortized CostGross Unrealized GainsGross Unrealized LossesFair Value
U.S. government securities$52,723 $ $(698)$52,025 
Corporate bonds51,918  (459)51,459 
Commercial paper100,908   100,908 
Supranational bonds9,998  (31)9,967 
Foreign government securities4,033  (51)3,982 
Total short-term investments$219,580 $ $(1,239)$218,341 
January 31, 2022
Amortized CostGross Unrealized GainsGross Unrealized LossesFair Value
U.S. government securities$18,082 $ $(155)$17,927 
Corporate bonds21,225  (49)21,176 
Commercial paper55,234   55,234 
Supranational bonds3,503   3,503 
Foreign government securities4,064  (22)4,042 
Total short-term investments$102,108 $ $(226)$101,882 
There were no material realized gains or losses from sales of marketable securities that were reclassified out of accumulated other comprehensive loss into investment income during the three and nine months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021. We had no significant unrealized losses on our available-for-sale securities as of October 31, 2022 and January 31, 2022, and we do not expect material credit losses on our current investments in future periods. All securities had stated effective maturities of less than one year as of October 31, 2022.
Note 4. Fair Value Measurements
The accounting guidance for fair value measurements establishes a three-tier hierarchy, which prioritizes the inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value as follows:
Level inputInput definition
Level 1Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets or liabilities in active markets
Level 2Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability through corroboration with market data at the measurement date
Level 3Unobservable inputs that reflect management’s best estimate of what market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability at the measurement date
In general, and where applicable, we use quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities to determine fair value. If quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities are not available to determine fair value, then we use quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities or inputs other than the quoted prices that are observable either directly or indirectly.
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The following tables summarize our fair value hierarchy for our financial assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis (in thousands):
October 31, 2022
Level 1Level 2Level 3Total
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds$162,503 $ $ $162,503 
Short-term investments:
U.S. government securities$ $52,025 $ $52,025 
Corporate bonds 51,459  51,459 
Commercial paper 100,908  100,908 
Supranational bonds 3,982  3,982 
Foreign government securities 9,967  9,967 
Total short-term investments$ $218,341 $ $218,341 
Liabilities:
Warrant liability$ $ $2,695 $2,695 
Contingent consideration  3,000 3,000 
Total liabilities$ $ $5,695 $5,695 
January 31, 2022
Level 1Level 2Level 3Total
Cash equivalents:
Money market funds$92,668 $ $ $92,668 
Short-term investments:
U.S. government securities$ $17,927 $ $17,927 
Corporate bonds 21,176  21,176 
Commercial paper 55,234  55,234 
Supranational bonds 3,503  3,503 
Foreign government securities 4,042  4,042 
Total short-term investments$ $101,882 $ $101,882 
Changes in our Level 3 fair value measurements were as follows (in thousands):
Warrant LiabilityAcquisition-related Contingent Consideration
Balance, January 31, 2022
$ $ 
Issuances12,043  
Additions 4,800 
Settlements  
Gain on change in fair value(9,348)(1,800)
Balance, October 31, 2022
$2,695 $3,000 
The carrying amounts of certain financial instruments, including cash held in bank accounts, accounts receivable, accounts payable, and accrued expenses, approximate fair value due to their relatively short maturities.
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As of October 31, 2022, the net carrying amount of the Initial Notes was $208.4 million, and the estimated fair value was $139.3 million. The fair value of the Initial Notes is classified as a Level 3 measurement. Additional information regarding the Initial Notes and Warrant liability is included in Note 9. Debt and Note 17. Warrants to Purchase Shares of Common Stock, respectively. Additional information regarding acquisition-related contingent consideration is included in Note 19. Zephr Acquisition.
Note 5. Prepaid Expenses and Other Current Assets
Prepaid expenses and other current assets consisted of the following (in thousands):
 October 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Prepaid software subscriptions$5,693 $6,854 
Prepaid insurance3,367 3,220 
Contract assets2,164 1,289 
Taxes1,668 1,270 
Deposits1,229 250 
Prepaid hosting costs1,052 767 
Other4,364 1,953 
Total$19,537 $15,603 
Note 6. Property and Equipment, Net
Property and equipment, net consisted of the following (in thousands):
 October 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Software$31,055 $25,495 
Leasehold improvements16,932 17,277 
Computer equipment15,212 14,746 
Furniture and fixtures4,260 4,424 
67,459 61,942 
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization(38,481)(34,266)
Total$28,978 $27,676 
The following table summarizes the capitalized internal-use software costs included within the Software line item in the table above (in thousands):
Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022202120222021
Internal-use software costs capitalized during the period$1,621 $1,748 $5,770 $3,710 
October 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Total capitalized internal-use software, net of accumulated amortization$14,228 $11,534 
The following table summarizes total depreciation and amortization expense related to property and equipment, including amortization of internal-use software, included in General and administrative and Cost of subscription revenue in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss (in thousands):
Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022202120222021
Total depreciation and amortization expense$2,646 $2,802 $7,013 $8,630 
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Note 7. Purchased Intangible Assets and Goodwill
The following tables summarize the purchased intangible asset balances (in thousands):
October 31, 2022
Gross Carrying AmountAccumulated AmortizationNet Carrying Amount
Developed technology$19,563 $(8,694)$10,869 
Customer relationships5,186 (3,085)2,101 
Trade name1,708 (748)960 
Total$26,457 $(12,527)$13,930 
January 31, 2022
Gross Carrying AmountAccumulated AmortizationNet Carrying Amount
Developed technology$9,271 $(7,692)$1,579 
Customer relationships4,287 (2,717)1,570 
Trade name909 (606)303 
Total$14,467 $(11,015)$3,452 
Purchased intangible assets are being amortized to Cost of subscription revenue in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives ranging from three to ten years. The following table summarizes amortization expense recognized on purchased intangible assets during the periods indicated (in thousands):
Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022202120222021
Purchased intangible assets amortization expense$586 $554 $1,512 $1,496 
Estimated future amortization expense for purchased intangible assets as of October 31, 2022 was as follows (in thousands);
Fiscal year ending:
2023 (remainder of the year)$738 
20242,952 
20252,507 
20261,873 
20271,560 
Thereafter4,300 
Total estimated amortization expense$13,930 
The following table represents the changes to goodwill (in thousands):
Goodwill
Balance, January 31, 2022$17,632 
Addition from acquisition35,009 
Effects of foreign currency translation(23)
Balance, October 31, 2022$52,618 
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Note 8. Accrued Expenses and Other Current Liabilities
Accrued expenses and other current liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):
 October 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Accrued outside services and consulting$6,822 $3,712 
Accrued hosting and third-party licenses4,139 3,865 
Accrued contingent consideration3,000  
Warrant liability2,695  
Accrued taxes1,607 2,422 
Accrued interest850  
Other accrued expenses3,790 4,226 
Total$22,903 $14,225 
Note 9. Debt
2029 Notes
On March 24, 2022 (Initial Closing Date), we issued convertible senior notes (Initial Notes) in the aggregate principal amount of $250.0 million pursuant to an investment agreement (Investment Agreement) and indenture agreement (Indenture) to certain entities affiliated with Silver Lake Alpine II, L.P. (Silver Lake). Pursuant to the Investment Agreement, additional convertible senior notes in the aggregate principal amount of $150.0 million (Additional Notes), (together with the Initial Notes, the “2029 Notes”) shall be issued to Silver Lake 18 months after the Initial Closing Date, with an earlier issuance upon our completion of a Material Acquisition that meets the conditions described in Section 2.02(a) of the Investment Agreement. In addition, in the event that a Change in Control (as defined in the Indenture) occurs prior to the Additional Notes being issued, the noteholder would have the right to receive, at the noteholder's election, the Additional Notes, a cash payment, or common stock, as described in Section 2.02(b) of the Investment Agreement. The Initial Notes and the Additional Notes, once issued, represent senior unsecured obligations of Zuora.
As a condition of the Investment Agreement, we also issued warrants to Silver Lake to acquire up to 7.5 million shares of Class A common stock (Warrants), of which (i) up to 2.5 million Warrants are exercisable at $20.00 per share, (ii) up to 2.5 million Warrants are exercisable at $22.00 per share and (iii) up to 2.5 million Warrants are exercisable at $24.00 per share. The Warrants are exercisable for a period of seven years from the Initial Closing Date.
The purchase price of the 2029 Notes is 98% of the par value. The 2029 Notes bear interest at a rate of 3.95% per annum, payable quarterly in cash, provided that we have the option to pay interest in kind at 5.50% per annum. If elected, any such paid in kind interest will be added to the principal balance at each quarterly interest payment date. The 2029 Notes will mature on March 31, 2029, subject to earlier conversion or redemption. The Initial Notes are convertible at Silver Lake’s option into shares of our Class A common stock at an initial conversion rate of 50.0 shares per $1,000 principal amount ($20.00 per share, representing 12.5 million shares of Class A common stock), subject to customary anti-dilution adjustments. Any 2029 Notes that are converted in connection with a Make-Whole Fundamental Change (as defined in the Indenture) are subject to an increase in the conversion price under certain circumstances.
With certain exceptions, upon a Fundamental Change, the holders of the 2029 Notes may require that we repurchase all or part of the principal amount of the 2029 Notes at a purchase price equal to the principal amount and accrued but unpaid interest outstanding, plus the total sum of all remaining scheduled interest payments through the remainder of the term of the 2029 Notes, at the 5.50% paid in kind interest rate. At any time on or after the fifth anniversary of the Initial Closing Date, the holders of the 2029 Notes may require that we repurchase all or part of the principal amount of the Notes at a purchase price equal to the principal amount plus accrued interest through the date of repurchase. Upon certain events of default, the 2029 Notes may be declared due and payable (or will automatically become so under certain events of default), at a purchase price equal to the principal amount plus accrued interest through the date of repurchase. We have no right to redeem the 2029 Notes prior to maturity.
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Pursuant to the Investment Agreement, without our prior written consent, Silver Lake is restricted from converting any 2029 Note, exercising any Warrant or transferring any 2029 Note or Warrant to parties other than affiliates or members of Silver Lake (with certain limited exceptions) for 18 months following the Initial Closing Date, or if sooner, upon the consummation of any Change in Control (as defined in the Investment Agreement) or entry into a definitive agreement for a transaction that, if consummated, would result in a Change in Control.
We determined that the Initial Notes arrangement consisted of three freestanding instruments: the Initial Notes, the Warrants and the loan commitment related to the Additional Notes. In addition, we evaluated the embedded features in the Initial Notes and identified certain embedded features which were not clearly and closely related to the Initial Notes and met the definition of a derivative, and therefore required bifurcation from the host contract. We determined that the fair value of these bifurcated derivatives was de minimis as of the Initial Closing Date and as of October 31, 2022.
As further discussed in Note 17. Warrants to Purchase Shares of Common Stock, a portion of the Warrants issued were determined to require liability classification with the remaining Warrants eligible to be classified in stockholders’ equity. As such, we allocated the proceeds obtained from the Initial Notes first to the liability-classified Warrants and then, on a relative fair value basis, between the equity-classified Warrants and the Initial Notes.
We incurred approximately $8.1 million of debt issuance costs associated with the 2029 Notes and Warrants. Of this amount, we allocated $7.1 million as a component of the discount on the 2029 Notes, $0.7 million against the proceeds allocated to the equity-classified Warrants and $0.3 million was allocated to the liability-classified Warrants and recorded to General and administrative expense in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss. The 2029 Notes debt discount is being amortized using the effective interest rate method over the five year expected life of the 2029 Notes (representing the period from the contract date to the earliest noncontingent put date of May 24, 2027) and reflects an effective interest rate of 8.5%.
The carrying value of the Initial Notes was classified as long-term and consisted of the following (in thousands):
October 31, 2022
Initial Notes principal$250,000 
Unamortized discount(41,607)
Carrying value$208,393 
Interest expense related to the Initial Notes, included in Interest expense in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss, was as follows (in thousands):
Three Months Ended October 31, 2022Nine Months Ended October 31, 2022
Contractual interest expense$2,469 $5,953 
Amortization of deferred loan costs1,967 4,634 
Total interest expense$4,436 $10,587 
Debt Agreement
We have an agreement with Silicon Valley Bank for a revolving loan facility, which is secured by a lien on substantially all of our non-IP assets (Debt Agreement). In October 2022 we amended the Debt Agreement, which extended the $30.0 million revolving loan facility to October 2025. The interest rate under the revolving loan facility is equal to the prime rate published by the Wall Street Journal minus 1.00%. We had not drawn down any amounts as of October 31, 2022.
The Debt Agreement also included a term loan facility, under which we borrowed $15.0 million in June 2017 to partially finance the acquisition of Leeyo Software, Inc. The term loan facility fully matured in June 2022. We made term loan principal and interest payments totaling $1.5 million in fiscal 2023, including the final term loan principal and interest payment of $0.4 million during the three months ended July 31, 2022, and paid a fee of 1.5% of the original principal amount of the term loan facility, or $225,000, upon termination of the facility.
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Note 10. Deferred Revenue and Performance Obligations
The following table summarizes revenue recognized during the period that was included in the deferred revenue balance at the beginning of each respective period (in thousands):
Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022202120222021
Revenue recognized from deferred revenue$75,929 $66,868 $137,257 $118,608 
As of October 31, 2022, total remaining non-cancellable performance obligations under our subscription contracts with customers was approximately $462.4 million and we expect to recognize revenue on approximately $262.4 million of these remaining performance obligations over the next 12 months. Remaining performance obligations under our professional services contracts as of October 31, 2022 were not material.
Note 11. Geographical Information
Disaggregation of Revenue
Revenue by country, based on the customer’s address at the time of sale, was as follows (in thousands): 
 Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
 2022202120222021
United States$66,902 $55,577 $191,129 $161,251 
Others34,170 33,653 101,917 94,795 
Total$101,072 $89,230 $293,046 $256,046 
Percentage of revenue by geographic area:
United States66 %62 %65 %63 %
Other34 %38 %35 %37 %
Other than the United States, no individual country exceeded 10% of total revenue for the three and nine months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021.
Long-lived assets
Long-lived assets, which consist of property and equipment, net, deferred commissions, purchased intangible assets, net and operating lease right-of-use assets by geographic location, are based on the location of the legal entity that owns the asset. As of October 31, 2022, the United States and United Kingdom each exceeded 10% of total long-lived assets. As of October 31, 2021, no individual country exceeded 10% of total long-lived assets other than the United States.

Note 12. Leases
We have non-cancelable operating leases for our offices located in the U.S. and abroad. As of October 31, 2022, these leases expire on various dates between 2023 and 2030. Certain lease agreements include one or more options to renew, with renewal terms that can extend the lease up to seven years. We have the right to exercise or forego the lease renewal options. The lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees or material restrictive covenants.
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The components of our long-term operating leases and related operating lease cost were as follows (in thousands):
October 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Operating lease right-of-use assets$27,583 $32,643 
Operating lease liabilities, current portion$9,636 $11,462 
Operating lease liabilities, net of current portion40,103 45,633 
Total operating lease liabilities$49,739 $57,095 
Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022202120222021
Operating lease cost1
$2,337 $3,156 $7,589 $9,529 
(1) Includes costs related to our short-term operating leases as follows (in thousands):    
Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022202120222021
Short-term operating lease costs$118 $98 $317 $294 
The future maturities of long-term operating lease liabilities for each fiscal year were as follows (in thousands):
Maturities of Operating Lease Liabilities
2023 (remainder of the year)$3,275 
202411,171 
20256,872 
20266,490 
20276,702 
Thereafter24,210 
   Total lease payments58,720 
Less imputed interest(8,981)
   Present value of lease liabilities$49,739 
Other supplemental information related to our long-term operating leases includes the following (dollars in thousands):
October 31, 2022January 31, 2022
Weighted-average remaining operating lease term6.7 years7.0 years
Weighted-average operating lease discount rate4.7 %4.6 %
Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022202120222021
Supplemental Cash Flow Information
Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities:
Cash paid for operating leases$2,639 $3,403 $9,461 $10,267 
New right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease liabilities:
Operating leases obtained$799 $703 $799 $4,626 
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Note 13. Commitments and Contingencies
Letters of Credit
In connection with the execution of certain facility leases, we had bank issued irrevocable letters of credit for $4.5 million as of October 31, 2022 and January 31, 2022. No draws have been made under such letters of credit.
Legal Proceedings
From time to time, we may be subject to legal proceedings, as well as demands, claims and threatened litigation. The outcomes of legal proceedings and other contingencies are inherently unpredictable, subject to significant uncertainties, and could be material to our operating results and cash flows for a particular period. Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on our business because of defense and settlement costs, diversion of management resources, and other factors. Other than the matters described below, we are not currently party to any legal proceeding that we believe could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, cash flows, or financial condition should such litigation or claim be resolved unfavorably.
Securities Class Actions
In June 2019, a putative securities class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California naming Zuora and certain of its officers as defendants. The complaint purports to bring suit on behalf of stockholders who purchased or otherwise acquired Zuora's securities between April 12, 2018 and May 30, 2019. The complaint alleges that defendants made false and misleading statements about Zuora's business, operations and prospects in violation of Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act), and seeks unspecified compensatory damages, fees and costs. In November 2019, the lead plaintiff filed a consolidated amended complaint asserting the same claims. In April 2020, the court denied defendants’ motion to dismiss. On March 15, 2021, the court granted plaintiff’s motion to certify a class consisting of persons and entities who purchased or acquired Zuora common stock between April 12, 2018 and May 30, 2019 and who were allegedly damaged thereby. Discovery in this case concluded in October 2022. A hearing on summary judgment motions, which have yet to be filed, is currently scheduled for March 2023 and trial is currently set to begin in May 2023.
In April and May 2020, two putative securities class action lawsuits were filed in the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Mateo, naming as defendants Zuora and certain of its current and former officers, its directors and the underwriters of Zuora's initial public offering (IPO). The complaints purport to bring suit on behalf of stockholders who purchased or otherwise acquired Zuora's securities pursuant or traceable to the Registration Statement and Prospectus issued in connection with Zuora's IPO and allege claims under Sections 11, 12(a)(2) and 15 of the Securities Act of 1933. The suits seek unspecified damages and other relief. In July 2020, the court entered an order consolidating the two lawsuits, and the lead plaintiffs filed a consolidated amended complaint asserting the same claims. In October 2020, the court denied defendants demurrer as to the Section 11 and Section 15 claims and granted the demurrer as to the Section 12(a)(2) claim with leave to file an amended complaint. In November 2020, the lead plaintiffs filed an amended consolidated complaint. Defendants' demurrer to the Section 12(a)(2) claim was sustained with leave to amend. In October 2021, the court certified a class for the Section 11 and Section 15 claims, consisting of persons and entities who purchased or acquired Zuora common stock pursuant or traceable to the Registration Statement and Prospectus issued in connection with Zuora’s IPO. The lead plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed the Section 12(a)(2) claim without prejudice. Discovery in this case is ongoing.
Given the procedural posture and the nature of such litigation matters, we are unable to estimate the reasonably possible loss or range of loss, if any, that may result from these matters. We dispute the claims described above and intend to vigorously defend against them.
Derivative Litigation
In September 2019, two stockholder derivative lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against certain of Zuora’s directors and executive officers and naming Zuora as a nominal defendant. The derivative actions allege claims based on events similar to those in the securities class actions and assert causes of action against the individual defendants for breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, waste of
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corporate assets, and for making false and misleading statements about Zuora's business, operations, and prospects in violation of Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act. Plaintiffs seek corporate reforms, unspecified damages and restitution, and fees and costs. In November 2019, the stockholder derivative lawsuits, which are related to the federal securities class action, were assigned to the same judge who is overseeing the federal securities class action lawsuit. In February 2020, the court entered an order consolidating the two derivative lawsuits, and in March 2022, plaintiffs filed a consolidated complaint.
In May and June 2020, two stockholder derivative lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware against certain of Zuora’s directors and current and former executive officers. The derivative actions allege claims based on events similar to those in the securities class actions and the derivative actions pending in the Northern District of California and assert causes of action against the individual defendants for breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, waste of corporate assets, contribution, and for making false and misleading statements about Zuora’s business, operations, and prospects in violation of Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act. Plaintiff seeks corporate reforms, unspecified damages and restitution, and fees and costs. In June 2020, the court entered an order consolidating the two District of Delaware derivative lawsuits. The suits are currently stayed.
In February and March 2021, two additional stockholder derivative lawsuits were filed in Delaware Chancery Court alleging similar claims based on the same underlying events. The two Chancery Court cases have been consolidated and an amended consolidated complaint has been filed. The suits are currently stayed.
In May 2022, a stockholder derivative lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against certain of Zuora’s directors and executive officers and naming Zuora as a nominal defendant. The derivative action alleges claims based on events similar to those in the securities class actions and asserts causes of action against the individual defendants for breach of fiduciary duty, waste of corporate assets, unjust enrichment, and contribution. Plaintiff seeks corporate reforms, unspecified damages and restitution, and fees and costs. This suit is currently stayed.
Given the procedural posture and the nature of such litigation matters, we are unable to estimate the reasonably possible loss or range of loss, if any, that may result from these matters.
Other Contractual Obligations
As of October 31, 2022, we had a contractual obligation to make $39.1 million in purchases of cloud computing services provided by one of our vendors by September 30, 2024.
Note 14. Income Taxes
The following table reflects our income tax provision, pretax loss and effective tax rate for the periods presented (in thousands, except percentages):
Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
2022202120222021
Loss before income taxes$(36,726)$(22,279)$(88,967)$(63,022)
Income tax provision308 610 1,145 1,221 
Effective tax rate(0.8)%(2.7)%(1.3)%(1.9)%
The effective tax rates differ from the statutory rates primarily as a result of providing no benefit on pretax losses incurred in the United States, as we have determined that the benefit of the losses is not more likely than not to be realized.
Note 15. Stockholders’ Equity
Preferred Stock
As of October 31, 2022, Zuora had authorized 10 million shares of preferred stock, each with a par value of $0.0001 per share. As of October 31, 2022, no shares of preferred stock were issued and outstanding.
Common Stock
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Prior to Zuora's IPO, which was effective in April 2018, all shares of common stock then outstanding were reclassified into Class B common stock. Shares offered and sold in the IPO consisted of newly authorized shares of Class A common stock. Holders of Class A and Class B common stock are entitled to one vote per share and ten votes per share, respectively, and the shares of Class A common stock and Class B common stock are identical, except for voting rights and the right to convert Class B common stock to Class A common stock.
As of October 31, 2022, Zuora had authorized 500 million shares of Class A common stock and 500 million shares of Class B common stock, each with a par value of $0.0001 per share. As of October 31, 2022, 125.5 million shares of Class A common stock and 8.1 million shares of Class B common stock were issued and outstanding.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss
Components of accumulated other comprehensive loss were as follows (in thousands):
Foreign Currency Translation AdjustmentUnrealized Loss on Available-for-Sale SecuritiesTotal
Balance, January 31, 2022$118 $(226)$(108)
Foreign currency translation adjustment(1,648)— (1,648)
Unrealized loss on available-for-sale securities— (1,013)(1,013)
Balance, October 31, 2022$(1,530)$(1,239)$(2,769)
There were no material reclassifications out of accumulated other comprehensive loss during the three and nine months ended October 31, 2022. Additionally, there was no material tax impact on the amounts presented.
Note 16. Employee Stock Plans
Equity Incentive Plans
In March 2018, our Board of Directors adopted and our stockholders approved the 2018 Equity Incentive Plan (2018 Plan). The 2018 Plan authorizes the award of stock options, restricted stock awards, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock units (RSUs), performance awards, and stock bonuses. As of October 31, 2022, approximately 26.7 million shares of Class A common stock were reserved and available for issuance under the 2018 Plan. In addition, as of October 31, 2022, 4.3 million stock options and RSUs exercisable or settleable for Class B common stock were outstanding in the aggregate under our 2006 Stock Plan (2006 Plan) and 2015 Equity Incentive Plan (2015 Plan), which plans were terminated in May 2015 and April 2018, respectively. The 2006 Plan and 2015 Plan continue to govern outstanding equity awards granted thereunder.
Stock Options
The following tables summarize stock option activity and related information (in thousands, except weighted-average exercise price, weighted-average grant date fair value and average remaining contractual term):
Shares
Subject To
Outstanding
Stock Options
Weighted-Average
Exercise
Price
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Term (Years)
Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
Balance, January 31, 20228,560 $9.22 5.9$67,259 
Granted20 12.52 
Exercised(398)5.23 
Forfeited(307)14.21 
Balance, October 31, 20227,875 9.23 5.214,046 
Exercisable as of October 31, 20223,274 3.40 2.714,046 
Vested and expected to vest as of October 31, 20227,743 9.15 5.214,046 
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 Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
 
20221
20211
20222021
Weighted-average grant date fair value per share of options granted during each respective period$5.54 $6.54 
Aggregate intrinsic value of options exercised during each respective period$356 $12,868 $2,386 $27,606 
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(1) No stock options were granted during the three months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021.
We used the Black-Scholes option-pricing model to estimate the fair value of our stock options granted during each respective period using the following assumptions1:
 Nine Months Ended October 31,
 20222021
Fair value of common stock$12.52 
$15.64 - $15.87
Expected volatility42.6 %
42.3% - 42.7%
Expected term (years)5.8
6.0 - 6.1
Risk-free interest rate3.0 %
1.0%- 1.1%
Expected dividend yield % %
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(1) No stock options were granted during the three months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021.
RSUs
The following table summarizes RSU activity and related information (in thousands, except weighted-average grant date fair value):
Number of RSUs OutstandingWeighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value
Balance, January 31, 202212,171 $15.46 
Granted8,566 11.93 
Vested(4,418)15.14 
Forfeited(2,085)14.24 
Balance, October 31, 202214,234 13.62 
Performance Stock Units (PSUs)
In March 2022, we granted PSUs to certain executives under our 2018 Plan. Each grant is divided into three tranches, each tranche having pre-established performance targets that if met, as determined quarterly by our Compensation Committee, would result in the shares attributable to such tranche being earned, subject to a service-based vesting condition. The shares attributable to unearned tranches will be forfeited on January 31, 2025, if the applicable performance criteria for such tranches are not met. Stock-based compensation expense is recognized if it is probable the performance targets (for each respective tranche) will be met during the performance period.
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The following table summarizes PSU activity and related information (in thousands, except weighted-average grant date fair value):
Number of PSUs OutstandingWeighted-Average Grant Date Fair Value
Balance, January 31, 2022 $ 
Granted2,905 15.21 
Vested  
Forfeited  
Balance, October 31, 20222,905 $15.21 
2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan
In March 2018, our Board of Directors adopted and our stockholders approved the 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP). This plan is broadly available to our employees in the United States and certain other countries in which we operate. A total of 4.6 million shares of Class A common stock were reserved and available for issuance under the ESPP as of October 31, 2022. The ESPP provides for 24-month offering periods beginning June 15 and December 15 of each year, and each offering period contains four six-month purchase periods. On each purchase date, ESPP participants will purchase shares of our Class A common stock at a price per share equal to 85% of the lesser of (1) the fair market value of the Class A common stock on the offering date or (2) the fair market value of the Class A common stock on the purchase date.
We estimated the fair value of ESPP purchase rights using a Black-Scholes option pricing model with the following assumptions:
Nine Months Ended October 31,
 20222021
Fair value of common stock$8.91 $16.07 
Expected volatility
44.4% - 52.3%
41.8% - 53.2%
Expected term (years)
0.5 - 2.0
0.5 - 2.0
Risk-free interest rate
2.3% - 3.2%
0.1% - 0.2%
Expected dividend yield % %
Stock-Based Compensation Expense
Stock-based compensation expense was recorded in the following cost and expense categories in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss (in thousands):
 Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
 2022202120222021
Cost of subscription revenue$2,437 $1,580 $6,517 $4,157 
Cost of professional services revenue3,479 2,822 10,186 7,487 
Research and development7,536 5,774 20,967 15,546 
Sales and marketing10,188 6,298 27,603 15,993 
General and administrative5,367 3,438 14,772 8,595 
Total stock-based compensation expense$29,007 $19,912 $80,045 $51,778 
As of October 31, 2022, unrecognized compensation costs related to unvested equity awards and the weighted-average remaining period over which those costs are expected to be recognized were as follows (dollars in thousands):
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Stock OptionsRSUsPSUsESPP
Unrecognized compensation costs$6,766 $159,074 $10,028 $7,748 
Weighted-average remaining recognition period1.8 years2.3 years1.8 years1.1 years

Note 17. Warrants to Purchase Shares of Common Stock
In connection with the issuance of the 2029 Notes (discussed Note 9. Debt), we issued to Silver Lake the Warrants to acquire up to 7.5 million shares of Class A common stock, exercisable for a period of approximately seven years from the Initial Closing Date, and of which (i) Warrants to purchase up to 2.5 million shares of Class A common stock are exercisable at $20.00 per share, (ii) Warrants to purchase up to 2.5 million shares of Class A common stock are exercisable at $22.00 per share and (iii) Warrants to purchase up to 2.5 million shares of Class A common stock are exercisable at $24.00 per share. In addition, Silver Lake can elect to exercise the Warrants on a net-exercise basis. If a Make-Whole Fundamental Change (as defined in the Form of Warrant) occurs, then the number of shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants may be increased, and the exercise price for the Warrants adjusted. Beginning on the Initial Closing Date and ending on the earlier of (i) the date that is 18 months following the Initial Closing Date and (ii) the consummation of any Change in Control, except for certain limited exceptions, the Warrants are only exercisable with our written approval. As of October 31, 2022, all 7.5 million Warrants were outstanding.
We have classified a portion of the Warrants as a current liability due to certain settlement provisions in the Warrants. Under certain Make-Whole Fundamental Change scenarios, we would be required to, at our option, either (i) obtain shareholder approval prior to issuing 20% or more of our outstanding common stock or (ii) pay cash in lieu of delivering any shares at or above such 20% threshold. As a result, we concluded that approximately 2.8 million Warrants valued at $12.0 million as of the Initial Closing Date do not qualify for equity classification under ASC 815-40, pursuant to our sequencing policy described in Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Recent Accounting Pronouncements. We will reassess the classification of the Warrant liability in future reporting periods to determine if any change is required.
The Warrants were measured using the Black-Scholes option pricing model at the issuance date (Initial Closing Date) and the Warrant liability was remeasured using the same model as of October 31, 2022 using the following inputs:
 October 31, 2022March 24, 2022
Fair value of common stock1
$7.69 $13.77 
Exercise price²
$22.00 - $24.00
$22.00 - $24.00
Expected volatility40.4 %41.9 %
Expected term (in years)6.47.0
Risk-free interest rate4.2 %2.4 %
Expected dividend yield  
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(1) The fair value of common stock was adjusted to reflect certain restrictions on the Warrants for 18 months following the issuance date.
(2) The range of exercise prices reflects the Warrants that were liability-classified.
As of October 31, 2022, the liability-classified Warrants were revalued, resulting in a realized gain of $0.5 million and $9.3 million during the three and nine months ended October 31, 2022, respectively, which is included in Change in fair value of warrant liability in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss. Refer to Note 4. Fair Value Measurements for the fair value of the liability-classified Warrants.
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Note 18. Net Loss Per Share
The following table presents the calculation of basic and diluted net loss per share for the periods presented (in thousands, except per share data):
 Three Months Ended October 31,Nine Months Ended October 31,
 2022202120222021
Numerator:
Net loss$(37,034)$(22,889)$(90,112)$(64,243)
Denominator:
Weighted-average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted132,579 125,141 130,461 123,230 
Net loss per share, basic and diluted$(0.28)$(0.18)$(0.69)$(0.52)
Since we were in a net loss position for all periods presented, basic net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is the same as diluted net loss per share, as the inclusion of all potential common shares outstanding would have been anti-dilutive. Potentially dilutive securities that were not included in the diluted per share calculations because they would be anti-dilutive were as follows (in thousands):
 October 31,
 20222021
Initial Notes conversion12,500  
Unvested RSUs issued and outstanding14,234 12,618 
Issued and outstanding stock options7,875 9,018 
Warrants7,500  
Unvested PSUs issued and outstanding2,905  
Shares committed under ESPP439 324 
Total45,453 21,960 

Note 19. Zephr Acquisition
On September 2, 2022 (Acquisition Closing Date), we acquired all of the outstanding equity securities of Zephr, a leading subscription experience platform used by global digital publishing and media companies, pursuant to a Share Purchase Agreement (Zephr SPA).
Purchase Consideration
The purchase consideration for the Zephr acquisition was $47.9 million, which includes (1) cash payments of $43.1 million, and (2) contingent consideration with an estimated fair value of $4.8 million on the Acquisition Closing Date, payable if certain conditions are met.
The contingent consideration arrangement requires us to pay the former stockholders of Zephr a multiple of the amount by which Zephr’s Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) as of January 31, 2023 exceeds a target set in the Zephr SPA. The future payment is expected to be between $0 and $6.0 million, depending upon Zephr's ARR achievement. The fair value of the contingent consideration arrangement as of the Acquisition Closing Date was $4.8 million and was estimated by applying a probability-weighted discounted cash flow method. This fair value measurement is based on significant unobservable inputs in the market and thus represents a Level 3 measurement within the fair value hierarchy. This analysis reflects the contractual terms of the Zephr SPA (e.g., potential payment amounts, length of measurement periods, manner of calculating any amounts due, etc.) and utilizes assumptions with regard to future cash flows, probabilities of achieving such future cash flows, and a discount rate.
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As of October 31, 2022, the contingent consideration arrangement was revalued, resulting in a credit of $1.8 million, which is included in General and administrative in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss. Contingent consideration was classified as a liability and included in Accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets.
Assets and Liabilities Acquired
The acquisition was accounted for as a business combination using the acquisition method of accounting in accordance with ASC 805, Business Combinations. The excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair value of the tangible and intangible assets acquired and liabilities assumed has been recorded as goodwill. The Zephr acquisition resulted in recorded goodwill as a result of the synergies expected to be realized and how we expect to leverage the business to create additional value for our shareholders. The goodwill is not expected to be deductible for income tax purposes.
The following table summarizes the preliminary estimate of the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed as of September 2, 2022 (in thousands):
Total
Cash$2,103 
Accounts receivable641 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets916 
Fixed Assets120 
Intangible assets:
Tradename800 
Developed technology10,300 
Customer relationships900 
Goodwill35,009 
Accounts payable(292)
Accrued liabilities(303)
Other current liabilities(225)
Deferred revenue(2,056)
Fair value of net assets acquired$47,913 
The fair value of the acquired trade accounts receivables approximates the carrying value of trade accounts receivables due to the short-term nature of the expected timeframe to collect the amounts due to us and the contractual cash flows, which are expected to be collected related to these receivables.
We engaged a third-party specialist to assist management in the determination of the estimated fair value of intangible assets acquired. Variations of the income approach were used to estimate the fair values. Specifically, the relief from royalty method was used to measure the trade name, the multi period excess earnings method was used to measure the developed technology, and the distributor method was used to measure the customer relationships. The following table summarizes the acquired identifiable intangible assets, Acquisition Closing Date estimated fair values, and estimated useful lives (dollars in thousands):
Fair ValueUseful Life
Trade name$800 3.0 years
Developed technology10,300 7.0 years
Customer relationships900 10.0 years
Total intangible assets acquired$12,000 
The estimated fair values of the consideration transferred and net assets acquired are subject to refinement for up to one year after the Acquisition Closing Date as additional information regarding closing date fair value becomes
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available. During this one-year period, the causes of any changes in cash flow estimates are considered to determine whether the change results from circumstances that existed at the acquisition date, or if the change results from an event that occurred after the Acquisition Closing Date. The purchase price allocation for Zephr is preliminary as the working capital adjustments have not been finalized.
Transaction Costs
We incurred transaction costs in connection with the acquisition of $3.4 million during the nine months ended October 31, 2022, which were expensed as incurred and reflected as part of General and administrative within the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss.
Employee Deferral
We agreed to pay $2.9 million to certain former Zephr employees, half of which is payable on September 2, 2023 and the remainder of which is payable on September 2, 2024, contingent upon continued employment with us through those dates. These costs are being recognized as compensation expense as service is provided through the respective payment dates.
Note 20. Subsequent Events

On November 30, 2022, Zuora approved a workforce reduction plan, impacting 11% of our workforce, to improve operational efficiencies and operating costs and better align our workforce with current business needs, priorities, and near term growth expectations, in light of current macroeconomic uncertainties. We expect to recognize a total of approximately $9.5 million in charges associated with this reduction plan, consisting primarily of termination benefits to the impacted employees, including severance payments and healthcare benefits. We expect substantially all of these charges to be cash expenditures. We recognized $3.7 million of these charges in the three months ended October 31, 2022, and expect to recognize substantially all of the remaining charges in the three months ended January 31, 2023.
Item 2.    Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this Form 10-Q and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2022 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on March 28, 2022 (Annual Report). As discussed in the section titled “Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,” the following discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause our results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to these differences include, but are not limited to, those identified below and those discussed in the section titled “Risk Factors” under Part II, Item 1A in this Form 10-Q and in our Annual Report. Our fiscal year ends on January 31.
Overview
Zuora provides a cloud-based subscription management platform, built to help companies monetize new services and operate dynamic, recurring revenue business models. Our solution enables companies across multiple industries and geographies to launch, manage and scale a subscription business, automating the entire quote-to-cash and revenue recognition process, including quoting, billing, collections and revenue recognition. With Zuora’s solution, businesses can change pricing and packaging for products and services to grow and scale, efficiently comply with revenue recognition standards, analyze customer data to optimize their subscription offerings, and build meaningful relationships with their subscribers.
Many of today’s enterprise software systems manage their quote-to-cash and revenue recognition process using software built for one-time transactions. These systems were not designed for the dynamic, ongoing nature of subscription, usage, or consumption-based pricing models, and can be extremely difficult to configure. In traditional product-based businesses, quote-to-cash and revenue recognition was a linear process—a customer orders a product, is billed for that product, payment is collected, and the revenue is recognized. These legacy product-based systems were not specifically designed to handle the complexities of ongoing customer relationships and recurring revenue commonly found in a subscription business, and their impact on areas such as billing proration, revenue
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recognition, reporting in real-time, and the lifetime value of the customer. Using legacy or homegrown software to build a subscription business often results in inefficient processes with prolonged and complex manual downstream work, hard-coded customizations, and a proliferation of stock-keeping units (SKUs).
However, enterprise business models are inherently dynamic, with multiple interactions, flexible pricing, global complexities, and continuously-evolving relationships and events. The capabilities to launch, price, and bill for products, facilitate and record cash receipts, process and recognize revenue, and analyze data to drive key decisions are mission critical and particularly complex for companies that operate at a global scale. As a result, as companies launch, grow, and scale their businesses, they often conclude that legacy systems are inadequate. That’s where Zuora comes in.
Our vision is “The World Subscribed” -- the idea that one day every company will be a part of the Subscription Economy. Our focus has been on providing the technology our customers need to thrive as a customer-centric, recurring revenue business.
Our solution includes Zuora Central Platform, Zuora Billing, Zuora Revenue, Zuora Collect, Zephr, and other software that support and expand upon these core products. Our software helps companies analyze data - including information such as which customers are delivering the most recurring revenue, or which segments are showing the highest churn, enabling customers to make informed decisions for their subscription business and quickly implement changes such as launching new services, updating pricing (usage, time, or outcome based), delivering new offerings, or making other changes to their customers’ subscription experience. We also have a large subscription ecosystem of global partners and the Subscribed Strategy Group, that can assist our customers with additional strategies and services throughout the subscription journey.
Companies in a variety of industries - technology, manufacturing, media and entertainment, telecommunications, and many others - are using our solution to scale and adapt to a world that is increasingly choosing subscription-based offerings.
COVID-19 Pandemic Impact
Our financial results for the first nine months of fiscal 2023 have not been materially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacts our business operations, financial performance and liquidity in future periods will depend on multiple uncertain factors, including the duration and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, developments related to COVID-19 variants and vaccine efficacy, the pandemic’s overall negative impact on the global economy generally and on our customers, which operate in numerous industries, and continued responses by governments and businesses to COVID-19. Because our products are generally offered as subscription-based licenses and a portion of that revenue is recognized over time, the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic may not be fully reflected in our results of operations until future periods.
We will continue to evaluate the nature and extent of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business. See Part II, Item 1A. Risk Factors of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for further discussion of the possible impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and financial results.
Fiscal Third Quarter Business Highlights and Recent Developments:
Customers with ACV exceeding $100,000 totaled 770 as of October 31, 2022, an increase of 7% compared to last year. We closed six deals that exceeded $500,000 in ACV.
Our dollar-based retention rate decreased to 109% compared to 110% as of October 31, 2021.
Our ARR was $350.7 million as of October 31, 2022 compared to $295.0 million as of October 31, 2021, representing ARR growth of 19%.
Customer usage of Zuora solutions grew, with $21.5 billion in transaction volume through Zuora's billing platform during the three months ended October 31, 2022, an increase of 15% year-over-year and 17% on a constant currency basis.
Acquired Zephr, a leading subscription experience platform used by global digital publishing and media companies. Refer to Note 19. Zephr Acquisition for further information.
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Committed to a workforce reduction plan designed to improve operational efficiencies and operating costs and better align our workforce with current business needs, priorities, and near term growth expectations, in light of macroeconomic uncertainties. Refer to Note 20. Subsequent Events.
Fiscal Third Quarter Financial Performance Summary:
Our financial performance for the three months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the three months ended October 31, 2021 reflects the following:
Subscription revenue was $86.6 million, an increase of $12.8 million, or 17%; and total revenue was $101.1 million, an increase of $11.8 million, or 13%.
On a constant currency basis, subscription revenue was $88.9 million, an increase of $15.1 million, or 20%; and total revenue was $104.1 million, an increase of $14.9 million, or 17%.
Gross profit was $60.8 million, or 60% of total of revenue, compared to $53.5 million, or 60% of total revenue.
Loss from operations was $33.9 million, or 34% of total revenue, compared to a loss of $21.6 million, or 24% of total revenue.
Key Operational and Financial Metrics
We monitor the following key operational and financial metrics to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends affecting our business, formulate business plans and make strategic decisions:
Customers with Annual Contract Value (ACV) Equal to or Greater than $100,000
We believe our ability to enter into larger contracts is indicative of broader adoption of our solution by larger organizations. It also reflects our ability to expand our revenue footprint within our current customer base. We define ACV as the subscription revenue we would contractually expect to recognize from that customer over the next twelve months, assuming no increases or reductions in their subscriptions. We define the number of customers at the end of any particular period as the number of parties or organizations that have entered into a distinct subscription contract with us for which the term has not ended. Each party with which we have entered into a distinct subscription contract is considered a unique customer, and in some cases, there may be more than one customer within a single organization. The number of customers with ACV equal to or greater than $100,000 increased to 770 as of October 31, 2022, as compared to 720 customers as of October 31, 2021. We expect this metric to be relatively flat for the remainder of the fiscal year.
Dollar-Based Retention Rate
We believe our dollar-based retention rate is a key measure of our ability to retain and expand revenue from our customer base over time. We calculate our dollar-based retention rate as of a period end by starting with the sum of the ACV from all customers as of twelve months prior to such period end, or prior period ACV. We then calculate the sum of the ACV from these same customers as of the current period end, or current period ACV. Current period ACV includes any upsells and also reflects contraction or attrition over the trailing twelve months, but excludes revenue from new customers added in the current period. We then divide the current period ACV by the prior period ACV to arrive at our dollar-based retention rate. Our dollar-based retention rate decreased to 109% as of October 31, 2022, as compared to 110% as of October 31, 2021. While the dollar-based retention rate can fluctuate in any particular quarter, we expect it to decrease slightly over the remainder of this fiscal year.
Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)
ARR represents the annualized recurring value at the time of initial booking or contract modification for all active subscription contracts at the end of a reporting period. ARR excludes the value of non-recurring revenue such as professional services revenue as well as contracts with new customers with a term of less than one year. ARR should be viewed independently of revenue and deferred revenue, and is not intended to be a substitute for, or combined with, any of these items. Our ARR was $350.7 million as of October 31, 2022, compared to $295.0 million as of October 31, 2021, representing an increase of 19% year-over-year. For the comparable prior year period
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ending October 31, 2021, our ARR growth was also 19% year-over-year. We expect our ARR year-over-year growth rate to decrease over the remainder of the fiscal year.
Components of Our Results of Operations
Revenue
Subscription revenue. Subscription revenue consists of fees for access to, and use of, our products, as well as customer support. We generate subscription fees pursuant to non-cancelable subscription agreements with terms that typically range from one to three years. Subscription revenue is primarily based on fees to access our services platform over the subscription term. We typically invoice customers in advance in either annual or quarterly installments. Customers can also elect to purchase additional volume blocks or products during the term of the contract. We typically recognize subscription revenue ratably over the term of the subscription period, beginning on the date that access to our platform is provided, which is generally on or about the date the subscription agreement is signed.
Professional services revenue. Professional services revenue consists of fees for services related to helping our customers deploy, configure, and optimize the use of our solutions. These services include system integration, data migration, process enhancement, and training. Professional services projects generally take three to twelve months to complete. Once the contract is signed, we generally invoice for professional services on a time and materials basis, although we occasionally engage in fixed-price service engagements and invoice for those based upon agreed milestone payments. We recognize revenue as services are performed for time and materials engagements and on a proportional performance method as the services are performed for fixed fee engagements. We expect to continue to transition a portion of our professional services implementations to our strategic partners, including system integrators (SIs), and as a result we expect our professional services revenue to decrease over time as a percentage of total revenue.

Deferred Revenue
Deferred revenue consists of customer billings in advance of revenue being recognized from our subscription and support services and professional services arrangements. We primarily invoice our customers for subscription services arrangements annually or quarterly in advance. Amounts anticipated to be recognized within one year of the balance sheet date are recorded as deferred revenue, current portion, and the remaining portion is recorded as deferred revenue, net of current portion in our unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets.
Overhead Allocation and Employee Compensation Costs
We allocate shared costs, such as facilities costs (including rent, utilities, and depreciation on capital expenditures related to facilities shared by multiple departments), information technology costs, and certain administrative personnel costs to all departments based on headcount and location. As such, allocated shared costs are reflected in each cost of revenue and operating expenses category.
Employee compensation costs consist of salaries, bonuses, commissions, benefits, and stock-based compensation.
Cost of Revenue, Gross Profit and Gross Margin
Cost of subscription revenue. Cost of subscription revenue consists primarily of costs related to hosting our platform and providing customer support. These costs include data center costs and third-party hosting fees, employee compensation costs associated with our cloud-based infrastructure and our customer support organizations, amortization expense associated with capitalized internal-use software and purchased technology, allocated overhead, software and maintenance costs, and outside services associated with the delivery of our subscription services. We intend to continue to invest in our platform infrastructure, including third-party hosting capacity, and support organizations. However, the level and timing of investment in these areas could fluctuate and affect our cost of subscription revenue in the future.
Cost of professional services revenue. Cost of professional services revenue consists primarily of costs related to the deployment of our platform. These costs include employee compensation costs for our professional services team, allocated overhead, travel costs, and costs of outside services associated with supplementing our internal
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staff. We believe that investment in our system integrator partner network will lead to total margin improvement, however costs may fluctuate in the near term as we shift deployments to our partner network.
Gross profit and gross margin. Our gross profit and gross margin may fluctuate from period to period as our revenue fluctuates, and as a result of the timing and amount of investments to expand hosting capacity, including through third-party cloud providers, amortization expense associated with our capitalized internal-use software and purchased technology, and our continued efforts to build our cloud infrastructure, support, and professional services teams.
Operating Expenses
Research and development. Research and development expense consists primarily of employee compensation costs, allocated overhead, and travel costs. We capitalize research and development costs associated with the development of internal-use software and we generally amortize these costs over a period of three years into cost of subscription revenue. All other research and development costs are expensed as incurred. We believe that continued investment in our platform is important for our growth, and as such, expect our research and development expense to continue to increase in absolute dollars for the foreseeable future but may increase or decrease as a percentage of total revenue.
Sales and marketing. Sales and marketing expense consists primarily of employee compensation costs, including the amortization of deferred commissions related to our sales personnel, allocated overhead, costs of general marketing and promotional activities, and travel costs. Commission costs that are incremental to obtaining a contract are amortized in sales and marketing expense over the period of benefit, which is expected to be five years. We expect to continue to make significant investments as we expand our customer acquisition and retention efforts. Therefore, we expect that sales and marketing expense will increase in absolute dollars but may vary as a percentage of total revenue for the foreseeable future.
General and administrative. General and administrative expense consists primarily of employee compensation costs, allocated overhead, and travel costs for finance, accounting, legal, human resources, and recruiting personnel. In addition, general and administrative expense includes non-personnel costs, such as accounting fees, legal fees, charitable contributions, asset impairments, and all other supporting corporate expenses not allocated to other departments. We expect to incur ongoing costs as a result of operating as a public company, including costs related to compliance and reporting obligations of public companies, and continued investment to support our growing operations. As a result, we expect our general and administrative expense to continue to increase in absolute dollars for the foreseeable future but may vary as a percentage of total revenue in the near term. Over the long-term, we expect general and administrative expense to decline as a percentage of total revenue due to economies we will realize as we scale our business.
Other income and expenses
Other income and expenses primarily consists of gain or loss on the revaluation of the warrant liability, amortization of discount and amortization of debt issuance costs on the 2029 Notes, contractual interest on the 2029 Notes, interest expense associated with our Debt Agreement, interest income from our cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments, and foreign exchange fluctuations.
Income Tax Provision
Income tax provision consists primarily of income taxes related to foreign and state jurisdictions in which we conduct business. We maintain a full valuation allowance on our federal and state deferred tax assets as we have concluded that it is more likely than not that the deferred assets will not be utilized.
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Results of Operations
The following tables set forth our unaudited condensed consolidated results of operations for the periods presented in dollars and as a percentage of our total revenue (in thousands):
 Three Months Ended
October 31,
Nine Months Ended
October 31,
 2022202120222021
Revenue:
Subscription$86,567 $73,775 $248,878 $210,415 
Professional services14,505 15,455 44,168 45,631 
Total revenue101,072 89,230 293,046 256,046 
Cost of revenue:
Subscription21,727 17,279 60,024 50,190 
Professional services18,553 18,416 55,140 54,218 
Total cost of revenue40,280 35,695 115,164 104,408 
Gross profit60,792 53,535 177,882 151,638 
Operating expenses:
Research and development28,413 21,738 77,639 61,565 
Sales and marketing46,973 37,004 132,576 105,130 
General and administrative19,327 16,370 55,433 46,931 
Total operating expenses94,713 75,112 265,648 213,626 
Loss from operations(33,921)(21,577)(87,766)(61,988)
Change in fair value of warrant liability452 — 9,348 — 
Interest expense(4,444)(39)(10,647)(111)
Interest and other income (expense), net1,187 (663)98 (923)
Loss before income taxes(36,726)(22,279)(88,967)(63,022)
Income tax provision308 610 1,145 1,221 
Net loss$(37,034)$(22,889)$(90,112)$(64,243)

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 Three Months Ended
October 31,
Nine Months Ended
October 31,
 2022202120222021
Revenue:
Subscription86 %83 %85 %82 %
Professional services14 17 15 18 
Total revenue100 100 100 100 
Cost of revenue:
Subscription21 19 20 20 
Professional services18 21 19 21 
Total cost of revenue40 40 39 41 
Gross profit60 60 61 59 
Operating expenses:
Research and development28 24 26 24 
Sales and marketing46 41 45 41 
General and administrative19 18 19 18 
Total operating expenses94 84 91 83 
Loss from operations(34)(24)(30)(24)
Change in fair value of warrant liability— — — 
Interest expense(4)— (4)— 
Interest and other income (expense), net(1)— — 
Loss before income taxes(36)(25)(30)(25)
Income tax provision— — — 
Net loss(37)%(26)%(31)%(25)%
Note: Percentages in the table above may not sum due to rounding.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
To supplement our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements presented in accordance with U.S. GAAP, we monitor and consider non-GAAP financial measures including: subscription revenue and total revenue that exclude the impact of foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations (constant currency basis); non-GAAP cost of subscription revenue; non-GAAP cost of professional services revenue; non-GAAP gross profit; non-GAAP subscription gross margin; non-GAAP professional services gross margin; non-GAAP total gross margin; non-GAAP research and development expense; non-GAAP sales and marketing expense; non-GAAP general and administrative expense; non-GAAP income (loss) from operations; non-GAAP operating margin; non-GAAP net loss; non-GAAP net loss per share; and free cash flow. We use non-GAAP financial measures in conjunction with GAAP measures as part of our overall assessment of our performance, including the preparation of our annual operating budget and quarterly forecasts, to evaluate the effectiveness of our business strategies and to communicate with our Board of Directors concerning our financial performance. We believe these non-GAAP measures provide investors consistency and comparability with our past financial performance and facilitate period-to-period comparisons of our operating results. We also believe these non-GAAP measures are useful in evaluating our operating performance compared to that of other companies in our industry, as they generally eliminate the effects of certain items that may vary for different companies for reasons unrelated to overall operating performance.
Investors are cautioned that there are material limitations associated with the use of non-GAAP financial measures as an analytical tool. The non-GAAP financial measures we use may be different from non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies, limiting their usefulness for comparison purposes. We compensate for these limitations by providing specific information regarding the GAAP items excluded from our non-GAAP financial measures. The presentation of these non-GAAP financial measures is not intended to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for, or superior to, financial information prepared and presented in accordance with GAAP. Reconciliations of our non-GAAP financial measures to the nearest respective GAAP measures are provided below.
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We exclude the following items from one or more of our non-GAAP financial measures:
Stock-based compensation expense. We exclude stock-based compensation expense, which is a non-cash expense, because we believe that excluding this item provides meaningful supplemental information regarding operational performance. In particular, stock-based compensation expense is not comparable across companies given it is calculated using a variety of valuation methodologies and subjective assumptions.
Amortization of acquired intangible assets. We exclude amortization of acquired intangible assets, which is a non-cash expense, because we do not believe it has a direct correlation to the operation of our business.
Charitable contributions. We exclude expenses associated with charitable donations of our common stock. We believe that excluding these non-cash expenses allows investors to make more meaningful comparisons between our operating results and those of other companies.
Certain litigation. We exclude non-recurring charges and benefits, net of expected insurance recoveries, including litigation expenses and settlements, related to litigation matters that are outside of the ordinary course of our business. We believe these charges and benefits do not have a direct correlation to the operations of our business and may vary in size depending on the timing and results of such litigation and related settlements.
Asset impairment. We exclude non-cash charges for impairment of assets, including impairments related to internal-use software and office leases. Impairment charges can vary significantly in terms of amount and timing and we do not consider these charges indicative of our current or past operating performance. Moreover, we believe that excluding the effects of these charges allows investors to make more meaningful comparisons between our operating results and those of other companies.
Change in fair value of warrant liabilities. We exclude the change in fair value of warrant liabilities, which is a non-cash gain or loss, as it can fluctuate significantly with changes in Zuora's stock price and market volatility, and does not reflect the underlying cash flows or operational results of the business.
Acquisition-related transactions. We exclude acquisition-related transactions (including integration-related charges) that are not related to our ongoing operations, including expenses we incurred and gains or losses recognized on contingent consideration related to our acquisition of Zephr. We do not consider these transactions reflective of our core business or ongoing operating performance.
Workforce reduction. We exclude charges related to the workforce reduction plan we approved in November 2022, including severance, health care and related expenses. We believe these charges are not indicative of our continuing operations.
The following tables provide a reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP measures (in thousands, except percentages and per share data):
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Three Months Ended October 31, 2022
GAAPStock-based CompensationAmortization of Acquired IntangiblesCertain LitigationChange in Fair Value of Warrant LiabilityAcquisition-related TransactionsWorkforce ReductionNon-GAAP
Cost of revenue:
Cost of subscription revenue$21,727 $(2,437)$(586)$— $— $— $(147)$18,557 
Cost of professional services revenue18,553 (3,479)— — — — (399)14,675 
Gross profit60,792 5,916 586 — — — 546 67,840 
Operating expenses:
Research and development28,413 (7,536)— — — — (512)20,365 
Sales and marketing46,973 (10,188)— — — — (2,390)34,395 
General and administrative19,327 (5,367)— (16)— (1,268)(212)12,464 
(Loss) income from operations(33,921)29,007 586 16 — 1,268 3,660 616 
Net loss$(37,034)$29,007 $586 $16 $(452)$1,268 $3,660 $(2,949)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted1
$(0.28)$(0.02)
Gross margin60 %67 %
Subscription gross margin75 %79 %
Professional services gross margin(28)%(1)%
Operating margin(34)%%
Three Months Ended October 31, 2021
GAAPStock-based CompensationAmortization of Acquired IntangiblesCertain LitigationNon-GAAP
Cost of revenue:
Cost of subscription revenue$17,279 $(1,580)$(554)$— $15,145 
Cost of professional services revenue18,416 (2,822)— — 15,594 
Gross profit53,535 4,402 554 — 58,491 
Operating expenses:
Research and development21,738 (5,774)— — 15,964 
Sales and marketing37,004 (6,298)— — 30,706 
General and administrative16,370 (3,438)— 114 13,046 
Loss from operations(21,577)19,912 554 (114)(1,225)
Net loss$(22,889)$19,912 $554 $(114)$(2,537)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted1
$(0.18)$(0.02)
Gross margin60 %66 %
Subscription gross margin77 %79 %
Professional services gross margin(19)%(1)%
Operating margin(24)%(1)%
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(1) GAAP and Non-GAAP net loss per share are calculated based upon 132.6 million and 125.1 million weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding for the three months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
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Nine Months Ended October 31, 2022
GAAPStock-based CompensationAmortization of Acquired IntangiblesCharitable ContributionCertain LitigationChange in Fair Value of Warrant LiabilityAcquisition-related TransactionsWorkforce ReductionNon-GAAP
Cost of revenue:
Cost of subscription revenue$60,024 $(6,517)$(1,512)$— $— $— $— $(147)$51,848 
Cost of professional services revenue55,140 (10,186)— — — — — (399)44,555 
Gross profit177,882 16,703 1,512 — — — — 546 196,643 
Operating expenses:
Research and development77,639 (20,967)— — — — — (512)56,160 
Sales and marketing132,576 (27,603)— — — — — (2,390)102,583 
General and administrative55,433 (14,772)— (1,000)(246)— (1,612)(212)37,591 
(Loss) income from operations(87,766)80,045 1,512 1,000 246 — 1,612 3,660 309 
Net loss$(90,112)$80,045 $1,512 $1,000 $246 $(9,348)$1,612 $3,660 $(11,385)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted1
$(0.69)$(0.09)
Gross margin61 %67 %
Subscription gross margin76 %79 %
Professional services gross margin(25)%(1)%
Operating margin(30)%— %
Nine Months Ended October 31, 20212
GAAPStock-based CompensationAmortization of Acquired IntangiblesCharitable ContributionCertain LitigationNon-GAAP
Cost of revenue:
Cost of subscription revenue$50,190 $(4,157)$(1,496)$— $— $44,537 
Cost of professional services revenue54,218 (7,487)— — — 46,731 
Gross profit151,638 11,644 1,496 — — 164,778 
Operating expenses:
Research and development61,565 (15,546)— — — 46,019 
Sales and marketing105,130 (15,993)— — — 89,137 
General and administrative46,931 (8,595)— (1,000)(169)37,167 
Loss from operations(61,988)51,778 1,496 1,000 169 (7,545)
Net loss$(64,243)$51,778 $1,496 $1,000 $169 $(9,800)
Net loss per share, basic and diluted1
$(0.52)$(0.08)
Gross margin59 %64 %
Subscription gross margin76 %79 %
Professional services gross margin(19)%(2)%
Operating margin(24)%(3)%
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(1) GAAP and Non-GAAP net loss per share are calculated based upon 130.5 million and 123.2 million weighted-average shares of common stock outstanding for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
(2) Beginning with the second quarter ended July 31, 2021, we no longer exclude non-cash adjustments for capitalization and amortization of internal-use software from our non-GAAP financial measures. We believe that this change more closely aligns our reported financial measures with current industry practice. Our non-GAAP financial measures for the nine months ended October 31, 2021 were recast to conform to the updated methodology for comparison purposes.
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Free Cash Flow
We define free cash flow as net cash provided by operating activities, less cash used for purchases of property and equipment, net of insurance recoveries. Insurance recoveries include amounts paid to us for property and equipment that were damaged in January 2020 at our corporate headquarters. We include the impact of net purchases of property and equipment in our free cash flow calculation because we consider these capital expenditures to be a necessary component of our ongoing operations. We consider free cash flow to be a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business that can possibly be used for investing in our business and strengthening our balance sheet, but it is not intended to represent the residual cash flow available for discretionary expenditures.
Three Months Ended
October 31,
Nine Months Ended
October 31,
2022202120222021
(in thousands)
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities$(4,861)$692 $(2,679)$8,320 
Less:
Purchases of property and equipment, net of insurance recoveries(2,387)(2,347)(8,471)(5,700)
Free cash flow$(7,248)$(1,655)$(11,150)$2,620 
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities$(19,416)$7,017 $(165,922)$(1,843)
Net cash provided by financing activities$575 $4,394 $239,003 $16,364 
Constant Currency
We provide subscription revenue and total revenue, including year-over-year growth rates, adjusted to remove the impact of foreign currency rate fluctuations, which we refer to as constant currency. We believe providing revenue on a constant currency basis helps our investors to better understand our underlying performance. We calculate constant currency in a given period by applying the average currency exchange rates in the comparable period of the prior year to the local currency revenue in the current period.
Three Months Ended
October 31,
Nine Months Ended
October 31,
20222021% Change20222021% Change
(dollars in thousands)(dollars in thousands)
Subscription revenue (GAAP)$86,567 $73,775 17 %$248,878 $210,415 18 %
Effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations2,319 4,132 
Subscription revenue on a constant currency basis (Non-GAAP)$88,886 20 %$253,010 20 %
Total revenue (GAAP)$101,072 $89,230 13 %$293,046 $256,046 14 %
Effects of foreign currency rate fluctuations3,061 5,850 
Total revenue on a constant currency basis (Non-GAAP)$104,133 17 %$298,896 17 %
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Comparison of the Three Months Ended October 31, 2022 and 2021
Revenue 
 Three Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Revenue:
Subscription$86,567 $73,775 $12,792 17 %
Professional services14,505 15,455 (950)(6)%
Total revenue$101,072 $89,230 $11,842 13 %
Percentage of revenue:
Subscription86 %83 %
Professional services14 17 
Total revenue100 %100 %
Subscription revenue increased by $12.8 million, or 17%, for the three months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the three months ended October 31, 2021. The increase was driven by growth in our customer base, with new customers contributing approximately $5.3 million of the increase in subscription revenue, and increased transaction volume and sales of additional products to our existing customers contributing the remainder. We calculate subscription revenue from new customers during the quarter by adding the revenue recognized from new customers acquired in the 12 months prior to the reporting date.
Professional services revenue decreased to $14.5 million for the three months ended October 31, 2022 from $15.5 million for the three months ended October 31, 2021, partially driven by the shifting of services work to our system integration partners.
On a constant currency basis, subscription revenue was $88.9 million and increased 20%, and total revenue was $104.1 million and increased 17%, for the three months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the three months ended October 31, 2021.
Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin
 Three Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Cost of revenue:
Subscription$21,727 $17,279 $4,448 26 %
Professional services18,553 18,416 137 %
Total cost of revenue$40,280 $35,695 $4,585 13 %
Gross margin:
Subscription75 %77 %
Professional services(28)(19)
Total gross margin60 %60 %
Cost of subscription revenue increased by $4.4 million, or 26%, for the three months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the three months ended October 31, 2021. The increase in cost of subscription revenue was primarily due to increases of $2.5 million in employee compensation costs driven by increased headcount and stock-based compensation expense, $0.8 million in allocated expenses, and $0.6 million in amortization of internal-use software costs.
Cost of professional services revenue increased by $0.1 million, or 1%, for the three months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the three months ended October 31, 2021. The increase in cost of professional services
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revenue was primarily due to an increase of $1.5 million in employee compensation costs and charges of $0.4 million associated with the workforce reduction plan, which were partially offset by a decrease of $1.7 million in outside professional services costs.
Our gross margin for subscription services decreased to 75% for the three months ended October 31, 2022 compared to 77% for the three months ended October 31, 2021. This was primarily driven by increased compensation related expenses. We expect our subscription gross margin to be relatively consistent for the remainder of the fiscal year.

Our gross margin for professional services decreased to (28)% for the three months ended October 31, 2022 compared to (19)% for the three months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to increased compensation related expenses and charges associated with the workforce reduction plan.
Operating Expenses
Research and Development
 Three Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Research and development$28,413 $21,738 $6,675 31 %
Percentage of total revenue28 %24 %
Research and development expense increased by $6.7 million, or 31%, for the three months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the three months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to increases of $4.4 million in employee compensation costs driven by increased headcount and stock-based compensation expense, $0.8 million in outside professional services costs, and charges of $0.5 million associated with the workforce reduction plan. Research and development expense increased to 28% of total revenue for the three months ended October 31, 2022 from 24% during the three months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to additional employee compensation expense.
Sales and Marketing
 Three Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Sales and marketing$46,973 $37,004 $9,969 27 %
Percentage of total revenue46 %41 %
Sales and marketing expense increased by $10.0 million, or 27%, for the three months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the three months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to increases of $7.0 million in employee compensation costs driven by increased headcount and stock-based compensation expense and $0.8 million in amortization of deferred commissions, and charges of $2.4 million associated with the workforce reduction plan. Sales and marketing expense increased to 46% of total revenue during the three months ended October 31, 2022 from 41% during the three months ended October 31, 2021, as a result of higher employee compensation costs and the charges incurred this quarter associated with the workforce reduction plan.
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General and Administrative 
 Three Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
General and administrative$19,327 $16,370 $2,957 18 %
Percentage of total revenue19 %18 %
General and administrative expense increased by $3.0 million, or 18%, for the three months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the three months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to increases of $3.1 million in acquisition-related costs and $2.2 million in employee compensation costs driven by increased stock-based compensation expense, partially offset by a $1.8 million gain on the revaluation of the contingent consideration from the Zephr acquisition, and a decrease of $0.6 million in outside professional services costs. General and administrative expense increased to 19% of total revenue during the three months ended October 31, 2022 from 18% of total revenue during the three months ended October 31, 2021.
Other income and expenses
 Three Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Change in fair value of warrant liability$452 $— $452 N/A
Interest expense$(4,444)$(39)$(4,405)11295 %
Interest and other income (expense), net$1,187 $(663)$1,850 279 %
During the three months ended October 31, 2022 we recognized a $0.5 million gain on revaluation of the liability-classified Warrants issued in connection with the 2029 Notes. Interest expense increased $4.4 million due to the issuance of the the Initial Notes on March 24, 2022. Interest and other income (expense), net increased $1.9 million due to increased investment balances and higher interest rates, partially offset by expense resulting from the revaluation of cash, accounts receivable, and accounts payable recorded in a foreign currency.
Income Tax Provision
 Three Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Income tax provision$308 $610 $(302)(50)%
We are subject to federal and state income taxes in the United States and taxes in foreign jurisdictions. For the three months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021, we recorded a tax provision of $0.3 million and $0.6 million, respectively, on a loss before income taxes of $36.7 million and $22.3 million, respectively. The effective tax rate for the three months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021 was (0.8)% and (2.7)%, respectively. The change in the effective tax rate was due primarily to a decrease in foreign tax expense. The effective tax rate differs from the statutory rate primarily as a result of providing no benefit on pretax losses incurred in the United States. For the three months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021, we maintained a full valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state net deferred tax assets as it was more likely than not that those deferred tax assets will not be realized.
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Comparison of the Nine Months Ended October 31, 2022 and 2021
Revenue 
 Nine Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Revenue:
Subscription$248,878 $210,415 $38,463 18 %
Professional services44,168 45,631 (1,463)(3)%
Total revenue$293,046 $256,046 $37,000 14 %
Percentage of revenue:
Subscription85 %82 %
Professional services15 18 
Total revenue100 %100 %

Subscription revenue increased by $38.5 million, or 18%, for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021. The increase was driven by growth in our customer base, with new customers contributing approximately $16.6 million of the increase in subscription revenue for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021, and increased transaction volume and sales of additional products to our existing customers contributing the remainder. We calculate subscription revenue from new customers on a year-to-date basis by adding the revenue recognized from new customers acquired in the 12 months prior to each discrete quarter within the year-to-date period.

Professional services revenue decreased by $1.5 million, or (3)%, for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021, partially driven by the shifting of services work to our system integration partners.
On a constant currency basis, subscription revenue was $253.0 million and increased 20%, and total revenue was $298.9 million and increased 17%, for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021.
Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin
 Nine Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Cost of revenue:
Subscription$60,024 $50,190 $9,834 20 %
Professional services55,140 54,218 922 %
Total cost of revenue$115,164 $104,408 $10,756 10 %
Gross margin:
Subscription76 %76 %
Professional services(25)(19)
Total gross margin61 %59 %
Cost of subscription revenue increased by $9.8 million, or 20%, for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021. The increase in cost of subscription revenue was primarily driven by increases of $7.0 million in employee compensation costs driven by increased headcount and stock-based compensation expense, $1.1 million in outside professional services costs, $0.9 million in allocated expenses, and $0.8 million in amortization of internal-use software costs.
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Cost of professional services revenue increased by $0.9 million, or 2%, for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021. The increase in cost of professional services revenue was primarily driven by an increase of $4.7 million in employee compensation costs, partially offset by a decrease of $4.1 million in outside professional services costs.
Our gross margin for subscription services remained constant at 76% for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021.
Our gross margin for professional services decreased to (25)% for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to (19)% for the nine months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to increased compensation related expenses.
Operating Expenses
Research and Development
 Nine Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Research and development$77,639 $61,565 $16,074 26 %
Percentage of total revenue26 %24 %
Research and development expense increased by $16.1 million, or 26%, for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021. The increase in research and development expense was primarily driven by increases of $12.0 million in employee compensation costs driven by increased headcount and stock-based compensation expense and $3.5 million in outside professional services costs, and charges of $0.5 million associated with the workforce reduction plan. Research and development expense increased to 26% from 24% of total revenue during the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to nine months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to additional employee compensation expense.
Sales and Marketing
 Nine Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Sales and marketing$132,576 $105,130 $27,446 26 %
Percentage of total revenue45 %41 %
Sales and marketing expense increased by $27.4 million, or 26%, for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to increases of $20.4 million in employee compensation costs driven by increased headcount and stock-based compensation expense, $2.3 million in amortization of deferred commissions, and $1.5 million in travel costs, and charges of $2.4 million associated with the workforce reduction plan. Sales and marketing expense increased to 45% of total revenue during the nine months ended October 31, 2022 from 41% during the nine months ended October 31, 2021, as a result of higher employee compensation costs and the charges incurred this quarter associated with the workforce reduction plan.
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General and Administrative
 Nine Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
General and administrative$55,433 $46,931 $8,502 18 %
Percentage of total revenue19 %18 %
General and administrative expense increased by $8.5 million, or 18%, for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to an $8.1 million increase in employee compensation costs driven by increased stock-based compensation expense, and a $3.1 million increase in acquisition-related costs, partially offset by a $1.8 million gain on the revaluation of the contingent consideration from the Zephr acquisition and a $0.9 million decrease in outside professional service costs. General and administrative expense increased slightly to 19% of total revenue during the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to 18% during the nine months ended October 31, 2021.
Other income and expenses
 Nine Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Change in fair value of warrant liability$9,348 $— $9,348 N/A
Interest expense$(10,647)$(111)$(10,536)9492 %
Interest and other income (expense), net$98 $(923)$1,021 111 %
During the nine months ended October 31, 2022 we recognized an $9.3 million gain on revaluation of the liability-classified Warrants issued in connection with the 2029 Notes. Interest expense increased $10.5 million due to the issuance of the the Initial Notes on March 24, 2022. Interest and other income (expense), net increased $1.0 million due to increased investment balances and higher interest rates, partially offset by expense resulting from the revaluation of cash, accounts receivable, and payables recorded in a foreign currency.
Income Tax Provision
 Nine Months Ended
October 31,
  
 20222021$ Change% Change
 (dollars in thousands)  
Income tax provision$1,145 $1,221 $(76)(6)%
We are subject to federal and state income taxes in the United States and taxes in foreign jurisdictions. For the nine months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021, we recorded a tax provision of $1.1 million and $1.2 million, respectively, on losses before income taxes of $89.0 million and $63.0 million, respectively. The effective tax rates for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021 were (1.3)% and (1.9)%, respectively. The change was due primarily to a decrease in foreign tax expenses. The effective tax rate differs from the statutory rate primarily as a result of no benefit on pretax losses incurred in the United States. For the nine months ended October 31, 2022 and 2021, we maintained a full valuation allowance on our U.S. federal and state net deferred tax assets as it was more likely than not that those deferred tax assets will not be realized.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Liquidity is a measure of our ability to access sufficient cash flows to meet the short-term and long-term cash requirements of our business operations.
As of October 31, 2022, we had cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments of $400.6 million that was primarily invested in deposit accounts, money market funds, corporate debt securities, supranational securities,
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commercial paper, and U.S. and foreign government securities. We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes.
We finance our operations primarily through sales to our customers, which are generally billed in advance on an annual or quarterly basis. Customers with annual or multi-year contracts are generally only billed one annual period in advance. We also finance our operations through proceeds from the issuance of stock under our employee stock plans, borrowings under our Debt Agreement, proceeds from our issuance of the Initial Notes and other financing arrangements.
On March 24, 2022, we issued $250.0 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior unsecured notes to fund the future growth and expansion of our business. Under the 2029 Notes, we expect to issue an additional $150.0 million in convertible senior unsecured notes within 18 months of the Initial Closing Date. We had no borrowings under our Debt Agreement as of October 31, 2022, and have the ability borrow up to $30.0 million in revolving loans until October 2025 under the agreement. See Note 9. Debt to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Form 10-Q for more information about the 2029 Notes and our Debt Agreement.
In the short term, we believe our existing cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities, and cash flow from operations (in periods in which we generate cash flow from operations) will be sufficient for at least the next 12 months to meet our requirements and plans for cash, including meeting our working capital requirements and capital expenditure requirements, and servicing our debt. In the long term, our ability to support our requirements and plans for cash, including meeting our working capital and capital expenditure requirements, will depend on many factors, including our revenue growth rate, the timing and the amount of cash received from customers, the expansion of sales and marketing activities, the timing and extent of spending to support research and development efforts, the cost to develop and support our offering, the introduction of new products and services, the continuing adoption of our products by customers, any acquisitions or investments that we make in complementary businesses, products, and technologies, and our ability to obtain equity or debt financing.
We continually evaluate our capital needs and may decide to raise additional capital to fund the growth of our business for general corporate purposes through public or private equity offerings or through additional debt financing. We also may in the future make investments in or acquire businesses or technologies that could require us to seek additional equity or debt financing. To facilitate acquisitions or investments, we may seek additional equity or debt financing, which may not be available on terms favorable to us or at all. Sales of additional equity could result in dilution to our stockholders. We expect proceeds from the exercise of stock options in future years to be impacted by the increased mix of restricted stock units versus stock options granted to employees and to vary based on our share price.
Cash Flows
The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods indicated (in thousands):
 Nine Months Ended
October 31,
 20222021
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities$(2,679)$8,320 
Net cash used in investing activities(165,922)(1,843)
Net cash provided by financing activities239,003 16,364 
Effect of exchange rates on cash and cash equivalents(1,648)(386)
Net increase in cash and cash equivalents$68,754 $22,455 
Operating Activities
Net cash used in operating activities of $2.7 million for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 was comprised primarily of customer collections for our subscription and professional services, cash payments for our personnel, sales and marketing efforts and infrastructure related costs, payments to vendors for products and services related to our ongoing business operations, interest income received on our short-term investments, and interest paid on the Initial Notes.
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Net cash used in operating activities for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 increased $11.0 million compared to the same period last year, primarily due to $5.1 million of interest paid on our our Initial Notes and the timing of accrued employee liabilities.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 was $165.9 million. We used $8.5 million to purchase property and equipment and to develop internal-use software as we continue to invest in and grow our business; purchased $116.5 million of short-term investments, net of maturities, as we invested a portion of the proceeds from issuance of the Initial Notes; and used $41.0 million for the acquisition of Zephr, net of cash acquired.
Net cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 increased $164.1 million compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to $116.5 million net purchases of short-term investments in the nine months ended October 31, 2022, compared to $5.2 million net cash provided by short-term investments last year, and $41.0 million net cash used to acquire Zephr in the nine months ended October 31, 2022, compared to no cash used for acquisitions in the nine months ended October 31, 2021. Payments for property and equipment, net of insurance recoveries, were $2.8 million higher compared to the same period last year, primarily due to increased capitalization of internal-use software in the nine months ended October 31, 2022. The additional cash used in the nine months ended October 31, 2022 was partially offset by no cash used for asset acquisitions in the nine months ended October 31, 2022 compared to $1.3 million used to acquire certain intellectual property assets in the nine months ended October 31, 2021.
Financing Activities
Net cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 of $239.0 million was primarily due to $233.9 million in net proceeds from issuance of the Initial Notes, $4.5 million of proceeds from issuance of common stock under the ESPP, and $2.1 million in proceeds from stock option exercises, partially offset by $1.5 million of debt principal payments related to our Debt Agreement.
Net cash provided by financing activities for the nine months ended October 31, 2022 increased $222.6 million compared to the nine months ended October 31, 2021, primarily due to proceeds from issuance of the Initial Notes, partially offset by $13.6 million less proceeds received from stock option exercises compared to the same period last year.
Obligations and Other Commitments
Our material cash requirements from known contractual and other obligations consist of obligations under our operating leases for office space, the 2029 Notes, and a contractual commitment to one of our vendors for cloud computing services. For more information, please refer to Note 12. Leases , Note 9. Debt and Note 13. Commitments and Contingencies, respectively, of the Notes to our Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements included in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. As of October 31, 2022, our contractual commitments totaled $392.2 million, with $39.9 million committed within the next twelve months.
In the ordinary course of business, we enter into agreements of varying scope and terms pursuant to which we agree to indemnify customers, vendors, lessors, business partners, and other parties with respect to certain matters, including, but not limited to, losses arising out of the breach of such agreements, services to be provided by us, or from data breaches or intellectual property infringement claims made by third parties. In addition, we have entered into indemnification agreements with our directors and certain officers and employees that will require us, among other things, to indemnify them against certain liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service as directors, officers, or employees. As of October 31, 2022, no demands had been made upon us to provide indemnification under such agreements and there were no claims that we are aware of that could have a material effect on our unaudited condensed consolidated balance sheets, unaudited condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss, or unaudited condensed consolidated statements of cash flows.
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Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements are prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP. The preparation of these unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the applicable periods. We evaluate our estimates and assumptions on an ongoing basis. Our estimates are based on historical experience and various other factors that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances. Our actual results could differ from these estimates.
Our significant accounting policies are discussed in Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Recent Accounting Pronouncements in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2022, filed with the SEC on March 28, 2022. Any significant changes to these policies during the nine months ended October 31, 2022 are described in Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Recent Accounting Pronouncements to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements provided herein.
Item 3.    Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
We are exposed to certain market risks in the ordinary course of our business. Market risk represents the risk of loss that may impact our financial position due to adverse changes in financial market prices and rates. Our market risk exposure is primarily a result of fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and interest rates.
Foreign Currency Exchange Risk
Our sales contracts are denominated predominantly in U.S. Dollars, Euros (EUR), British Pounds (GBP), and Japanese Yen (JPY). A portion of our operating expenses are incurred outside the United States and denominated in foreign currencies and are subject to fluctuations due to changes in foreign currency exchange rates, particularly changes in the GBP and Chinese Yuan (CNY). Additionally, fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates may cause us to recognize transaction gains and losses in our unaudited condensed consolidated statement of comprehensive loss. The effect of a hypothetical 10% change in foreign currency exchange rates applicable to our business would not have a material impact on our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the nine months ended October 31, 2022. Given the impact of foreign currency exchange rates has not been material to our historical operating results, we have not entered into derivative or hedging transactions, but we may do so in the future if our exposure to foreign currency should become more significant. As our international operations grow, we will continue to reassess our approach to manage our risk relating to fluctuations in currency rates.
Interest Rate Risk
We had cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments of $400.6 million as of October 31, 2022. Our cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments are held for working capital purposes. We do not make investments for trading or speculative purposes. A significant decrease in these market rates may adversely affect our expected operating results. The 2029 Notes have a fixed interest rate and therefore are not impacted by market rates.
Our cash equivalents and short-term investments are subject to market risk due to changes in interest rates. Fixed rate securities may have their market value adversely affected due to a rise in interest rates. Due in part to these factors, our future investment income may fall short of our expectations due to changes in interest rates or we may suffer losses in principal if we are forced to sell securities that decline in market value due to changes in interest rates. However, because we classify our short-term investments as “available for sale,” no gains or losses are recognized due to changes in interest rates unless such securities are sold prior to maturity or decreases in fair value are determined to be other-than-temporary.
As of October 31, 2022, a hypothetical 10% relative change in interest rates would not have had a material impact on the value of our cash equivalents and short-term investments or interest owed on our outstanding debt. Fluctuations in the value of our cash equivalents and short-term investments caused by a change in interest rates (gains or losses on the carrying value) are recorded in other comprehensive income, and are realized only if we sell the underlying securities prior to maturity. In addition, a hypothetical 10% relative change in interest rates would not have had a material impact on our operating results for the nine months ended October 31, 2022.
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Item 4.    Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of October 31, 2022. Based on such evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that as of October 31, 2022, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed in the reports we file and submit under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported as and when required, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding its required disclosure.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There was no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent or detect all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within our company have been detected. Accordingly, our disclosure controls and procedures provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives.
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PART II—OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1.    Legal Proceedings
For information regarding legal proceedings, see Note 13. Commitments and Contingencies of the notes to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in Item 1. Financial Statements of this Form 10-Q, which is incorporated by reference into this Item 1. Legal Proceedings.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk, and the following is a summary of key risk factors when considering an investment. You should read the summary risks together with the more detailed discussion of risks set forth following this summary, as well as elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Additional risks, beyond those summarized below or discussed elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, may apply to our activities or operations as currently conducted or as we may conduct them in the future or in the markets in which we operate or may in the future operate.
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
If we are unable to attract new customers and retain and expand sales to existing customers, including as a result of macroeconomic factors, our workforce reduction or business disruptions outside of our control, our revenue growth could be slower than we expect and our business would be adversely affected.
If we are unable to manage our growth effectively, our revenue and profits could be adversely affected.
If the shift to subscription business models, including the market for subscription management software, develops slower than we expect, our growth may slow or stall and our operating results could be adversely affected.
Currency exchange rate fluctuations may adversely affect our results of operations, which are reported in U.S. dollars.
If we are unable to recruit or retain senior management or other key personnel and maintain our corporate culture, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
Our debt obligations could adversely affect our financial condition.
Our success depends in large part on a limited number of products, and if these offerings fail to gain market acceptance or our product development efforts are unsuccessful, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
We may be unable to integrate businesses we have or will acquire or to achieve expected benefits of such acquisitions.
The COVID-19 pandemic, or other pandemics or natural disasters, or catastrophic events, could adversely impact our business, financial condition, operating results and cash flows.
We have a history of net losses and anticipate continuing to incur losses for the near- and mid-term future and may not achieve or sustain profitability.
Our ability to grow our revenues and achieve and sustain profitability will depend, in part, on our ability to increase productivity of our sales force.
If we are unable to effectively compete in the market for our solutions or such markets develop slower than we expect our business, operating results, and financial condition would be adversely affected.
Our operating results, which are influenced by a variety of factors, have fluctuated in the past and may continue to fluctuate, making our future results difficult to predict accurately.
If we are not able to successfully and timely develop, enhance and deploy our products and multi-product strategy, our business, operating results, financial condition and growth prospects could be adversely affected.
If we are unable to successfully execute our strategic initiatives, such as increasing our sales to large enterprise customers and expanding and strengthening our sales channels and relationships with system integrators, our business, operating results and financial condition could be adversely affected.
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Our international operations expose us to risks that could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
If we fail to integrate our solution with a variety of systems, applications and platforms that are developed by others, our solution may become less marketable, less competitive, or obsolete, and our operating results may be adversely affected.
Risks Related to Information Technology, Intellectual Property, and Data Security and Privacy
A cyber-attack, information security breach or denial of service event could delay or interrupt service to our customers, harm our reputation, or subject us to significant liability.
Privacy and security concerns, laws, and regulations, may reduce the effectiveness of our solution and adversely affect our business.
Failure to protect our intellectual property could adversely affect our business.
Any disruptions of service from our public cloud providers could interrupt or delay our ability to deliver our services to our customers, which could harm our business and our financial results.
Risks Related to Legal, Regulatory, Accounting, and Tax Matters
Current and future litigation, including our current shareholder litigation, could have a material adverse impact on our operating results and financial condition.
We may require additional capital to fund our business and support our growth, and any inability to generate or obtain such capital may adversely affect our operating results and financial condition.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Class A Common Stock
The market price of our Class A common stock has been, and will likely continue to be, volatile, and you could lose all or part of the value of your investment.
The dual class structure of our common stock has the effect of concentrating voting control with holders of our Class B common stock, including our directors and executive officers, and their affiliates, which limits or precludes your ability to influence corporate matters, including the election of directors and the approval of any change of control transaction.

Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
If we are unable to attract new customers and retain and expand sales to existing customers, including as a result of macroeconomic factors or business disruptions outside our control, our revenue growth could be slower than we expect, and our business may be adversely affected.
Our ability to achieve significant growth in revenue in the future will depend, in large part, upon our ability to attract new customers. This may be particularly challenging where an organization has already invested substantial personnel and financial resources to integrate billings and other business and financial management tools, including custom-built solutions, into its business, as such an organization may be reluctant or unwilling to invest in new products and services. As a result, selling our solution often requires sophisticated and costly sales efforts that are targeted at senior management. During the nine months ended October 31, 2022, sales and marketing expenses represented approximately 45% of our total revenue. If we fail to attract new customers and fail to maintain and expand new customer relationships, our revenue may grow more slowly than we expect and our business may be adversely affected.
Our future revenue growth also depends upon retaining and expanding sales and renewals of subscriptions to our solution with existing customers. If our existing customers do not expand their use of our solution over time or do not renew their subscriptions or if we receive requests from an increased number of customers for changes to payment or other terms as a result of the impact of economic conditions or the COVID-19 pandemic on their businesses, our revenue may grow more slowly than expected, may not grow at all, or may decline. Our success, in part, is dependent on our ability to cross-sell our products. If we experience issues with successfully implementing or cross-selling our products, revenue may grow more slowly or may not grow at all.
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Our sales efforts and revenue growth have been and may continue to be negatively impacted by macroeconomic uncertainty and deteriorating economic conditions, including increasing inflation and interest rates, and foreign exchange fluctuations. For example, we are experiencing and, if economic conditions continue to persist or decline, we may continue to experience longer sales cycles and collection periods. In light of current macroeconomic conditions and uncertainty, some large enterprises have reduced or delayed technology or other discretionary spending, which may materially and negatively impact our operating results, financial condition and prospects. As a result of these conditions, we have recently experienced customers and prospective customers continuing to be cautious with purchasing decisions, which we expect to negatively impact our operating results and certain of our key metrics. If the impacts to customers and prospective customers of current macroeconomic conditions and uncertainty persist, our business, operating results, and financial conditions could be adversely affected.

While we expect to expand our sales efforts, both domestically and internationally in the long-term, in November 2022, we approved a workforce reduction impacting approximately 11% of our workforce, which reduction will disproportionately impact our go-to-market organization which consequently may impact our ability to achieve our operational targets. In the future, we may be unable to hire qualified sales personnel, may be unable to successfully train those sales personnel that we are able to hire, and sales personnel may not become fully productive on the timelines that we have projected or at all. In addition, mitigation and containment measures adopted by government authorities to contain the spread of COVID-19 in the United States and internationally, including travel restrictions and other requirements that limit in-person meetings, could limit our ability to establish and maintain relationships with new and existing customers. Further, although we dedicate significant resources to sales and marketing programs, these sales and marketing programs may not have the desired effect and may not expand sales. We cannot assure you that our efforts would result in increased sales to existing customers, and additional revenue. If our efforts to expand sales and renewals to existing customers are not successful, our business and operating results could be adversely affected.

Our customers generally enter into subscription agreements with one to three-year subscription terms and have no obligation to renew their subscriptions after the expiration of their initial subscription period. Moreover, our customers that do renew their subscriptions may renew for lower subscription or usage amounts or for shorter subscription periods. In addition, in the first year of a subscription, customers often purchase an increased level of professional services (such as training and deployment services) than they do in renewal years. Costs associated with maintaining a professional services department are relatively fixed in the short-term, while professional services revenue is dependent on the amount of billable work actually performed for customers in a period, the combination of which may result in variability in, and have a negative impact on, our gross profit. Customer renewals may decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including the breadth of early deployment, reductions in our customers’ spending levels, higher volumes of usage purchased upfront relative to actual usage during the subscription term, changes in customers’ business models and use cases, our customers’ satisfaction or dissatisfaction with our solution, our pricing or pricing structure, the pricing or capabilities of products or services offered by our competitors, or the effects of economic conditions, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. If our customers do not renew their agreements with us, or renew on terms less favorable to us, our revenue may decline.
If we fail to manage our growth and expansion plans effectively, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
While we had experienced rapid growth in our operations and personnel prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, we reduced our overall rate of hiring in fiscal 2021 as a cost savings measure in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and uncertain economic conditions. During fiscal 2022, we accelerated our pace of hiring and investments in our operations including sales, marketing and product technology. In November 2022, in light of macroeconomic conditions and uncertainty, we approved a workforce reduction plan designed to improve operational efficiencies and operating costs and better align our workforce with current business needs, priorities, and near term growth expectations. If we are unable to manage our growth and expansion plans effectively, which may be impacted by factors outside of our control such as macroeconomic conditions and the COVID-19 pandemic, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected. To manage growth in our operations and personnel, we will need to continue to improve and achieve efficiencies with respect to our operational, financial, and management controls and our reporting systems and procedures, including improving timely access to operational information to optimize business decisions. Failure to manage growth and expansion plans effectively
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could result in difficulty or delays in deploying customers, declines in quality or customer satisfaction, increases in costs, difficulties in introducing new products and services or enhancing existing products and services, loss of customers, or other operational difficulties in executing sales strategies, any of which could adversely affect our business performance and operating results.
If the shift by companies to subscription business models, including consumer adoption of products and services that are provided through such models, and, in particular, the market for subscription management software, develops slower than we expect, our growth may slow or stall, and our operating results could be adversely affected.
Our success depends on companies shifting to subscription business models and consumers choosing to consume products and services through such models. Many companies may be unwilling or unable to offer their solutions using a subscription business model, especially if they do not believe that the consumers of their products and services would be receptive to such offerings. Our success will also depend, to a large extent, on the willingness of large enterprises that have adopted subscription business models utilizing cloud-based products and services to manage billings and financial accounting relating to their subscriptions. Enterprises may choose not to shift to a subscription business model or, they may choose to shift more slowly than we expect. In addition, those enterprises that do shift to a subscription model may decide that they do not need a solution that offers the range of functionalities that we offer. Many companies have invested substantial effort and financial resources to develop custom-built applications or integrate traditional enterprise software into their businesses as they shift to subscription or subscription business models and may be reluctant or unwilling to switch to different applications. Factors that may affect market acceptance and sales of our products and services include:
the number of companies shifting to subscription business models;
the number of consumers and businesses adopting new, flexible ways to consume products and services;
the security capabilities, reliability, and availability of cloud-based services;
customer concerns with entrusting a third party to store and manage their data, especially transaction-critical, confidential, or sensitive data;
our ability to minimize the time and resources required to deploy our solution;
our ability to achieve and maintain high levels of customer satisfaction;
our ability to deploy upgrades and other changes to our solution without disruption to our customers;
the level of customization or configuration we offer;
the overall level of corporate spending and spending on quote-to-cash and revenue recognition solutions by our customers and prospects, including the impact of spending due to the COVID-19 pandemic;
general economic conditions, both in domestic and foreign markets, including the impacts associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, inflation, recession, and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine; and
the price, performance, and availability of competing products and services.
The markets for subscription products and services and for subscription management software may not develop further or may develop slower than we expect. If companies do not shift to subscription business models and subscription management software does not achieve widespread adoption, or if there is a reduction in demand for subscription products and services or subscription management software caused by technological challenges, weakening economic conditions, security or privacy concerns, decreases in corporate spending, a lack of customer acceptance, or otherwise, our business could be materially and adversely affected. In addition, our subscription agreements with our customers generally provide for a minimum subscription platform fee and usage-based fees, which depend on the total dollar amount that is invoiced or managed on our solution. Because a portion of our revenue depends on the volume of transactions that our customers process through our solution, if our customers do not adopt our solution throughout their business, if their businesses decline or fail, or if they are unable to successfully shift to subscription business models, including if they fail to successfully deploy our solution, our revenue could decline and our operation results could be adversely impacted.
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Currency exchange rate fluctuations may adversely affect our results of operations, which are reported in U.S. dollars.
As we continue to expand our international operations, we become more exposed to the effects of fluctuations in currency exchange rates. Fluctuating currency exchange rates, including the recent strengthening of the U.S. dollar, has increased the real cost of our solution to our customers outside of the United States. Currency exchange rate fluctuations have and may continue to adversely affect our business, operating results, financial condition, and cash flows.
In addition, we incur expenses for employee compensation and other operating expenses at our non-U.S. locations in the local currency. Fluctuations in the exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and other currencies could result in the dollar equivalent of such expenses being higher. Furthermore, volatile market conditions arising from impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, the conflict in Ukraine and other macroeconomic conditions may result in significant fluctuations in exchange rates, and, in particular, a weakening of foreign currencies relative to the U.S. dollar may negatively affect our revenue. This could have a negative impact on our operating results. Although we may in the future decide to undertake foreign exchange hedging transactions to cover a portion of our foreign currency exchange exposure, we currently do not hedge our exposure to foreign currency exchange risks.
Our business depends largely on our ability to attract and retain talented employees, including senior management, and maintain our corporate culture. If we lose the services of Tien Tzuo, our founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer, or other critical talent across our executive team and in other key roles, or fail to maintain our "ZEO" culture, we may not be able to execute on our business strategy.
Our future success depends on our continuing ability to attract, train, assimilate, and retain highly skilled personnel, including software engineers, sales personnel, and professional services personnel. We face intense competition for qualified individuals from numerous software and other technology companies. Like many companies, we experienced increased turnover during fiscal 2021 and fiscal 2022, and we may continue to experience heightened attrition, including those with significant institutional knowledge and expertise. We may not be able to retain our current key employees, or attract, train, assimilate, or retain other highly skilled personnel in the future, especially in light of the current tight labor market in the U.S. and other countries. For example, employees may seek new or different opportunities that offer greater compensation or benefits than we offer or are able to offer, making it difficult to retain them. In addition, we may incur significant costs to attract and retain highly skilled personnel, and we may lose new employees to our competitors or other technology companies before we realize the benefit of our investment in recruiting and training them. As we move into new countries, we will need to attract and recruit skilled personnel in those areas. If we are unable to attract and retain suitably qualified individuals who are capable of meeting our growing technical, operational, and managerial requirements, on a timely basis or at all, our business may be adversely affected. Further, if our organization continues to grow, we may be required to implement more complex organizational structures, as a result of which we may find it increasingly difficult to maintain the beneficial aspects of our “ZEO” corporate culture, which is based on the idea that each employee is the CEO of their Zuora experience and career, and places a strong value on freedom, responsibility and accountability. Our ability to attract and retain talented employees could be negatively impacted if we are unable to maintain our corporate culture, including as a result of the workforce reduction plan that we approved in November 2022. Any workforce reduction could also have an adverse effect on our business, including negative employee morale and adverse impact on our ability to meet operational targets due to loss of employees.
Our future success also depends in large part on the continued services of senior management and other key personnel. In particular, we are highly dependent on the services of Tien Tzuo, our founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, who is critical to the development of our technology, platform, future vision, and strategic direction. We rely on our leadership team in the areas of operations, security, marketing, sales, support, and general and administrative functions, and on individual contributors on our research and development team. Our senior management and other key personnel are all employed on an at-will basis, which means that they could terminate their employment with us at any time and for any reason, such as retirement or career change. We do not currently maintain key-person life insurance policies on any of our officers or employees. If we lose the services of senior management or other key personnel, or if we are unable to attract, train, assimilate, and retain the highly skilled personnel we need, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected.
Volatility or lack of appreciation in our stock price may also affect our ability to attract and retain our key employees. Many of our senior personnel and other key employees have become, or will soon become, vested in a substantial amount of stock or stock options. Employees may be more likely to leave us if the shares they own or
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the shares underlying their vested options have significantly appreciated in value relative to the original purchase price of the shares or the exercise price of the options, or conversely, if the exercise price of the options that they hold are significantly above the market price of our Class A common stock. If we are unable to retain our employees, or if we need to increase our compensation expenses, including equity compensation expenses, to retain our employees, our business, results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows could be adversely affected.
Our debt obligations could adversely affect our financial condition.
On March 24, 2022 (Initial Closing Date) we issued $250.0 million aggregate principal amount of convertible senior unsecured notes due in 2029 to Silver Lake Alpine II, L.P. (Silver Lake) (2029 Notes). We also will issue to Silver Lake an additional $150.0 million in senior unsecured notes within 18 months of the Initial Closing Date. See Note 9. Debt to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Form 10-Q for more information about the 2029 Notes.
Our debt obligations, in particular the 2029 Notes, could adversely impact us. For example, these obligations could:
require us to use a substantial portion of our cash flow from operations to pay principal and interest on debt, or to repurchase our 2029 Notes when required upon the occurrence of certain events or otherwise pursuant to the terms thereof, which will reduce the amount of cash flow available to fund working capital, capital expenditures, acquisitions, and other business activities;
require us to use cash and/or issue shares of our Class A common stock to settle any obligations;
result in certain of our debt instruments being accelerated or being deemed to be in default if certain terms of default are triggered, such as applicable cross payment default and/or cross-acceleration provisions;
adversely impact our credit rating, which could increase future borrowing costs;
limit our future ability to raise funds for capital expenditures, strategic acquisitions or business opportunities, and other general corporate requirements;
restrict our ability to create or incur liens and engage in other transactions and activity;
increase our vulnerability to adverse economic and industry conditions;
dilute our earnings per share as a result of the conversion provisions in the 2029 Notes; and
place us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our less leveraged competitors.
Our ability to meet our payment obligations under our debt instruments depends on our ability to generate significant cash flows in the future. This, to some extent, is subject to market, economic, financial, competitive, legislative, and regulatory factors as well as other factors that are beyond our control. There can be no assurance that our business will generate cash flow from operations, or that additional capital will be available to us, in amounts sufficient to enable us to meet our debt payment obligations and to fund other liquidity needs. For example, we may utilize proceeds from the 2029 Notes for acquisitions or other investments that do not increase our enterprise value or we are otherwise unable to generate sufficient cash flows to repay our debt obligations. Additionally, events and circumstances may occur which would cause us to not be able to satisfy applicable draw-down conditions and utilize the revolving credit facility under our Debt Agreement described below in Note 9. Debt. If we are unable to generate sufficient cash flows to service our debt payment obligations, we may need to refinance or restructure our debt, sell assets, reduce or delay capital investments, or seek to raise additional capital. If we are unable to implement one or more of these alternatives on commercially reasonable terms or at all, we may be unable to meet our debt payment obligations, which would materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition and operating results.
Our success depends in large part on a limited number of products. If these products fail to gain or lose market acceptance, our business will suffer.
We derive substantially all of our revenue and cash flows from sales of subscriptions and associated deployment of our Zuora Central Platform, Zuora Billing, Zuora Revenue, and Zuora Collect products. As such, the continued growth in market demand for these products is critical to our success. Demand for our solution is affected by a number of factors, many of which are beyond our control, including macroeconomic factors, such as the
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impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on our customers and prospects, the growth or contraction of the Subscription Economy, continued market acceptance of our solution by customers for existing and new use cases, the timing of development and release of new products and services, features, and functionality introduced by our competitors, changes in accounting standards, laws or regulations, policies, guidelines, interpretations, or principles that would impact the functionality and use of our solution, and technological change. We expect that an increasing transition to disaggregated solutions that focus on addressing specific customer use cases would continue to disrupt the enterprise software space, enabling new competitors to emerge. We cannot assure you that our solutions and future enhancements to our solution will be able to address future advances in technology or the requirements of enterprise customers. If we are unable to meet customer demands in creating a flexible solution designed to address all these needs or otherwise achieve more widespread market acceptance of our solution, our business, operating results, financial condition, and growth prospects would be adversely affected.
We may acquire or invest in additional companies, which may divert our management’s attention, result in additional dilution to our stockholders, and consume resources that are necessary to sustain our business. We may be unable to integrate acquired businesses and technologies successfully or to achieve the expected benefits of such acquisitions.
Our business strategy includes acquiring other complementary products, technologies, or businesses. For example, in September 2022, we acquired Zephr. An acquisition, investment, or business relationship may result in unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures. In particular, we may encounter difficulties assimilating or integrating the businesses, technologies, products, personnel, or operations of the acquired companies, particularly if the key personnel of the acquired companies choose not to work for us, if an acquired company’s software is not easily adapted to work with ours, or if we have difficulty retaining the customers of any acquired business due to changes in management or otherwise.
Acquisitions may also disrupt our business, divert our resources, and require significant management attention that would otherwise be available for development of our business. Moreover, the anticipated benefits of any acquisition, investment, or business relationship may not be realized or we may be exposed to unknown liabilities. We may in the future acquire or invest in additional businesses, products, technologies, or other assets. We also may enter into relationships with other businesses to expand our products and services or our ability to provide our products and services in foreign jurisdictions, which could involve preferred or exclusive licenses, additional channels of distribution, discount pricing, or investments in other companies. Negotiating these transactions can be time consuming, difficult, and expensive, and our ability to close these transactions may often be subject to approvals that are beyond our control. Consequently, these transactions, even if undertaken and announced, may not close. For one or more of those transactions, we may:
issue additional equity securities that would dilute our stockholders;
use cash that we may need in the future to operate our business;
incur debt on terms unfavorable to us or that we are unable to repay;
incur large charges or substantial liabilities;
encounter difficulties retaining key employees of the acquired company or integrating diverse software codes or business cultures; and
become subject to adverse tax consequences, substantial depreciation, or deferred compensation charges.
Any of these risks could adversely impact our business and operating results.
The COVID-19 pandemic and its continuing impact on economic conditions could adversely affect our business, financial condition, results of operations, and cash flows.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted worldwide economic activity and financial markets. In light of the uncertain and evolving situation relating to the spread of the disease and efficacy of vaccines, we have taken precautionary measures intended to minimize the risk of the virus to our employees, our customers and the communities in which we operate, which could negatively impact our business. Given that many of our employees continue to work remotely, we have reduced our office footprint and have made available office space for sublease. Due to market conditions, we have experienced difficulties in subleasing some of this available office space,
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including in the San Francisco Bay Area. If we are unable to sublease such office space on acceptable terms in a reasonable timeframe, we would incur impairment charges in addition to those described in Note 12. Leases of the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 31, 2022 filed with the SEC on March 28, 2022.
As pandemic conditions have improved and government regulations have generally eased in light of availability of vaccines and other health measures, business travel and in-person customer events have increased. In the future, we may deem it advisable to alter, postpone or cancel customer, employee or industry events in the future. We may adjust our policies and business practices in light of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic and related government restrictions and public health guidance, and any such restrictive measures could negatively impact our business.
The ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the precautionary measures that we have adopted have resulted in, and could continue to result in, customers not purchasing or renewing our products or services, a significant delay or lengthening of our sales cycles, a negative impact to our customer success and sales and marketing efforts, difficulties or changes to our customer support, or potential operational or other challenges, any of which could harm our business and operating results. Because we sell our solutions primarily on a subscription basis, the effect of the pandemic may not be fully reflected in our operating results until future periods. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have experienced, and may continue to experience in the future, a reduced ability or willingness by companies in certain customer segments and industries to purchase our solutions, delayed purchasing decisions or project implementation timing of prospective customers, reduced value or duration of subscription contracts, or a negative impact to attrition rates. Such impacts have resulted, and may continue to result, in requests from customers for payment or pricing concessions, such as in the form of extended payment terms or restructuring of contracts, impacts to our quarterly billings, and in customers limiting their spending, which, in certain cases, have resulted in customers not purchasing or renewing our products or services. Historically, a significant portion of our field sales and professional services have been conducted in person. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of our sales and professional services activities for the past two years were being conducted remotely. As the COVID-19 restrictions have lessened, we have begun conducting some of these activities again in person, but are not at the frequency that we were before the pandemic. If the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic deepens or extends into other customer segments, these conditions could further adversely affect the rate of billings and subscription management solutions spending of our customers, our sales cycles could be further extended or delayed, our ability to close transactions with new and existing customers and partners may be negatively impacted, our ability to recognize revenue from software transactions we do close may be negatively impacted due to implementation delays or other factors, our demand generation activities, and the efficiency and effectiveness of those activities, may be negatively affected, and our ability to provide 24x7 worldwide support to our customers may be negatively affected, any of which may make it difficult for us to forecast our sales and operating results and to make decisions about future investments. These and other potential effects on our business due to the COVID-19 pandemic may be significant and could materially harm our business operating results and financial condition.
More generally, the COVID-19 pandemic has had, and could continue to have, an adverse effect on economies and financial markets globally, potentially leading to an economic downturn, which could decrease technology spending and adversely affect demand for our products and services. Although our financial results for the fiscal quarter ended October 31, 2022 have not been materially impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, any prolonged economic downturn or recession as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic could materially harm the business and operating results of our company and our customers, resulting in potential business closures and layoffs of employees, which effects may continue even after the COVID-19 pandemic is contained. The occurrence of any such events may lead to a reduction in the capital and operating budgets we or our customers have available, which could harm our business, financial condition and operating results. To the extent the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affects our business and financial results, it may also have the effect of heightening certain of the other risks described in this “Risk Factors” section. It is not possible at this time to estimate the long-term impact that COVID-19 could have on our business, as the impact will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.
We have a history of net losses, anticipate increasing our operating expenses in the future, and may not achieve or sustain profitability.
We have incurred net losses in each fiscal year since inception, including net losses of $99.4 million, $73.2 million, and $83.4 million in fiscal 2022, 2021, and 2020, respectively. We expect to incur net losses for the foreseeable future. As of October 31, 2022, we had an accumulated deficit of $653.6 million. We expect to make
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significant future expenditures related to the development and expansion of our business, including increasing our overall customer base, expanding relationships with existing customers, entering new vertical markets, expanding our global footprint, expanding and leveraging our relationships with strategic partners including system integrators to accelerate our growth, optimizing pricing and packaging, and expanding our operations and infrastructure, both domestically and internationally, and in connection with legal, accounting, and other administrative expenses related to operating as a public company. These efforts may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate, and we may not succeed in increasing our revenue sufficiently, or at all, to offset these increased expenses. Some or all of the foregoing initiatives have been and may continue to be temporarily delayed or re-evaluated due to current macroeconomic conditions, including rising interest rates, inflation and global economic uncertainty, as well as our efforts to mitigate the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business. Any delays or reductions in spending in our business development or expansion efforts may negatively affect our ability to expand our operations and maintain or increase our sales. While our revenue has grown in recent years, if our revenue declines or fails to grow at a rate faster than these increases in our operating expenses, we will not be able to achieve and maintain profitability in future periods. As a result, we may continue to generate losses. We cannot assure you that we will achieve profitability in the future or that, if we do become profitable, we will be able to sustain profitability.
Our revenue growth and ability to achieve and sustain profitability will depend, in part, on being able to increase the productivity of our sales force.
To date, most of our revenue has been attributable to the efforts of our direct sales force. In order to increase our revenue and achieve and sustain profitability, we must increase the productivity of our direct sales force, both in the United States and internationally, to generate additional revenue from new and existing customers.
While we expect to expand our sales efforts, both domestically and internationally in the long-term, in November 2022, we approved a workforce reduction, which may result in loss of productivity and adversely impact our sales efforts and ability to achieve our operational targets. There is significant competition for sales personnel with the skills and technical knowledge that we require, and we may experience difficulties attracting qualified sales personnel to meet our needs in the future. Because our solution is often sold to large enterprises and involves long sales cycles and complex customer requirements, it is more difficult to find sales personnel with the specific skills and technical knowledge needed to sell our solution and, even if we are able to hire qualified personnel, doing so may be expensive. Our ability to achieve significant revenue growth will depend, in large part, on our success in recruiting, training, and retaining sufficient numbers of direct sales personnel to support our growth. Due to the complexities of our customer needs, new sales personnel require significant training and can take a number of months to achieve full productivity. Our recent hires and planned hires may not become productive as quickly as we expect and if our new sales employees do not become fully productive on the timelines that we have projected or at all, our revenue will not increase at anticipated levels and our ability to achieve long-term projections may be negatively impacted.
We may also be unable to hire or retain sufficient numbers of qualified individuals in the markets where we do business or plan to do business. Furthermore, hiring sales personnel in new countries requires additional set up and upfront costs that we may not recover if the sales personnel fail to achieve full productivity. In addition, as we continue to grow, a larger percentage of our sales force will be new to our company and our solution, which may adversely affect our sales if we cannot train our sales force quickly or effectively. Attrition rates may increase, and we may also face integration challenges as we continue to seek to expand our sales force. If we are unable to hire and train sufficient numbers of effective sales personnel, if attrition increases, or if the sales personnel are not successful in obtaining new customers or increasing sales to our existing customer base, our business will be adversely affected.
We periodically change and make adjustments to our sales organization in response to market opportunities, competitive threats, management changes, product and service introductions or enhancements, acquisitions, sales performance, increases in sales headcount, cost levels, and other internal and external considerations, including potential changes and uncertainties associated with macroeconomic conditions and the COVID-19 pandemic. Any future changes in our sales organization may result in a temporary reduction of productivity, which could negatively affect our rate of growth. In addition, any significant change to the way we structure our compensation of our sales organization may be disruptive and may affect our revenue growth.
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The market in which we participate is competitive, and our operating results could be harmed if we do not compete effectively.
The market for quote-to-cash and revenue recognition solutions, including our billing, collections and revenue recognition offerings, is highly competitive, rapidly evolving, and fragmented, and subject to changing technology, shifting customer needs, and frequent introductions of new products and services.
Many of our current and potential competitors have longer operating histories, access to alternative fundraising sources, significantly greater financial, technical, marketing, distribution or professional services experience, or other resources or greater name recognition than we do. In addition, many of our current and potential competitors supply a wide variety of products to, and have strong and well-established relationships with, current and potential customers. As a result, our current and potential competitors may be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can to new or changing opportunities, technologies, standards, or customer requirements or devote greater resources than we can to the development, promotion, and sale of their products and services. In addition, some current and potential competitors may offer products or services that address one or a limited number of functions at lower prices or with greater depth than our solution, or integrate or bundle such products and services with their other product offerings. Potential customers may prefer to purchase from their existing suppliers rather than from a new supplier. Our current and potential competitors may develop and market new technologies with comparable functionality to our solution. In addition, because our products and services are integral to our customers’ ability to accurately maintain books and records and prepare financial statements, our potential customers may prefer to purchase applications that are critical to their business from one of our larger, more established competitors, or leverage the software that they have already purchased from our competitors for their billing and accounting needs, or control such infrastructure internally. We may experience fewer customer orders, reduced gross margins, longer sales cycles, and loss of market share. This could lead us to decrease prices, implement alternative pricing structures, or introduce products and services available for free or a nominal price in order to remain competitive. We may not be able to compete successfully against current and future competitors, and our business, operating results, and financial condition will be adversely impacted if we fail to meet these competitive pressures.
Our ability to compete successfully in our market depends on a number of factors, both within and outside of our control. Some of these factors include: ease of use; subscription-based product features and functionality; ability to support the specific needs of companies with subscription business models; ability to integrate with other technology infrastructures and third-party applications; enterprise-grade performance and features such as system scalability, security, performance, and resiliency; vision for the market and product innovation; relationships with strategic partners, including system integrators, management consulting firms, and resellers; total cost of ownership; strength of sales and marketing efforts; brand awareness and reputation; and customer experience, including support and professional services. Any failure by us to compete successfully in any one of these or other areas may reduce the demand for our solution, as well as adversely affect our business, operating results, and financial condition.
Moreover, current and future competitors may also make strategic acquisitions or establish cooperative relationships among themselves or with others, including our current or future technology partners. By doing so, these competitors may increase their ability to meet the needs of our customers or potential customers. These developments could limit our ability to obtain revenue from existing and new customers. If we are unable to compete successfully against current and future competitors, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely impacted.
Our operating results may fluctuate from quarter to quarter, which makes our future results difficult to predict.
Our quarterly operating results have fluctuated in the past and may fluctuate in the future. As a result, you should not rely upon our past quarterly operating results as indicators of future performance. We have encountered, and will continue to encounter, risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by growing companies in rapidly evolving markets, such as the risks and uncertainties described herein. Our operating results in any given quarter can be influenced by numerous factors, many of which are unpredictable or are outside of our control, including:
our ability to maintain and grow our customer base;
our ability to retain and increase revenue from existing customers;
our ability to introduce new products and services and enhance existing products and services;
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our ability to integrate or implement our existing products and services on a timely basis or at all;
our ability to deploy our products successfully within our customers' information technology ecosystems;
our ability to enter into larger contracts;
increases or decreases in subscriptions to our platform;
our ability to sell to large enterprise customers;
the transaction volume that our customers processes through our system;
our ability to respond to competitive developments, including competitors' pricing changes and their introduction of new products and services;
macroeconomic conditions, including the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations and rising interest rates and inflation, including wage inflation;
changes in the pricing of our products;
the productivity of our sales force;
our ability to grow our relationships with strategic partners such as system integrators and their effectiveness in increasing our sales and implementing our products;
changes in the mix of products and services that our customers use;
the length and complexity of our sales cycles;
cost to develop and upgrade our solution to incorporate new technologies;
seasonal purchasing patterns of our customers;
the impact of outages of our solution and reputational harm;
costs related to the acquisition of businesses, talent, technologies, or intellectual property, including potentially significant amortization costs and possible write-downs;
failures or breaches of security or privacy, and the costs associated with responding to and addressing any such failures or breaches;
changes to financial accounting standards and the interpretation of those standards that may affect the way we recognize and report our financial results, including changes in accounting rules governing recognition of revenue;
the impact of changes to financial accounting standards;
general economic and political conditions and government regulations in the countries where we currently operate or plan to expand;
decisions by us to incur additional expenses, such as increases in sales and marketing or research and development;
the timing of stock-based compensation expense;
political unrest, changes and uncertainty associated with terrorism, hostilities, war, natural disasters or pandemics, including the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine; and
potential costs to attract, onboard, retain, and motivate qualified personnel.
The extent to which the global COVID-19 pandemic will continue to impact our business and financial results will depend on future developments, which are uncertain and cannot be fully predicted, including the duration of the pandemic, travel restrictions and social distancing in the United States and other countries, business closures or business disruptions and the effectiveness of actions taken by governments and private businesses to attempt to contain and treat the disease. Any prolonged shutdown of a significant portion of global economic activity or downturn in the global economy, along with any adverse effects on industries in which our customers operate, could materially and adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.
The impact of one or more of the foregoing and other factors may cause our operating results to vary significantly. As such, we believe that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our operating results may not be
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meaningful and should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance. If we fail to meet or exceed the expectations of investors or securities analysts, then the trading price of our Class A common stock could fall substantially, and we could face costly lawsuits, including shareholder litigation.
If we are not able to develop and release new products and services, or successful enhancements, new features, and modifications to our existing products and services, or otherwise successfully implement our multi-product strategy, our business could be adversely affected.
The market for our quote-to-cash and revenue recognition solutions, including our billing, collections and revenue recognition offerings, is characterized by rapid technological change, frequent new product and service introductions and enhancements, changing customer demands, and evolving industry standards. The introduction of products and services embodying new technologies can quickly make existing products and services obsolete and unmarketable. Additionally, because we provide billing and finance solutions to help our customers with compliance and financial reporting, changes in law, regulations, and accounting standards could impact the usefulness of our products and services and could necessitate changes or modifications to our products and services to accommodate such changes. Subscription management products and services, including our billing, collections and revenue recognition offerings, are inherently complex, and our ability to implement our multi-product strategy, including developing and releasing new products and services or enhancements, new features and modifications to our existing products and services depends on several factors, including timely completion, competitive pricing, adequate quality testing, integration with new and existing technologies and our solution, and overall market acceptance. We cannot be sure that we will succeed in developing, marketing, and delivering on a timely and cost-effective basis enhancements or improvements to our platform or any new products and services that respond to continued changes in subscription management practices or new customer requirements, nor can we be sure that any enhancements or improvements to our platform or any new products and services will achieve market acceptance. Since developing our solution is complex, the timetable for the release of new products and enhancements to existing products is difficult to predict, and we may not offer new products and updates as rapidly as our customers require or expect. Any new products or services that we develop may not be introduced in a timely or cost-effective manner, may contain errors or defects, or may not achieve the broad market acceptance necessary to generate sufficient revenue. The introduction of new products and enhancements could also increase costs associated with customer support and customer success as demand for these services increase. This increase in cost could negatively impact profit margins, including our gross margin. Moreover, even if we introduce new products and services, we may experience a decline in revenue of our existing products and services that is not offset by revenue from the new products or services. For example, customers may delay making purchases of new products and services to permit them to make a more thorough evaluation of these products and services or until industry and marketplace reviews become widely available. Some customers may hesitate to migrate to a new product or service due to concerns regarding the complexity of migration or performance of the new product or service. In addition, we may lose existing customers who choose a competitor’s products and services or choose to utilize internally developed applications instead of our products and services. This could result in a temporary or permanent revenue shortfall and adversely affect our business.
In addition, because our products and services are designed to interoperate with a variety of other internal or third-party software products and business systems applications, we will need to continuously modify and enhance our products and services to keep pace with changes in application programming interfaces (APIs), and other software and database technologies. We may not be successful in either developing these new products and services, modifications, and enhancements or in bringing them to market in a timely fashion. There is no assurance that we will successfully resolve such issues in a timely and cost-effective manner. Furthermore, modifications to existing platforms or technologies, including any APIs with which we interoperate, will increase our research and development expenses. Any failure of our products and services to operate effectively with each other or with other platforms and technologies could reduce the demand for our products and services, result in customer dissatisfaction, and adversely affect our business.
A customer’s failure to deploy our solution after it enters into a subscription agreement with us, or the incorrect or improper deployment or use of our solution could result in customer dissatisfaction and negatively affect our business, operating results, financial condition, and growth prospects.
Our solution is deployed in a wide variety of technology environments and into a broad range of complex workflows. We believe our future success will depend in part on our ability to increase both the speed and success of our deployments, by improving our deployment methodology, hiring and training qualified professionals, deepening relationships with deployment partners, and increasing our ability to integrate into large-scale, complex
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technology environments. We often assist our customers in deploying our solution, either directly or through our deployment partners. In other cases, customers rely on third-party partners to complete the deployment. In some cases, customers initially engage us to deploy our solution, but, for a variety of reasons, including strategic decisions not to utilize subscription business models, fail to ultimately deploy our solution. If we or our third-party partners are unable to deploy our solution successfully, or unable to do so in a timely manner and, as a result, customers do not utilize our solution, we would not be able to generate future revenue from such customers based on transaction or revenue volume and the upsell of additional products and services, and our future operating results could be adversely impacted. In addition, customers may also seek refunds of their initial subscription fee. Moreover, customer perceptions of our solution may be impaired, our reputation and brand may suffer, and customers may choose not to renew or expand their use of our solution.
As a substantial portion of our sales efforts are increasingly targeted at large enterprise customers, our sales cycle may become longer and more expensive, we may encounter still greater pricing pressure and deployment and customization challenges, and we may have to delay revenue recognition for more complicated transactions, all of which could adversely impact our business and operating results.
As a substantial portion of our sales efforts are increasingly targeted at large enterprise customers, we may face greater costs, longer sales cycles, and less predictability in the completion of some of our sales. In this market segment, the customer’s decision to use our solution may be an enterprise-wide decision, in which case these types of sales frequently require approvals by multiple departments and executive-level personnel and require us to provide greater levels of customer education regarding the uses and benefits of our solution, as well as education regarding security, privacy, and scalability of our solution, especially for those large “business to consumer” customers or those with extensive international operations. These large enterprise transactions might also be part of a customer’s broader business model or business systems transformation project, which are frequently subject to budget constraints, multiple approvals, and unplanned administrative, processing, security review, and other delays that could further lengthen the sales cycle. Larger enterprises typically have longer decision-making and deployment cycles, may have greater resources to develop and maintain customized tools and applications, demand more customization, require greater functionality and scalability, expect a broader range of services, demand that vendors take on a larger share of risks, demand increased levels of customer service and support, require acceptance provisions that can lead to a delay in revenue recognition, and expect greater payment flexibility from vendors. We are often required to spend time and resources to better familiarize potential customers with the value proposition of our solution. As a result of these factors, sales opportunities with large enterprises may require us to devote greater sales and administrative support and professional services resources to individual customers, which could increase our costs, lengthen our sales cycle, and divert our own sales and professional services resources to a smaller number of larger customers. We may spend substantial time, effort, and money in our sales, design and implementation efforts without being successful in producing any sales or deploying our products in such a way that is satisfactory to our customers. All these factors can add further risk to business conducted with these customers. In addition, if sales expected from a large customer for a particular quarter are not realized in that quarter or at all, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected.
Furthermore, our sales and implementation cycles could be interrupted or affected by other factors outside of our control. For example, due to global economic uncertainty, rising inflation and interest rates, and foreign exchange fluctuations, many large enterprises have generally reduced or delayed technology or other discretionary spending, which may materially and negatively impact our operating results, financial condition and prospects. In addition, like many other companies, including our customers and prospects, our employees are working from home as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. While we are now allowing business travel more freely in places where such travel is permitted under local regulations, restrictions on travel and in-person meetings could affect services delivery, delay implementations, and interrupt sales activity. We cannot predict whether, for how long, or the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic may adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
Our long-term success depends, in part, on our ability to expand the sales of our solution to customers located outside of the United States. Our current international operations, and any further expansion of those operations, expose us to risks that could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition.
We have been recognizing increased revenue from international sales, and we conduct our business activities in various foreign countries. We currently have operations in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. During the nine months ended October 31, 2022, we derived approximately 35% of our total revenue from customers located outside the United States. Our ability to manage our business and conduct our operations internationally requires
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considerable management attention and resources and is subject to the particular challenges of supporting a rapidly growing business in an environment of multiple cultures, customs, legal systems, regulatory systems, and commercial infrastructures. International expansion requires us to invest significant funds and other resources. Our operations in international markets may not develop at a rate that supports our level of investment. Expanding internationally may subject us to new risks that we have not faced before or increase risks that we currently face, including risks associated with:
recruiting and retaining talented and capable employees in foreign countries;
providing our solution to customers from different cultures, which may require us to adapt to sales practices, modify our solution, and provide features necessary to effectively serve the local market;
compliance with multiple, conflicting, ambiguous or evolving governmental laws and regulations and court decisions, including those relating to employment matters, e-invoicing, consumer protection, privacy, data protection, information security, data residency, and encryption;
longer sales cycles in some countries;
increased third-party costs relating to data centers outside of the United States;
generally longer payment cycles and greater difficulty in collecting accounts receivable;
credit risk and higher levels of payment fraud;
weaker privacy and intellectual property protection in some countries, including China and India;
compliance with anti-bribery laws, such as the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended (FCPA), and the UK Bribery Act 2010 (UK Bribery Act);
currency exchange rate fluctuations;
tariffs, export and import restrictions, restrictions on foreign investments, sanctions, and other trade barriers or protection measures;
foreign exchange controls that might prevent us from repatriating cash earned outside the United States;
economic instability and inflationary conditions;
political instability and unrest, including the effects of Brexit, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, especially as it impacts countries in Europe;
corporate espionage;
compliance with the laws of numerous taxing jurisdictions, both foreign and domestic, in which we conduct business, potential double taxation of our international earnings, and potentially adverse tax consequences due to changes in applicable U.S. and foreign tax laws;
continuing uncertainty regarding social, political, immigration, and tax and trade policies in the U.S. and abroad;
increased costs to establish and maintain effective controls at foreign locations; and
overall higher costs of doing business internationally.
If we are unable to grow our sales channels and our relationships with strategic partners, such as system integrators, management consulting firms, and resellers, sales of our products and services may suffer and our growth could be slower than we project.
In addition to our direct sales force, we use strategic partners, such as system integrators, management consulting firms, strategic technology partners and resellers, to market, sell, and implement our solution. Historically, we have used these strategic partners to a limited degree, but we are prioritizing efforts to make these partners an increasingly important aspect of our business particularly with regard to enterprise and international sales and larger implementations of our products where these partners may have more expertise and established business relationships than we do. We have been and expect to continue to transition a portion of our professional services implementations to these strategic partners, and as a result we expect our professional services revenue as an overall percentage of Zuora's total revenue to continue to decline over time. Our relationships with these strategic partners are still at an early stage of development, and we cannot assure you that these partners will be successful
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in marketing, selling or implementing our solution. Identifying these partners, negotiating and supporting relationships with them, including training them in how to sell or deploy our solution, and maintaining these relationships requires significant commitment of time and resources that may not yield a significant return on our investment in these relationships. Our future growth in revenue and ability to achieve and sustain profitability depends in part on our ability to identify, establish, and retain successful strategic partner relationships in the United States and internationally, which will take significant time and resources and involve significant risk. If we are unable to establish and maintain our relationships with these partners, or otherwise develop and expand our indirect distribution channel, our business, operating results, financial condition, or cash flows could be adversely affected.
We also cannot be certain that we will be able to maintain successful relationships with any strategic partners and, to the extent that our strategic partners are unsuccessful in marketing, selling, or implementing our solution, our business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely affected. Our strategic partners may market to our customers the products and services of several different companies, including products and services that compete with our solution. Because our strategic partners do not have an exclusive relationship with us, we cannot be certain that they will prioritize or provide adequate resources to marketing our solution. Moreover, divergence in strategy by any of these partners may materially adversely affect our ability to develop, market, sell, or support our solution. We cannot assure you that our strategic partners will continue to cooperate with us. In addition, actions taken or omitted to be taken by such parties may adversely affect us. We are unable to control the quantity or quality of resources that our systems integrator partners commit to deploying our products and services, or the quality or timeliness of such deployment. If our partners do not commit sufficient or qualified resources to these activities, our customers will be less satisfied, be less supportive with references, or may require the investment of our resources at discounted rates. These, and other failures by our partners to successfully deploy our products and services, may have an adverse effect on our business and our operating results.
Our growth forecasts we have provided publicly may prove to be inaccurate, and even if the markets in which we compete achieve the forecasted growth, we cannot assure that our business will grow at similar rates, if at all.
Growth forecasts are subject to significant uncertainty and are based on assumptions and estimates that may not prove to be accurate. The forecasts we have provided publicly relating to the expected growth of the markets in which we compete may prove to be inaccurate. Even if these markets experience the growth we forecast, we may not grow our business at similar rates, or at all. Our growth is subject to many factors, including our success in executing our business strategy, which is subject to many risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, the forecasts of market growth we have provided publicly should not be taken as indicative of our future growth.
If we fail to offer high-quality support and training to our customers and third-party partners, our business and reputation will suffer.
Once our solution is deployed to our customers, our customers rely on support services from us and from our third-party partners to resolve any related issues. High-quality education, training and support for our customers and third-party partners is important for the successful marketing and sale of our products and for the renewal of existing customers. The importance of high-quality customer and third-party partner training and support will increase as we expand our business and pursue new enterprises. If we or our third-party partners do not help our customers quickly resolve post-deployment issues, including configuring and using features, and provide them with effective ongoing customer support, our ability to upsell additional products to existing customers could suffer and our reputation with existing or potential customers could be harmed.
Future changes in market conditions or customer demand could require changes to our prices or pricing model, which could adversely affect our business, operating results, and financial condition.
We generally charge our customers a flat fee for their use of our platform and a variable fee based on the amount of transaction volume they process through our system and the number of their subscribers. If our customers do not increase their transaction volume or the number of their subscribers, or an economic downturn reduces their transaction volume or the number of their subscribers, our revenue may be adversely impacted by customers reducing their contracted transaction volume. We have limited experience with respect to determining the optimal prices for our platform, and, as a result, we have in the past needed to and expect in the future to need to change our pricing model from time to time. As the market for our platform matures, or as new competitors introduce new products or services that compete with ours, we may be unable to attract new customers at the same price or based on the same pricing models as we have used historically. We may experience pressure to change our pricing
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model to defer fees until our customers have fully deployed our solution. Moreover, larger organizations, which comprise a large and growing component of our sales efforts, may demand substantial price concessions. As a result, in the future we may be required to reduce our prices or change our pricing model, which could adversely affect our revenue, gross margin, profitability, financial position, and cash flow.
If we fail to integrate our solution with a variety of operating systems, software applications, and hardware platforms that are developed by others, our solution may become less marketable, less competitive, or obsolete, and our operating results may be adversely affected.
Our solution must integrate with a variety of network, hardware, and software platforms, and we need to continuously modify and enhance our solution to adapt to changes in cloud-enabled hardware, software, networking, browser, and database technologies. We have developed our solution to be able to integrate with third-party SaaS applications, including the applications of software providers that compete with us, through the use of APIs. For example, Zuora CPQ integrates with certain capabilities of Salesforce using publicly available APIs. In general, we rely on the fact that the providers of such software systems, including Salesforce, continue to allow us access to their APIs to enable these integrations, and the terms with such companies may be subject to change from time to time. We also integrate certain aspects of our solution with other platform providers. Any change or deterioration in our relationship with any platform provider may adversely impact our business and operating results.
Our business may be adversely impacted if any platform provider:
discontinues or limits access to its APIs by us;
makes changes to its platform;
terminates or does not allow us to renew or replace our contractual relationship;
modifies its terms of service or other policies, including fees charged to, or other restrictions on, us or other application developers, or changes how customer information is accessed by us or our customers;
establishes more favorable relationships with one or more of our competitors, or acquires one or more of our competitors or is acquired by a competitor and offers competing services to us; or
otherwise develops its own competitive offerings.
In addition, we have benefited from these platform providers’ brand recognition, reputations, and customer bases. Any losses or shifts in the market position of these platform providers in general, in relation to one another or to new competitors or new technologies could lead to losses in our relationships or customers, or to our need to identify or transition to alternative channels for marketing our solutions. Such changes could consume substantial resources and may not be effective. If we are unable to respond to changes in a cost-effective manner, our solution may become less marketable, less competitive, or obsolete and our operating results may be negatively impacted.
If we fail to develop, maintain, and enhance our brand and reputation cost-effectively, our business and financial condition may be adversely affected.
We believe that developing, maintaining, and enhancing awareness and integrity of our brand and reputation in a cost-effective manner are important to achieving widespread acceptance of our solution and are important elements in attracting new customers and maintaining existing customers. We believe that the importance of our brand and reputation will increase as competition in our market further intensifies. Successful promotion of our brand and the Subscription Economy concept will depend on the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, our ability to provide a reliable and useful solution at competitive prices, the perceived value of our solution, and our ability to provide quality customer support. In addition, the promotion of our brand requires us to make substantial expenditures, and we anticipate that the expenditures will increase as our market becomes more competitive, as we expand into new markets, and as more sales are generated through our strategic partners. Brand promotion activities may not yield increased revenue, and even if they do, the increased revenue may not offset the expenses we incur in building and maintaining our brand and reputation. We also rely on our customer base and community of end-users in a variety of ways, including to give us feedback on our solution and to provide user-based support to our other customers. If we fail to promote and maintain our brand successfully or to maintain loyalty among our customers, or if we incur substantial expenses in an unsuccessful attempt to promote and maintain our brand, we may fail to attract new customers and partners or retain our existing customers and partners and our business and financial condition may be adversely affected. Any negative publicity relating to our customers, employees, partners,
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or others associated with these parties, may also tarnish our own reputation simply by association and may reduce the value of our brand. Damage to our brand and reputation may result in reduced demand for our solution and increased risk of losing market share to our competitors. Any efforts to restore the value of our brand and rebuild our reputation may be costly and may not be successful.
We employ third-party licensed software for use in or with our software, and the inability to maintain these licenses or errors in the software we license could result in increased costs or reduced service levels, which could adversely affect our business.
Our software incorporates certain third-party software obtained under licenses from other companies. We anticipate that we will continue to rely on such third-party software and development tools from third parties in the foreseeable future. Although we believe that there are commercially reasonable alternatives to the third-party software we currently license, including open source software, this may not always be the case, or it may be difficult or costly to migrate to other third-party software. Our use of additional or alternative third-party software would require us to enter into license agreements with third parties. In addition, integration of our software with new third-party software may require significant work and require substantial investment of our time and resources. Also, any undetected or uncorrected errors or defects in third-party software could prevent the deployment or impair the functionality of our software, present security risks, delay new updates or enhancements to our solution, result in a failure of our solution, and injure our reputation.
Certain of our operating results and financial metrics may be difficult to predict as a result of seasonality.
Although we have not historically experienced significant seasonality with respect to our subscription revenue throughout the year, we have seen seasonality in our sales cycle as a large percentage of our customers make their purchases in the third month of any given quarter. In addition, our fourth quarter has historically been our strongest quarter. We believe that this results in part from the procurement, budgeting, and deployment cycles of many of our customers. We generally expect a relative increase in sales in the second half of each year as budgets of our customers for annual capital purchases are being fully utilized. We may be affected by seasonal trends in the future, particularly as our business matures. Such seasonality may result from a number of factors, including a slowdown in our customers’ procurement process during certain times of the year, both domestically and internationally, and customers choosing to spend remaining budgets shortly before the end of their fiscal years. These effects may become more pronounced as we target larger organizations and their larger budgets for sales of our solution. Additionally, this seasonality may be reflected to a much lesser extent, and sometimes may not be immediately apparent, in our revenue, due to the fact that we recognize subscription revenue over the term of the applicable subscription agreement. In addition, our ability to record professional services revenue can potentially vary based on the number of billable days in the given quarter, which is impacted by holidays and vacations. To the extent we experience this seasonality, it may cause fluctuations in our operating results and financial metrics and make forecasting our future operating results and financial metrics more difficult.
Our Debt Agreement provides our lender with a first-priority lien against substantially all of our non-intellectual property assets, and contains financial covenants and other restrictions on our actions, which could limit our operational flexibility and otherwise adversely affect our financial condition.

Our Debt Agreement restricts our ability to, among other things:
use our accounts receivable, inventory, trademarks, and most of our other assets as security in other borrowings or transactions;
incur additional indebtedness;
sell certain assets;
declare dividends or make certain distributions; and
undergo a merger or consolidation or other transactions.
Our Debt Agreement also prohibits us from exceeding certain adjusted quick ratios. Our ability to comply with these and other covenants is dependent upon a number of factors, some of which are beyond our control.
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Our failure to comply with the covenants or payment requirements, or the occurrence of other events specified in our Debt Agreement could result in an event of default under the Debt Agreement which would give our lender the right to terminate their commitments to provide additional loans under the Debt Agreement and to declare all borrowings outstanding, together with accrued and unpaid interest and fees, to be immediately due and payable. In addition, we have granted our lender first-priority liens against substantially all of our non-intellectual property assets as collateral, and have pledged not to encumber or otherwise grant any security interest in our intellectual property. Failure to comply with the covenants or other restrictions in the Debt Agreement could result in a default. If the debt under our Debt Agreement was to be accelerated, we may not have sufficient cash on hand or be able to sell sufficient collateral to repay it, which would have an immediate adverse effect on our business and operating results.
Risks Related to Information Technology, Intellectual Property, and Data Security and Privacy
If our security measures are breached, if unauthorized access to customer data, our data, or our solution is otherwise obtained, or if our solution is perceived as not being secure, customers may reduce the use of or stop using our solution, we may have difficulty attracting customers, and we may incur significant liabilities.
We have in the past experienced security incidents and breaches and may in the future experience additional security incidents or breaches. Security breaches and other security incidents could result in the loss of information, disruption of services, litigation, indemnity obligations, penalties, and other liability. If our security measures or those of our service providers are breached, or are perceived to have been breached, as a result of third-party action, including cyber-attacks or other intentional misconduct by computer hackers, employee error, malfeasance, or otherwise, and someone obtains unauthorized access to our data or other data we or our service providers maintain, including sensitive customer data, personal information, intellectual property, and other confidential business information, we could face loss of business, lawsuits or claims, regulatory investigations, or orders, and our reputation could be severely damaged. We, and our third-party partners, have security measures and disaster response plans in place to help protect our customers’ data, our own data and information, and our platform, networks, and other systems against unauthorized access or inadvertent exposure. However, we cannot assure that these security measures and disaster response plans will be effective against all security threats and natural disasters. System failures or outages, including any potential disruptions due to significantly increased global demand on certain cloud-based systems during the COVID-19 pandemic, could compromise our ability to perform our day-to-day operations in a timely manner, which could negatively impact our business or delay our financial reporting. Such failures could materially adversely affect our operating results and financial condition.
With more companies and individuals working remotely, the attack surface available for exploitation and the risk of cybersecurity incidents has increased. For example, since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic and, also more recently following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there has been an increase in phishing and spam emails as well as social engineering attempts from “hackers.” Although the security incidents and breaches that we have experienced to date have not had a material effect on our business, there is no assurance that our security systems or processes will prevent or mitigate more serious break-ins, tampering, security incidents or breaches or other cyber-attacks that could occur in the future.
If we experience a security incident or breach, we could be required to expend significant capital and other resources to alleviate the problem, as well as incur significant costs and liabilities, including due to litigation, indemnity obligations, damages for contract breach, penalties for violation of applicable laws or regulations, and costs for remediation and incentives offered to affected parties, including customers, other business partners and employees, in an effort to maintain business relationships after a breach or other incident. Moreover, if our solution is perceived as not being secure, regardless of whether our security measures are actually breached, we could suffer harm to our reputation, and our operating results could be negatively impacted.
We cannot assure you that any limitations of liability provisions in our contracts would be enforceable or adequate or would otherwise protect us from any liabilities or damages with respect to any particular claim relating to a security breach or other security-related matters. We also cannot be sure that our existing insurance coverage will continue to be available on acceptable terms or will be available in sufficient scope or amounts to cover one or more large claims related to a security incident or breach, or that the insurer will not deny coverage as to any future claim. The successful assertion of one or more large claims against us that exceed available insurance coverage, or the occurrence of changes in our insurance policies, including premium increases or the imposition of large
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deductible or co-insurance requirements, could have a material adverse effect on our business, including our financial condition, operating results, and reputation.
Cyber-attacks and other malicious Internet-based activities continue to increase generally. Because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to or sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not identified until they are launched against a target, we and our service providers may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventative measures. In addition, third parties may attempt to fraudulently induce employees, contractors, or users to disclose information to gain access to our data or our customers’ data. We could suffer significant damage to our brand and reputation if a cyber-attack or other security incident were to allow unauthorized access to or modification of our customers’ data, other external data, or our own data or our IT systems or if the services we provide to our customers were disrupted, or if our solution is perceived as having security vulnerabilities. Customers could lose confidence in the security and reliability of our solution and perceive them to be not secure. This could lead to fewer customers using our products and services and result in reduced revenue and earnings. The costs we would incur to address and respond to these security incidents, and to prevent them thereafter, would increase our expenses. These types of security incidents could also lead to lawsuits, regulatory investigations and claims, and increased legal liability, including in some cases costs related to notification of the incident and fraud monitoring.
In addition, while a majority of our employees are based in the United States, like many similarly situated technology companies, we have a sizable number of research and development and other personnel located outside the United States, including in China, which has exposed and could continue to expose us to governmental and regulatory, as well as market and media scrutiny, regarding the actual or perceived integrity of our platform or data security and privacy features. Any actual or perceived security compromise could reduce customer confidence in the effectiveness of our security measures, negatively affect our ability to attract new customers, and cause existing customers to reduce the use or stop using our solution, any of which could harm our business and reputation.
Privacy and security concerns, laws, and regulations, may reduce the effectiveness of our solution and adversely affect our business.
Our customers can use our solution to collect, use, and store personal information regarding their customers or other end users. Governments and agencies worldwide have adopted or may adopt laws and regulations regarding the collection, use, storage, data residency, security, disclosure, transfer across borders and other processing of information obtained from individuals within jurisdictions. These laws and regulations increase the costs and burdens of compliance, including the ability to transfer information from, or a requirement to store in, particular jurisdictions and could:
impact our ability to offer our products and services in certain jurisdictions,
decrease demand for or require us to modify or restrict our product or services, or
impact our customers’ ability and willingness to use, adopt and deploy our solution globally.
Compliance or our inability to comply with such laws, regulations, and other obligations, could lead to reduced overall demand and impair our ability to maintain and grow our customer base and increase our revenue. We may be unable to make changes that we consider necessary or appropriate to address changes in laws, regulations, or other obligations in a commercially reasonable manner, in a timely fashion, or at all.
Additionally, laws and regulations relating to the processing of information can vary significantly based on the jurisdiction. Some regions and countries have or are enacting strict laws and regulations, including the European Union (EU), China (PIPL), Australia, and India, as well as states within the United States, such as California. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective in May 2018. The GDPR established new requirements for processing personal data and imposes penalties of up to the greater of €20 million or 4% of worldwide revenue. On June 4, 2021, the European Commission issued replacement standard contractual clauses (2021 SCCs) to govern the transfer of personal data to a country that has not been deemed adequate, such as the United States. The 2021 SCCs impose additional requirements and, potentially increased liability for data processors such as us. Since the 2021 SCCs replace the prior version, we will need to enter into 2021 SCCs with our customers and vendors before the December 27, 2022 deadline to meet GDPR requirements. The pending EU ePrivacy Regulation is expected to establish additional restrictions and penalties. In January 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which provides new data privacy rights for consumers, including a private right of
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action for security breaches, new penalties for violations, and new operational requirements for companies, went into effect. The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) will replace the CCPA and becomes effective on January 2, 2023. The CCPA gives, and the CPRA will give, California residents expanded rights to access and require deletion of their personal data, opt out of certain personal data sharing, and receive detailed information about how their personal data is collected, used and shared. The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for security breaches that may increase security breach litigation. The CCPA and CPRA may increase our compliance costs and potential liability, particularly in the event of a data breach, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, including how we use personal data, our financial condition, our operating results or prospects. The CCPA has also prompted a number of proposals for new federal and state privacy legislation that, if passed, could increase our potential liability, increase our compliance costs and adversely affect our business. Changing definitions of personal data and information may also limit or inhibit our ability to operate or expand our business, including limiting strategic partnerships that may involve the sharing of data. Also, some jurisdictions require that certain types of data be retained on servers within these jurisdictions. Our failure to comply with applicable laws and regulations may result in enforcement action or litigation against us, including fines, and damage to our reputation, any of which may have an adverse effect on our business and operating results.
We also are bound by standards, contracts and other obligations relating to processing personal information that are more stringent than applicable laws and regulations. The costs of compliance with, and other burdens imposed by, these laws, regulations, and other obligations are significant. In addition, some companies, particularly larger or global enterprises, often will not contract with vendors that do not meet these rigorous obligations and often seek contract terms to ensure we are financially liable for any breach of these obligations. Accordingly, our or as well as our vendors' failure, or perceived inability, to comply with these obligations may limit the demand, use and adoption of our solution, lead to regulatory investigations, breach of contract claims, litigation, damage our reputation and brand and lead to significant fines, penalties, or liabilities or slow the pace at which we close sales transactions, any of which could harm our business. Future laws, regulations, standards, and other obligations, actions by governments or other agencies, and changes in the interpretation or inconsistent interpretation of existing laws, regulations, standards, and other obligations could result in increased regulation, increased costs of compliance and penalties for non-compliance, costly changes to Zuora's products or their functionality, and limitations on processing personal information.
Privacy advocacy groups, the technology industry, and other industries have established or may establish various new, additional, or different self-regulatory standards that may place additional burdens on us. Our customers may require us or we may find it advisable to meet voluntary certifications or adhere to other standards established by them or third parties. Our customers may also expect us to take proactive stances or contractually require us to take certain actions should a request for personal information belonging to customers be received from a government or regulatory agency. If we are unable to maintain such certifications, comply with such standards, or meet such customer requests, it could reduce demand for our solution and adversely affect our business.
Failure to protect our intellectual property could adversely affect our business.
Our success depends in large part on our proprietary technology. We rely on various intellectual property (IP) rights, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, as well as confidentiality provisions and contractual arrangements, to protect our proprietary rights. If we do not protect and enforce our intellectual property rights successfully, our competitive position may suffer, which could adversely impact our operating results.
Our pending patent or trademark applications may not be allowed, or competitors may challenge the validity, enforceability or scope of our patents, copyrights, trademarks or the trade secret status of our proprietary information. There can be no assurance that additional patents will be issued or that any patents that are issued will provide significant protection for our intellectual property. There is also no assurance that we will be able to register trademarks that are critical to our business. In addition, our patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights may not provide us a significant competitive advantage. There is no assurance that the particular forms of intellectual property protection that we seek, including business decisions about when to file patents and when to maintain trade secrets, will be adequate to protect our business.
Moreover U.S. patent law, developing jurisprudence regarding U.S. patent law, and possible future changes to U.S. or foreign patent laws and regulations may affect our ability to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights. In addition, the laws of some countries do not provide the same level of protection of our intellectual property as do the laws of the United States. As we expand our international activities, our exposure to unauthorized copying and use of our solution and proprietary information will likely increase. Despite our precautions, our intellectual
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property is vulnerable to unauthorized access through employee error or actions, theft, and cybersecurity incidents, and other security breaches. It may be possible for third parties to infringe upon or misappropriate our intellectual property, to copy our solution, and to use information that we regard as proprietary to create products and services that compete with ours. Effective intellectual property protection may not be available to us in every country in which our solution is available. For example, some foreign countries have compulsory licensing laws under which a patent owner must grant licenses to third parties. In addition, many countries limit the enforceability of patents against certain third parties, including government agencies or government contractors. In these countries, patents may provide limited or no benefit. We may need to expend additional resources to defend our intellectual property rights domestically or internationally, which could impair our business or adversely affect our domestic or international expansion. Moreover, we may not pursue or file patent applications or apply for registration of copyrights or trademarks in the United States and foreign jurisdictions in which we operate with respect to our potentially patentable inventions, works of authorship, marks and logos for a variety of reasons, including the cost of procuring such rights and the uncertainty involved in obtaining adequate protection from such applications and registrations. If we cannot adequately protect and defend our intellectual property, we may not remain competitive, and our business, operating results, and financial condition may be adversely affected.
We enter into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and consultants and enter into confidentiality agreements with other parties. We cannot assure you that these agreements will be effective in controlling access to, use of, and distribution of our proprietary information or in effectively securing exclusive ownership of intellectual property developed by our current or former employees and consultants. Further, these agreements may not prevent other parties from independently developing technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to our solution.
We may need to spend significant resources securing and monitoring our intellectual property rights, and we may or may not be able to detect infringement by third parties. Our competitive position may be harmed if we cannot detect infringement and enforce our intellectual property rights quickly or at all. In some circumstances, we may choose to not pursue enforcement because an infringer has a dominant intellectual property position or for other business reasons. In addition, competitors might avoid infringement by designing around our intellectual property rights or by developing non-infringing competing technologies. Litigation may be necessary in the future to enforce our intellectual property rights and to protect our trade secrets. Litigation brought to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could be costly, time-consuming, and distracting to management, and could result in the impairment or loss of portions of our intellectual property. Further, our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims attacking the scope, validity, and enforceability of our intellectual property rights, or with counterclaims and countersuits asserting infringement by our products and services of third-party intellectual property rights. Our failure to secure, protect, and enforce our intellectual property rights could seriously adversely affect our brand and our business.
Additionally, the United States Patent and Trademark Office and various foreign governmental patent agencies require compliance with a number of procedural, documentary, fee payment, and other similar provisions in order to complete the patent or trademark application process and to maintain issued patents or trademarks. There are situations in which noncompliance or non-payment can result in abandonment or lapse of the patent or trademark or associated application, resulting in partial or complete loss of patent or trademark rights in the relevant jurisdiction. If this occurs, it could have a material adverse effect on our business operations and financial condition.
Errors, defects, or disruptions in our solution could diminish demand, harm our financial results, and subject us to liability.
Our customers use our products for important aspects of their businesses, and any errors, defects, or disruptions to our solution, or other performance problems with our solution could harm our brand and reputation and may damage our customers’ businesses. We are also reliant on third-party software and infrastructure, including the infrastructure of the Internet, to provide our products and services. Any failure of or disruption to this software and infrastructure could also make our solution unavailable to our customers. Our solution is constantly changing with new software releases, which may contain undetected errors when first introduced or released. Any errors, defects, disruptions in service, or other performance problems with our solution could result in negative publicity, loss of or delay in market acceptance of our products, loss of competitive position, delay of payment to us, lower renewal rates, or claims by customers for losses sustained by them. In such an event, we may be required, or may choose, for customer relations or other reasons, to expend additional resources in order to help correct the problem. Accordingly, any errors, defects, or disruptions to our solution could adversely impact our brand and reputation, revenue, and operating results.
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In addition, because our products and services are designed to interoperate with a variety of internal and third-party systems and infrastructures, we need to continuously modify and enhance our products and services to keep pace with changes in software technologies. We may not be successful in either developing these modifications and enhancements or resolving interoperability issues in a timely and cost-effective manner. Any failure of our products and services to continue to operate effectively with internal or third-party infrastructures and technologies could reduce the demand for our products and services, resulting in dissatisfaction of our customers, and may materially and adversely affect our business.
Any disruption of service at our cloud providers, including Amazon Web Services and Microsoft's Azure cloud service, could interrupt or delay our ability to deliver our services to our customers, which could harm our business and our financial results.
We currently host our solution, serve our customers, and support our operations using Amazon Web Services (AWS), a provider of cloud infrastructure services, and have begun enabling new features and capabilities for our solution using Microsoft's Azure cloud service. We also leverage AWS in various geographic regions for our disaster recovery plans. We do not have control over the operations of the facilities of AWS or Azure. These facilities are vulnerable to damage or interruption from earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, cyber security attacks, terrorist attacks, power losses, telecommunications failures, and similar events. The occurrence of a natural disaster or an act of terrorism, a decision to close the facilities without adequate notice, or other unanticipated problems could result in lengthy interruptions in our solution. In addition, the COVID-19 pandemic could potentially disrupt the supply chain of hardware needed to maintain these third-party systems or to run our business. The facilities also could be subject to break-ins, computer viruses, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism, and other misconduct.
Our solution’s continuing and uninterrupted performance is critical to our success. Because our products and services are used by our customers for billing and financial accounting purposes, it is critical that our solution be accessible without interruption or degradation of performance, and we typically provide our customers with service level commitments with respect to service uptime. Customers may become dissatisfied by any system failure that interrupts our ability to provide our solution to them. Outages could lead to the triggering of our service level agreements and the issuance of credits to our customers, in which case, we may not be fully indemnified for such losses by AWS or Azure. We may not be able to easily switch our public cloud providers, including AWS and Azure, to another cloud provider if there are disruptions or interference with our use of either facility. Sustained or repeated system failures would reduce the attractiveness of our solution to customers and result in contract terminations, thereby reducing revenue. Moreover, negative publicity arising from these types of disruptions could damage our reputation and may adversely impact use of our solution. We may not carry sufficient business interruption insurance to compensate us for losses that may occur as a result of any events that cause interruptions in our service.
While our agreement with AWS expires in September 2024, AWS and our other cloud providers do not have an obligation to renew their agreements with us on commercially reasonable terms, or at all. If we are unable to renew our agreements with these providers on commercially reasonable terms, if our agreements with our providers are prematurely terminated, or if in the future we add additional public cloud providers, we may experience additional costs or service downtime in connection with the transfer to, or the addition of, new public cloud providers. If these providers were to increase the cost of their services, we may have to increase the price of our solution, and our operating results may be adversely impacted.
We are vulnerable to intellectual property infringement claims brought against us by others.
There has been considerable activity in our industry to develop and enforce intellectual property rights. Successful intellectual property infringement claims against us or certain third parties, such as our customers, resellers, or strategic partners, could result in monetary liability or a material disruption in the conduct of our business. We cannot be certain that our products and services, content, and brand names do not or will not infringe valid patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other intellectual property rights held by third parties. We may be subject to legal proceedings and claims from time to time relating to the intellectual property of others in the ordinary course of our business. Any intellectual property litigation to which we might become a party, or for which we are required to provide indemnification, may require us to cease selling or using solutions that incorporate the intellectual property that we allegedly infringe, make substantial payments for legal fees, settlement payments, or other costs or damages, obtain a license, which may not be available on reasonable terms or at all, to sell or use the relevant technology, or redesign the allegedly infringing solutions to avoid infringement, which could be costly, time-consuming, or impossible. Any claims or litigation, regardless of merit, could cause us to incur significant expenses
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and, if successfully asserted against us, could require that we pay substantial damages or ongoing royalty payments, prevent us from offering our products and services, or require that we comply with other unfavorable terms. We do not have a significant patent portfolio, which could prevent us from deterring patent infringement claims through our own patent portfolio, and our competitors and others may now and in the future have significantly larger and more mature patent portfolios than we have. We may also be obligated to indemnify our customers or strategic partners in connection with such infringement claims, or to obtain licenses from third parties or modify our solution, and each such obligation could further exhaust our resources. Some of our intellectual property infringement indemnification obligations are contractually capped at a very high amount or not capped at all.
Even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert the time and attention of our management and other employees, and adversely affect our business and operating results. We expect that the occurrence of infringement claims is likely to grow as the market for subscription management products and services grows. Accordingly, our exposure to damages resulting from infringement claims could increase and this could further exhaust our financial and management resources.
Our solution contains open source software components, and failure to comply with the terms of the underlying licenses could restrict our ability to sell our solution.
Our solution incorporates certain open source software. An open source license typically permits the use, modification, and distribution of software in source code form subject to certain conditions. Some open source licenses contain conditions that any person who distributes or uses a modification or derivative work of software that was subject to an open source license make the modified version subject to the same open source license. Distributing or using software that is subject to this kind of open source license can lead to a requirement that certain aspects of our solution be distributed or made available in source code form. Although we do not believe that we have used open source software in a manner that might condition its use on our distribution of any portion of our solution in source code form, the interpretation of open source licenses is legally complex and, despite our efforts, it is possible that we may be liable for copyright infringement, breach of contract, or other claims if our use of open source software is adjudged to not comply with the applicable open source licenses.
Moreover, we cannot assure you that our processes for controlling our use of open source software in our solution will be effective. If we have not complied with the terms of an applicable open source software license, we may need to seek licenses from third parties to continue offering our solution on terms that are not economically feasible, to re-engineer our solution to remove or replace the open source software, to discontinue the sale of our solution if re-engineering could not be accomplished on a timely basis, to pay monetary damages, or to make available the source code for aspects of our proprietary technology, any of which could adversely affect our business, operating results, and financial condition.
In addition to risks related to license requirements, use of open source software can involve greater risks than those associated with use of third-party commercial software, as open source licensors generally do not provide warranties, assurances of title, performance, non-infringement, or controls on the origin of the software. There is typically no support available for open source software, and we cannot assure you that the authors of such open source software will not abandon further development and maintenance. Open source software may contain security vulnerabilities, and we may be subject to additional security risk by using open source software. Many of the risks associated with the use of open source software, such as the lack of warranties or assurances of title or performance, cannot be eliminated, and could, if not properly addressed, negatively affect our business. We have established processes to help alleviate these risks, including a review process for screening requests from our development organizations for the use of open source software, but we cannot be sure that all open source software is identified or submitted for approval prior to use in our solution.
Risks Related to Legal, Regulatory, Accounting, and Tax Matters
If we are not able to satisfy data protection, security, privacy, and other government- and industry-specific requirements, our growth could be harmed.
We are subject to data protection, security, privacy, and other government- and industry-specific requirements, including those that require us to notify individuals of data security and privacy incidents involving certain types of personal data. Security and privacy compromises experienced by us or our service providers may lead to public disclosures, which could harm our reputation, erode customer confidence in the effectiveness of our security and
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privacy measures, negatively impact our ability to attract new customers, cause existing customers to elect not to renew their subscriptions with us, or negatively impact our employee relationships or impair our ability to attract new employees. In addition, some of the industries we serve have industry-specific requirements relating to compliance with certain security, privacy and regulatory standards, such as those required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. We also maintain compliance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, which is critical to the financial services and insurance industries. As we expand and sell into new verticals and regions, we will likely need to comply with these and other requirements to compete effectively. If we cannot comply or if we incur a violation in one or more of these requirements, our growth could be adversely impacted, and we could incur significant liability.
Because we typically recognize subscription revenue over the term of the applicable agreement, a lack of subscription renewals or new subscription agreements may not be reflected immediately in our operating results and may be difficult to discern.
We generally recognize subscription revenue from customers ratably over the terms of their contracts, which typically vary between one and three years. As a result, most of the subscription revenue we report in each quarter is derived from the recognition of unearned revenue relating to subscriptions entered into during previous quarters. Consequently, a decline in new or renewed subscriptions in any particular quarter would likely have a minor impact on our revenue results for that quarter, but could negatively affect our revenue in future quarters. Accordingly, the effect of significant downturns in sales and market acceptance of our solution, and potential changes in our pricing policies or rate of renewals, may not be fully reflected in our operating results until future periods. Moreover, our subscription model makes it difficult for us to rapidly increase our revenue through additional sales in any period, as revenue from new customers must be recognized over the applicable subscription term.
We typically provide service level commitments under our customer contracts. If we fail to meet these contractual commitments, we could be obligated to provide credits or refunds for prepaid amounts related to unused subscription services or face contract terminations, which could adversely affect our operating results.
Our customer contracts typically provide for service level commitments, which relate to service uptime, response times, and escalation procedures. If we are unable to meet the stated service level commitments or suffer extended periods of unavailability for our solution, we may be contractually obligated to provide these customers with service credits, refunds for prepaid amounts related to unused subscription services, or other remedies, or we could face contract terminations. In addition, we could face legal claims for breach of contract, product liability, tort, or breach of warranty. Although we have contractual protections, such as warranty disclaimers and limitation of liability provisions, in our customer agreements, they may not fully or effectively protect us from claims by customers, commercial relationships, or other third parties. We may not be fully indemnified by our vendors for service interruptions beyond our control, and any insurance coverage we may have may not adequately cover all claims asserted against us, or cover only a portion of such claims. In addition, even claims that ultimately are unsuccessful could result in our expenditure of funds in litigation and divert management’s time and other resources. Thus, our revenue could be harmed if we fail to meet our service level commitments under our agreements with our customers, including, but not limited to, maintenance response times and service outages. Typically, we have not been required to provide customers with service credits that have been material to our operating results, but we cannot assure you that we will not incur material costs associated with providing service credits to our customers in the future.
Additionally, any failure to meet our service level commitments could adversely impact our reputation, business, operating results, and financial condition.
Our customers may fail to pay us in accordance with the terms of their agreements, necessitating action by us to compel payment.
We typically enter into non-cancelable agreements with our customers with a term of one to three years. If customers fail to pay us under the terms of our agreements, we may be adversely affected both from the inability to collect amounts due and the cost of enforcing the terms of our contracts, including litigation. The risk of such negative effects increases with the term length of our customer arrangements. Furthermore, some of our customers may seek bankruptcy protection or other similar relief and fail to pay amounts due to us, or pay those amounts more slowly, either of which could adversely affect our operating results, financial position, and cash flow. Although we have processes in place that are designed to monitor and mitigate these risks, we cannot guarantee these
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programs will be effective. If we are unable to adequately control these risks, our business, operating results and financial condition could be harmed.
Adverse litigation judgments or settlements resulting from legal proceedings in which we may be involved could expose us to monetary damages or limit our ability to operate our business.
We are currently involved in shareholder litigation and have in the past and may in the future become involved in other class actions, derivative actions, private actions, collective actions, investigations, and various other legal proceedings by stockholders, customers, employees, suppliers, competitors, government agencies, or others. The results of any such litigation, investigations, and other legal proceedings are inherently unpredictable and expensive. Any claims against us, whether meritorious or not, could be time consuming, result in costly litigation, damage our reputation, require significant amounts of management time, and divert significant resources. If any of these legal proceedings were to be determined adversely to us, or we were to enter into a settlement arrangement, we could be exposed to monetary damages or limits on our ability to operate our business, which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and operating results.
Our ability to use our net operating losses to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations which could subject our business to increased tax liability.
Our ability to use our net operating losses (NOLs) to offset future taxable income may be subject to certain limitations which could subject our business to higher tax liability. Utilization of the net operating loss may be subject to an annual limitation due to the "ownership change" limitations provided by Section 382 and 383 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and other similar state provisions. Additionally, NOLs arising in tax years beginning after December 31, 2017 are subject to a 20-year carryover limitation and may expire if unused within that period. There is also a risk that due to legislative changes, such as suspensions on the use of NOLs, or other unforeseen reasons, our existing NOLs could expire or otherwise be unavailable to offset future income tax liabilities. In addition, under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, as modified by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act, the amount of NOLs that we are permitted to deduct in any taxable year is limited to 80% of our taxable income in such year, where taxable income is determined without regard to the NOL deduction itself. As such, we may not be able to realize a tax benefit from the use of our NOLs, whether or not we attain profitability.
We may need to raise additional capital required to grow our business, and we may not be able to raise capital on terms acceptable to us or at all.
In order to support our growth and respond to business challenges, such as developing new features or enhancements to our solution to stay competitive, acquiring new technologies, and improving our infrastructure, we have made significant financial investments in our business, and we intend to continue to make such investments. As a result, to provide the funds required for these investments and other business endeavors, we may need to engage in equity or debt financings. For example, in March 2022, we issued to Silver Lake the Initial Notes and have agreed to issue to Silver Lake up to an additional $150.0 million in senior unsecured notes. See Note 9. Debt to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in this Form 10-Q for more information about the 2029 Notes. If we raise additional funds through equity or convertible debt issuances, our existing stockholders may suffer significant dilution, and these securities could have rights, preferences, and privileges that are superior to that of holders of our common stock. If we obtain additional funds through debt financing, we may not be able to obtain such financing on terms favorable to us. Such terms may involve additional restrictive covenants making it difficult to engage in capital raising activities and pursue business opportunities, including potential acquisitions. Future volatility in the trading price of our common stock may reduce our ability to access capital on favorable terms or at all. In addition, a recession, depression or other sustained adverse market event resulting from the spread of COVID-19 could materially and adversely affect our business and the value of our common stock. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us when we require it, our ability to continue to support our business growth and to respond to business challenges could be significantly impaired and our business may be adversely affected, requiring us to delay, reduce, or eliminate some or all of our operations.
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Failure to comply with anti-corruption and anti-money laundering laws, including the FCPA and similar laws associated with our activities outside of the United States, could subject us to penalties and other adverse consequences.
We are subject to the FCPA, the U.S. domestic bribery statute contained in 18 U.S.C. § 201, the U.S. Travel Act, the USA PATRIOT Act, the UK Bribery Act, and possibly other anti-bribery and anti-money laundering laws in countries in which we conduct activities. We face significant risks if we fail to comply with the FCPA and other anti-corruption laws that prohibit companies and their employees and third-party intermediaries from promising, authorizing, offering, or providing, directly or indirectly, improper payments or benefits to foreign government officials, political parties, and private-sector recipients for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business, directing business to any person, or securing any advantage. In many foreign countries, particularly in countries with developing economies, it may be a local custom that businesses engage in practices that are prohibited by the FCPA or other applicable laws and regulations. In addition, we use various third parties to sell our solution and conduct our business abroad. We or our third-party intermediaries may have direct or indirect interactions with officials and employees of government agencies or state-owned or affiliated entities and we can be held liable for the corrupt or other illegal activities of these third-party intermediaries, our employees, representatives, contractors, partners, and agents, even if we do not explicitly authorize such activities. We have implemented an anti-corruption compliance program but cannot assure you that all of our employees and agents, as well as those companies to which we outsource certain of our business operations, will not take actions in violation of our policies and applicable law, for which we may be ultimately held responsible.
Any violation of the FCPA, other applicable anti-corruption laws, and anti-money laundering laws could result in whistleblower complaints, adverse media coverage, investigations, loss of export privileges, or severe criminal or civil sanctions, which could have a materially adverse effect on our reputation, business, operating results, and prospects. In addition, responding to any enforcement action may result in a significant diversion of management’s attention and resources, significant defense costs, and other professional fees.
We are required to comply with governmental export control laws and regulations. Our failure to comply with these laws and regulations could have an adverse effect on our business and operating results.
Our solution is subject to governmental, including United States and European Union, export control laws and import regulations, and as a U.S. company we are covered by the U.S. sanctions regulations. U.S. export control and economic sanctions laws and regulations prohibit the shipment of certain products and services to U.S. embargoed or sanctioned countries, governments, entities and persons, and complying with export control and sanctions regulations for a particular sale may be time-consuming and may result in the delay or loss of sales opportunities. While we take precautions to prevent our solution from being exported in violation of these laws or engaging in any other activities that are subject to these regulations, if we were to fail to comply with U.S. export laws, U.S. Customs regulations and import regulations, U.S. economic sanctions, and other countries’ import and export laws, we could be subject to substantial civil and criminal penalties, including fines for our company, incarceration for responsible employees and managers; the possible loss of export or import privileges which could impact our ability to provide our solution to customers; and reputational harm.
We incorporate encryption technology into certain of our products and certain encryption products may be exported outside of the United States only by a license or a license exception. In addition, various countries regulate the import of certain encryption technology, including import permitting and licensing requirements, and have enacted laws that could limit our ability to distribute our products or could limit our customers’ ability to deploy our products in those countries. Although we take precautions to prevent our products from being provided in violation of such laws, we cannot assure you that inadvertent violations of such laws have not occurred or will not occur in connection with the distribution of our products despite the precautions we take. Governmental regulation of encryption technology and regulation of imports or exports, or our failure to obtain required import or export approval for our products, could harm our international sales and adversely affect our operating results.
Further, if our partners, including suppliers, fail to obtain required import, export, or re-export licenses or permits, we may also be harmed, become the subject of government investigations or penalties, and incur reputational harm. Changes in our solution or changes in export and import regulations may create delays in the introduction of our solution in international markets, prevent our customers with international operations from deploying our solution globally or, in some cases, prevent the export or import of our solution to certain countries, governments, or persons altogether. Any change in export or import laws or regulations, economic sanctions, or
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related legislation, shift in the enforcement or scope of existing laws and regulations, or change in the countries, governments, persons, or technologies targeted by such laws and regulations, could result in decreased use of our solution by, or in our decreased ability to export or sell our solution to, existing or potential customers such as customers with international operations or customers who are added to the restricted entities list published by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). Any decreased use of our solution or limitation on our ability to export or sell our solution would likely harm our business, financial condition, and operating results.
The applicability of sales, use and other tax laws or regulations in the U.S. and internationally on our business is uncertain. Adverse tax laws or regulations could be enacted or existing laws could be applied to us or our customers, which could subject us to additional tax liability and related interest and penalties, increase the costs of our services and adversely impact our business.
The application of federal, state, local, and non-U.S. tax laws to services provided electronically is evolving. New income, sales, use, value-added, or other direct or indirect tax laws, statutes, rules, regulations, or ordinances could be enacted at any time (possibly with retroactive effect), and could be applied solely or disproportionately to services provided over the Internet or could otherwise materially affect our financial position and results of operations. Many countries in the European Union, as well as a number of other countries and organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, have proposed or recommended changes to existing tax laws or have enacted new laws that could impact our tax obligations. As we expand the scale of our international business activities, any changes in the U.S. or foreign taxation of such activities may increase our worldwide effective tax rate and harm our business, results of operations, and financial condition.
In addition, state, local, and foreign tax jurisdictions have differing rules and regulations governing sales, use, value-added, and other taxes, and these rules and regulations can be complex and are subject to varying interpretations that may change over time. Existing tax laws, statutes, rules, regulations, or ordinances could be interpreted, changed, modified, or applied adversely to us (possibly with retroactive effect), which could require us or our customers to pay additional tax amounts on prior sales and going forward, as well as require us or our customers to pay fines or penalties and interest for past amounts. Although our customer contracts typically provide that our customers must pay all applicable sales and similar taxes, our customers may be reluctant to pay back taxes and associated interest or penalties, or we may determine that it would not be commercially feasible to seek reimbursement. If we are required to collect and pay back taxes and associated interest and penalties, or we are unsuccessful in collecting such amounts from our customers, we could incur potentially substantial unplanned expenses, thereby adversely impacting our operating results and cash flows. Imposition of such taxes on our services going forward could also adversely affect our sales activity and have a negative impact on our operating results and cash flows.
Our reported financial results may be adversely affected by changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) is subject to interpretation by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the SEC, and various bodies formed to promulgate and interpret appropriate accounting principles. A change in these principles or interpretations could have a significant effect on our reported financial results, and could affect the reporting of transactions completed before the announcement of a change. Any difficulties in implementing these pronouncements, including those described in Note 2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Recent Accounting Pronouncements of our Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, could cause us to fail to meet our financial reporting obligations, which could result in regulatory discipline and harm investors' confidence in us.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Class A Common Stock
The stock price of our Class A common stock has been and may continue to be volatile, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
The market price of our Class A common stock since our initial public offering in 2018 has been and may continue to be volatile. In addition to factors discussed in this Form 10-Q, the market price of our Class A common stock may fluctuate significantly in response to numerous factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:
overall performance of the equity markets;
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actual or anticipated fluctuations in our revenue and other operating results;
changes in the financial projections we may provide to the public or our failure to meet these projections;
failure of securities analysts to initiate or maintain coverage of us, changes in financial estimates by any securities analysts who follow our company, or our failure to meet these estimates or the expectations of investors;
recruitment or departure of key personnel;
the economy as a whole and market conditions in our industry;
negative publicity related to the real or perceived quality of our solution, as well as the failure to timely launch new products and services that gain market acceptance;
growth of the Subscription Economy;
rumors and market speculation involving us or other companies in our industry;
announcements by us or our competitors of new products, commercial relationships, or significant technical innovations;
acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, or capital commitments;
new laws or regulations or new interpretations of existing laws or regulations applicable to our business;
lawsuits threatened or filed against us, litigation involving our industry, or both;
developments or disputes concerning our or other parties’ products, services, or intellectual property rights;
the inclusion of our Class A common stock on stock market indexes, including the impact of rules adopted by certain index providers, such as S&P Dow Jones Indices and FTSE Russell, that limit or preclude inclusion of companies with multi-class capital structures;
changes in accounting standards, policies, guidelines, interpretations, or principles;
the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, including on the global economy, our operating results and enterprise technology spending;
other events or factors, including those resulting from pandemics, war, incidents of terrorism, or responses to these events, including the ongoing conflict in Ukraine;
sales of shares of our Class A common stock by us or our stockholders;
inflation; and
fluctuations in interest rates.
In addition, the stock markets have experienced extreme price and volume fluctuations that have affected and continue to affect the market prices of equity securities of many companies, particularly during the current period of macroeconomic uncertainty, including rising inflation, increasing interest rates and fluctuations in international currency rates, as well as the impacts of the current conflict in Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic. Stock prices of many companies, and technology companies in particular, have fluctuated in a manner unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies. These economic, political, regulatory and market conditions have and may continue to negatively impact the market price of our common stock. Volatility in our stock price also affects the value of our equity compensation, which affects our ability to recruit and retain employees. If we fail to meet expectations related to future growth, profitability, or other market expectations, our stock price may decline further, which could have a material adverse effect on investor confidence and employee retention. In addition, some companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their securities have been subject to shareholder litigation. We are currently subject to shareholder litigation, which is described in Note 13. Commitments and Contingencies in the notes to our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements. This or any future shareholder litigation could subject us to substantial costs, divert resources and the attention of management from our business, and adversely affect our business.
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The market price of our Class A common stock could decline as a result of a substantial number of shares of our Class A common stock being issued or sold, which may make it more difficult for you to sell your Class A common stock at a time and price that you deem appropriate.
As of November 30, 2022, a total of 125.5 million shares of Class A common stock and 8.1 million shares of Class B common stock were outstanding. Issuances of a substantial number of shares of our Class A common stock, including as a result of the exercise or conversion into Class A common stock of outstanding convertible notes, warrants, equity awards, shares of Class B common stock or other securities, could result in significant dilution to our existing stockholders and cause the market price of our Class A common stock to decline. From time to time, we may issue shares of common stock or securities convertible into shares of common stock in connection with a financing, an acquisition, investments, or otherwise. For example, as described in Note 9. Debt, on March 24, 2022 (Initial Closing Date), we issued to Silver Lake convertible notes in the aggregate principal amount of $250.0 million as well as warrants to purchase up to 7.5 million shares of Class A common stock, and we have agreed to issue additional convertible notes in the aggregate principal amount of $150.0 million to Silver Lake 18 months after the Initial Closing Date (or sooner under certain conditions). In addition, under certain circumstances, the number of shares issuable upon conversion of the convertible notes or exercise of the Warrants may be subject to increase, as described in Note 9. Debt and Note 17. Warrants to Purchase Shares of Common Stock. The conversion of these convertible notes or exercise of these Warrants could result in a substantial number of shares of our Class A common stock being issued. Silver Lake is generally restricted from converting the convertible notes or exercising the Warrants, or transferring them, during the 18 month period following the Initial Closing Date, except in certain circumstances.
In addition, we grant equity awards to employees, directors, and consultants under our 2018 Equity Incentive Plan on an ongoing basis and our employees have the right to purchase shares of our Class A common stock semi-annually under our 2018 Employee Stock Purchase Plan. As of October 31, 2022, there were a total of 25.0 million shares of Class A common stock subject to outstanding options and restricted stock units (RSUs), including performance stock units (PSUs). Subject to vesting and other applicable requirements, the shares issued upon the exercise of such options or settlement of such RSUs will be available for resale in the open market.
Moreover, the market price of our Class A common stock could decline as a result of sales of a large number of shares of our Class A common stock in the market, particularly sales by our directors, executive officers and significant stockholders. The perception that these sales might occur may also cause the market price of our Class A common stock to decline.
We also have granted and may grant from time to time certain registration rights that, subject to certain conditions, require us to file registration statements for the public resale of certain securities or to include such securities in registration statements that we may file on behalf of our company or other stockholders.
If securities or industry analysts do not publish research, or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research, about our business, the price of our Class A common stock and trading volume could decline.
The trading market for our Class A common stock depends in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business. If few securities analysts commence coverage of us, or if industry analysts cease coverage of us, the trading price for our Class A common stock could be negatively affected. If one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our Class A common stock or publish inaccurate or unfavorable research about our business, the price of our Class A common stock would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to publish reports on us regularly, demand for our Class A common stock could decrease, which might cause our Class A common stock price and trading volume to decline.
Even if our stock is actively covered by analysts, we do not have any control over the analysts or the measures that analysts or investors may rely upon to forecast our future results. For example, in order to assess our business activity in a given period, analysts and investors may look at the combination of revenue and changes in deferred revenue in a given period (sometimes referred to as “billings”). Over-reliance on billings or similar measures may result in analyst or investor forecasts that differ significantly from our own for a variety of reasons, including:
a relatively large number of transactions occur at the end of the quarter. Invoicing of those transactions may or may not occur before the end of the quarter based on a number of factors including receipt of information from the customer, volume of transactions, and holidays. A shift of a few days has little economic impact on our business, but will shift deferred revenue from one period into the next;
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a shift in billing frequency (i.e. from monthly to quarterly or from quarterly to annually), which may distort trends;
subscriptions that have deferred start dates; and
services that are invoiced upon delivery.
In addition, the revenue recognition disclosure obligations under Accounting Standards Update (ASU) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) are prepared on the basis of estimates that can change over time and on the basis of events over which we have no control. It is possible that analysts and investors may misinterpret our disclosure or that our methods for estimating this disclosure may differ significantly from others, which could lead to inaccurate or unfavorable forecasts by analysts and investors.
The dual class structure of our common stock has the effect of concentrating voting control with holders of our Class B common stock, including our directors, executive officers, and significant stockholders, which limits or precludes your ability to influence corporate matters, including the election of directors and the approval of any change of control transaction.
Our Class B common stock has ten votes per share, and our Class A common stock has one vote per share. As of October 31, 2022, our directors and executive officers, and their affiliates, held substantially all of our Class B common stock and a substantial portion of the combined voting power of our common stock. As a result, we expect our directors and officers would control all matters submitted to our stockholders for approval until the earlier of (i) the date specified by a vote of the holders of 66 2/3% of the outstanding shares of Class B common stock, (ii) April 16, 2028, and (iii) the date the shares of Class B common stock cease to represent at least 5% of all outstanding shares of our common stock. This concentrated control limits or precludes your ability to influence corporate matters for the foreseeable future, including the election of directors, amendments of our organizational documents, and any merger, consolidation, sale of all or substantially all of our assets, or other major corporate transaction requiring stockholder approval. In addition, this may prevent or discourage unsolicited acquisition proposals or offers for our capital stock that you may feel are in your best interest as one of our stockholders.
Future transfers by holders of Class B common stock will generally result in those shares converting to Class A common stock, subject to limited exceptions, such as certain permitted transfers effected for estate planning purposes. The conversion of Class B common stock to Class A common stock will have the effect, over time, of increasing the relative voting power of those holders of Class B common stock who retain their shares in the long term.
The dual class structure of our common stock may adversely affect the trading market for our Class A common stock.
Stock index providers, such as S&P Dow Jones and FTSE Russell, exclude or limit the eligibility of public companies with multiple classes of shares of common stock for certain indices, including the S&P 500. In addition, several shareholder advisory firms have announced their opposition to the use of multiple class structures. As a result, the dual class structure of our common stock may prevent the inclusion of our Class A common stock in such indices and may cause shareholder advisory firms to publish negative commentary about our corporate governance practices or otherwise seek to cause us to change our capital structure. Any such exclusion from indices could result in a less active trading market for our Class A common stock. Any actions or publications by shareholder advisory firms critical of our corporate governance practices or capital structure could also adversely affect the value of our Class A common stock.
We do not intend to pay dividends for the foreseeable future.
We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock and do not intend to pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Additionally, our ability to pay dividends on our common stock is limited by restrictions under the terms of our Debt Agreement. We anticipate that for the foreseeable future we will retain all of our future earnings for use in the development of our business and for general corporate purposes. Any determination to pay dividends in the future will be at the discretion of our Board of Directors. Accordingly, investors must rely on sales of their common stock after price appreciation, which may never occur, as the only way to realize any future gains on their investments.
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Provisions in our charter documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of our company more difficult, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management, limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees, and limit the market price of our Class A common stock.
Provisions in our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws may have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control or changes in our management. Our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws include provisions that:
provide that our Board of Directors will be classified into three classes of directors with staggered three-year terms;
permit the Board of Directors to establish the number of directors and fill any vacancies and newly-created directorships;
require supermajority voting to amend some provisions in our restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws;
authorize the issuance of “blank check” preferred stock that our Board of Directors could use to implement a stockholder rights plan;
provide that only the chairman of our Board of Directors, our chief executive officer, lead independent director, or a majority of our Board of Directors will be authorized to call a special meeting of stockholders;
provide for a dual class common stock structure in which holders of our Class B common stock may have the ability to control the outcome of matters requiring stockholder approval, even if they own significantly less than a majority of the outstanding shares of our common stock, including the election of directors and significant corporate transactions, such as a merger or other sale of our company or its assets;
prohibit stockholder action by written consent, which requires all stockholder actions to be taken at a meeting of our stockholders;
provide that the Board of Directors is expressly authorized to make, alter, or repeal our bylaws; and
establish advance notice requirements for nominations for election to our Board of Directors or for proposing matters that can be acted upon by stockholders at annual stockholder meetings.
In addition, our restated certificate of incorporation provides that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the exclusive forum for: any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf; any action asserting a breach of fiduciary duty; any action asserting a claim against us arising pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL, our restated certificate of incorporation, or our amended and restated bylaws; or any action asserting a claim against us that is governed by the internal affairs doctrine. This exclusive forum provision does not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Exchange Act. It would apply, however, to a suit that falls within one or more of the categories enumerated in the exclusive forum provision.
Section 22 of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (Securities Act), creates concurrent jurisdiction for federal and state courts over all claims brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. In April 2020, we amended and restated our bylaws to provide that the federal district courts of the United States of America will, to the fullest extent permitted by law, be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act (Federal Forum Provision). Our decision to adopt a Federal Forum Provision followed a decision by the Supreme Court of the State of Delaware holding that such provisions are facially valid under Delaware law. While there can be no assurance that federal or state courts will follow the holding of the Delaware Supreme Court or determine that the Federal Forum Provision should be enforced in a particular case, application of the Federal Forum Provision means that suits brought by our stockholders to enforce any duty or liability created by the Securities Act must be brought in federal court and cannot be brought in state court.
Section 27 of the Exchange Act creates exclusive federal jurisdiction over all claims brought to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder. In addition, neither the exclusive forum provision nor the Federal Forum Provision applies to suits brought to enforce any duty or liability
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created by the Exchange Act. Accordingly, actions by our stockholders to enforce any duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or the rules and regulations thereunder must be brought in federal court. Our stockholders will not be deemed to have waived our compliance with the federal securities laws and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring or holding any interest in any of our securities shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to our exclusive forum provisions, including the Federal Forum Provision. These provisions may limit a stockholders’ ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum of their choosing for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage lawsuits against us and our directors, officers, and other employees.
Moreover, Section 203 of the DGCL may discourage, delay, or prevent a change of control of our company. Section 203 imposes certain restrictions on mergers, business combinations, and other transactions between us and holders of 15% or more of our common stock.
General Risk Factors
Political developments, economic uncertainty or downturns could adversely affect our business and operating results.
Political developments impacting government spending and international trade, including future government shutdowns in the United States, health pandemics such as the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflict such as the conflict in Ukraine, and trade disputes and tariffs, may negatively impact markets and cause weaker macroeconomic conditions. The continuing effect of any or all of these political uncertainties could adversely impact demand for our products, harm our operations and weaken our financial results.
In addition, in recent years, the United States and other significant markets have experienced cyclical downturns and worldwide economic conditions remain uncertain. Economic uncertainty and associated macroeconomic conditions, such as a recession or rising inflation rates or economic slowdown in the United States or internationally, including due to pandemics such as the COVID-19 pandemic or the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, make it extremely difficult for our customers and us to accurately forecast and plan future business activities, and could cause our customers to slow spending on our solution, which could delay and lengthen sales cycles. Furthermore, during uncertain economic times our customers may face issues gaining timely access to sufficient credit, which could result in an impairment of their ability to make timely payments to us. If that were to occur, we may be required to increase our allowance for credit losses and our results could be negatively impacted.
We have customers in a variety of different industries. A significant downturn in the economic activity attributable to any particular industry may cause organizations to react by reducing their capital and operating expenditures in general or by specifically reducing their spending on information technology. In addition, our customers may delay or cancel information technology projects or seek to lower their costs by renegotiating vendor contracts. To the extent purchases of our solution are perceived by customers and potential customers to be discretionary, our revenue may be disproportionately affected by delays or reductions in general information technology spending. Also, customers may choose to develop in-house software or modify their legacy business software as an alternative to using our solution. Moreover, competitors may respond to challenging market conditions by lowering prices and attempting to lure away our customers.
We cannot predict the timing, strength, or duration of any economic slowdown or any subsequent recovery generally, or any industry in particular. If the conditions in the general economy and the markets in which we operate worsen from present levels, our business, financial condition, and operating results could be materially adversely affected.
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The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management’s attention, and affect our ability to attract and retain additional executive management and qualified board members.
As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (Sarbanes-Oxley Act), the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, the listing requirements of the New York Stock Exchange, and other applicable securities rules and regulations. Compliance with these rules and regulations have increased our legal and financial compliance costs, making some activities more difficult, time-consuming, or costly, and increasing demand on our systems and resources. Although we have already hired additional employees and outside consultants to comply with these requirements, we may need to add additional resources, which would increase our costs and expenses.
In addition, changing laws, regulations, and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure are creating uncertainty for public companies, increasing legal and financial compliance costs, and making some activities more time consuming. These laws, regulations, and standards are subject to varying interpretations, in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as market practice develops or new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies. This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations, and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies due to ambiguities related to their application and practice, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us, and our business may be adversely affected.
The rules and regulations applicable to public companies make it more expensive for us to obtain and maintain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain coverage. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified members of our Board of Directors, particularly to serve on our audit committee and compensation committee, and qualified executive officers.
As a result of disclosure of information in our public company filings, our business and financial condition is more visible, which may result in threatened or actual litigation, including by competitors and other third parties. If such claims are successful, our business and operating results could be adversely affected, and even if the claims do not result in litigation or are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert the resources of our management and adversely affect our business and operating results.
In addition, as a result of our disclosure obligations as a public company, we have reduced flexibility and are under pressure to focus on short-term results, which may adversely affect our ability to achieve long-term profitability.
If we fail to maintain an effective system of disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting, our ability to produce timely and accurate financial statements or comply with applicable regulations could be impaired.
As a public company, we are required, pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, to furnish a report by management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. Effective internal control over financial reporting is necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports and, together with adequate disclosure controls and procedures, are designed to prevent fraud. Any failure to implement required new or improved controls, or difficulties encountered in their implementation, could cause us to fail to meet our reporting obligations. Ineffective internal controls could also cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information, which could have a negative effect on the trading price of our Class A common stock. This management report will need to include disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting, as well as a statement that our independent registered public accounting firm has issued an opinion on our internal control over financial reporting.
Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires our independent registered public accounting firm to annually attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, which has required, and will continue to require, increased costs, expenses, and management resources. An independent assessment of the effectiveness of our internal controls could detect problems that our management’s assessment might not. Undetected material weaknesses in our internal controls could lead to financial statement restatements and require us to incur the expense of remediation. We are required to disclose changes made in our internal controls and
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procedures on a quarterly basis. To comply with the requirements of being a public company, we have undertaken, and may need to further undertake in the future, various actions, such as implementing new internal controls and procedures and hiring additional accounting or internal audit staff.
If we are unable to assert that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control, including as a result of any identified material weakness, we could lose investor confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, which would cause the price of our Class A common stock to decline, and we may be subject to investigation or sanctions by the SEC. In addition, if we are unable to continue to meet these requirements, we may not be able to remain listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
We may be adversely affected by natural disasters, pandemics, and other catastrophic events, and by man-made problems such as terrorism, that could disrupt our business operations. Our business continuity and disaster recovery plans may not adequately protect us from a serious disaster.
Natural disasters, pandemics and epidemics, or other catastrophic events such as fire, power shortages, and other events beyond our control may cause damage or disruption to our operations, international commerce, and the global economy, and could have an adverse effect on our business, operating results, and financial condition. For example, the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the precautionary measures that we have adopted have resulted in, and could continue to result in, customers not purchasing or renewing our products or services, a significant delay or lengthening of our sales cycles, and could negatively impact our customer success and sales and marketing efforts and could result in difficulties or changes to our customer support, or create operational or other challenges, any of which could harm our business and operating results.
In the event of a natural disaster, including a major earthquake, blizzard, wildfire, or hurricane, or a catastrophic event such as a fire, power loss, or telecommunications failure, we may be unable to continue our operations and may endure system interruptions, reputational harm, delays in development of our solution, lengthy interruptions in service, breaches of data security, and loss of critical data, all of which could have an adverse effect on our future operating results. For example, our corporate headquarters is located in California, a state that frequently experiences earthquakes and wildfires. Additionally, all of the aforementioned risks may be further increased if we do not implement a disaster recovery plan or the disaster recovery plans put in place by Zuora or our partners prove to be inadequate.
Investors’ expectations of our performance relating to environmental, social, and governance factors may expose us to new risks and require us to incur additional costs.

Corporate responsibility, including environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors, is increasingly becoming a focus from certain investors, employees, and other stakeholders. Some investors may use these factors to guide their investment strategies and, in some cases, may choose not to invest in us if they believe our corporate responsibility policies are inadequate. Third-party providers of corporate responsibility ratings and reports on companies have increased to meet growing investor demand for measurement of corporate responsibility performance. The criteria by which companies’ corporate responsibility practices are assessed may require significant expenditures. In May 2022, we announced our commitment to remain carbon neutral going forward, including by purchasing carbon offsets in future years, which may become increasingly more expensive. In addition, the corporate responsibility criteria could change, which could result in greater expectations of us and cause us to undertake more costly initiatives to satisfy such new criteria. If we elect not to or are unable to satisfy such new criteria, investors may conclude that our policies with respect to corporate responsibility are inadequate. We may face reputational damage in the event that our corporate responsibility procedures or standards do not meet the standards set by various constituencies.

Furthermore, if our competitors’ corporate responsibility performance is perceived to be greater than ours, potential or current investors may elect to invest with our competitors instead. In addition, in the event that we communicate certain initiatives and goals regarding ESG matters, we could fail, or be perceived to fail, in our achievement of such initiatives or goals, or we could be criticized for the scope of such initiatives or goals. If we fail to satisfy the expectations of investors, employees, and other stakeholders, or, if our initiatives are not executed as planned, our reputation and business, operating results, and financial condition could be adversely impacted.

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Item 2.    Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Not Applicable.
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Item 6. Exhibits.
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* The certifications furnished in Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 hereto are deemed to accompany this Form 10-Q and are not deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Exchange Act, or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, nor shall they be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.


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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
 ZUORA, INC.
Date: December 8, 2022 By:/s/ Todd McElhatton
 Todd McElhatton
 
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Accounting and Financial Officer)


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