Revenue Automation Series: Modernizing Yelp's Legacy Billing System
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Simon Zeng, Payments Tech Lead; Supriya Lal, Commerce Platform Group Tech Lead
- Dec 6, 2024
This blog focuses on how Yelp successfully implemented a multi-year, cross-organizational initiative to modernize its billing processes. The goal was to automate its revenue recognition system by enhancing integration capabilities with third-party financial systems, all while maintaining the accuracy and reliability our users expect. Summary When Yelp first developed its billing system a decade ago, the database design was based on the requirements known at that time. These initial choices laid the foundation for the billing system, upon which multiple Yelp systems and processes were built. However, as the company evolved, it became evident that these design choices were not...