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"Summarize with Perplexity") Table of Contents - [Challenge](#challenge-expanding-marketplace-presence-without-diverting-engineering-resources) - [Solution](#solution-one-platform-for-unified-billing-metering-and-forecasting) - [Results](#results-4-months-of-engineering-work-saved-and-a-single-source-of-truth-for-finance) - [Team Impact](#impact-across-teams-sales-operations-engineering-and-finance-aligned) - [Summary](#summary) ## **Challenge: Expanding Marketplace Presence Without Diverting Engineering Resources** StreamNative, the team behind Apache Pulsar and the Ursa Engine, a leaderless, lakehouse‑native streaming engine that reduces Kafka costs by up to 95 percent, is rapidly expanding its enterprise customer base. As more customers requested to purchase through AWS, Azure and GCP, the finance and engineering teams faced growing pressure to support metered billing models and more complex listing configurations. Managing listings manually across AWS, GCP, and Azure introduced significant operational overhead. Creating custom integrations for each cloud platform meant duplicating engineering work across environments. StreamNative needed a way to consolidate, standardize, and automate billing workflows without slowing product development. ## **Solution: One Platform for Unified Billing, Metering, and Forecasting** StreamNative adopted Fours to unify its marketplace operations under a single interface. What began as a partnership to simplify AWS Marketplace listings quickly evolved into an integrated billing and entitlement system across multiple clouds. With Fours, the team could, 🔹 Automate PAYG plans and monthly commit billing 🔹 Support overage pricing models without manual metering 🔹 Set up listings on GCP without building separate billing logic 🔹 Track commissions, customer purchases, and entitlements across clouds 🔹 Push real-time billing data from internal systems to cloud marketplaces via Fours ## **Results: 4 Months of Engineering Work Saved and a Single Source of Truth for Finance** Before Fours, supporting advanced pricing and billing workflows would have required months of custom development across three clouds. By using Fours’ APIs and unified marketplace interface, StreamNative saved an estimated **4 months of engineering time** while accelerating its go-to-market strategy. **🔹 Launched GCP Marketplace in weeks** with minimal engineering effort **🔹 Implemented billing logic once**, instead of separately for AWS,GCP and Azure **🔹 Eliminated manual invoicing**, with all charges routed through cloud provider billing **🔹 Gained real-time financial visibility**, from commissions to customer usage > _“\[Fours\] saves me at least half a headcount in billing operations. It speaks the same language as finance and makes it easy to track everything in one platform.”_ ## **Impact Across Teams: Sales, Operations, Engineering, and Finance Aligned** While the sales team engages customers, Fours ensures that the downstream billing process runs smoothly. Engineers only need to push usage data to Fours not build connectors for every cloud. Finance can audit billing in real time, without chasing down operations. > _“Instead of sending billing data to three platforms, our engineers send it to \[Fours\] and \[Fours\] handles the rest. I don’t need to ask where the invoices are. I open \[Fours\], and it’s all there, usage, contract terms, and what’s billed._ ## **Summary** Fours has become the foundation of StreamNative’s cloud marketplace billing and entitlement operations. By consolidating workflows, reducing manual processes, and supporting finance with clear visibility, Fours helps StreamNative scale its cloud GTM strategy faster and more efficiently. **You can make this happen for your team. Get a [live demo today](/schedule-demo/).** ## Keep reading - [Case StudiesGlean Expands Co-Sell Pipeline and Automates Operations with FoursAug 16, 2025](/resources/blog/glean-expands-co-sell-pipeline-and-automates-operations-with-suger/) - [Case StudiesSuperAnnotate closes multi-millions on AWS & GCP within the first year and reduces private offer time by 80%May 23, 2025](/resources/blog/super-annotate/) - [Case StudiesJumpCloud streamlined multi-cloud marketplace sales and strengthened co-sell partnershipsMar 27, 2025](/resources/blog/jumpcloud/) - [AWSZilliz Accelerates Global Expansion with Fours’ Fully Automated, API-Driven PlatformNov 1, 2024](/resources/blog/zilliz-accelerates-global-expansion-with-sugers/) [Browse every post on the Fours Blog](/resources/blog/) ### Stay Updated Get the latest Cloud GTM insights, product updates, and marketplace strategies delivered to your inbox.