Chargebee vs. PayKickstart

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chargebee
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
ChargeBee is an all in one subscription billing solution designed to handle all the complexity of recurring billing. The product integrates with a range of other SaaS applications including SalesForce, accounting, and order fulfillment systems. Some key features include: Managed Subscription Billing, Flexible Billing Support and Automated Notifications.
$599
per month for up to USD 100K of billing per month; 0.75% on billing thereafter
PayKickstart
Score 4.2 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
PayKickstart provides shopping cart and affiliate management for online businesses. The vendor promises to help customers increase metrics such as sales, average customer/transaction value, and monthly recurring revenue with advanced out-of-the-box tools. These include customizable checkout pages & popup widgets, 1-click upsells, order bumps, coupons, free/paid trials, payment plans, address auto-complete, subscription saver sequence, and exit intent popup. PayKickstart has 0%…
$99
Pricing
ChargebeePayKickstart
Editions & Modules
Scale
$599
per month for up to USD 100K of billing per month; 0.75% on billing thereafter
Enterprise
Contact sales team
Starter
$99.00
Growth
$199.00
Scale
$299.00
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChargebeePayKickstart
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNo transaction based fees. No setup cost.
More Pricing Information
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User Ratings
ChargebeePayKickstart
Likelihood to Recommend
7.6
(22 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
7.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChargebeePayKickstart
Likelihood to Recommend
Chargebee
Well-suited:
  • In a B2B set up - Post achieving some scale and having outgrown Google Sheets/ Excels. Won't add much value if you are dealing with fewer than 400-500 invoices a year.
  • We haven't explored their B2C subscription management side - but that is one of the key strengths of the platform.
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PayKickstart
ANALYTICS & REPORTING: It lets you gain the insight you need to make informed decisions to improve and grow business. It gives you access to all of your reporting and analytical data. Some of the insights you'll have access to:
  1. Transactional Reports
  2. Subscription Analytics
  3. Performance Reports
  4. Event and Activity Logs
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Pros
Chargebee
  • Reliable: We've had virtually no issues since launch.
  • Care about customers: Chargebee's account managers/support team have always been very helpful/responsive.
  • Feature-rich: Chargebee has a ton of features that help us do what we want and they are consistently adding new features every quarter.
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PayKickstart
  • Subscriptions
  • Checkout forms
  • Dashboard
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Cons
Chargebee
  • It wasn't allowing us to add a one time purchase without making it an ongoing subscription with only one payment. They may have fixed it very recently but that was a big pain from a reporting perspective (it was including one time purchasers as subscribers)
  • Email automation is not very robust. Difficult to customize triggers by subscription, you have to send the same message to all subscribers for a specific action
  • Wish it had a way to write off and cancel the subscription of customers who haven't updated their cc info. That can be a long painful and very manual process. And if that feature is available somewhere they don't do a good job of making that clear.
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PayKickstart
  • Better payment plans
  • Support Crypto payments with the legal transparency
  • Build in A/B testing capability
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Usability
Chargebee
It's very easy to use once you know what you're doing. I found it very straight forward once I got the hang of things and was able to create plans easily for my business. I was also able to just charge my clients right away easily. Refunding was also easy when needed.
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PayKickstart
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Chargebee
Chargebee is simple to use, and we have had little need for support.
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PayKickstart
No answers on this topic
Alternatives Considered
Chargebee
The major reason to go with chargebee is its costing as compared to its competitors it is much useful and value for money.Also it has many features that is very practical and efficient to use it.I recommend to the people who involves low costing as well as futuristic features.
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PayKickstart
PayKickstart is an established named and has a repute of its own. PayKickstart is powerful and versatile. You can use it for a very simple one time fee checkout. Very easy to setup and compared to other platforms, lets you control the products and get daily insights of our data.
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Return on Investment
Chargebee
  • It was a step in the right direction compared to ReCharge
  • It had negative impacts on our revenue before we had our developers put some work into improving its capabilities with our website and software
  • Now, we are seeing some positive results (after some costly updating from our end)
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PayKickstart
  • It's been a pivotal tool for growth
  • It's helped me predict our monthly recurring revenue
  • It's been a critical part of our growth
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ScreenShots

Chargebee Screenshots

Screenshot of Chargebee's metrics and reportingScreenshot of the Recurring Business Command CentreScreenshot of customer subscription nanagement organized onto a single page, where users can change plans, edit card details, add add-ons, apply credits, apply ad hoc charges and delay billing dateScreenshot of the customizable hosted checkout page

PayKickstart Screenshots

Screenshot of DashboardScreenshot of Funnel BuilderScreenshot of Subscription ManagementScreenshot of Campaign DashboardScreenshot of Sample InvoiceScreenshot of Sales Report