Chargebee vs. Maxio

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chargebee
Score 7.5 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.
$249
per month
Maxio
Score 4.9 out of 10
N/A
Chargify provides a SaaS billing solution that handles free trial periods, one-time fees, promotions, refunds, email receipts. They support billing your customers by credit card or invoicing for larger accounts. Prices start at $65/month for 20 customers, and trend upward to $1,299/month for 10,000 customers
$599
per month
Pricing
ChargebeeMaxio
Editions & Modules
Rise
$249
per month
Scale
$549
per month
Enterprise
Contact sales team
Essentials
$599
per month
Growth
Custom
Scale
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChargebeeMaxio
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNo transaction based fees. No setup cost. No monthly contracts. No hidden fees.—
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Community Pulse
ChargebeeMaxio
Considered Both Products
Chargebee
Chose Chargebee
One of the easiest and cheapest way in order to work on the separate billing system which includes sales in the production also maintains in order to collect payments from different payment gateway which is one of the easiest task in the beginning for the procedure and provide …
Chose Chargebee
Chargebee was our best option with Shopify being used for orders. I miss Chargify, but that only works well with Wordpress.

ReCharge was problematic in the past, but they may be better now. Chargebee allows us to make our own bulk edits to subs, while ReCharge required …
Chose 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.
Maxio
Chose Maxio
Maxio (via information we found on their website and in the initial sales call) seemed like the most comprehensive fit at the time and we liked the interface. We eventually found out that there was a massive gap between what was promised us and what was actually delivered. …
Chose Maxio

Chargify met a list of set requirements and our budget at the time. The main items were:

  1. Salesforce integration
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User Ratings
ChargebeeMaxio
Likelihood to Recommend
6.9
(19 ratings)
1.7
(23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChargebeeMaxio
Likelihood to Recommend
Chargebee Inc
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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Maxio (SaaSOptics + Chargify)
In my opinion, Maxio is well suited for a large company with simple products/billing scenarios and 10s of thousands of dollars available to waste on implementation, learning curve, and mistakes. For any other company, I do not advise purchasing Maxio.
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Pros
Chargebee Inc
  • 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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Maxio (SaaSOptics + Chargify)
  • Managing deferred revenue.
  • Contract management is flexible and allows us to see data that we never had before.
  • Billing is painless and is now done within a couple hours. Previously it would take at least 1-2 days.
  • Business Metrics and Reporting.
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Cons
Chargebee Inc
  • 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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Maxio (SaaSOptics + Chargify)
  • Options for Cash-based businesses. While it's not GAAP compliant and most users are accrual, many SaaS start ups are still small and operating on a cash basis.
  • Commissions Module since SO already has all our data intergrations
  • So many different features and data entry points that manual data entry errors are common
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Likelihood to Renew
Chargebee Inc
No answers on this topic
Maxio (SaaSOptics + Chargify)
They are a crucial piece of what we do. We hope to have them as a vendor for a long time to come.
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Usability
Chargebee Inc
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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Maxio (SaaSOptics + Chargify)
No answers on this topic
Support Rating
Chargebee Inc
Chargebee is simple to use, and we have had little need for support.
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Maxio (SaaSOptics + Chargify)
They are willing to help with most challenges and are pretty easy to get ahold of by phone. They are limited in their reach, when it comes to bulk cancellations, along with some other bulk edits. It is no fault to them, Chargify is just a system that hasn’t been upgraded much over the years.
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Alternatives Considered
Chargebee Inc
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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Maxio (SaaSOptics + Chargify)
I inherited SaaSOptics from several predecessors that worked on it before me. I believe they used Chargebee or Chargify before SaaSOptics, but I haven't used them. I pray that the market comes up with a better product for subscription revenue management, SaaS metric reporting, and financial projections. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or the team to be able to successfully complete the transition to new software at this time, so I feel like I'm stuck with SaaSOptics at this point
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Return on Investment
Chargebee Inc
  • 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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Maxio (SaaSOptics + Chargify)
  • Limitations in Chargify's invoicing capability has resulted in our finance team having to manually send invoices from our accounting system. This has resulted in 10-15 hours a week of resource wasted on something that Chargify should automatically do. If this isn't addressed, then the wasted time will increase as we scale.
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ScreenShots

Chargebee Screenshots

Screenshot of Recurring Business Command CentreScreenshot of Customizable Hosted Checkout PageScreenshot of Reporting and MetricsScreenshot of Subscription ManagementScreenshot of Customer Portal: Self-Service Portal