Chargebee vs. sticky.io

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chargebee
Score 8.5 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.
$599
per month for up to USD 100K of billing per month; 0.75% on billing thereafter
sticky.io
Score 9.0 out of 10
N/A
sticky.io (formerly LimeLight), headquartered in San Francisco, offers their subscription business management platform supporting ecommerce transactions and recurring billing along with customer management, payment gateway, and fraud protected transacting.N/A
Pricing
Chargebeesticky.io
Editions & Modules
Scale
$599
per month for up to USD 100K of billing per month; 0.75% on billing thereafter
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Chargebeesticky.io
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNo transaction based fees. No setup cost.
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Community Pulse
Chargebeesticky.io
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Chargebee
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Pabbly, FastSpring, Braintree and a PayPal service
Chose Chargebee
Chargebee is much better in terms of clean intuitive product features, inbuilt analytics, and implementation support. Zoho has so many products and their focus is not their billing product. But they give free trials and you need to pay per licence only if you scale. overall, I …
Chose Chargebee
Yes, it is one of the payments gateways but they have so many features like recurring subscriptions, invoicing, and all at very very affordable prices and with great support. I wish chargebee look at the pricing at least for developing countries like India.
Chose Chargebee
We looked at Stripe for a while, just based off of previous knowledge and awareness of the system. Chargebee's design and interface stood out against other SaaS platforms and the integration you have while using it is a must have. Maximizing revenue was a focal point and the …
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 …
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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
Chargebee stands out among other service providers because of its user-friendly interface and accessibility. The documentation is also very extensive and gives developers a lot of options. It connects all of our client billing information into our database, which our sales …
Chose Chargebee
Chargebee is a class apart from Zoho books - better in all aspects - better interface, more functionalities, integrations that actually work, responsive support, customisable automated reporting, more customizability.

The only difference is pricing - Zoho comes at about 10% of …
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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.
Chose Chargebee
I was using just Authorize.Net for recurring billing. Chargebee is better for automatic emails, but that's it. Wish I would not have made this change.
Chose Chargebee
We evaluated Chargebee vs. Zuora and Stripe. Zuora has a lot of enterprise-level companies, so from an optics perspective is "safer", but we found their integration to be more difficult, their cost to be more expensive, their UI to be more complicated, and their APIs to be …
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I believe that for monthly subscription payments, Chargebee is easier to navigate and use than SaaSoptics. That said, I believe it lacks some of the advanced functionality. While I’m not fully sure if that is the case, I think that maybe due to its goals being different. The …
Chose Chargebee
I considered using WooCommerce, cart66, Sam cart, Shopify, big commerce, and a few others I can't recall at the moment. Each one of those options had either limiting abilities to create flexible plans or required expensive add-ons that would make it the timeline to …
Chose Chargebee
It was too troublesome to use Stripe. Connecting Stripe to Chargebee was so much easier and the invoices were exactly how I wanted them to be. It was just easier to organize all your plans in Chargebee, and I loved the numerous type of emails you could send out to …
Chose Chargebee
A strong balance between flexibility and simplicity -- Chargebee has proved to be a product that is well liked across the organization, and from a technical standpoint does not present too many hiccups for our developers. We also feel the pricepoint is good in a market which …
Chose Chargebee
I've used them all and most of them are either: Too expensive (charging high %) Awful products (not enough features or bad UI/UX)
Chose Chargebee
Chargebee's price per feature set beat out Recurly, it's the closest competitor that we evaluated. Its automated subscription billing was a core feature over Xero (our accounting and invoicing system, which we still use in tandem with Chargebee). Stripe's new features that just …
Chose Chargebee
Launch plan, Support, API's - everything was amazing for Chargebee. So much that we never really evaluated Chargify.
Chose Chargebee
Honestly I didn't look into recurly much, nor have I used them because it was a lot more expensive (for an early stage startup like ours was when we started using it). At least as far as I recall, they could have changed their pricing structure but they don't list their pricing …
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
7.2
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10.0
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Usability
7.0
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Support Rating
8.0
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User Testimonials
Chargebeesticky.io
Likelihood to Recommend
Chargebee is also one of the best platform in order to provide proper billing management to the customers by providing their configuration needs to be corrected in order to deploy and made the connection relevant to the specific position which is one of the best usecase.It also provides support in order to rectifying issues.
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Lime Light CRM was built specifically for online marketers, helping them to manage their online sales, contacts, orders, and payments. The software combines a number of features and 3rd party provider integrations to offer the ability to store customer data, build online eCommerce campaigns, create sales reports, and automate order management activities, as well as track, store and report on affiliate data.
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Pros
  • 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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  • For an easy to learn CRM this would be it, you can fully train someone on Limelight in less than a few days
  • It allows for various wildcard searches to be performed in different fields, which speeds up productivity and requires less request to repeat information to locate accounts while speaking to clients.
  • The CRM holds multiple user accounts and products, and shows failed attempts to purchase and gives reason codes for why the purchase was not successful. Allows for different views to review client accounts.
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Cons
  • [I feel] customer service never actually fixes any problems. They make you gather information they easily could, write up a big report of the problem, and then tell you why it's not working (usually not even correct). [In my experience] they never actually solve a problem. Not to mention, [in my experience] you can never speak with anyone immediately and coms turnaround is usually over 24 hours.
  • So far, I can not get my customers to checkout online, even after hiring professional developers to help.
  • [I believe] QBO sync is a mess.
  • My account is set up to send payment tokens to Authorize.Net, and no matter how much I disable every possible security feature, I still have 100's of declined cards, that work perfectly well.
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  • Note taking can be a hassle, when writing notes there is not a separate tab, or dedicated area which allows for multiple users to leave notes for future users, or administrators to reference regarding actions made to the account, users must search per line item to view notes, or go to a different view to see all notes which is still per line item as you toggle through the notes
  • If the client has been with the product for several months or years it is a lot of notes you have to reference through which hurts productivity and creates longer calls. A huge con is when you are canceling out a user account, or if you are changing a recurring date if the user clicks the back button after the tasks completes refreshing the webpage to reflect the new dates, the new changes will go undone and revert back to the original data as if no changes were made resulting in user error. The client continues to be billed and discounts continue to apply.
  • The CRM needs to fix this to prompt "Do you want to undo discount/date change/cancellation?" if the back button is clicked to eliminate user error based on the software limitations. Features which can be customized to automatically perform after actions are done on an account need a function to allow for agents to resend emails if the user did not get them. If automatic emails go to users canceling and they did not get it you have to restart the product then cancel it again to have another automatic email sent to the client/customer or manually send an email. For refunds, if the automatic email did not go out you have to manually send out the email which is time-consuming allocating to another agent or for the current agent. There is a need for an upgrade which allows that after an automatic email has been sent a button will appear which says "resend cancellation" "resend refund" this should also be true if the user inputted the email wrong and it was only noticed by agent after the automatic email was sent and the agent needs to update the email for the client/customer to be able to receive the email at the correct address.
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Usability
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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Support Rating
Chargebee is simple to use, and we have had little need for support.
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Alternatives Considered
Chargebee is a class apart from Zoho Books - better in all aspects - better interface, more functionalities, integrations that actually work, responsive support, customisable automated reporting, more customizability. The only difference is pricing - Zoho comes at about 10% of what Chargebee costs. So for startups looking to graduate from Google Sheets and on a budget - Zoho will serve your purposes - but eventually will have to move to something like a Chargebee.
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Return on Investment
  • Chargebee has allowed us to focus on the most important part of our business: the product, instead of cumbersome development to manage subscriptions. The time ROI that it saved allowing us to get our product to market was invaluable.
  • Chargebee also made sense financially. Paying the subscription was far cheaper than developing something similar (or even far inferior) ourselves
  • Overall it's saved us quite a bit of time, money, and allows employees to easily manage subscriptions which is extremely important to us.
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  • Customizable Reporting
  • Automatic Reminders
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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