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Chargebee

Starting at $249 per month
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What is Chargebee?

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…

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Chargebee is a versatile software that solves a range of billing and subscription management problems for businesses. Users have found it …
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Pricing

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Rise

$249

Cloud
per month

Scale

$549

Cloud
per month

Enterprise

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Cloud

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.chargebee.com/pricing.html

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

KuberLogic installation and configuration demo +chargebee (billing) configuration

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Chargebee + Avalara Demo

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ChargeBee Demo @UnPluggd

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How Jiobit monetized its IoT Subscriptions using Chargebee

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Product Details

What is Chargebee?

Chargebee is a PCI DSS Level 1 certified recurring billing system for SaaS and subscription based eCommerce businesses.

This customizable platform supports 30+ leading worldwide payment gateway integrations, such as Stripe, Braintree etc., and alternative payment methods like PayPal and Amazon Payments - to allow users to automate payment collection, invoicing, email notifications and subscription management.

According the vendor, with the real-time, actionable SaaS metrics and analytics insights provided on the dashboard, users can understand the unit economics of their subscription business and drive their business growth with ease.

Businesses can also add unlimited users/user roles, with role based access, so that their support, sales and accounting teams have access to the relevant, up-to-date information on their customers.

With power packed integrations such as Shopify, Squarespace, MailChimp, ShipStation, Refersion, Google Analytics, and Zapier - businesses can sell their subscription products online, send personalized emails to their subscribers, ship their products, create referral programs, track the customer behaviours and integrate with hundreds of other web apps - all in one place.

With customers in over 48 countries, Chargebee says it offers the smartest solution for managing subscription billing and provides a scalable platform for businesses to grow, without worrying about losing control or creating administrative nightmares.

Chargebee Features

  • Supported: Recurring Billing
  • Supported: Customer Portal
  • Supported: Automated e-Invoicing
  • Supported: Hosted Checkout Pages (with Theme Support)
  • Supported: Automated Email Notifications
  • Supported: Dunning Management
  • Supported: Multiple Gateway Support
  • Supported: Metered Billing
  • Supported: EU VAT Support
  • Supported: CRM, Accounting Integration
  • Supported: Trial management
  • Supported: SaaS Metrics Reports
  • Supported: Robust, clean RESTful APIs
  • Supported: Multiple Webhooks
  • Supported: Consolidated Customer Profiles
  • Supported: Offline Billing
  • Supported: Grandfathering
  • Supported: One Time Payments
  • Supported: Coupons, Discounts and Add-ons
  • Supported: Credit Notes and Proration
  • Supported: Multicurrency support
  • Supported: Custom Domain for Hosted Checkout Pages

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

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Chargebee Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesUnited States, United Kingdom, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Gibraltar, Germany, Greece, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, Isle of Man, Ireland, Italy, Jersey, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, San Marino, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Vatican City
Supported LanguagesEnglish

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Zoho Billing, Zuora, and Maxio are common alternatives for Chargebee.

The most common users of Chargebee are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

Chargebee is a versatile software that solves a range of billing and subscription management problems for businesses. Users have found it particularly effective in identifying and retaining unhappy customers, thus reducing churn. By allowing the usage of credit coupons and the adjustment of billing dates, Chargebee provides a better billing experience, ensuring customer satisfaction. It also helps sales and marketing teams to run special promotions with accuracy in content delivery.

With its comprehensive subscription management platform, Chargebee enables businesses to seamlessly manage licenses and handle invoicing for credit card transactions. Users appreciate how Chargebee automates AR collections, accounting work, and communication with clients, making recurring billing hassle-free. This has proven to be a significant time-saver for teams across organizations, including Sales, Product, and Customer Success. Additionally, Chargebee's user-friendly interface, accompanied by its good documentation and responsive customer support, provides a seamless experience during set up and use.

The rich feature set of Chargebee supports various business areas and helps track important metrics such as annual recurring revenue, churn rate, and leads for SaaS businesses. It revolutionizes how customers are charged and simplifies subscription management through functions like generating invoices, automated payment follow-ups, and creating reports. Integration with payment tracking platforms like QuickBooks ensures accurate payment updates.

Chargebee is widely used by organizations to manage payments, refunds, credits, and subscriptions accurately for every customer. The CS team relies on it for processing refunds while the Billing team benefits from its flexible payment plan features. The engineering team finds value in integrating Chargebee with other systems. Moreover, subscription box companies utilize Chargebee for managing subscribers and gift plans as well as creating and redeeming coupon codes.

Overall, Chargebee accelerates subscription income growth and improves efficiencies in sales processes while providing excellent CRM integration support for small to medium-sized businesses.

User Interface: Users have consistently found Chargebee's user interface to be simple, intuitive, and easy to navigate. Many reviewers have stated that the dashboard design is particularly intuitive, allowing them to access necessary information quickly and perform tasks efficiently within the software.

Dunning Feature: The dunning feature in Chargebee has been praised by users for its ability to automate the collection of expired credit card information. Several reviewers have mentioned that this feature saves them a significant amount of time compared to manual handling. They appreciate how it streamlines their payment collection process and improves overall efficiency.

Integration Capabilities: Chargebee's seamless integration with other SaaS tools, such as licensing systems and accounting software, has been highly valued by users. Multiple customers have expressed their appreciation for how easily they can generate trials, handle billing accurately, and manage subscriptions with these integrations. They find it effective in streamlining their processes and improving overall operational efficiency.

Flexibility and Compatibility Issues: Users have reported difficulties with the software's flexibility and compatibility, specifically when it comes to adding one-time purchases without making them ongoing subscriptions. Some users have mentioned that this has caused problems from a reporting perspective, as one-time purchasers are mistakenly included as subscribers.

Limited Email Automation Customization: The email automation feature is not considered robust by some users, who find it difficult to customize triggers based on subscription. They express a desire for the ability to send different messages to different subscribers for specific actions.

Lack of Credit Card Update Feature: Some users have expressed frustration with the absence of a feature that allows them to write off and cancel subscriptions for customers who haven't updated their credit card information. They describe this process as long, painful, and manual. Additionally, if such a feature exists, it is not clearly communicated.

Users have made several recommendations based on their experiences with Chargebee. One common recommendation is to try Chargebee as a lower-cost solution for subscription management. Users describe it as a great service that simplifies the process, making it particularly beneficial for small teams without dedicated dev resources. The fact that the first $50k is free is also highlighted as a significant advantage for small businesses.

Another recommendation is to use Chargebee for managing billing and subscriptions. Users appreciate its solid product and detailed usage guides, and they also praise the great support provided by Chargebee. This makes it a reliable choice for subscription management.

Users also suggest considering other options before using Chargebee for Salesforce integration. While they encourage focusing on building the product and letting Chargebee handle the rest, they advise exploring other alternatives for subscription/recurring payment databases.

Overall, users recommend trying Chargebee due to its ease of use and suitability for subscription management. They also suggest taking advantage of its integrations with CRM platforms like Hubspot. Lastly, users emphasize the value of the no-obligation trial period in giving Chargebee a try.

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Reviews

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Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Rithvik Podduturi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Stripe
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 return was good.
February 08, 2022

Trustworthy product

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 the resolution.
February 07, 2022

Chargebee Review

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 assistance from their support team and a waiting period
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 agents can access even if they don't have access to Chargebee itself.
Shivam Shrivastava | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 harder to work with.

Stripe is an amazing option, but their billing platform is newer, so does not have as many features as Chargebee yet. There were a few key features that made it so that we couldn't go with Stripe. If you have a fairly normal SaaS use case then Stripe may be a great option. Our use case was a bit unique.
Will Goad | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 integration with our tool has made it much easier to use.
jeffrey samorano | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 profitability much longer and had a steeper implementation curve. Chargebee was incredibly easy to set up, test, and deploy. I was selling my plans and generating revenue in just a couple of days.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
  • Stripe
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 customers/clients.
Dailius Wilson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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 often has very taxing pricing structures
Matt Heerema | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 came on the market would beat out Chargebee if we were starting from scratch at the moment, but migrating hundreds of subscriptions is currently a no-go for us.
Brad Henderson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
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 on their website like Chargebee does. I had heard good things about chargebee and its worked great for our business.
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