Maxio

We used Maxio to help us recognize revenue and track ARR. Maxio generated journal entries that made it easy to recognize revenue in QuickBooks Online, as well as easy reporting for understanding churn and concentration.

For us as a SaaS startup this simplified our revenue recognition and ensured we were GAAP compliant. It's possible for larger companies, this can be done by bookkeepers or more advanced QBO knowledge.

We use Maxio to bill our customers with their subscriptions, so we use it for billing purposes. We also use Maxio for reporting and metrics.

It is well suited for all SAAS businesses, but if you are integrated with Xero, it has big limitations and we are dealing with a lot of trouble on a daily basis. Otherwise, the Maxio site itself is great and has nice features.

We signed up for Maxio because we needed more billing features and flexibility. We were using QBO and SamCart (and still use them in some capacity). However, we were using QBO for our custom contracts for [...] and QBO doesn't have a PCI-compliant signup page for customers and lacks the ability to autobill customers for the duration of their contract. SamCart offers the PCI-compliant signup page but lacks the ability to create custom contracts (flexible on duration and amount) under a singular product. We also were looking for a solution for billing for our usage-based software business (...).

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.

SaaSOptics (SO) integrates with our CRM (Salesforce) and our GL accounting software (Quickbooks Online; QBO). I inherited this software from several predecessors before me. SO mainly serves as an intermediary between our CRM and GL to keep track of our customers, send invoices and perform collections and dunning, maintains our revenue and deferred revenue schedules and ARR reporting so we don't have to use Excel. Not having to keep track of all of this in Excel is a huge benefit for us and allows us to delegate the bookings process to a lower level staff member. The automated emails when an invoice becomes past due (or any other time period you set) is helpful as well. SO can also sync sales tax settings from QBO so we properly charge sales tax to our customers.

SO is helpful for small accounting and finance teams that do not want to manage revenue, deferred revenue schedules, ARR, and customer count in Excel. It is also well-suited for organizations that have very few mergers and acquisitions among their customer base, are not dependent upon the SO projections for FP&A, want to have a more automated AR invoice collections process, and receive payments through credit card and ACH easily.

We use Chargify to handle subscriptions for our 1000+ members.

While it works great for subscriptions, I'm not sure this would be robust enough for a non-subscription business.

We used SaaSOptics for a few things:

1. Manage customer contracts.
2. Invoice customers.
3. Invoice collections.
4. Link between Salesforce and QuickBooks.

It fit our use case perfectly. We acquired hundreds of contracts with an acquisition (prior to had only a few contracts). Our business model completely changed and we needed to make sure there were no interruptions in billing and most important collections from these contracts. SaaSOptics helped me quickly get control of and manage these contracts and get processes in place.

Best used for recurring invoicing - monthly, quarterly annually, etc. Invoicing and collections can be automated without the need to hire staff.

We use SaaSOptics for our billing needs. The invoicing service, past due reporting, and total financial history reports are used daily by executive leadership and customer management. Our CSMs are confident in using it and helping their customers. We track growth and expansion through the interactive reporting, and we are then make plans for continued success with our expanding users.

SaaSOptics is great for our billing management. It's easy to help customers update their billing information, sending them their current invoicing, and tracking any past due invoices. The reporting is clear to know where we are winning as a team.
I haven't found a scenario where SaaSOptics has not met my expectations for the service it provides.

We currently use SaaSOptics in Finance for sending out and tracking invoices for our SaaS clients. It has cut down on invoicing time tremendously, as we used to just manually create them in QB and track them using Excel. Some of the reports have been useful to product and sales teams as well.

SaaSOptics is awesome for growing companies that want to automate their invoicing. I like that it is also aimed at subscription based sales structures rather than sales that occur at a single point in time (but has the ability to support both). SaaSOptics makes it super easy to keep track of subscriptions, renewals, co-terms, etc. The reporting is a great feature, but we are unable to use most of the reports as we are a cash-based accounting firm. SO caters to accrual accounting and GAAP compliant firms which makes sense as it is the most commonly accepted accounting basis here in the US, but many small SaaS start-ups are still operating on cash basis. We are one of those companies, so we are able to get a ton of use out of the invoicing side of things, a lot of the reports are useless for us. We also wish SO had a commission module since we already integrate our CRM and accounting softwares into it, but that is not a make it or break it for us. We love the time SO has saved us.

We use it for subscription box subscribers. This helps with keeping track of monthly, quarterly, biannual, and annual subscriptions. It has also been used for one time purchases, gift subscriptions (which are non-renewing), and special edition subscription. Changing subscription renewal dates in bulk is relatively simple. Canceling subscriptions in bulk can be a challenge though.

It is well suited to renewing subscription products. It is not so great for e-commerce orders. If your business has only a few varying subscription products, it’s easy to use and manage. If you have a series of complex subscription services, it is not as useful and can be a bit time consuming to manage.

Chargify is used as our billing system. We have software that is licensed on a monthly basis so customers pay for the licenses monthly. We use Chargify to charge and track all of our billing information. It is used by the company and it addresses the need for a billing system that integrates with our platform.

Chargify is well suited for companies who need to offer a reoccurring license fee. I see it more suited for smaller companies, but we don't have the enterprise version so I'm not sure what it entails. It may offer more, in which case would make sense for larger organizations. I believe it is a great fit for smaller companies who need a system that is user friendly and fairly easy to use.