Chargebee
Chargebee is a subscription management solution for businesses that need to charge monthly, bi-monthly, or recurring fees for their services. Chargebee is designed to scale well from smaller businesses to larger ones. This has led to wide-scale positive reviews across the board for the software. Chargebee accomplishes this by being fully loaded with features that are designed to accommodate every business size and model. While this has led some customers to complain about the difficulty of navigating the software, very few have found fault with the software’s functionality. Chargebee allows users to set recurring billing at multiple frequencies across different industries. It further enables users to send reminders to customers letting them know when their bill is due. In addition, Chargebee can be used by proprietors to bill for usage-based services or for one-time charges as well. It can collect payments from multiple billing channels across a number of countries and jurisdictions.
- Recurring billing with free trial management
- Customer portal
- Supports payment gateways based on countries including EU Vat support
- Automatic Invoicing
- Email templates for reminders and notifications
- Dunning management for declined payment options
- Can be integrated with MailChimp
- CRM and accounting management
- Supports payment gateways based on country
- Widest suite of features you will find in similar software
- Excellent customer support
- Well documented API is perfect for integration
- Cloud-hosted billing service is quick and easy on the client side
- Offers scaled billing
- More expensive than similar products
The one major knock on Chargebee is that it’s not as user-friendly as it could be. This is largely because of the sheer scale of features that it offers users. In fact, Chargebee has a highly intuitive and stylish user interface that’s as user-friendly as it can be for the amount of options that it provides. Another possible knock on Chargebee is that it’s focus on subscription management means that it’s going to be overwrought for businesses that don’t have monthly subscriptions as their core means of doing business. There are also a number of subscription management softwares from which to choose, many of which will provide a lower price point for interested businesses. In terms of pure functionality however, Chargebee has to be at the very top of the list.