Consider ChargeBee as your off-the-shelf plug-&-play billing solution delivered on the cloud. You can connect with ChargeBee via API if you are technically inclined or use our PCI compliant hosted payment pages to collect payments, to go-live in minutes.
ChargeBee provides a robust & flexible billing system to enable your sales & marketing team to run special promotions, and the right tools for your support team to billing accurately & respond faster for billing queries. And it helps collect payments online from payment gateway of your choice.
Recurring billing is much more than billing at periodic intervals. To ensure your customers have a great shopping experience, you need to provide them with a simple and easy to use payment system. We offer you just that.
We also help reduce customer churn by giving you actionable data with the help of notifications and reports to ensure that you are on top of things with your business.
Building a billing system on your own requires a lot of time, effort and focus from management. Using us, you can least of all be at peace knowing that your entire customer billing is handled by the experts in the most secure way.
You can sign up online to explore our application sandbox right away. To get paid online from users, you will need a payment gateway & merchant account from any of the supported payment gateways. It takes anywhere between a few days to a few weeks to get an approved payment gateway account, so please factor that in to go-live.
All the subscriptions of that plan will continue to remain, unless we explicitly move them to another plan. The deletion is only a "soft" delete that stops the plan from allowing new subscriptions.
ChargeBee is hosted on data servers using Amazon Web Services across multiple locations. We have taken several measures to ensure continued service across regions. Unless there is an outage across a large region & multiple data centers, the service will be accessible for users.
We strive towards zero downtime, including deployments over weekends. Our engineering team has extensive experience handling server scalability in Zoho and you can rest assured on our ability to provide a highly available and highly scalable service. You can check the uptime status of ChargeBee here.
As a merchant you are still responsible for chargebacks as the merchant account is owned by you. ChargeBee helps you with the right tools to communicate often & communicate unambiguously to avoid chargebacks from your customers. Here are some additional resources on how to avoid chargebacks.
Yes you may at any time. It is called the "DBA name" ("Doing-Business-As"). Please contact your merchant account provider / payment gateway to update the correct name.
One of the best practices is to ensure you use your DBA name as the most recognized name by customers - example your company may be called "ACME Inc.," but if customers are familiar with the name "campbase.com", use the latter as your DBA name.
And you can append also the DBA name with a phone number or other contact information, so customers can readily reach out in case of questions.
Yes. We understand that we are in a serious business and the importance of our solution to your business.
Our promise to you is this: whatever the prices your have signed up for, we guarantee the price for at least 24 months. This is the least we promise & we hope to do it forever do to earn your trust.
No. You will only pay by number of invoices we raise, a direct indicator of how many times you get paid by customers. Other than that we do not charge you by any other criteria. Feel free to add all your team members under different roles.
ChargeBee is for your team. No additional charges to invite more team members.
No. The charges are for you as a customer with us and is calculated based on total number of invoices generated for you. It is per product. Just notify our support email id and we will ensure we bill you accordingly.
No. Our charges are based on number of invoices we raise on your behalf to your customers. You would pay per transaction charges based on value only to merchant accounts / payment gateways.
This is called "add-ons" or "components" support with most businesses. You can configure quantity based or on/off components that your customers can subscribe to. ChargeBee will seamlessly handle the billing line items ensuring that your customer invoice reflects this without ambiguity.
Yes. You can track payments made via bank transfer, checks etc., in a single place & reconcile invoices, apart from automatic reconciliation of online credit payments.
Yes. One-time transactions are supported.
Yes we do have EU VAT Support. You can read more about the EU VAT feature here.
A payment gateway is a software service that authorizes payments for eCommerce transactions.
Imagine this to be the pipe that connects the end user credit cards that are issued by thousands of banks across the world (WellsFargo, Bank of America etc.,) with the card networks (Visa, Master, Amex, Discover etc.,) and eventually your bank account. Of course, there is lot that goes into what a payment gateway does including verifications, authorizations, fraud detection, currency exchange, settlements etc., but essentially it is a software component on the internet to help route money.
A merchant account is a type of bank account that allows businesses to accept payments by debit or credit cards or bank transfers. It is a line of credit extended to businesses by the bank, after due risk assessment.
End users can apply a chargeback and retrieve the money back, if the business fails to deliver the promised service. And the line of credit extended by bank is used to reimburse such chargebacks and recover it from business. This is why there is a risk assessment of business and certain restrictions are applied on a merchant account, unlike a standard bank account.
You can directly apply with any of the payment gateway / merchant account providers. We can also assist you with introductions if you need help.
Yes, you can. In fact you will need a merchant account & payment gateway (in some cases there is no separation like the case of PayPal Payments Pro) to be configured in ChargeBee, to process payments on your behalf.
No. With many of the gateways, you have the option to store credit card in the payment gateway vault, usually for an additional charge. When you use ChargeBee services, this is not required as it is included in the charges for ChargeBee.
No. You do not need the recurring billing module separately from your payment gateway. For example, Authorize.net offers an ARB (Automated Recurring Billing) that helps solve specific use cases for merchants who need recurring billing. However, when you use ChargeBee solution, you do not need this. Just a standard account is enough.
Yes. You can even drive customers to be subscribed via different gateways, by just configuring the gateways. You would set one by default and then can control change of gateway for specific subscriptions.
Consider ChargBee as your extended system to manage your subscriptions. We do not touch the money part. We take care of initiating the authorization, capture & refunds on your behalf with payment gateways. So the settlement happens to you directly by the payment gateway and not by ChargeBee.
Yes, ChargeBee is PCI compliant. We are also getting ourselves audited by third party independent auditors to get to PCI DSS Level-1 compliance soon.
Yes, absolutely. Everything you do in the ChargeBee application is on completely over HTTPS – your data is fully encrypted by an SSL connection and accessed over the internet.
We are PCI DSS self certified now and have undergone PCI DSS compliance audit.
We store the credit card information in the payment gateways or in an external vault, depending on your preferences and payment gateway used. No card information is stored in ChargeBee, except the last few digits for identification and the token provided by credit card vault for recurring transactions.
We support all the popular currencies including USD, EUR, GBP, SWF, AUD, INR, SGD, AED and many others. If there is a currency you are looking for that is not available, drop us a mail and we will be sure to support it.
You can use this solution globally, although you should check with your payment processor if they have any restrictions for your account. For example, in India PayPal does not allow domestic transactions.
Yes. We have given export data option for subscriptions. For any other configurations, please send an email to support@chargebee.com and we will be happy to assist you.
We provide an open API, which you can use to export all your data. All the sensitive data like card information will be purged after the standard retention period. You can also request our support team to export all your billing data if you wish to migrate to another billing system.
Yes, with limitations. We currently support this via multiple sites, one for each currency. And we help with consolidated reporting. However, we are going to take this up and implement multi-currency support within a single site soon.