How GuavaPass scaled to 9 countries in a year, with Chargebee's multicurrency support.

GuavaPass, like all marketplaces, had to first build their supply to market their product. Hence they were signing up fitness studios of all shapes and sizes as partners.

As the business model began getting popular and people developed a liking towards the concept of non-boring workouts, GuavaPass realised they had to scale fast. They were looking at expanding quickly to different countries and cities across Asia and the Middle East and signing up more members.

GuavaPass’s core monetization was the subscription fee, where users paid a fixed rate for a monthly pass.

To manage their subscriptions, GuavaPass had built a homegrown billing solution on top of a payment gateway. The subscription module, although pretty basic, was sufficient for them to get up and running.

But soon they understood it was a mistake.

As they were scaling rapidly and adding more memberships, the need for more advanced features popped up. The basic payment gateway which couldn't support most of these features out-of-the-box meant they had to build it themselves. Especially since they were expanding to different countries, they realised the need for a billing solution which would also help them handling payments in multiple currencies.

Their pursuit for a subscription billing solution with built-in multi currency support and a robust API led them to Chargebee.

Since a membership subscription model was the core to GuavaPass’s business, switching their billing solution with active subscriptions was like changing the engine (not the tyres) of a moving car.

With the help of Chargebee's migration team, GuavaPass imported their active subscriptions into Chargebee, without it affecting their new customers.

Now GuavaPass manages its new and existing memberships completely with Chargebee, having let go of their homegrown system.

With Chargebee's array of features built to handle payments and subscriptions for global companies at scale, GuavaPass was soon able to step into newer countries faster!

As a small and distributed team which started operations in 2015, GuavaPass has operations in 9+ countries and is looking to expand even further.

Switching to Chargebee for managing subscriptions has helped GuavaPass scale rapidly, saved time and effort on their part, thus enabling them to focus on what they do best: Making more people to achieve their fitness goals!

The GuavaPass Team

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P.S. If you’re based out of Asia, try GuavaPass and knock the boredom off your workouts :)