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Checkout Layout - Feature Comparison

Chargebee offers its hosted checkout in two layouts - In-App and Full-Page. While the In-App Checkout layout allows you to access checkout as a pop-up within a web page, the Full-Page Checkout allows you to open a stand-alone page dedicated to your checkout process. Learn more about layout options and switching between them.

This document provides a comparison between the two layouts - In-app and Full-Page. Let us dive deep into each feature to understand the compatibility differences:

Differences in Capabilities

The following are the major differences between the two layouts. Refer to the description and the screenshot for more details for each difference:

  1. Product Images Support: The ability to render product images on the checkout page is only supported in the full-page layout. You can add images of your product in your Full-Page Checkout experience as shown below:

  2. Flexibility in HTML for Product Description: With Chargebee, you have the flexibility to create detailed product descriptions within your product catalog, enriching the customer experience. Although the in-app layout doesn't support HTML rendering within descriptions, the full-page layout offers this functionality, empowering you to enrich your product descriptions with visually appealing HTML content, capturing your customers' attention effectively.

    The HTML flexibility is demonstrated for the Full-Page Layout in the screenshot below:

  3. Customizing layouts: This feature enables you to uphold a greater level of consistency throughout your website by tailoring the Checkout page to match your website's fonts, colours, and design guidelines. As of now, this capability is confined to the full-page layout exclusively.

    Learn more about layout customization.

  4. Gift Subscriptions This feature is supported only in in-app checkout.

Differences in Payment Options

While the In-App Checkout offers all the payment methods offered by Chargebee, the Full-page Checkout currently supports a curated set of payment methods as listed below:

  1. Cards
  2. Wallets: Apple Pay, Google Pay, and PayPal
  3. Direct Debit:
    • ACH via Stripe and GoCardless
    • SEPA via Adyen, Stripe, and GoCardless
    • Autogiro and BACS via GoCardless

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