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  1. Billing
  3. Implementing Chargebee
  5. Go-live Checklist
  6. Activate your Live Site
  1. Billing
  3. Implementing Chargebee
  5. Go-live Checklist
  6. Activate your Live Site

Activate your Live Site

Activate your Chargebee Live site from a Test site by selecting a plan and completing checkout. After the Live site is active, use the Go-live Checklist to transfer configurations and reconfigure settings that do not transfer.

Prerequisites

  • Finish the implementation guide on your Test site so the configuration is ready to transfer.
  • You must be an Admin or Super Admin user. Only these roles can select a plan and activate the Live site.
  • Checkout collects a card on file. Review Chargebee plans and pricing to understand how you will be billed.

Select a plan and complete checkout

  1. Log in to Chargebee Billing and click Select Plan next to your test site.

Note

The Select Plan option can also be accessed from two other locations once you have logged in to your test site. From the top left corner: Next to where you will see your test site, right above the left nav bar. From the bottom left corner: Inside your profile page.

  1. On the plan selection page, choose the plan you want to activate.
  • Flow is the self-serve plan. Select a Pay as you go or Commit monthly billing option, then click Activate now to continue. Use the Flow Plan: Find the right variant calculator on the right to enter your expected monthly billing value and compare what each option costs you.
  • Enterprise Plus is for high-volume and multi-entity setups. Click Talk to sales to be contacted by the Chargebee sales team.
Plan selection page showing the Flow and Enterprise Plus plans
  1. Choose your billing currency. This is the currency you are billed in once you cross your free processing limit — we recommend your local currency to avoid exchange rate losses. Click Activate now.
Billing currency selection with the Activate now button

Chargebee then takes you through a three-step checkout.

  1. Under Contact for Technical/Billing Issues, enter your company name. Click Save and Proceed.
Checkout step 1 collecting the technical and billing contact company
  1. Under Billing Information, enter your organization name, phone number, company, and billing address. Email is optional. Keep Ship to my billing address enabled to reuse the same address for shipping, or turn it off to enter a separate one. Click Save and Proceed.
Checkout step 2 collecting billing and shipping information
  1. Under Payment Information, enter your card details. Keep Use my billing address as card address enabled to reuse the address from Billing Information. Click Save and Proceed.
Checkout step 3 collecting card details
  1. Review the summary, apply a coupon code if you have one, and agree to the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and automatic renewal. Click Pay & Get Started. Use Edit against any section to correct the details you entered.
Checkout summary listing contact, billing, and payment details before payment

Note

Your bank may redirect you to a 3D Secure verification page before the payment is confirmed.

You are then redirected to your Live site. Switch between the Test site and Live site from the top-left corner where your test site's name is displayed.

After activation, follow the Go-live Checklist to transfer configurations, reconfigure Live-site settings, and run test transactions.

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