Contract Billing
When you sell on contracts, the gap between how sales closes a deal and how billing works gets absorbed by someone on your finance team — manually, every time. Chargebee Billing is built to handle that natively.
Most billing systems were built for simple recurring plans. When your revenue model includes retainers, custom enterprise terms, multi-component arrangements or negotiated pricing, those systems require workarounds — and workarounds accumulate.
Contract terms that differ by client get entered manually. Sales closes a deal on custom pricing and finance has to re-key it. Revenue recognition schedules don't match what was billed. Outstanding invoices on net terms sit untracked until someone chases them.
The problem compounds as you grow. More contracts means more exceptions. More exceptions means more manual work. Chargebee Billing is built to handle the complexity natively so your team stops absorbing it.
Configure annual prepays, monthly retainers and complex pricing arrangements in Chargebee Billing. Add overage charges and custom terms without a separate build for each client. When a contract changes mid-term, Chargebee Billing handles proration and amendment automatically and keeps the audit trail intact.
Learn more about Subscription ManagementChargebee CPQ connects your sales process directly to Chargebee Billing. Generate a quote, get approval and activate the contract without re-entering data across systems. Approved quotes convert to live subscriptions with no manual handoff.
Learn more about Chargebee CPQMulti-element service arrangements require more than cash-basis accounting. Chargebee RevRec maps your billing events to ASC 606-compliant recognition schedules and keeps deferred revenue balances current. No spreadsheets required.
Learn more about Chargebee RevRecCodacy automated nearly 90% of their revenue recognition tasks after moving to Chargebee RevRec.
Read the storyChargebee Billing generates and sends invoices automatically on the schedule your contracts define — whether that is monthly, quarterly or on a custom billing date. No manual invoice creation required.
Set net 30, net 60 or custom payment terms at the customer or subscription level. Chargebee Billing tracks outstanding balances and due dates without a separate AR tool.
Revenue reporting in Chargebee Billing reflects invoiced amounts, payment status and outstanding balances across your entire contract portfolio. Finance has visibility without chasing the data.
Codat reduced receivables by 40% after connecting their billing and RevOps workflows in Chargebee.
Read the storyChargebee Billing integrates natively with the systems contract-based businesses run on — Salesforce and HubSpot for CRM and quoting, NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero and Sage for accounting, and 40+ payment gateways for collections. Approved quotes flow from your CRM through Chargebee CPQ to Chargebee Billing without leaving the workflow. Revenue data flows back to your accounting system without manual export.
Replace custom-built invoicing logic with Chargebee Billing. Contract complexity is handled natively. The effect? Your team stops maintaining workarounds and starts building on a stable foundation.
Give your sales team the ability to quote custom contract terms and get deals to billing without back-and-forth with finance or engineering. First enterprise deals activate faster.
Run seat-based subscriptions, retainer agreements and usage overages for different customer segments in Chargebee Billing, with consolidated reporting across all of them.
Reduce the time between a signed order form and an active subscription by connecting Chargebee CPQ directly to Chargebee Billing. No manual handoff required.
Your clients trust you with their business data. Chargebee is built to the same standard.
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Yes. Chargebee Billing supports configurable net payment terms — net 30, net 60 and custom terms — at the customer or subscription level.
Amendment handling is built into Chargebee Billing. When a contract changes mid-term (plan upgrade, seat expansion, pricing adjustment) Chargebee calculates proration automatically and generates a corrected invoice. Every modification is recorded in the audit trail.
Chargebee Billing integrates natively with NetSuite, QuickBooks, Xero and Sage on the accounting side, and with Salesforce and HubSpot for CRM and CPQ workflows.
A step-by-step checklist for standing up billing that can handle contract complexity as you scale.
Read the guide GuideHow to recognize revenue across multi-element arrangements without living in spreadsheets.
Read the guide BlogWhy contract exceptions compound as you grow — and how to plan billing infrastructure for it.
Read the blogModel retainers and custom terms, connect quoting to billing, recognize revenue correctly and keep cash flowing — in one system.
Talk to someone who works through contract-billing setups every day.
