The Hardest Part of Closing the Books Isn't the Close

Route Every Modification Through a Configurable Decision Tree

Chargebee checks the timing, the line and the price, not one flat rule.

Chargebee runs a modification through a sequence of checks, not a flat lookup. A change outside the initial window becomes a Separate Contract immediately. One that's genuinely new, with no existing line to attach to, gets treated as Prospective. Everything else comes down to one comparison: how close the new price lands to standalone selling price, which decides between Prospective with allocation and Retrospective.

None of these thresholds are shared across every Chargebee customer. Each one gets configured for your business setup.

Reallocate Consideration Without Rebuilding the Schedule by Hand

Chargebee blends the rate across every ramp tier, not line by line.

SSP policy gets configured per product at setup, using dollar amount, range, list price, sale price or residual value, whichever fits how you actually price that product. When a modification hits, Chargebee reallocates what's left of the contract automatically. For a ramp with three tiers, it blends the rate across every line still active on the modification date and checks that blended number against the blended SSP, instead of testing each line on its own.

That allocation logic doesn't apply to every line, though. Metered usage lines get handled differently: a quantity-only change skips the allocation pool entirely, by design. If a modification mixes metered and non-metered lines, only the non-metered ones go through the full decision tree.

Recognition Schedules That Update Themselves

Chargebee posts one summarized entry per period, keeping the detail in the subledger.

A modification's recognition schedule updates across every period it touches, not just the current one. Each period, Chargebee RevRec posts a single summarized entry to your general ledger, keeping the detail in the subledger instead of on the accountant's desk.

One Record From Quote to Recognized Revenue

Billing, CPQ and your general ledger read from the same data

Chargebee CPQ passes deal structure into RevRec the moment a contract closes, so what the rep negotiated is what Finance recognizes. RevRec connects to either Chargebee Billing or Stripe Billing, so recognition runs on real order-line data instead of a manual export. On the accounting side, it syncs to NetSuite, QuickBooks, Rillet, DualEntry, Sage Intacct and Xero, so the journal entry it posts lands in the ledger you already close against.