Chargebee

Founded by Krish Subramanian in 2011

Manage subscription billing, usage metering, and revenue recognition across multiple payment gateways

Pricing model

Free

Rating

★ People love it

Time to value

Moderate Setup (1-3 hours)

You can use Chargebee to manage recurring subscriptions, collect payments, and automate billing across diverse pricing models. The tool handles flat-rate, seat-based, usage-based, and credit-based plans without needing developer intervention for catalog changes. You can generate automated invoices, calculate international sales tax, and recover failed payments through dunning workflows. It also supports sales quoting with custom terms, tracks accounting compliance under ASC 606 standards, and links your subscription data directly with accounting software, CRM systems, and over forty payment gateways worldwide.

What Chargebee does

Configure subscription pricing plans and discount couponsGenerate and send customer invoices automaticallyRetry failed credit card charges using custom intervalsCalculate sales tax and VAT on international transactionsCreate custom sales quotes with approval workflowsGenerate revenue recognition reports for accounting closeProvision feature access based on customer plan tiersSupports hybrid, credit-based, and usage-based billing modelsConnects with over 40 payment gateways worldwideAutomates tax calculations for US sales tax, Australian GST, and EU VATGenerates compliant ASC 606 and IFRS 15 revenue schedulesRecovers failed payments using custom retry rules and expired card alertsProvides billing-native CPQ to convert sales quotes directly into subscriptionsOffers an MCP server to access billing data inside developer environments