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Usage billing stops being manual
Usage numbers flow into Chargebee from the system that actually tracks them, on schedule, so invoices reflect real usage without a manual export the night before billing runs.
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Chargebee Runs the Subscription Billing. We Make Sure the Rest of Your Business Keeps Up With It.
Chargebee is subscription billing and revenue management software: it handles recurring invoicing, proration, usage-based charges, and dunning for businesses selling on a subscription model. We connect Chargebee to the systems around it, piping usage data in accurately, syncing revenue into your actual books, and extending what happens when a dunning sequence fails, so subscription billing isn't an island that someone has to reconcile by hand.
Usage data in, revenue into the books and failed-dunning follow-up all need connecting, or someone reconciles by hand.
Got a Chargebee problem? Let's solve it →What we build on top of Chargebee
Usage data that actually lands where it should. Chargebee can bill on usage, but the usage number itself has to come from somewhere: a metering system, an internal event log, an API call counter. We build the pipeline that gets that data into Chargebee on schedule and in the right shape, instead of someone exporting a spreadsheet and uploading it before invoices run.
Revenue synced to the books you actually use. Chargebee's accounting exports are generic by design. We map its invoices, credit notes, and revenue recognition schedules into the specific chart of accounts your QuickBooks, NetSuite, or Xero already runs on, so finance isn't re-categorizing entries every close.
Dunning that goes further than the retry email. Chargebee's own dunning handles the retry-and-remind sequence well. We build what happens after that sequence fails: pausing access in your product, alerting the account owner in the CRM, flagging the account for a success team, instead of letting it sit as an unpaid invoice nobody's watching.
One subscription record, not three versions of it. When a plan changes in Chargebee, upgrade, downgrade, cancellation, we keep that change reflected in your CRM and your product's own permissions, so sales, support, and the app itself aren't each working off a different idea of what a customer is currently paying for.
What this looks like in practice
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Close doesn’t start with re-categorizing
Revenue, credits, and recognition schedules land in your accounting system already mapped to your real chart of accounts, not a generic export someone has to clean up first.
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A failed payment triggers more than a reminder
When dunning runs out, access, support, and account ownership all get updated automatically instead of the invoice just sitting there unpaid.
What this looks like in practice
B2B Software Company
Chargebee subscriptions with usage-based charges.
The problemUsage numbers are exported from the product each month and uploaded to Chargebee, and a bad export means wrong invoices.
Usage flows into Chargebee on schedule from the system that actually tracks it. Invoices reflect real usage with no monthly export.
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Running subscriptions through Chargebee and still reconciling revenue by hand?
Tell us where the manual work actually is: usage data, revenue mapping, what happens after dunning fails. We'll look at what Chargebee's own API already exposes and build the connection from there. And if billing isn't your real bottleneck, that's fine too. We automate whatever's manual, anywhere in the business, not just the subscription side.
Let's talk →Questions people ask
What is Chargebee?
Chargebee is subscription billing and revenue management software. It handles recurring invoicing, proration when a plan changes mid-cycle, usage-based charges, dunning for failed payments, and revenue recognition reporting for subscription businesses.
How much does Chargebee cost?
Chargebee prices by plan tier, generally scaled to billing volume or revenue, with higher tiers bringing more automation and reporting. It's worth checking directly with Chargebee for current numbers, since pricing structures shift over time.
How is Chargebee different from Stripe?
They're not quite direct competitors. Stripe is primarily a payment processor, and Chargebee can actually run on top of Stripe as one of its supported gateways, handling the subscription logic, invoicing, and dunning that a raw processor doesn't. Stripe has its own billing features now, though, so there's real overlap for simpler subscription setups.
How does Chargebee compare to Recurly, Zuora, or Chargify?
All four are subscription billing platforms solving a similar problem, with differences mostly in pricing model, enterprise feature depth (Zuora leans more enterprise), and how much customization each expects you to do yourself. We don't sell or recommend any of them; we connect whichever one a business already runs to the rest of its systems.
Does Chargebee integrate with Stripe and PayPal as payment gateways?
Yes. Chargebee supports a range of payment gateways, including Stripe and PayPal, so it handles the subscription and invoicing logic while the gateway handles the actual payment processing underneath it.
Does Chargebee support usage-based billing?
Yes, Chargebee can bill on metered usage in addition to flat recurring charges, which is useful for businesses that charge by consumption rather than a fixed subscription fee. The usage numbers still have to be reported into Chargebee from wherever they're actually tracked.
Does Chargebee have an API?
Yes, a full REST API covering subscriptions, invoices, and customer data, which is what we build on when a native integration doesn't cover your specific billing logic or the system you're connecting isn't on Chargebee's supported list.