Transform Your SaaS Business into a Revenue-Generating Powerhouse. Automate your usage-based billing workflow with the flexibility to alter it to fit any scenario.
Seamlessly expand across different geographies with varied pricing experiments, and offer a multitude of secure payment options.
From handling trials to enhancing conversions to offering discounts and crafting upsell strategies, improve your revenue with every change.
Charge customers for exactly how much they use and aggregate daily usage data within Chargebee and auto-calculate charges
Tailor how you quantify usage parameters and calculate critical revenue metrics like MRR/ARR, enabling informed decision-making.
With a minimal setup using our extensive API and webhooks, automate usage charges calculation. Just create a subscription, specify the metered components and billing frequency, and kick back. Chargebee aggregates the usage data and calculates the charges automatically. After this, invoicing is automatic. In case of upgrades, downgrades, or cancellation fees for a premature subscription termination, we have you covered.
Automation can be constricted without flexibility. If a special customer needs to be charged based on their contract and not their usage, you can instruct Chargebee to override the metered charges for a specific period. You have the ultimate power to intervene and make changes to your metered billing workflow at any point and on any level.
There's no one ultimate method to calculate MRR. But for a business that charges based on usage, MRR without metered charges can be misleading. Chargebee's flexible MRR calculation lets you define what goes into your MRR like metered charges, recurring and one-time addons, and coupons. What more is that metered charges for each month get reported in the same month, doesn't matter when you send out the invoice.
If there are 100 ways to price a product, usage-based pricing is 97 of them. There are so many levers in a usage-based pricing model. You can price based on seats or quantity, add overage charges, and even couple it with a flat fee. With every iteration, you move closer to your pricing sweet spot. Chargebee scales with your pricing needs and lets you grandfather customers on the older plans along the way.
Chargebee allows you to choose either of the following modes of configuration for metered billing:
Manual metered billing: Configuring this mode creates invoices with metered components in a 'Pending' state. You can manually add all applicable charges and close the invoices to initiate payments.
Automated metered billing: Invoices will be created in a 'Pending' state and charges will be computed automatically based on the usage you add to the subscriptions. You can manually close the invoices or have them auto-closed on a specific day.
There are 4 different ways to charge your customers when you opt for a usage-based pricing model. The common theme to all of them is, you get to grow with your customers.
Quantity-based model - Bill your customers for the units they sign up for. Fits best when pricing varies based on the number of units - be it a number of licenses, users or items.
Volume-based pricing - Different slabs are assigned different per-unit prices.
Tiered pricing - The number of licenses purchased will be priced for the tiers it covers.
Stairstep pricing - The price for consumption depends on the slab it falls under, irrespective of the usage.
Sometimes it’s a combination of metered and flat fee that works best. With a hybrid pricing model, you can charge a one-time setup fee, grant discounts, and combine usage-based and flat fee pricing. The best way to arrive at the pricing sweet spot is by running experiments.