Chargebee vs. Cleverbridge

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chargebee
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
ChargeBee is an all in one subscription billing solution designed to handle all the complexity of recurring billing. The product integrates with a range of other SaaS applications including SalesForce, accounting, and order fulfillment systems. Some key features include: Managed Subscription Billing, Flexible Billing Support and Automated Notifications.
$599
per month for up to USD 100K of billing per month; 0.75% on billing thereafter
Cleverbridge
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
Cleverbridge is an enterprise eCommerce solution with subscription management capability to drive growth.N/A
Pricing
ChargebeeCleverbridge
Editions & Modules
Scale
$599
per month for up to USD 100K of billing per month; 0.75% on billing thereafter
Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChargebeeCleverbridge
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNo transaction based fees. No setup cost.
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Community Pulse
ChargebeeCleverbridge
Considered Both Products
Chargebee
Chose Chargebee
Pabbly, FastSpring, Braintree and a PayPal service
Chose Chargebee
Chargebee is much better in terms of clean intuitive product features, inbuilt analytics, and implementation support. Zoho has so many products and their focus is not their billing product. But they give free trials and you need to pay per licence only if you scale. overall, I …
Chose Chargebee
Yes, it is one of the payments gateways but they have so many features like recurring subscriptions, invoicing, and all at very very affordable prices and with great support. I wish chargebee look at the pricing at least for developing countries like India.
Chose Chargebee
We looked at Stripe for a while, just based off of previous knowledge and awareness of the system. Chargebee's design and interface stood out against other SaaS platforms and the integration you have while using it is a must have. Maximizing revenue was a focal point and the …
Chose Chargebee
One of the easiest and cheapest way in order to work on the separate billing system which includes sales in the production also maintains in order to collect payments from different payment gateway which is one of the easiest task in the beginning for the procedure and provide …
Chose Chargebee
Chargebee was our best option with Shopify being used for orders. I miss Chargify, but that only works well with Wordpress.

Recharge was problematic in the past, but they may be better now. Chargebee allows us to make our own bulk edits to subs, while Recharge required …
Chose Chargebee
Chargebee stands out among other service providers because of its user-friendly interface and accessibility. The documentation is also very extensive and gives developers a lot of options. It connects all of our client billing information into our database, which our sales …
Chose Chargebee
Chargebee is a class apart from Zoho books - better in all aspects - better interface, more functionalities, integrations that actually work, responsive support, customisable automated reporting, more customizability.

The only difference is pricing - Zoho comes at about 10% of …
Chose Chargebee
The major reason to go with chargebee is its costing as compared to its competitors it is much useful and value for money.Also it has many features that is very practical and efficient to use it.I recommend to the people who involves low costing as well as futuristic features.
Chose Chargebee
I was using just Authorize.Net for recurring billing. Chargebee is better for automatic emails, but that's it. Wish I would not have made this change.
Chose Chargebee
We evaluated Chargebee vs. Zuora and Stripe. Zuora has a lot of enterprise-level companies, so from an optics perspective is "safer", but we found their integration to be more difficult, their cost to be more expensive, their UI to be more complicated, and their APIs to be …
Chose Chargebee
I believe that for monthly subscription payments, Chargebee is easier to navigate and use than SaaSoptics. That said, I believe it lacks some of the advanced functionality. While I’m not fully sure if that is the case, I think that maybe due to its goals being different. The …
Chose Chargebee
I considered using WooCommerce, cart66, Sam cart, Shopify, big commerce, and a few others I can't recall at the moment. Each one of those options had either limiting abilities to create flexible plans or required expensive add-ons that would make it the timeline to …
Chose Chargebee
It was too troublesome to use Stripe. Connecting Stripe to Chargebee was so much easier and the invoices were exactly how I wanted them to be. It was just easier to organize all your plans in Chargebee, and I loved the numerous type of emails you could send out to …
Chose Chargebee
A strong balance between flexibility and simplicity -- Chargebee has proved to be a product that is well liked across the organization, and from a technical standpoint does not present too many hiccups for our developers. We also feel the pricepoint is good in a market which …
Chose Chargebee
I've used them all and most of them are either: Too expensive (charging high %) Awful products (not enough features or bad UI/UX)
Chose Chargebee
Chargebee's price per feature set beat out Recurly, it's the closest competitor that we evaluated. Its automated subscription billing was a core feature over Xero (our accounting and invoicing system, which we still use in tandem with Chargebee). Stripe's new features that just …
Chose Chargebee
Launch plan, Support, API's - everything was amazing for Chargebee. So much that we never really evaluated Chargify.
Chose Chargebee
Honestly I didn't look into recurly much, nor have I used them because it was a lot more expensive (for an early stage startup like ours was when we started using it). At least as far as I recall, they could have changed their pricing structure but they don't list their pricing …
Cleverbridge
Chose Cleverbridge
Cleverbridge has a very flexible system, which operates with an enormous amount of settings. It is simultaneously good and bad, because on one hand it is good to be able to adjust settings for each tiny tiny part, but on the other hand it is time consuming. In the sense that it …
Chose Cleverbridge
DR Waco e screwed up the company when we worked with them - they didn’t like customers - I know that sounds odd but it was true and their software was dreadful
Features
ChargebeeCleverbridge
Online Storefront
Comparison of Online Storefront features of Product A and Product B
Chargebee
-
Ratings
Cleverbridge
7.9
Ratings
1% above category average
Product catalog & listings00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Product management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Bulk product upload00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Branding00 Ratings6.30 Ratings
Mobile storefront00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Product variations00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Website integration00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Visual customization00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
CMS00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Online Shopping Cart
Comparison of Online Shopping Cart features of Product A and Product B
Chargebee
-
Ratings
Cleverbridge
8.7
Ratings
12% above category average
Abandoned cart recovery00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Checkout user experience00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Online Payment System
Comparison of Online Payment System features of Product A and Product B
Chargebee
-
Ratings
Cleverbridge
9.7
Ratings
16% above category average
eCommerce security00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
eCommerce Marketing
Comparison of eCommerce Marketing features of Product A and Product B
Chargebee
-
Ratings
Cleverbridge
8.2
Ratings
6% above category average
Promotions & discounts00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Personalized recommendations00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
SEO00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
eCommerce Business Management
Comparison of eCommerce Business Management features of Product A and Product B
Chargebee
-
Ratings
Cleverbridge
8.8
Ratings
9% above category average
Multi-site management00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Order processing00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Inventory management00 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Shipping00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Custom functionality00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
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User Ratings
ChargebeeCleverbridge
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(0 ratings)
6.6
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
8.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChargebeeCleverbridge
Likelihood to Recommend
Chargebee is also one of the best platform in order to provide proper billing management to the customers by providing their configuration needs to be corrected in order to deploy and made the connection relevant to the specific position which is one of the best usecase.It also provides support in order to rectifying issues.
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Cleverbridge is a great partner - they are particularly well suited for mid-sized companies - not sure about the largest of companies. Their scale is good but not the best. Their technical acumen is quite good and they totally understand their market - unlike other companies in this space they don’t suffer from hubris - they roll up their sleeves and work with individual clients to succeed. Their management is very knowledgeable, friendly and approachable.
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Pros
  • Reliable: We've had virtually no issues since launch.
  • Care about customers: Chargebee's account managers/support team have always been very helpful/responsive.
  • Feature-rich: Chargebee has a ton of features that help us do what we want and they are consistently adding new features every quarter.
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  • Excellent partnet
  • Terrific at subscription software
  • Excellent security and uptime
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Cons
  • [I feel] customer service never actually fixes any problems. They make you gather information they easily could, write up a big report of the problem, and then tell you why it's not working (usually not even correct). [In my experience] they never actually solve a problem. Not to mention, [in my experience] you can never speak with anyone immediately and coms turnaround is usually over 24 hours.
  • So far, I can not get my customers to checkout online, even after hiring professional developers to help.
  • [I believe] QBO sync is a mess.
  • My account is set up to send payment tokens to Authorize.Net, and no matter how much I disable every possible security feature, I still have 100's of declined cards, that work perfectly well.
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  • Because of the many different settings, it becomes hard sometimes to set everything up
  • The slow system can take up to 10 seconds to save something
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Usability
It's very easy to use once you know what you're doing. I found it very straight forward once I got the hang of things and was able to create plans easily for my business. I was also able to just charge my clients right away easily. Refunding was also easy when needed.
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Usability is native, but the system is complex. It has a knowledge base, but who reads that, right? So without explanation, sometimes it's hard to understand how to move and set things. But as soon as you get it, it's not a problem anymore. There are 2 major things, which keeps me from giving a higher score: 1 - Delay in time when making changes; can take up to 2 sec when opening a product, and 10 secs when saving a product update. When you do several updates, it is time consuming; 2 - A lot of settings, which also in the end becomes time consuming.
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Support Rating
Chargebee is simple to use, and we have had little need for support.
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Alternatives Considered
Chargebee is a class apart from Zoho Books - better in all aspects - better interface, more functionalities, integrations that actually work, responsive support, customisable automated reporting, more customizability. The only difference is pricing - Zoho comes at about 10% of what Chargebee costs. So for startups looking to graduate from Google Sheets and on a budget - Zoho will serve your purposes - but eventually will have to move to something like a Chargebee.
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Cleverbridge has a very flexible system, which operates with an enormous amount of settings. It is simultaneously good and bad, because on one hand it is good to be able to adjust settings for each tiny tiny part, but on the other hand it is time consuming. In the sense that it has wide range of supported currencies and languages, it is definitely a plus to operate on Cleverbridge, as you have the opportunity to reach many local markets. Their team also has tons of expertise in e-commerce, which is a definitely bonus for your team, because you get not only the system, but also tips and hints on how to make things better, and avoiding mistakes others have made before.
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Return on Investment
  • Chargebee has allowed us to focus on the most important part of our business: the product, instead of cumbersome development to manage subscriptions. The time ROI that it saved allowing us to get our product to market was invaluable.
  • Chargebee also made sense financially. Paying the subscription was far cheaper than developing something similar (or even far inferior) ourselves
  • Overall it's saved us quite a bit of time, money, and allows employees to easily manage subscriptions which is extremely important to us.
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  • We've just started with Cleverbridge so we'll see
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ScreenShots

Chargebee Screenshots

Screenshot of Chargebee's metrics and reportingScreenshot of the Recurring Business Command CentreScreenshot of customer subscription nanagement organized onto a single page, where users can change plans, edit card details, add add-ons, apply credits, apply ad hoc charges and delay billing dateScreenshot of the customizable hosted checkout page