Chargebee vs. Salesforce Revenue Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chargebee
Score 7.9 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
Salesforce Revenue Cloud
Score 8.8 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Salesforce Revenue Cloud (formerly Salesforce CPQ or SteelBrick) is built and delivered on the Salesforce Platform and Salesforce1 Mobile App which enables users to create accurate sales quotes quickly and submit error-free orders on the fly from any device.
$30
Per User per Month
Pricing
ChargebeeSalesforce Revenue Cloud
Editions & Modules
Scale
$599
per month for up to USD 100K of billing per month; 0.75% on billing thereafter
Enterprise
Contact sales team
Basic
$30
Per User per Month
Professional
$50
Per User per Month
Enterprise
$75
Per User per Month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChargebeeSalesforce Revenue Cloud
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsNo transaction based fees. No setup cost.
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Community Pulse
ChargebeeSalesforce Revenue Cloud
Considered Both Products
Chargebee
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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 …
Salesforce Revenue Cloud
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
This software is so complex we can say that Salesforce works so much better in the interface. Also, the features provided by Salesforce are far better than this software. It also includes Storing data, API development, and so many other functionalities which help a developer …
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
This has better product capabilities like Manage Order, Mobile, pricing module, select product offers service channel. What I like best is the integration with Salesforce, the ability to create and connect opportunities and there is a lot of flexibility in this tool. It has a …
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
There is no comparison to a fully functional instance of CPQ. Nothing comes close due to the amount of customization and ease of use that CPQ offers once it's fully built out. Other solutions may be easier to build or administer, but for the users and business needs, CPQ is the …
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
It is complementary to salesforce so I don´t think there is a necessity to compare between groove and Salesforce Revenue Cloud.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
SalesForce Revenue Cloud has been leaps and bounds ahead of the softwares I used to use! I had used Google Sheets at first (since it was free), then bought Excel briefly thinking that would suffice as a good CRM layout. Turns out I was wrong and needed something more. Revenue …
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
This program is just more advanced and customizable. It worked for our diverse team needs considering the size and complexity of our portfolio. This was just the right choice for us. The other CRM's were great for smaller-scale enterprises at the time that I used them.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
This is an efficient tool and user-friendly.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
Salesforce CPQ was faster in performance and suited our needs.
Its direct integration on the SFDC platform made it easier to implement.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
Salesforce CPQ [(formerly SteelBrick)] seamlessly integrates with Salesforce allowing us to have less integrations to manage. Releases don't break a connection causing delays in the sales process.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
We felt Salesforce had less risk with integrations to our CRM - also Big Machines couldn't handle our complexity.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
I don't know any competitor for Salesforce CPQ .
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
I haven't used PandaDoc, but a friend of mine uses it at their organization and recommended it.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
It seemed really complicated comparably and didn’t seem to have the integration abilities that Salesforce CPQ has with Salesforce.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
Salesforce stacks well in terms of features like lead, quote and pricing management than other software like Zoho, bichon, agile or Hubspot, personally I believe if the entire set of tools and solutions provided by Salesforce are employed they would work like a well-oiled …
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
Salesforces CPQ compares very highly to Apparound CPQ, because of the integration with the Salesforce platform. Because of the integration with the regular Salesforce platform, the tools work interchangeably with one another. This process creates a great deal of efficiency, and …
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
CPQ is a more inline, integrated and user-friendly product compared to Apttus's offering. The fact that it was bought and embedded by Salesforce into the platform and the support that entails, was the big differentiator for us.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
Salesforce CPQ is much better in user interaction, automation, AI, and integration with CRM, and other business systems.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
It is a strong offering if your a Salesforce customer. We previously used Panda Doc and the integration with Saleforce was just not robust enough as we've expanded. Panda Doc allowed for much more customization and control of templates. However, the pricing rules, …
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
It was not my choice to move to Salesforce CPQ. Our organization chose to move to this platform because Octiv gave the reps too much flexibility. They wanted to tighten the reins. Everyone hates Salesforce CPQ and the guy who implemented it isn't even at the company anymore.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
We looked into using BigMachines and FPX but decided to implement Apttus many years ago. The Apttus implementation never went live after several hiccups along the way and we shifted our focus to Salesforce CPQ which has had it's moments as well. Overall, Salesforce CPQ is the …
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
More enterprise related and trustworthy. There is a greater brand association - Salesforce for me.
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
Almost a no brainer as we already heavily use SalesForce. This process allowed for everything to be in one place. As stated before, it is better than our old solution because it pulls a lot of the info from the option for you, allows for you to cross-function with services …
Chose Salesforce Revenue Cloud
CPQ is much more intuitive and user-friendly than JDE. JDE is clunky and was not native to the Oracle CRM tool, which created problems when it came to quote creation and consistency in how deals are moved through the pipeline. We chose CPQ because we were already using SFDC as …
Features
ChargebeeSalesforce Revenue Cloud
CPQ
Comparison of CPQ features of Product A and Product B
Chargebee
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Ratings
Salesforce Revenue Cloud
7.7
Ratings
12% below category average
Quote sharing/sending00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Product configuration00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Configuration options00 Ratings5.10 Ratings
Pricing rules00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Price adjustment00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Purchase history and open contracts00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Guided selling/Sales portal00 Ratings6.00 Ratings
CPQ reporting & analytics00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
CPQ-CRM integration00 Ratings9.90 Ratings
Attachments to quotes00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Order capturing00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
ChargebeeSalesforce Revenue Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
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8.0
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
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9.1
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Usability
8.0
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8.6
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Availability
-
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9.1
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
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8.2
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChargebeeSalesforce Revenue Cloud
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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CPQ is great if you can devote the time to it to make it perfect for your sales team. It requires a lot of time and energy to build it out and customize, but once that's done it is one of the most powerful tools you will have. Having an expert in CPQ is really helpful as well.
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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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  • Salesforce CPQ is great for being able to quickly and easily build product bundles in an intuitive and visually appealing way.
  • The product catalog and ability to easily add fields to product records makes setting up products really simple and adds a lot of value to reporting within Salesforce.
  • Basic product and configuration rules are very easy to understand and set up.
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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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  • Our Salesforce is very messy, which tells me it's not super easy to clean up.
  • I always have a really hard time removing a contacts from an account - it seems like you can't simply remove the relationship so we have lots of people named DO NOT CONTACT or things of that nature.
  • Sometimes when saving it doesn't seem like things actually save.
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Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
The company is very easy to work with and is growing by leaps and bounds. We do not anticipate switching vendors anytime in the near future
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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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After the initial set up, end users who are not the most tech savy are generally finding it easy to navigate
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Support Rating
Chargebee is simple to use, and we have had little need for support.
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There have been some issues with multi-year pricing of certain products and services which we have been assured will be resolved but I guess are still underway, the support team apart from this has not been needed much and in the rare scenarios, it has been needed the resolutions of conflicts has been prompt and quick, so the overall support would have my high regards for being so helpful and customer-oriented so as to assure good performance of their toolset and customer satisfaction.
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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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This has better product capabilities like Manage Order, Mobile, pricing module, select product offers service channel. What I like best is the integration with Salesforce, the ability to create and connect opportunities and there is a lot of flexibility in this tool. It has a very user-friendly platform & navigation across pages is the best Also I like how fast I can create quotes. I also like how detailed you can get with reporting. Any possible metric we can think of can be tracked, measured, and integrated.
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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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  • Easy access to reporting on closed-won, closed-lost, and open quotes.
  • Accuracy in data referenced in a quote - it's typically accurate as it is pulled directly from opportunity, looking up to associated subscription start/end dates, etc..
  • We lose valuable time in creating quotes ourselves. Quotes were requested and created through sales ops previously, sales did not have access to the excel templates used to generate quotes.
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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

Salesforce Revenue Cloud Screenshots

Screenshot of Configure. Price. Quote. Anytime, anywhere, on any device.