Our latest Salesforce integration (v3) is continually being enhanced to parody the functionality in Chargify that is used by your sales & support teams, preventing them to swivel between two systems to serve your customers' needs. The latest update to our Salesforce integration now utilizes Chargify’s Subscription Groups. When creating a subscription you can now select if the subscription should be billed individually or in a consolidated invoice with other subscriptions. 

For more information on our latest integration with Salesforce, see our documentation here>

We are excited to continually provide you new API endpoints that surface our core functionality outside of our UI, allowing for full flexibility of how you bill your customers. Our latest API endpoint is creating ad-hoc invoices for one-off services or products, separate from your recurring charges. With these one-off invoices you can directly feed in everything that will be charged including the price, description and item being sold and you can set these invoices to be paid either by remittance or automatic payment collections.  They can have multiple line items, a custom memo, and all other basic attributes you get when you create the one-time invoice in the UI.

For more information on how to create a one-off invoice via the API, see our documentation here>

As customers upgrade or change their subscriptions with you, providing a preview of their updated charges is a great way to mitigate surprises and keep customers happy! Chargify's latest API enhancement enables you to do just that. The 'Preview Migration' API call allows you to pull the prorated new charge amount based on a specified date (within the current billing period). Simply pass in the future date and get the corresponding prorated adjustment, charge, payment and credit applied values.

For more information on product migrations via the API, see our API documentation here>

You can now provide your customers with a new subscription type: Prepaid. Our latest core functionality allows you to create prepaid usage-based billing models providing a safety net for your recurring, predictable revenue. This new subscription type works with either metered or events-based components, giving you full flexibility on how you want to charge and how your customers want to use and pay for your product or service. Your customers can gain peace of mind with a true value-based pricing model where they pay in advance for usage they will decrement against as they use your product or service. 

With real-time visibility, both you and your customers benefit from always knowing the exact state of funded balances and usage against those balances. In addition, auto-replenishment is an option so that your customers can decide when to re-up their balance after hitting a specifically defined threshold, that is set at the customer level, not the product level. This added level of customization provides you the ability to provide a white-glove service approach to your customers. 

Prepaid Subscriptions also come with sophisticated notification workflows that can keep all or some of your customers in the know of where they stand with their prepaid usage. Customers always know what usage they have paid for with invoices generated at the end of each renewal period.

For more information on Prepaid Subscriptions, see our documentation here>  

Credit Cards numbers change all the time, regardless of the reason (ie. expiry dates), these updates impact your ability to successfully bill on time. Last month we announced the launch of BlueSnap, a payment gateway specializing in global payments. As this integration continues to expand to meet our customers' needs, we are excited to announce that the Account Updater feature has been added. 

The Account Updater from BlueSnap enables card information changes (such as expiration data changes, account number changes, account closures, and more) to be conveniently and automatically updated, reducing failed payments and the need to contact each customer directly. 

With Account Updater, you can maintain customer satisfaction of customer service due to non-payment while minimizing costs associated with collections and manual account updates. The BlueSnap Account Updater service is supported for American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa cards. 

For more information on the BlueSnap integration, see our documentation here >

As Chargify continues to evolve the way you can manage subscription groups,  new API endpoints have been added that give you the option to easily navigate and view:

• Groups 
• Members of the groups
• Balances of group accounts

Cancellation and reactivation of the entire group can happen through a single API call. In addition, groups can now have their own service credits and prepayments, apart from individual member subscriptions. 

For more information on our API endpoints supporting subscription groups, see our documentation here >

As your company continues to grow and expand into new regions, tax compliance can be a difficult sticking point. To support your growth, Chargify has added several new supported countries  to our AvaTax integration, including:

• Brazil
• Mexico
• South Korea
• Taiwan
• Vietnam
• Israel
• United Arab Emirates

For more information of Chargifys  AvaTax supported countries or our AvaTax integration in general, see our documentation here >

The multi-currency functionality originally announced in May is now generally available and available for all Chargify customers. As a reminder, this change greatly reduces the overhead you experience from selling internationally!

With Chargify’s multi-currency functionality you simply specify what currencies are available on each of your sites, configure your pricing, and allow your customers to sign up for products and services in those currencies. No more managing multiple sites or multiple product offerings (as required by some billing systems) just to achieve multiple currency support.

For more information on how multi-currency works, see our documentation >

As the Chargify product continues to evolve, additional data has also been added to our API Endpoints to ensure all data is accessible when and how you need. Several recent updates to our API include:

Components API

• product_family_name field added
• conditional pagination added
• query enhancements

Products API

• Products#index pagination added
• price_point_name field added
• query enhancements

Coupons API

• product_family_name field added
• query enhancements

Events API

• customer_id field added
• filtration by multiple types added
• query by datetime parameters

Offers API

• per_page settings enabled
• product_family_name, price_point_name, coupon_id, coupon_name fields added

For more information on our API, please see our documentation here >

It is now possible to hide service dates from line item presentment on Chargify invoices. This update does not charge the billing functionality in any way, but simply impacts what is displayed on your customers invoice. With this update, invoices become easier to understand if you are running an offset billing cycle for your customer base.

Also, It is now possible to label your API keys directly in the Chargify UI allowing admins to know exactly what that API key is being used for.

For more information on invoice dates, see our service date documentation here and for additional information on API key labeling, see our API documentation here.