Charging based on value is something we believe strongly in and are excited to announce that you can get even more granular with how you price and bill based on events. Previously, it was possible to bill on events and then vary the price based on 2 additional pieces of data (or attributes). This has now been updated to 4. 

For example, if you were billing based on messages sent through your platform, you could track "origin", "destination", "message type", and "data size" in addition to configuring different rates for every permutation of those attributes.  

Try Events-Based Billing today and see for yourself the sophisticated granularity you can achieve with it. For more information on Events-Based Billing, 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>

The new version of the Finance Report is now live and is available for users. We have made several enhancements to the layout of the new report for added detail and clarity. The new report provides:

• Sales broken out by component type
• Credits broken out by credit type
• Net Payments by subtracting Refunds from Payments
• An ‘In Collections’ subcategory of Expected Payments for subscriptions that have failed Dunning but have open invoices
• Access to the old layout at the bottom of the page for easy comparison between versions

For more information on the Finance Report, 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 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 >

The most recent amount invoiced has now been added to the Subscription report to provide even more detail on the current state of the Subscription at the time of export. This field represents the total amount billed, in cents, of the most recent recurring invoice (does not include mid-period probation invoices). It does not include invoices in a pending status or invoices which have been voided. 

For more information on our Subscription Export, see our documentation here >

The MRR Movements Export is a great way to get a detailed view of all MRR changes for a period of time. These movements include new sales (new_business), upgrades (expansion), customers coming out of hold status' (reactivation), customers shrinking (contraction), and customers leaving all together (churn). The Product ID (product_id) and Name (product_name) have now been added to this export to provide more detail around where the MRR movement is occurring.

For morning information on our MRR Movements Export, see our documentation here >

The Subscription Group functionality within Chargify is evolving to make it easier for you to process changes for all Subscriptions within a group. The first update which has been released is the ability to cancel and / or reactivate all Subscriptions within a specific group. 

To learn more about Subscription Groups, see our documentation >