Chargify What's New

https://www.chargify.com

Timeline Events on Contact and Deal Records in HubSpot

Managing subscriptions requires you to keep a pulse on your customer base to quickly react to events, especially failed payments. We all know that payments can fail due to expired cards or even outdated billable contacts causing missed refunds or invoicing errors. 

For our customers who are currently integrating their HubSpot environment, we are excited to announce that Timeline Events can now be viewed in the Contact or Deal record. This added visibility will enable your customer-facing teams to stay in the know of customer events, which can also help mitigate failed revenue mishaps during the subscription lifecycle.

The following Events are now shown through our native HubSpot integration: 

  • Invoice Issued
  • Payment Success
  • Payment Failure
  • Subscription State Change
  • Subscription Product Change
  • Expiring Card
  • Component Allocation Change
  • Upgrade/Downgrade Success
  • Upgrade/Downgrade Failure
  • Refund Success
  • Refund Failure
These events can be configured to streamline your revenue operations, support, and client services experience. 

Interested in integrating your HubSpot environment with Chargify? Contact your Customer Success Manager or support@chargify.com today!

For more information on Timeline Events in our HubSpot integration, see our documentation here>

Invoice Details Visible Inside HubSpot

We know it's vital for your Support Teams to have information at their fingertips in order to quickly service your customers. Chargify's HubSpot integration lets you view subscription changes, payment and invoice history, usage and next billing dates, all within the Contact and Deal Record views. 

Adding to our native HubSpot integration, we are excited to announce an enhancement to viewing Invoice Details! Once the subscription is generated, the integration will provide a PCI compliant invoice link to collect payment from your contacts in addition to visibility for your customer-facing teams. 

The invoice details include: 

  • Invoice ID 
  • Status 
  • Payment Collection Method
  • Invoice Due Amount
  • Invoice Paid Date
  • Credits Used

These values will stay up-to-date in HubSpot's CRM extension and can help you streamline your revenue operations, support, and more. 


Interested in integrating your HubSpot environment with Chargify? Contact your Customer Success Manager or support@chargify.com today! 

For more information on our HubSpot integration, see our documentation here>

New Filter Options via API for Invoicing

Last month we released a new endpoint to send invoices via API to mimic the behavior of the "Send Invoice" button within the UI. This endpoint enables you to programmatically deliver ad-hoc invoices as well as the re-send of auto-generated invoices, thus giving you control of when to send out an invoice. 

As we continue adding new API endpoints, we are excited to announce new filter options on exposed event types on an invoice. You can now filter for multiple event types on an invoice (e.g. issue_invoice, apply_credit_note, refund_invoice) using a comma separated list. Previously, you were able to filter by only 1 invoice event. 

For more information, see our documentation here>



Enhanced Syncing Options & Action Triggers in HubSpot

Our native HubSpot integration gives you all the information needed to sell and manage your customers while simultaneously driving marketing activities. As we continue to invest in strengthening our integration, we are very excited to announce that our Product Team has released new syncing options around your product catalog and customer data! Additionally, new subscription action triggers are available through the HubSpot user like:
  • Cancel & reactivate a subscription
Admin users can now enable the Chargify Product Catalog sync for one or more Chargify sites which will provide full flexibility in segmenting your revenue streams.The added action triggers are listed below:
  • “Create deals in HubSpot when subscriptions are created”: The admin users can select whether the integration will auto-create deals in HubSpot when subscriptions are created inside Chargify using the Chargify public signup pages.
  • “Create deals in HubSpot when existing subscriptions’ component allocations increase”: Select whether the integration will auto-create deals in HubSpot when existing subscriptions’ component allocations increases
  • “The deal amount for component allocation change should be set to”: The user will select what values will construct the deal record “deal amount” property. Whether this is the prorated amount or the full amount for a mid period component allocation.
Interested in integrating your Chargify and HubSpot environments? Reach out to your customer success manager or support@chargify.com to get started!

For more information on our HubSpot integration, see our documentation here>

Xero Integration: Component Quantities Shown on Invoice

Thanks to feedback from our customers, we are very excited to announce an enhancement to invoicing with our native Xero integration! The invoices produced out of Xero are now updated to align with the Chargify invoice quantity per each specific component your customer is billed on. Previously, the quantity was set to 1 with the total amount of the component noted in the unit price attribute. The actual quantity was only available in the line item description. This added functionality improves the ability to view and track in Xero the components sold to your customers.

For more information on Xero invoicing, see our documentation here>

Component Allocation History in Salesforce

Mirroring as much of your customers' subscription information in Chargify to your Salesforce environment is vital to creating efficiencies amongst your Sales and Customer Success Teams. After hearing from many of our customers currently leveraging our native integration, we are excited to share an exciting new feature in Salesforce! 

You can now view historical and current allocation of all components and their respective usage for each customers' subscription. This added visibility in Salesforce gives your team faster response times to take action and assist customers, preventing the need to look up component allocations in Chargify.  

For more information on configuring the subscription layout object for your Salesforce integration, see our documentation here>

HubSpot Integration: New Multi-site Support

Providing a consistent customer experience starts with having the right applications talking to each other, such as syncing your HubSpot environment with Chargify, leading to less friction between your sales & support teams. For our customers who are currently utilizing the NextGen HubSpot integration, or are planning to integrate soon, we have some very exciting news! 

Our Product Team dedicated to our native integration with HubSpot has been hard at work developing new Multi-site support so you can connect more than one Chargify site to one single HubSpot account! If you are using multiple sites to segment entities, revenue streams, products or customers, you can now leverage this within your HubSpot environment.

For more information on our HubSpot integration, see our documentation here>

Stripe BECS Direct Debit

As many of our customers continue to globalize, we want to provide strategic payment gateway partnerships that will help you scale. Because of this, we are excited to announce our continual partnership with Stripe by offering BECS Direct Debit!

Stripe BECS Direct Debit is a payment method available in the Stripe platform that allows Chargify merchants to easily collect Direct Debit payments in the Australian Dollar currency. Your subscriber may add existing banking information to seamlessly pay for products and services. This payment method allows you to take payments from customer bank accounts in Australia in 3 easy steps: 

  1. Customer selects BECS Direct Debit at checkout
  2. Customer completes the Direct Debit Request
  3. Customer gets notification that the payment is complete

Interested in enabling BECS payments with your Stripe account? Contact your Customer Success manager today or support@chargify.com.  

For more information on BECS Direct Debit, see our documentation here>

Our API documentation can be found here>

Backdating Issue Date on Ad-hoc Invoices

We understand that charges can occur outside of a normal billing cycle and therefore provide the functionality for you to send ad-hoc or one-time invoices. Many customers utilize ad-hoc invoices to sell services or items on a non-recurring basis to their customer base. We are excited to announce that our Product Team has made some exciting developments to these types of invoices! You can now backdate ad-hoc invoices using both the UI and API. 

If performing this in the UI, you go under Subscriptions > Invoices > Create an Invoice. There is a new input field for Issue Date in the top right of the ad-hoc invoice within the UI. The issue date will be set by default to the current date. In order to back date the issue date, you will use the date selector functionality by clicking into the Issue Date input field.

Alternatively, you can also backdate the issue date via the API with the "Create an Invoice Endpoint". If no issue date parameter is passed, then the issue date will default to the current date. If you desire to back date, you can simply pass an issue_date parameter of any date in the past.

The primary use case for backdating ad-hoc invoices is when you experience a delay in issuing an ad-hoc invoice but would still like for the invoice to be due at the same time it would have been had there been no delay. As an example, one-off usage is incurred but not charged until 7 days later and you want the due_date to reflect your standard net terms of 15 days. In this case, you could back date the ad-hoc invoice to the day the usage was incurred and set the due_date to Day 15.

For more information on backdating the issue date on ad-hoc invoices, see our documentation here>

Salesforce Ad-hoc Invoice Creation

Having your sales team work in a platform they're most comfortable in without having to learn other systems (especially billing) can be a key component to creating efficiencies within the organization. At Chargify, our native Salesforce integration is set out to solve the swivel-chair movement between CRM and billing for your customer-facing teams. Due to recent feedback from our customers, we are very excited to announce a brand new feature for our Salesforce integration! 

To better enable your sales team to sell specialized deals, we have now added the ability to create ad-hoc or one-time invoices from Salesforce. These one-time invoices can have custom line item pricing as well as unique invoice billing and shipping addresses for added flexibility. Any time an invoice is created in Salesforce, it will automatically be synced over to Chargify. 

For more information about our Salesforce integration, see our documentation here>

Show Previous EntriesShow Previous Entries