The way you bill your customers is essential to running your business. Many of our customers today take advantage of Chargify's built-in Calendar Billing functionality, allowing them to choose the specific day of the month their subscribers should be billed on, not the day they signed up for your product and/or service. For example, you may want all of your customers' subscriptions to renew on the first of the month. 

The goal with our CRM integrations is to mirror your Chargify environment as much as possible to provide your teams a seamless experience to sell and manage subscriptions. Because of this, we are excited to announce that we have extended Calendar Billing to our native Salesforce integration. When creating a Subscription via the Subscription Wizard, you can configure the subscription to be Calendar Billed on the specific day of the month you choose. 

For more information on how Calendar Billing works, see our documentation here>

• Introduced Multi-Attribute Rating
• Invoice Template Updates 

Many of our customers use consolidated invoices to simplify their customers’ bills when they have multiple subscriptions. The beauty of these consolidated invoices is that each subscription listed in the group generates an “invoice segment”. Previously, you had to go through a couple of steps to locate the individual segments that make up a consolidated invoice. 

Our UI now allows you to locate the individual segments on a consolidated invoice by directly linking to the member invoice for easy access. For example, if you have a customer with 10 subscriptions, the consolidated invoice would group this into 1. You are able to click into the “1 grouped subscription” to see the member invoices associated. 

For more information on Invoice Hierarchy, see our documentation here>

Event-driven architectures are crucial for enabling real-time, personalized product experiences and we believe they are the future of modern B2B SaaS applications. For organizations that are already events-based, we’ve introduced a simpler method to send data to Chargify via our Kafka Inbound Cluster. From there, you can use this data to build complex, value-based pricing models which charge your customers for exactly what they use—linking the value you provide to the invoice they receive.

For more information on streaming data from Kafka-based event pipelines to Chargify for Events-Based Billing, see our documentation here>

Invoice consolidation improves the experience of your customer by combining multiple subscriptions into one invoice to be paid in a single transaction. Historically, your customers had to pay for the full amount on the consolidated invoice. Now your customers have the option to make a partial payment against the different subscriptions. 

For example, if your customer has 10 subscriptions that were $10 each, the consolidated invoice is $100. Previously, your customer would have to pay the $100 towards the invoice. You can now have the customer make a partial payment toward the invoice, for instance a $50 payment against it. It will spread the payment out over the different subscriptions and show a $50 balance due. 

For more information on Invoice Consolidation, see our documentation here> 

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>

Dunning is tough, its configuration and tracking shouldn't be! Today, we are happy to announce a  new user interface for Chargify's dunning functionality. This you provides you a view of all dunning features, in a single location so you can quickly and easily view, track and update your dunning settings. This update is to the dunning navigation only and will not change current functionality or your current settings. 

For more information on dunning in Chargify, see our documentation here>

Online invoices were created to make it easier for your customers to close their open invoices by paying directly online. We understand that Credit Cards are not always universal, and that’s why we have added new payment options to help streamline this process. Chargify now provides three new payment options for online invoices: Direct Debit, Apple Pay, and Paypal! Please keep in mind these new payment options are limited to the payment gateways that accept them. 

You can enable these payment methods on your Payment Gateway settings. In addition, you can also get in touch with your Customer Success Manager or Chargify Support team to help enable this in your account. For more information on our new online invoice payment options, see our documentation here>