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Chargebee
Company blog · chargebee.com/blog · on HN as skrishbusinessstartups
Chargebee is the company blog at chargebee.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2012, 45 different Hacker News readers have linked it 72 times, most often “Chargebee: Subscription Billing and Recurring Payments Software”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-21, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (26) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Chargebee's product, pricing, launch-plan and docs pages while discussing subscription billing, EU VAT and revenue recognition. Comments name the product rather than judging its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 26 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Chargebee powers billing, pricing, and revenue operations for thousands of businesses. From recurring subscriptions to usage-based AI monetization - every model, one platform.
Most-linked posts?
- Chargebee: Subscription Billing and Recurring Payments Software6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2017-03-23
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-02-21
- Show HN: ChargeBee - Recurring Billing 3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-04-17
- Billing for SaaS – first $50k free tier for startups3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-13
- It’s not a winner take all. In SaaS, it really isn’t2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-09-25
- /launch/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-29
- How We Do Continuous Customer Development at Chargebee2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-05-20
- How to Incorporate in the USA: US Inc. As a Subsidiary2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-11-11
- SaaS Best Practices: Password Rules to Boost Your Signup Rates2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-01-01
- What Makes Freemium Work? Lessons from Dropbox, Evernote and a Lemonade Stand2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-30
What Hacker News says?
Oth: it's a calibration process. If the regulations are to onerous, we can loosen them again, or companies will spring up that make compliance easy. https://www.chargebee.com/ solves the European VAT nightmare for example, until we have harmonization on that front. Is it inefficient? Depends on your model of the world: I'd rather pay a bit more for my goods/services and know that my privacy and data autonomy are pre…
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on “Facebook’s tracking of non-users ruled illegal again in Europe”Submitted Show HN: ChargeBee - Recurring Billing as a story · 32 points
HN discussionIf anyone from Stripe is here, question: We currently use Chargebee for all our subscription and Stripe to actually process the payments. With Chargebee V3 [1] we've just dropped in their js and then we get an overlay/pop-up for both subscription and then subscription management, like editing subscription, invoicing etc. Is this a replacement for Chargebee on the integration and coding side that we get without work?…
Comment linking /docs/assets/screenshots/images/chargebee-checkout-portal-v3/why-checkout.png
on “Stripe Billing”Submitted Whoa, this is big – Tesla on subscription as a story · 26 points
HN discussion> we combine the movement of money and subsequent state transitions involved in unlocking value > it's granting entitlements This is what Chargebee is doing[1]. I believe Zuora is another big company operating in the space. 1 - https://www.chargebee.com/entitlement-management/
Comment linking /entitlement-management/
on “Show HN: We built an open source, zero webhooks payment processor”Submitted We Studied 6,452 SaaS Companies. The Findings Will Make You Grow as a story · 24 points
HN discussion> only ~1% of users are paying, it seems like very small changes in conversion rate could make or break the business. Agreed. 4% to 5% seems to be the minimum for this sort of model to sustain and not die. > Chris Anderson in his book “Free” explains that Freemium works on the 5 Percent Rule - where 5% of premium customers support the remaining 95% of free users and also the cost of servicing the 95% is close to zer…
Comment linking /blog/freemium-business-model/
on “Reaching $10k monthly revenue with WakaTime, my SaaS side project”Submitted Billing for SaaS – first $50k free tier for startups as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI think the idea is to convey that just like a bell has no natural link to food anticipation of which causes salivation, the fact that x has always (at least as far as we remember) come with y which causes z means when we see x, we fear z will happen even though x and y need not necessarily have to come together? I believe there are people who won’t forgive text drive / Joyent for their dishonesty and sincerely we m…
Comment linking /blog/lifetime-plans-its-time-rethink-purpose/
on “Permanent.org – Nonprofit, secure cloud storage”Submitted Saas Pricing – Shopify, Zendesk, and StatusPage as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> FIDO’s current proposal has no mechanism for bulk-transferring passkeys between ecosystems. If you want to switch from an Android phone to an iPhone—or vice versa—you won’t be able to easily move all your passkeys over. Allowing each tenant to move thousands of highly-sensitive internal tokens to a competitor is something the credit card processing industry, somewhat surprisingly, has more or less solved. Most cre…
Comment linking /blog/credit-card-portability-important-subscription-commerce-merchants/
on “iOS 16 Available September 12th”Submitted Story of Comic Bento - A First in Blind Box Subscription for Comics as a story · 10 points
HN discussionFor anyone else looking into recurring billing I'd highly recommend Chargebee (not affiliated at all). We've tried a few different solutions and were a little apprehensive at first because it looked a bit clunky but it's actually one of the best bits of software I've used. You don't realise the number of features a subscription billing platform needs until you use something like chargebee and discover how wonderful…
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on “Running Costs of a SaaS app”Submitted How we engineered our trial to paid conversion from 8% to 15% as a story · 8 points
HN discussionhttps://www.chargebee.com/pricing/ Free tier for new businesses, $99/mo and up (up up) nonlinearly.
Comment linking /pricing/
on “Going Global with Your Startup”Submitted Your First $50K Is on Us – Chargebee as a story · 8 points
HN discussionRunning a Germany-based SaaS startup at some scale, so I feel confident to chime in. To put it bluntly, you're right. We have to do more work just to get started accepting money than our American counterparts. Yes, the insanely complex EU-VAT rules actually need to be followed. Yes, a lot of your customers will want to pay via bank transfer and not through credit card. Yes, the American folks will still want to pay…
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on “Going Global with Your Startup”Submitted It’s not a winner take all. In SaaS, it really isn’t as a story · 6 points
HN discussionRevenue recognition isn’t something I know anything about (see my comment above about chargebee doing a bunch of stuff I don’t even know I need) but here’s their page on it https://www.chargebee.com/docs/revenue-recognition.html
Comment linking /docs/revenue-recognition.html
on “Hidden work when launching a SaaS”Submitted ChargeBee Raises $18M Series C Led by Insight Venture Partners as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI use https://www.chargebee.com , they've been incredible
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on “Hidden work when launching a SaaS”Submitted 23 tactics to fight involuntary churn and failed payments as a story · 5 points
HN discussionPlease clarify whether Chargebee supports custom hybrid plans (e.g., Per Seat + Usage models in Stripe terminology, which, correspondingly, would approximately be equal to a combination of Per Unit + Volume + Tiered models [1]). If Yes, please create or point to relevant documentation; if No, do you have plans for implementing such capability? [1] https://www.chargebee.com/docs/plans.html#pricing-attributes
Comment linking /docs/plans.html
on “Ask HN: How do you process payments?”Submitted The Layman's Way to Webhooks: How they work, and solve essential problems as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLooks like they have a free tier for the first 50k in revenue: https://www.chargebee.com/launch/
Comment linking /launch/
on “Ask HN: How do you process payments?”Submitted Our Approach to User Onboarding Is Incomplete. Here’s Why as a story · 4 points
HN discussionChargebee for subscription/recurring revenue billing. Set it up and it runs on autopilot. They do have a "launch" plan to help support new startups. https://www.chargebee.com/launch/
Comment linking /launch/
on “Ask HN: Great tools for solo SaaS founders?”Submitted I thought I knew pivots, until I wrote this post as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAs per https://www.chargebee.com/partners.html businesses can choose Authorize.net, Braintree, Paypal, PIN, WorldPay, eWay etc.
Comment linking /partners.html
on “PayPal Shuts Down Secure Messaging Service ProtonMail’s Crowdfunding Account”Submitted SaaS Best Practices: Password Rules to Boost Your Signup Rates as a story · 4 points
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