Chargify and Spree integration
Chargify is a billing and revenue management platform for fast-growing SaaS businesses. Founded in 2009, Chargify started out as a team within Grasshopper focused on the core needs of recurring billing. Over the past decade, Chargify has expanded its offerings to address the complexities of SaaS revenue management, with core functionalities in elastic billing, revenue operations, and SaaS-tailored insights. Headquartered in San Antonio, TX, the company has helped thousands of businesses manage millions of offers and now processes more than $1B through its platform annually.
The benefits of using Chargify for your ecommerce business:
Chargify empowers B2B SaaS businesses to:
- Go to market with unlimited and dynamic B2B SaaS billing scenarios
- Manage multi-tiered B2B SaaS business structures
- Simplify complex B2B SaaS business operations
- Always be compliant with new accounting and tax challenges
This is achieved through:
- Elastic Billing
The Rapid Offer Builder gives you access to millions of subscription and pricing combinations, setting you apart from your competition.
- RevOps
Chargify automates your quote-to-cash process so you can concentrate on growing your business, not maintaining it.
- Insights
Chargify’s analytics and predictive insights suite give you an unparalleled understanding of your recurring revenue business.
- Events-Based Billing
Step beyond subscription or usage-based billing by leveraging the event data that you already collect.
How to integrate Chargify with Spree
API Integration
Chargify can be integrated with many environments and programming languages via our REST API. Some of its users have contributed their API wrappers in various programming languages. Check out the API Code Overview doc for an introduction to the wrappers and available code samples.
Developer Portal
Chargify created a developer-focused portal to give your organization a clear and quick overview of how to integrate with Chargify.
The developer portal focuses on scenarios for integration and flow of events. It is recommended to familiarize yourself with all of the content in the developer portal, as it’s a great compliment to the API documentation.
Here is a sampling of what is available in the developer portal:
- Getting Started Guide for Integrators: Authentication, Guidelines, Sites/Subdomains
- API Basics: Signups, Components, Syncing
- Chargify Ecosystem: Code samples, Signup methods
Chargify Direct
The Chargify Direct documentation can be found under the developer portal.
Here you’ll find an introduction to how Chargify Direct operates within Chargify. Additionally, some example implementations, as well as troubleshooting are covered there.
Testing Guide
Chargify has compiled a testing guide that covers a list of important factors to consider while in the testing phase. Here’s a high-level overview of what’s covered in the testing guide:
- Test credit card basics
- Test site limits
- Live mode versus test mode
We strongly suggest reading over the testing guide, as well as the entire set of application-based documentation to aid in your discovery of the product.
Support Access
Access to the Technical Specialist team for API support is currently limited to purchasers of the larger Chargify support plans.
But there are quite a few options to help you get the answers you need:
Read through our helpful API documentation
