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Billing For Beginners: How to Manage Your Accounts Receivable
Reel.com founder and serial entrepreneur, Stuart Skorman, and longtime business owner John Muller, who had a Hoboken street named after him for his longevity, have at least one thing in common: they...
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How to Choose the Best Smartphone Credit Card Reader for Your Business
If you can pay for a 95¢ pack of gum with your credit card, then you should be able to use your card for that antique mahogany desk at the craft fair! The new smartphone card readers, aside from...
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6 Easy Ways to Save Your Data (and Your Life)
Backing up your data is real easy to do, so you should never need to curse the day when you decided to leave early instead of save your files. But eventually your system probably will crash, and you...
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Customer Spotlight: Consulto
Shifting Tides Reveal OpportunityHaving been in the web design industry since 1995, Matt Certo, co-founder of WebSolvers (a 12 person Orlando web design firm), has seen the technology landscape evolve...
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Release v1.7.0: Taxes
Version 1.7.0 brings a brand new feature to Chargify: Taxes!The ability to define taxes in Chargify is something that many of you, especially those in the EU, have been asking for awhile.Check out the...
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Chargify Grows, Mark Cuban Invests
We’re happy to announce that there are now over 550 businesses using Chargify to manage their subscriptions & billing. We’re proud to have an amazing customer base and loyal Chargify fans. Some of...
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Great Stuff Coming! And TechStars Cloud wants you!
It’s been a few months since we closed an investment from Mark Cuban, and we’ve been busy expanding our organization, growing our software, and adding merchants!A lot of great things are in the works....
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Chargify Performance
One of the main things we’re working on at Chargify these days is improving the user experience, especially with regards to the speed of the site and the API. If you’ve been with us for a while,...
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Chargify at 3 Years Old
Wow, it’s been 3 years since Chargify got started.It was early 2009. The folks at Grasshopper (below) recognized recurring billing as something more businesses wanted to do, but actually doing it is...
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Chargify Expansion Update
Back in early December, 2011, our system architect, Michael Klett, blogged about capacity limits we were reaching due to growth in the number of merchants running on Chargify and the number of...
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Unplanned Downtime: Managed/Shared Database Failed Just 2 Days Before our Move
UPDATE AS OF 11:20AM EST / 8:20AM PST: WE’RE BACK ONLINE, VERIFYING SYSTEMSThis is definitely not what we wanted or expected just 2 days before we move to our own database machines.Here’s the...
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Congrats Chargify Merchants! You billed $5,300,000 in January!
Congrats, Chargify merchants! You’re growing your businesses quickly!In January, 2012, in the aggregate, Chargify merchants billed their customers a total of $5,300,000.That’s a huge step above...
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Chargify Expansion Nearly Done!
As you may know from several earlier blog posts, we’ve been working since late November to expand our systems and replace inefficient parts to handle the growth of our merchants and their customers.The...
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It’s time to plan a pricing change (in June). And we’d like your input.
NOTE: THERE’S A NEWER BLOG POST ABOUT WHAT WE DECIDED. The following is interesting, but if you just want the summary of what we decided after 3 months of engaging our customers, click the link above...
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Components! Now on your Hosted Signup Pages in a Snap!
Our dev team shipped something that a lot of merchants have been waiting for!We just went live with “Components on the Hosted Pages”See the hosted page below? There are two options that allow the...
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New Feature: Predictive Charging
Editor’s Note: This was indeed an April Fools joke. There’s a lot of truth in the post, and a few good ideas that are not too far fetched. But rest assured we wouldn’t charge your customers without...
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Chargify Software Development, March in Review
We sent this update to all of our merchants via email, and someone suggested we blog it, too.It’s a summary of all the software work we did in March.The BIG things we worked on (and last 2: still...
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New Pricing & Features in June & July
We blogged about new pricing ideas back on February 29th and then followed up with emails to all merchants. Those communications led to many one-on-one emails and phone calls with you over the past 3...
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New Data Center(s) in our Future
Sorry about the slowness and downtime last night and just now for 10 minutes.We’ve seen network problems inside our data center too many times.We chose them 2 years ago because they’re a PCI specialist...
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New Webhooks Tools
With our new pricing plans, we’re rolling out 3 new tools that make it easier for you to monitor & manage webhooks.(If you don’t know what webhooks are, then you probably don’t use them and won’t...
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