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Chargicon: learn from others like you - and help us chart the future
Come to Chargicon in Austin, July 30-31.Learn how Chargify can help manage a big part of your recurring revenue business.And learn how Shopify and Chargify work together with our new Shopify App!And,...
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New Trial-Ending Options!
We got blocked by a few other things recently that we had to do first (mainly anti-fraud stuff the last couple of weeks), but they’re finally here!...Trial Period Ending OptionsNow you can set your...
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Congrats Chargify merchants… You are growing like crazy!
We had to pull some data this week for Visa (for good things!), and it hit us… our merchants are growing nicely!Look at these top-line stats:2011 1,079,804 transactions (all types)$27,900,000 to...
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Chargify + Shopify = Manage Any Kind of Business!
Chargify + Shopify = Manage Any Kind of Business!Shopify is the leading choice to manage your ecommerce store. They’ve been around for many years and they have over 30,000 merchants running on their...
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Chargify is Profitable!
I’ve waited a long time to write this blog post, and I know this will be bittersweet to some because we had to raise prices to get here, but most people we’ve told (merchants and other business owners)...
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Choosing a new datacenter - Part 1
A few months ago, Lance posted about our continuing plans to improve the robustness and availability of our architecture.Step number one in that process was hiring. I (Drew Blas) have been very...
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Some Little New Features, and Some Big Ones
We’re always devoting some dev cycles to new features - some little, some big.Over the past few weeks, we’ve released a few little features that will make your lives better.And over the past few...
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New datacenter switchover planned
Today we’re very excited to announce the next step in our datacenter operations expansion. We’ll be switching primary operations from our current datacenter to the Amazon Web Services cloud in order...
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Trendslide Mobile Dashboard Integrates with Chargify for Business Metrics On...
This is a guest post from Jeffrey Vocell at Trendslide He can reached at jeffrey@trendslide.comRevenue and new customers are at the heart of your business, and as a result, so are metrics that you want...
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The Eventful Weekend that Wasn’t Eventful… the new Chargify “water system”
About 7 months ago, we decided that we needed to hire someone to focus on making our infrastructure better.And we not only needed a better version of what we had, but we also needed to create a better...
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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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