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...
View ArticleChargify 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...
View ArticleIt’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...
View ArticleComponents! 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleChargify 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleChargicon: 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,...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleCongrats 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...
View ArticleChargify + 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...
View ArticleChargify 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)...
View ArticleChoosing 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...
View ArticleSome 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...
View ArticleNew 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...
View ArticleTrendslide 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleRecurring Invoicing is Here!
We’ve been growing our infrastructure (see this post) and our team (just hired another developer this week!) and today we’re happy to release one of the big things our merchants have been asking for to...
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