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www.chargify.com 10y ago

Lessons Learned: How to Effectively Organize a Remote Team Meetup

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www.chargify.com 10y ago

How we made core values part of our DNA and why you should too

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www.chargify.com 10y ago

16 Tips to Reduce SaaS Churn from Industry Leaders

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www.chargify.com 10y ago

Hiring and Firing for Small Business Success: 25 Years, 130 People

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www.chargify.com 10y ago

Subscription Business Trend Predictions for 2016

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www.chargify.com 10y ago

SaaS Customer Success: The secret to reducing churn and increasing MRR

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www.chargify.com 10y ago

How EMV Impacts Card Not Present Fraud for Subscription-Based Businesses

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www.chargify.com 10y ago

SaaS Freemium: How to succeed and how to fail…

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www.chargify.com 10y ago

Twitter, Motorcycles, and Money from Mark Cuban

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www.groovehq.com 11y ago

What We Learned from Failing to Hit Our 12-month Growth Goal

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www.assembla.com 11y ago

Assembla announces unlimited free private SVN and Git repos and users

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blog.assembla.com 11y ago

Make Fast IT work for you

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blog.assembla.com 12y ago

Interested in cryptocurrencies? Get started with 1000 free Ripple XRP

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venturebeat.com 12y ago

Continuous delivery: killer advantage for moving fast without breaking things

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blog.assembla.com 12y ago

Assembla GitHub integration now supports multiple GitHub repositories

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blog.assembla.com 12y ago

The SSH Tool: Best kept secret to streamline your deploy process

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blog.assembla.com 12y ago

Sharing code snippets with team members just got a whole lot easier

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blog.assembla.com 12y ago

The Continuous Compare Report for Git

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Machines Are Eating Software Development

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2 Flavors of Continuous Delivery: Centralized versus Distributed

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blog.assembla.com 13y ago

Unblock Design Tasks using Standard Styles

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blog.assembla.com 13y ago

Calling All Hackers - Server-Side Hook Contest

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blog.assembla.com 13y ago

Can Agile Work with Geographically Dispersed Teams? Yes it can.

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The Cumulative Flow Diagram: Your Most Valuable Management Report?

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How 11 Companies are Scaling Agile

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Continuous Deployment is Secure: How to Patch 3rd Party Apps Uber-Fast

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Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment vs Continuous Integration

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The Three Agile Use Cases: Where Do You Fit In?

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Beyond Scrum Roadmap

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blog.assembla.com 13y ago

The Future of Cloud Development: Where is it going? [video]

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Disclaimer: I work for Chargify. While biased, I'd have to agree with (and thank!) the Chargify supporters below :)

Here is a great post from our blog to check out: https://www.chargify.com/blog/buy-vs-build-subscription-bill...

And an excerpt from that post:

Nick Sonnenberg, Co-Founder of Leverage, explained that “Chargify has a wide variety of capabilities you don’t know you need until you need them, such as dealing with expired credit cards by notifying the client automatically. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”

Looking back at their own experiences, Sonnenberg has this advice for new subscription-based startups: “Start with Stripe + Chargify. You’ll save time and money in the long run.”

Good luck in your quest. Let us know if we can help answer any questions for you!

Ahh, the buy vs build debate. Disclaimer, I work for https://www.chargify.com/, another provider of recurring billing software in the same space as Chargebee.

We see this question asked a lot it really boils down to resources and what you want to spend your time on. Yes, it is pretty easy to build a basic system with a gateway such as Stripe or Braintree but there are two main problems: 1. It does not scale well (your needs will likely increase) 2. Building and maintaining your own system takes away from focusing on your product (and it is not a core competency)...

As Krush said, there are "hundreds of small things that come up as you grow." By using a best of breed tool, most of these things are available out of the box with little to no dev work needed such as testing plans, coupons/promo codes, taxes, reporting/analytics, billing portal for customer account management, a portal for your support team to see/edit account history/info, system emails, dunning management, and so much more.

The price for billing software like Chargify is minimal compared to the time saved building and maintaining your own system. In fact, the money saved by leveraging our dunning features alone have proven to provide a 4x return based on the monthly cost of Chargify's software. So not only does it save a lot of resources, it provides an ROI.

We have a ton of people that come to us after building their own system, and wished they implement Chargify in the beginning. But it is never too late!

Happy to answer any specific questions.

I work for Chargify and wanted to comment on the "disappearing service problem." Chargify has been around for over 7 years and has been growing and profitable for the last 4 years. If disappearing services is a concern, we do not plan on going anywhere for a long time :)

http://Assembla.com offers this in the form of a StandUp report which provides a simple web-based form that you fill our for what you did last day/week, what you will do today/this week, any questions or road blocks that need to be addressed.

We use them daily to ensure that everyone is working on the correct priorities and to see if anyone has any roadblocks or questions that someone on the team can help with. Some companies do them once or twice a week. Either way, its a great way to simply know who is working on what and who needs help. These standup reports are part of the Assembla workspaces but they also offer them as a free standalone tool at http://offers.assembla.com/standup