Chargebee vs. Swipe

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Chargebee
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
ChargeBee is an all in one subscription billing solution designed to handle all the complexity of recurring billing. The product integrates with a range of other SaaS applications including SalesForce, accounting, and order fulfillment systems. Some key features include: Managed Subscription Billing, Flexible Billing Support and Automated Notifications.
$599
per month for up to USD 100K of billing per month; 0.75% on billing thereafter
Swipe
Score 8.2 out of 10
N/A
Swipe is a fintech SAAS startup in India. It's a simple Invoicing, Payments & GST software boasting users among 5L+ SMEs, and has reached 5000+ cities withcustomers across India. It comes with high-priority customer support in all regional languages including Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, etc. Swipe helps users to create invoices, purchases, and quotations, and share them directly with customers/ vendors via WhatsApp, SMS & Email. Managing billing,…
$33
per year per user
Pricing
ChargebeeSwipe
Editions & Modules
Scale
$599
per month for up to USD 100K of billing per month; 0.75% on billing thereafter
Enterprise
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PRO plan
$33
per year per user
JET plan
$43
per year per user
RISE Plan
$58
per year per user
RISE + e-Invoice
$88
per year per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
ChargebeeSwipe
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsNo transaction based fees. No setup cost.Swipe Pro Plan includes, 1. 1 Business Account + 1 User 2. Branding No Swipe logo on Bills 3. 14+ Invoice templates 4. Collect Online Payments 5. GSTR-1, 40+ Reports & Insights 6. Variants 7. Inventory Timeline 8. Add custom fields/ columns & charges 9. Bulk uploads of customers, vendors & products. 10. Add header/ footer/ watermark of your choice 11. Convert documents 12. Support 13. iOS App access Jet plan includes, 1. 1 Business Account + 2 users 2. E-way Bills 3. Bulk downloads 4. Multiple Price Lists 5. User Activity 6. Bulk Actions RISE plan includes, 1. Everything in JET + 2. Subscription/ Recurring 3. POS (Point Of Sale) 4. Batch & Expiry 5. Serial Number & IMEI 6. Manufacturing/ Grouping 7. Additional CESS 8. Bank ReconciliationBeta 9. Free Quantity on Sales 10. Sales Order 11. Party Grouping RISE + E-invoice, 1. Everything in RISE + 2. E-invoice BIZ Plan + Multiple Businesses/ Branches + Online Store E-commerce + Multiple Users + Custom Column Linking + Import/ Export/ Multi-currency/ SEZ + Multiple Warehouses + GST Filings + Bulk invoicing via Excel + Digital Signature (with .PFX file) + Integrations - Tally - Shopify - Shiprocket - API - Custom E-mail
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User Ratings
ChargebeeSwipe
Likelihood to Recommend
8.5
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Usability
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
ChargebeeSwipe
Likelihood to Recommend
Chargebee is also one of the best platform in order to provide proper billing management to the customers by providing their configuration needs to be corrected in order to deploy and made the connection relevant to the specific position which is one of the best usecase.It also provides support in order to rectifying issues.
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Swipe is well suited to small and medium companies with under 50 employees. It's perfect for recording and sharing transactions with users.
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Pros
  • Reliable: We've had virtually no issues since launch.
  • Care about customers: Chargebee's account managers/support team have always been very helpful/responsive.
  • Feature-rich: Chargebee has a ton of features that help us do what we want and they are consistently adding new features every quarter.
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  • Amazing UI
  • Paperless system
  • Accessibility from anywhere
  • No accounting experience needed
  • Tracks all payments and documents
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Cons
  • [I feel] customer service never actually fixes any problems. They make you gather information they easily could, write up a big report of the problem, and then tell you why it's not working (usually not even correct). [In my experience] they never actually solve a problem. Not to mention, [in my experience] you can never speak with anyone immediately and coms turnaround is usually over 24 hours.
  • So far, I can not get my customers to checkout online, even after hiring professional developers to help.
  • [I believe] QBO sync is a mess.
  • My account is set up to send payment tokens to Authorize.Net, and no matter how much I disable every possible security feature, I still have 100's of declined cards, that work perfectly well.
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  • Third party integrations
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Usability
It's very easy to use once you know what you're doing. I found it very straight forward once I got the hang of things and was able to create plans easily for my business. I was also able to just charge my clients right away easily. Refunding was also easy when needed.
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Support Rating
Chargebee is simple to use, and we have had little need for support.
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Alternatives Considered
Chargebee is a class apart from Zoho Books - better in all aspects - better interface, more functionalities, integrations that actually work, responsive support, customisable automated reporting, more customizability. The only difference is pricing - Zoho comes at about 10% of what Chargebee costs. So for startups looking to graduate from Google Sheets and on a budget - Zoho will serve your purposes - but eventually will have to move to something like a Chargebee.
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We still use Tally for wider accounting. We tried Zoho and Quickbooks in the past. They are way bigger in terms of features but the UI is complicated and not user-friendly. The learning curve is high for any new comer.
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Return on Investment
  • Chargebee has allowed us to focus on the most important part of our business: the product, instead of cumbersome development to manage subscriptions. The time ROI that it saved allowing us to get our product to market was invaluable.
  • Chargebee also made sense financially. Paying the subscription was far cheaper than developing something similar (or even far inferior) ourselves
  • Overall it's saved us quite a bit of time, money, and allows employees to easily manage subscriptions which is extremely important to us.
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  • We send amazingly professional invoices to customers
  • Absolutely no training required to operate
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ScreenShots

Chargebee Screenshots

Screenshot of Chargebee's metrics and reportingScreenshot of the Recurring Business Command CentreScreenshot of customer subscription nanagement organized onto a single page, where users can change plans, edit card details, add add-ons, apply credits, apply ad hoc charges and delay billing dateScreenshot of the customizable hosted checkout page

Swipe Screenshots

Screenshot of the Swipe sales dashboardScreenshot of multiple invoice templatesScreenshot of invoice creation on SwipeScreenshot of inventory managementScreenshot of analyticsScreenshot of GSTR-1 & 30+ business reports