What it Does: It works for repeated billings, management of the endowment, integration of payment methods, invoicing, sending programmed emails about transactions, managing taxes, and other financial affairs.
Mission: To provide financial services to subscription-based businesses/companies.
Size and Presence: There are 1000-5000 individuals working in Chargebee. Its headquarter is in San Francisco, United States of America. Most of the employees are from India. Currently, it is connected with more than 2000 businesses.
Best Known for: It is well-known for its software, which helps in billing for subscriptions. There are options for repeated billings for all subscriptions, endowment administration, and programmed invoices.
The Good Bits: It offers internships to university students. It provides free trials to eligible companies. They provide jobs in more than 30 countries.
The Bad Bits: It was reported on social media that they charged for their free trials. Sometimes, after the cancellation of services, the company kept on charging money.
Chargebee was founded in 2011 by Krish Subramanian, Rajaraman Santhanam, Thiyagu, and Saravanan KP. Rajaraman Santhanam designed the very first version of Chargebee. The co-founders and the team took 3 to 4 years to solve the complex problems of repeated billings in subscription-based businesses. During these years, Chargebee approached an engineer to understand the problems that were encountered by the customers. They also used to talk to customers through skype. They also learned from other companies as well. To overcome the difficulties, Krish Subramanian volunteered to handle the functioning and marketing of the product while the other co-founders made themselves busy developing the end-product (Chargebee).
Now, Chargebee has more than 7000 consumers from 53 different countries. Fifty per cent of them belong to the United States of America, thirty per cent belong to Europe, and the remaining customers belong to the Asia Pacific. Compared to last year, the company’s growth was four times greater than the last year.
It hires employees from all over the globe which brings diversity and inclusiveness to its offices. It encourages learning and building products. It believes in the empowerment of its team. It provides independency and freehold to its employees. It provides an opportunity for its team to explore more and more. They provide their services to the business of all scales. It has a complete system for customer service. It has a partner program where a person can learn from more than 30 Chargebee’s partners.
Chargebee offers individuals all around the world to explore opportunities in a wide range of fields such as customer support, engineers, marketing and sales, etc. It has a complete section on its website and LinkedIn profile for receiving job applications. They also offer people to have a conversation about jobs before applying for them.
Chargebee allows its employees to do a hundred per cent work from home and there is no boundary of time. It also invests billions of dollars in the ideas of its team. It also encourages the empowerment of women.
Chargebee provides a competitive environment which the growth and learning of its employees. It promotes remote work and inclusiveness of the workplace. About 33% of the individuals are women in the company.
The company is very flexible about working hours, holidays and working from home. The senior director of customers says that the team of Chargebee believes in equality and provides a decent chance for everyone to showcase their capabilities. She also says that Chargebee is a system that is in complete support of its people.
The average salary of an employee starts from 7.5 lakh and continues to 38.8 lakh INR per year. The average bonus, given to the staff, is 35 lakhs (INR).
Chargebee has a keen interest in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and intends to play its role in positive contributions. It is working on two main areas. Firstly, it is contributing to the promotion of education, in particular special education. The company also provides relief, support, and rehabilitation in case of natural calamities or emergencies.