We released several new features for Chargify this week that definitely deserve mention.

Multi-Site Support

Before, when you created a Chargify account, you were given 2 “sites”: 1) your “live” account and 2) your “test” account.  This structure was somewhat limiting, both for us and our customers.  We re-architected how Sites (now with a big “S”) work, and now, you can create as many Sites as you want, and you can move them in and out of test mode.

Each Site has its own Customers, Subscriptions, and Settings.  This means each site configures its own:

• Subdomain
• Gateway settings
• Email Templates (more on that later)
• Dunning Settings

This also opens us up to support other sorts of things in the future that aren’t compatible when you only have 1 production site… like multiple currencies.  (We haven’t committed to a roadmap for multi-currency, but we do know the need is there and we want to make sure we’re ready).

This is a guest-post from Sean Harper, co-founder of TransFS.  He is a zealot about making sure business owners get a fair shake from their financial services providers.

1. Know what your requirements are and find a processor that has lots of experience with those requirements.
The worst credit card processing outcomes occur when the business owner doesn’t screen the processors that don’t have experience fulfilling that requirement. Fortunately, there are lots of processors that are experienced dealing with SaaS and web services companies and providing the gateway (auth.net or otherwise) that they need.