As part of our new customer spotlight series, we will be featuring Chargify customers who we think deserve to have the spotlight on them for the day.  This series is our way of giving back and saying thank you to all of our customers. Stay tuned for more customer spotlights each month.

In this month’s customer spotlight we are featuring Commendable Kids.  Commendable Kids was our runner up in the “Chargify: Most Potential to Monetize” challenge at the Rails Rumble back in October.

Commendable Kids is the result of a weekend long web application development competition in which teams had 48 hours to design, develop, and deploy the best web property they could using Ruby and Rails. Now, 5 months later, Commendable Kids is still around and doing great things.

What is Commendable Kids?

Commendable Kids was designed to allow parents, grandparents, teachers and others to encourage, motivate and reward young children through the use of badges.  With Commendable Kids, you can register a child so that they can start receiving badges for their hard work, goals achieved, skill developments, and milestones, basically anything you think a child deserves recognition for! There are over 90 badges to choose from.

You can even invite others such as friends, family members, and teachers to participate.  By becoming a fan of the child, others can encourage and high five (virtually of course) the children for their hard work and accomplishments.

Over 550 companies depend on Chargify to help manage their business every day!

From established companies like Get Satisfaction and Scribd, to startups like Jungl.me and DNSimple.

But we only hear from a fraction of our customers because most just sign up and get going… that’s the only “downside” of a great SaaS offering: if it’s easy to use, most customers don’t need us

But we do hear from some, and this blog post gives a sample of what they say and who they are!