News & Buzz
Recent and featured coverage about Chargify.
Mark Cuban backs Boston startup Chargify
July 26, 2011
Chargify LLC, a two-year-old Needham, Mass. startup developing billing software for small and midsize businesses (SMB), announced Tuesday it has received an undisclosed angel investment from Mark Cuban, owner of basketball’s NBA champions, the Dallas Mavericks .
The amount of the funding from Cuban – who made his…
Chargify Passes 550 Paying Customers, Gets Backing from Mark Cuban
July 26, 2011
Needham based Grasshopper Group the makers of billing and subscription manger Chargify, have just passed a big milestone and attracted the interest of a very high profile angel investor. In a blog post on the Chargify blog, the company announced that they now have over 550 paying customers…
How I Infuriated Customers—by Asking Them to Pay
May 19, 2011
By David Hauser, Founder and CEO, Chargify, Needham, Massachusetts
Last year my startup, Chargify, which provides online billing services, made a major mistake: We made some much-needed changes to our pricing structure, but we moved too fast and didn’t adequately prepare our customers. The response was loud and…
Why we chose Chargify for our billing service
March 9, 2011
I’ve been approached by a number of business owners and budding software entrepreneurs about how we handle customer billing for zobuno.com and our form builder service. While every business is unique, and every situation is different, we found Chargify to provide the best value to our customers…
Why Freemium Isn’t Free
February 16, 2011
Several years ago when the word “cloud” was more associated with weather than the Internet, there was an online storage company called X Drive. It was a good product. Users loved it. In 2005, the company was acquired by AOL – which shut the site down in 2008.…
Referral Platform Zferral Acquires SaaS App Store Cloudomatic
February 2, 2011
Web-based affiliate management system and “incentive engine” Zferral has bought SaaS web app storeCloudomatic for cash and equity. Cloudomatic was founded by OnSwipe co-founders Jason Baptiste andAndres Barreto, who will continue on as advisors. The price of the acquisition was not disclosed.
Says Barreto,
“There…
The Top 10 Best Ways to Fail as an Entrepreneur
January 31, 2011
True or false: If you haven’t failed miserably as an entrepreneur, then you’re simply not trying hard enough.
If you answered false, you’re not a true entrepreneur. Failure indicates that you’re stepping out of your comfort zone and trying new things. Embracing those “failures” as learning opportunities — and not…
Case Study: How to Raise Prices
January 26, 2011
Chargify’s clients were happy — as long as they didn’t have to pay. But when prices went up, the goodwill went away.
Like many entrepreneurs, the guys behind the online-billing start-up Chargify often fantasized about generating buzz on some of the tech world’s most popular websites.…
SMB Tech Roundup: Data Security, Résumé Clichés and Onward to 2011
December 19, 2010
On Tuesday, LinkedIn decided to sit us all down for an honest heart-to-heart. The buzz words we’ve been using in our LinkedIn profiles, they told us, are a bit much. The company released a list of 10 phrases that are overused across millions of profiles, such as “innovative,”…
Use Advanced Recurring Subscriptions on Wufoo Forms with Chargify Payment Integration
December 14, 2010
Hey, hey friends! We are delighted to announce that we’ve just put the finishing touches on a new payment integration with Chargify.com. Now you can setup and access fairly advanced recurring payment subscriptions like assigning one price on initial submission and charging a different amount for monthly (or…
Chargify Simplifies Recurring Billing
December 6, 2010
Jonathan Kay from Grasshopper Group was in my interview to tell their Chargify product that let you easily build recurring billing system into your application.
Hello Mr. Kay, great to meet you. You are a Ambassador of Buzz at Grasshopper Group and one of your products…
Chargify Becomes TrustCommerce Referral Partner
November 24, 2010
IRVINE, California, November 22, 2010 — TrustCommerce, leading provider of comprehensive payment processing and risk management solutions, is pleased to announce Chargify, a billing and subscription system, has become a TrustCommerce referral partner.
“We greatly value our referral partner relationships,” says Rob Caulfield, TrustCommerce, CEO. “The speed and ease of…
Webpulp.tv’s Interview with Chargify’s CEO Lance Walley
October 14, 2010
I interviewed Lance Walley about his company Chargify. We also touched on several related topics like merchant accounts, online payment, credit card billing, and PCI compliance.
(We have included some notes from the show below along with the video. To Read the rest of the show notes you can visit…
How I Set Up and Sold a Product Using Unbounce, Wufoo and Chargify
September 22, 2010
I’m going to show you how I concepted and built not one, but two recurring revenue products in one evening using Unbounce, Wufoo and Chargify – and I never wrote a single line of code. And the results were unreal.
I am not a programmer. I wish I was, but…
Welcome Chargify To Our Family of Integrations
August 10, 2010
The latest update to the Formstack form builder is something not seen to our end users, we switched our internal billing system from a “rolled-our-own” system to using Chargify. Chargify describes itself as “the easiest way to start collecting subscription credit card payments from your customers.” and we…
Chargify Takes Care of Your Recurring Billing System Needs
July 29, 2010
With the tag line “Build Your Business, Not Your Billing System”, Chargify’s mission is to simplify recurring billing for SaaS and Web 2.0 companies, allowing them to grow their business more quickly. Much more than a simple payment system, the product allows businesses to access customer insights, revenue, signups,…
Recurring Billing For Web Apps
July 27, 2010
Increasingly web application developers and entrepreneurs are turning to the “Software As A Service” (SaaS) model to monetize their products.
Together with this growth has come the need for reliable recurring billing systems and in turn a number of enterprising folks have built said solutions and fittingly used…
The Serial Entrepreneur Behind Chargify And Engine Yard
July 16, 2010
When I read this line in Lance Walley’s LinkedIn profile about a previous startup, I knew he’d be the kind of frank interviewee you’d need to hear: The system worked very well, but frankly, the world didn’t seem to care :-(
In this interview, you’ll hear the stories behind many…
Startup Watch: Five You Should Follow
June 29, 2010
As part of each week’s Startup Report, Mass High Tech highlights five startup companies, and their business goals, that are profiled in the New England Tech Directory. With each week’s Startup Watch, Mass High Tech will choose the weekly featured companies by soliciting nominations through a poll of 10 companies,…
Structure 2010: Amazon’s CTO Says the Cloud Has Arrived
June 23, 2010
Werner Vogels, Amazon’s chief technology officer, said at GigaOM’s Structure conference this morning that the biggest change in cloud computing over the past year is that “we went from talk to action.” In 2009 and before, he said, many companies were considering implementing cloud services, or were doing…