Subscription Billings

Manage Recurring Payments As You Scale Your E-Commerce Store

As you grow to hundreds and thousands of clients, so does the messiness of your recurring payments. International sales add complexity to e-commerce, and transaction fees charged by payment gateways for foreign currencies can get insane. Checkout Champ’s recurring payment platform lets you accept and manage subscription income at scale.

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies have long embraced subscription billing as a foundational element of their business model. Subscription billing is rapidly becoming essential for a wide range of consumer businesses, spanning household products, utility companies, and fitness clubs. By 2023, it is expected that as many as 75% of direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands will incorporate some form of subscription billing. According to Zion Market Research, the subscription billing and management market was valued at over $6 billion in 2020.

The widespread adoption of subscription billing across various industries underscores its flexibility as a payment structure. Unlike a one-size-fits-all approach, subscriptions enable businesses to tailor options to align with their offerings and target audiences.

If you're considering implementing subscription billing for your business, it's crucial to understand its nuances and benefits. This article covers the following topics:

  • What is subscription billing?

  • How does subscription billing work?

  • Types of subscription billing

  • Pricing models

  • Common features

  • Subscription billing benefits for businesses

  • How to set up subscription billing for your business

Key Benefits of Subscription Billing
Scalability

Easily manage a growing number of subscriptions.

Flexibility

Offer tailored subscription plans to meet customer needs.

Efficiency

Reduce manual effort with automated billing processes.

What is subscription billing?

Subscription billing is a payment model that permits businesses to charge customers for products or services at regular intervals, such as weekly, monthly, or annually. Recurring payment intervals can also be customized based on business needs.

How Subscription Billing Works:

Subscription billing operates in two primary ways:

  • Customers receive regular invoices and manually submit payments for each invoice.
  • Customers provide a payment method to be stored, along with pre-authorization for recurring charges based on predetermined parameters.

Types of Subscription Billing:

Checkout Champs subscription billing's flexibility accommodates various business types.

Common billing types include:

Fixed Recurring Billing

Easily manage a growing number of subscriptions.

Usage-Based Billing

Charges based on customer usage (e.g., data, transactions).

Tiered Billing

Different pricing tiers based on usage

Hybrid Billing

Combines fixed and usage-based charges.

Freemium to Premium Billing

Free basic service with premium upgrade options.

Milestone Billing

Charges triggered by project milestones.

Pricing Models:

Fixed

Standard fixed pricing.

Variable

Usage-based pricing, hybrid or overage pricing, pay-as-you-go pricing, freemium pricing.

Common Features:

Introductory promotions

Discount coupons

Free trials

Subscription Billing Benefits for Businesses:

Embracing subscription billing offers several advantages:

  • Agility in responding to business and market changes.
  • Smoother customer experience.
  • Improved customer retention.
  • Predictable cash flow.
  • Time efficiency.
  • Fewer failed payments.

Setting Up Subscription Billing:

To implement subscription billing, a reliable payment processing provider is essential. For instance, Checkout Champ provides an end-to-end billing solution for businesses seeking global acceptance of recurring payments. The integration is seamless for businesses already running an ecommerce website. Key considerations include determining subscription tiers, pricing models, and incorporating incentives aligned with marketing plans.

Subscription billing with Checkout Champ is a versatile and beneficial model for businesses across diverse industries. Understanding its mechanics and tailoring it to your business needs can contribute to improved customer satisfaction, retention, and overall business success.

Checkout Champ lets buyers check out from a fully customizable, PCI-compliant, and lightning-fast one-click checkout page. It can integrate to any e-commerce store with just a single line of code.

You can also recover payment failures, as Checkout Champ lets you schedule dunning to capture the payment so your customer receives the product on a timely basis. Plus, you can configure backup payment options to reduce failed payments and the need for dunning.

Offer your customers payment options, including credit and debit cards, direct debits, and digital wallets like Google Pay, Worldpay, Amazon Pay, and Apple Pay.

With more than 180 payment gateways and 100+ different currencies, you can effortlessly receive payments from customers wherever they are in the world.

Checkout Champ Can Help With Subscription Billing

Checkout Champ is designed to enhance your existing store, NOT replace it.

So you can stay on Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or Magento, and simply ‘bolt-on’ the features you want from Checkout Champ:

  • Get the lowest fees for every international sale with Smart Routing logic. It lets you route specific payments and currencies to your preferred gateway.
  • Patch the revenue leak from payment failures Activate Smart Dunning to allow Checkout Champ to work out the ideal day and time to rebill, increasing your chances of recovering failed payments.
  • Eliminate the cost and performance penalty of 3rd party apps: Checkout Champ has everything already built-in from payments to customization to marketing funnels
  • Easy and pain-free migration process most of our users are up and running after a couple of calls and within a few days they’re seeing conversions go up too.
  • Guaranteed 99.9% uptime: No matter how complex your stores are, you’ll never have to worry about Checkout Champ going down.

Not to mention that adding Checkout Champ to your store will be as easy as pie. In fact, we provide a personal Client Success Representative to every store owner to help you with every single step of the onboarding process.

Checkout Champ offers the most powerful subscription billing and ecommerce capabilities

Our platform lets you accept and manage subscription income at a scale. Customers will love you for a fully customizable, PCI-compliant, and lighting fast one-click checkout page

Checkout Champ makes it extremely easy for buyers to pay and become loyal customers.

We offer 180+ payment gateways in 100+ different currencies, so you can serve customers all around the globe – we want to see you grow!

Don’t worry about the 80% cart abandonment rate.

We empower you to recover payment failures and schedule dunning to capture the payment and send a product in time.

Checkout Champ also configures backup payment options to reduce failed payments.

And if you miss any functionality, you just integrate it with 500+ available integrations.

We’ve got it all – 500+ integration, 100+ currencies, and the fastest and most reliable platform.

Already Using a Different Ecommerce Solution?

Checkout Champ is designed to enhance your existing store, NOT replace it.

Stay on Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, or Magento, and simply ‘bolt-on’ the features you want from Checkout Champ:

  • Sync all product SKUs, feature variations, and price points with the click of a button, keeping your inventory up-to-date and organized.
  • Directly integrate your store to AliBaba and AliExpress. Customers get live shipping calculations, insurance options, and tracking details for every order – perfect for dropshippers.
  • Eliminate the cost and performance penalty of 3rd party apps. Checkout Champ has everything built-in from payments to customization to marketing funnels
  • Easy and pain-free migration process. Most users are up and running after a couple of calls and within a few days they’re seeing conversions go up too.
  • Guaranteed 99.9% uptime. No matter how complex your stores are, you never have to worry about Checkout Champ going down.

Book a demo with our experts and skyrocket your subscription billing business model now.