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Stax Bill
What Stax Bill is
Stax Bill is a web and API platform that automates subscription management and recurring billing. Its dynamic catalog handles subscriptions, services, products, special deals, discounts, and price adjustments. Custom hosted registration pages let customers choose plans, add-ons, and physical goods with branded styling without development work. Billing tools include lifecycle emails, custom invoices, automated proration, and renewal automation. Dunning retries failed payments on a chosen schedule, while an account updater refreshes expired payment details. The platform offers an ASC 606-compliant revenue-recognition module and more than 50 real-time reports. Listed integrations include Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Avalara, Anrok, Geotab, and REST API/webhooks. Payment methods include credit cards, ACH, PayPal, and others, with gateway options supporting various currencies. Growth costs $499 a month, billed annually, for up to $85k in monthly billings, with no overages and all features included. Enterprise uses a custom quote for large customer bases and varied subscription offerings. Stax Bill was founded in 2011.
Who it suits
Stax Bill suits businesses managing recurring subscriptions, varied catalogs, automated collections, and revenue recognition. Growth targets businesses with up to $85k in monthly billings; Enterprise targets larger customer bases.
What it does well
- Dynamic catalog supports discounts and adjustments
- Automated retries use chosen schedules
- ASC 606 revenue recognition module
- More than 50 real-time reports
- API and webhooks available
What to know first
- No free plan is available
- Growth costs $499 a month
- Growth is billed annually
- Enterprise pricing requires a custom quote
Plans
| Plan | Billed and limits | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Growth | annually · up to $85k monthly billings · no overages · no hidden fees · all features included | $499 a month |
| Enterprise | large customer bases · diverse subscription offerings | On request |
As staxbill.com lists them, read 15 Oct 2026. The maker's own page has the final word.
Verdict
Stax Bill covers catalog setup, subscription billing, failed-payment recovery, integrations, and revenue reporting. Review the annual Growth commitment and custom Enterprise pricing against your billing scale.
Facts from Stax Bill's own pages
- 2026 product update
- The summer 2026 release added Geotab shipping-date billing, invoice editing controls, webhook resend, a needs-attention payment widget and reporting improvements. · staxbill.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API and webhooks
- Stax Bill exposes REST APIs and webhooks for connecting other software, including custom systems. · staxbill.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API authentication
- API keys are created in the Stax Bill settings and sent as the username in HTTP Basic Authentication. · developer.staxbill.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API documentation
- Public developer documentation includes REST endpoint references, tutorials, cURL examples, JSON samples and C# or Python examples where relevant. · developer.staxbill.com, 15 Oct 2026
- API endpoint
- The documented API base URL is secure.fusebill.com, reflecting the product's former Fusebill infrastructure. · developer.staxbill.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Billing
- The platform supports customizable lifecycle emails, custom invoices, automated proration, and subscription renewal automation. · staxbill.com, 3 Oct 2026
- Catalog
- Its dynamic product catalog supports subscriptions, services, products, special deals, discounts, and price adjustments. · staxbill.com, 3 Oct 2026
- Collections
- Dunning automation retries failed payments on a chosen schedule, and an account updater refreshes expired payment details. · staxbill.com, 3 Oct 2026
- Commercial licence
- Public materials present Stax Bill as a paid hosted service with proprietary API access; no open-source code or licence is offered. · staxbill.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Company identity
- LinkedIn lists Stax Bill as a privately held information-technology company headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, with 11–50 employees. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Founded
- Stax Bill's LinkedIn profile gives 2011 as its founding year, and the company says it began as Fusebill. · linkedin.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Hosting
- The security page says Stax Bill is self-hosted in geographically diverse colocation facilities with transactional replication between data centers. · staxbill.com, 3 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The maker lists Salesforce, HubSpot, NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Avalara, Anrok, Geotab, and REST API/webhooks integrations. · staxbill.com, 3 Oct 2026
- Intended customers
- The maker describes Growth for businesses with up to $85k in monthly billings and Enterprise for businesses with large customer bases and diverse subscription offerings. · staxbill.com, 3 Oct 2026
- Limit: customer portal
- A G2 reviewer says the customer portal has limited customization and weaker user experience, leading their company to build its own portal through the API. · g2.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: messaging and deposits
- Gartner reviewers cite global-only outbound messaging, limited out-of-box multilingual purchase flows and a two-day collection-to-deposit delay. · gartner.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: pricing
- Capterra reviewers describe the price as high for smaller businesses despite valuing the automation. · capterra.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: reporting
- Reviewers report that reporting is not flexible enough, with limited custom report configuration. · capterra.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Operational status
- The public status page listed API, webhooks, admin interface, hosted checkout, self-service portal and integrations as operational, with no recent downtime recorded on the displayed history. · status.staxbill.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Other integrations
- Native or listed integrations include HubSpot, NetSuite, QuickBooks Online, Avalara, Anrok and Geotab. · staxbill.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Ownership
- Stax Payments says it acquired Fusebill in 2021 and operates Stax Bill as its automated recurring-billing product. · staxpayments.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Payment collection
- Dunning automation retries failed payments, updates expired card details and supports aging reports. · staxbill.com, 15 Oct 2026
- Payments
- The pricing page lists credit cards, ACH, PayPal, and other payment methods, and the features page says various currencies are accepted through gateway options. · staxbill.com, 3 Oct 2026
- Praise: automation
- Capterra reviewers praise automated invoicing, payments, renewals and reduced manual billing work. · capterra.com, 15 Oct 2026
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