The reseller model in subscription services allows businesses to sell third-party subscription services to end customers. This model helps resellers leverage existing products without developing them from scratch, earning a commission or margin on the subscriptions they sell.
How Account Hierarchy Supports the Reseller Model
Account Hierarchy in Chargebee enables businesses to structure relationships among their customers, making it an ideal solution for managing reseller operations. Here’s how it helps:
- Organizational Structure – Establish a parent-child relationship between accounts. A parent account represents the reseller, while child accounts represent end customers. This setup streamlines subscription and billing management.
- Invoicing & Payment Responsibilities—This allows the parent account (reseller) to handle invoicing and payments for multiple child accounts (end customers), reducing administrative effort.
- Centralized Payments – Child accounts can use the parent account’s payment method, eliminating the need for multiple payment entries.
- Consolidated Invoicing – Enables the aggregation of invoices from multiple child accounts into a single invoice for easier financial management.
- Override Capabilities—This feature provides flexibility by allowing subscription-level overrides, ensuring that specific subscriptions can have unique billing or payment arrangements.
- Reporting & Analytics – Gives resellers access to consolidated revenue reports, offering valuable insights into business performance and customer relationships.
Conclusion
The reseller model benefits significantly from Chargebee’s account hierarchy feature, as it simplifies customer management, billing, and reporting while providing greater flexibility. This structured approach enhances operational efficiency, making it easier to scale reseller operations.
For more details, refer to :
https://www.chargebee.com/blog/introducing-account-hierarchy/
https://www.chargebee.com/docs/2.0/account-hierarchy.html