DataArt published a Chargebee-to-Stripe write-up for a finance client. The product sells trading indicators on a membership. The company is not named. Location is listed as Global.
Chargebee already ran recurring billing. Stripe already ran the card gateway. The extra vendor is what they wanted to drop.
This is a vendor case study. Conversion, support-load, and “increased subscriptions” are DataArt’s benefits list. I have not seen the Stripe dashboard.
If you are looking at the same route, start with the Chargebee → Stripe Billing playbook. Stripe’s subscription import is the generic path. This job added a custom checkout on top.
Why Chargebee was in the way
DataArt lists four Chargebee problems. Scale. Limited plan tools. Paying two providers for one checkout. Pieces that did not feel like one system.
Tax was the other gap. The client sold in multiple countries and US states and needed calculate, collect, and report in one place.
After the assessment, DataArt recommended Stripe Billing plus a custom checkout. PayPal and Coinbase were required and not native Stripe methods. Customer and subscription records still had to land in Stripe without a broken current period.
What they built
The stack on the page is Stripe Payments, Payment Elements, Billing, Customer Portal, Radar, and Tax.
Billing took over plans, trials, discounts, and invoices. The portal let people change plans, update cards, and download history. Radar handled fraud. Tax used location to pick the rate and flag where the company needed to register.
PayPal and Coinbase sat in a small web app with a custom checkout UI. Next.js, React, TypeScript, Vercel. That is the extra surface a “we already use Stripe for cards” move still has to design.
The migration copied customers and subscriptions from Chargebee. A custom step read each subscription’s live status and wrote that state into Stripe Billing. No row counts, no failed-record count, no dual-run window. I am not filling those in.
Chargebee documents a migration overview. DataArt does not say they used Chargebee’s own exporter.
What the page claims, and what it skips
Benefits are the usual vendor set. Easier subscribe path, more payment methods, self-serve portal, more plan types, PCI, automated tax, fewer support tickets. No invoice, no churn chart, no before-and-after MRR.
Webhooks, dunning, and proration are not walked through. Historical Chargebee invoices are not mentioned. If you need the old PDF trail in Stripe, this page does not prove you got it.
What I would copy
Write the current subscription state as its own import, not a side effect of creating customers. A customer without the right period, trial, or cancel-at is a support incident on day one.
If PayPal or crypto has to survive, budget a checkout you own. Do not expect the Stripe-hosted page to grow those methods for you.
Keep Chargebee collecting until a known customer can see the same plan, the same next bill, and a tax line that matches the old invoice.
The Chargebee → Stripe Billing playbook is the checklist. Use the DataArt page for the custom-checkout shape, and remember the named company never appears.