Chargebee + KudTax
Connect Chargebee to KudTax to clear open items automatically – split net payouts, transaction fees and multi-currency conversions into clean DATEV journal entries.
Chargebee bills subscriptions, and subscriptions are the case where payment and revenue sit furthest apart. An annual contract paid in January is not January's annual revenue. It is a liability towards the customer that turns into revenue month by month. Without deferral you overstate the first month and understate the other eleven.
How Chargebee works with KudTax
01
Connect Chargebee account
Connect your Chargebee account safely via OAuth or restricted API key.
02
Import payouts & fee logs
KudTax automatically fetches payout batches, individual transactions, processing fees and currency conversions.
03
Automated clearing & matching
Clears open invoice balances against Chargebee payout batches while booking processing fees to separate expense accounts.
04
DATEV & bank reconciliation
Outputs audit-ready financial entries linking bank deposits, payout accounts and fee receipts.
What KudTax reads from Chargebee
- Where the export lives
- Chargebee → Reports → Revenue Recognition, or Exports → invoices and transactions as CSV
- What the portal calls the file
- Invoice and transaction export
- Formats
- CSV
Line-item types recognised
- Subscription invoices with term
- Revenue deferrals per period
- Upgrades and prorated charges
- Cancellations and credit notes
- Payments received and charges
What to watch for with Chargebee
Prepayment is a liability
The prepaid part of a contract is deferred as a liability until the service is delivered. Book the whole annual invoice as revenue at once and the first month's result is overstated and the next eleven understated — which only becomes visible in the year-on-year comparison.
Prorated charges need the same period
Switching plan mid-term produces prorated credits and additional charges. Booked to the document date rather than the service period they shift revenue between periods without changing the total — the hard kind of error to find.
Why connect Chargebee with KudTax
Fee & gross separation
Separates payment processing fees into expense accounts so P&L and tax bases stay exact.
Automatic open item clearing
Matches bundled payout batches to individual customer invoices automatically.
Multi-currency conversions
Accurately calculates exchange rates and posting amounts for foreign currency payouts.
GoBD bank-transit booking
Uses transit accounts (Geldtransit) so bank statements and payment gateways balance to the cent.
Chargebee integration – FAQ
Yes, wherever the term is in the export. Deferral follows the service period rather than the payment.
The remaining deferral is released at the point of cancellation rather than continuing over the original term.
Yes. Fees are recognized as separate expense lines so your P&L statement remains accurate.
KudTax unbundles payout transfers and clears individual customer invoices line-by-line.
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