Getting started

Chargebee provides an HTTP-based API that follows the principles of REST. The HTTP rules followed allow simple HTTP clients like cURL to be used as well. The URLs are resource-oriented, the request format is form-encoded, and the responses are in JSON.

Depending on the type of operation, the endpoints use one of two HTTP methods:

• GET: Used for all read-only operations such as retrieving a resource or listing a group of resources.
• POST: Used for all write operations. Such operations modify the state of a resource.

A history of changes to the API is provided in the API Changelog.

Chargebee follows the REST model of exposing resources as urls. For example, subscriptions are exposed as

The PHP client library provide a corresponding class representation of the resource. For example, subscriptions are represented by

    Subscription

Request

All operations specific to that resource are exposed as class methods in the corresponding resource class. The methods accepts the input params as hash. You could also pass the environment configuration specific to that request as an additional parameter.

Response

The response is in JSON format. Currently Chargebee does not support any other response format. The Result class wraps the response sent by the server. It has methods that allow you to fetch the specific resource from the result. The ListResult class is used to wrap list responses.

Note: Sometimes, while working with Chargebee APIs, you may see undocumented attributes returned in the response. Such attributes should be ignored.

require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

use ChargeBee\ChargeBee\Environment;
use ChargeBee\ChargeBee\Models\Subscription;

Environment::configure("{site}","{site_api_key}");
$result = Subscription::createWithItems("__test__8asz8Ru9WhHOJO",array(
  "subscriptionItems" => array(array(
    "itemPriceId" => "day-pass-USD",
    "unitPrice" => 100),
  array(
    "itemPriceId" => "basic-USD",
    "billingCycles" => 2,
    "quantity" => 1))
  ));
$subscription = $result->subscription();
$customer = $result->customer();
$card = $result->card();
$invoice = $result->invoice();
$unbilledCharges = $result->unbilledCharges();

require_once('vendor/autoload.php');

use ChargeBee\ChargeBee\Environment;
use ChargeBee\ChargeBee\Models\Subscription;

Environment::configure("{site}","{site_api_key}");
$result = Subscription::createWithItems("__test__8asz8Ru9WhHOJO",array(
  "subscriptionItems" => array(array(
    "itemPriceId" => "day-pass-USD",
    "unitPrice" => 100),
  array(
    "itemPriceId" => "basic-USD",
    "billingCycles" => 2,
    "quantity" => 1))
  ));
$subscription = $result->subscription();
$customer = $result->customer();
$card = $result->card();
$invoice = $result->invoice();
$unbilledCharges = $result->unbilledCharges();

Client libraries

Chargebee provides the following open-source client libraries as a wrapper around the HTTP API:

• PHP
• Ruby
• Python
• Java
• .Net
• Node
• Go
• Typescript

PHP client library

Downloading PHP Library

    composer require chargebee/chargebee-php

Source Code

The source code for the client library is available as a public repository at github. The code is provided with MIT license. So in case you need any modifications please feel free to do so. If you think it would be useful for other users please do let us know.

Library version

Newer versions of client library are released whenever there are new additions to the API. The version numbering format is major-version.minor-version(s). All minor releases are backward compatible. Please check the change notes for more details.
The latest version details for API V2 are:
Version: 3.17.0
Released On: 2023-05-16

Code samples

API testing

Additional developer resources