Connect your app to Chargebee
You can connect your Lovable app to Chargebee to manage customer subscriptions, invoices, and billing. This lets your app read and manage billing information, create checkout pages, and build internal tools for your team.
Anyone building an app that needs to interact with subscription billing data or customer billing workflows.
Do this, in order
- 1
Log in to your Chargebee account.
You need to access your Chargebee settings to get the necessary connection details.
- 2
Copy your Chargebee site name from the URL (e.g., 'acme-test' from 'https://acme-test.chargebee.com').
This name identifies your specific Chargebee account within Lovable.
- 3
Create a new API key in Chargebee with appropriate permissions for what your app needs to do, and copy it.
The API key acts like a password, allowing Lovable to securely access your Chargebee data and perform actions on your behalf.
- 4
Go to the 'Connectors' section in Lovable and select 'Chargebee'.
This is where you manage all your external service connections.
- 5
Click 'Add connection' and fill in a display name, your Chargebee site name, and the API key you copied.
This configures the connection with the details Lovable needs to talk to your Chargebee account.
- 6
Choose who can use this connection within your Lovable workspace, then click 'Connect'.
This determines whether the connection is private to you or shared with other team members, making it available for use in projects.
Paste this into your project
Connect my Lovable app to Chargebee. I need to manage customer subscriptions, invoices, and billing workflows. I have my Chargebee site name and API key ready.
Words decoded
- API key
- A secret code that acts like a password, allowing one computer program (like Lovable) to securely access and use the features of another program (like Chargebee) on your behalf.
- Workspace
- Your main area in Lovable where you and your team build and manage all your projects and connections.
- Connector
- A feature in Lovable that allows your app to talk to other online services, like Chargebee, so they can share information and work together.
Where people get stuck
- Sharing your API key publicly, as it functions like a password and grants access to your Chargebee account.
- Trying to connect Chargebee without being a Lovable workspace admin or owner.
- Forgetting that API usage, limits, and billing are handled by Chargebee, not Lovable.
- Expecting the connector to create or manage your Chargebee account or site configuration.
- Assuming the connector can receive Chargebee webhooks directly.
- Believing the connector will automatically rotate your API keys; you must do this manually in Chargebee and update the Lovable connection.
- Expecting per-end-user Chargebee logins; each connection represents a single Chargebee account shared across linked projects.
The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.