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Recurly Press Kit

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Future Billing Trend: Metered Micro-Promotions

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In February of 2003, London introduced metered billing for cars entering the ‘Congestion Charge Zone’ in Central London.  Since then, automatic plate readers identify registered drivers operating within the zone. Then, bills are sent automatically to the owners. The charges are levied within certain hours to help reduce congestion during rush hour. The immediate result was a 16% reduction in vehicles operating within the designated ‘Charge Zone’. Clearly, the charges influenced the behavior of drivers. … Read More…

Visit Recurly at These June Events

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Recurly is gearing up to exhibit at multiple events in June.  Planning to attend?  Schedule a meeting or drop by our booth to check out a Recurly product demo, ask us a technical question or simply say hello. June 4-7  Internet Retailers Conference & Expo in Chicago, IL June 10-12  Litle Client Conference in Boston, MA June 17-19  HostingCon in Austin, TX Need tickets to attend the 2013 Internet Retailers Conference & Expo?  Send us … Read More…

Two Years with Recurly: From Beta to Maturity

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Guest blogger post brought you by Userlike, a Recurly customer providing live chat SaaS for websites. We are Userlike, a Germany-based company offering live chat SaaS for websites. We’ve been using Recurly as our payment system ever since entering the market in 2012. With its flexibility and features we’ve been able to rapidly make the changes to our business model that were necessary to find the right market fit. We started our company two years ago with … Read More…

Easily Integrate Subscription Billing on your Drupal Site with Recurly

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Drupal integration for Recurly’s subscription billing platform delivers a compelling solution for membership-based sites Welcome to our guest blogger series – this post is brought you by Lullabot, an interactive strategy, design, and development company. Drupal is one of the most popular content management systems in the world. With tens of thousands of active developers contributing to this extensible system, it’s always a matter of when, not if, a module that provides 3rd party integration … Read More…

Masking Complexity through Progressive Disclosure

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Are you looking for a way to improve the usability of your form design, reduce user errors, and increase the speed at which people can fill out a form? One of the most reliable UX techniques is to employ progressive disclosure to mask complexity. While it introduces more clicks, it can actually speed up the process of filling out a form. At Recurly, we have the challenge of designing an easy-to-use interface for an application … Read More…

PayPal comes to Recurly.js!

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We’re excited to announce that Recurly.js will soon support PayPal, giving your customers the flexibility to choose between preferred payment methods – all within your same branded payment form. We are currently beta-testing PayPal with a select group of merchants and will be ready to make this available through an updated version of Recurly.js in the next few weeks. What’s Recurly.js? Recurly.js is a suite of developer tools to easily connect your business’ website with … Read More…

Another Milestone For Data Controls – SAS 70 Type II Compliance

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Today, Recurly is proud to announce that we are officially SAS 70 (SSAE 16) Compliant. We have completed our official SOC 1 certification. We’ve been focusing intensely for the past five months on fortifying our infrastructure, back-up processes, and overall disaster recovery capabilities. We have rolled out a backup data center, 4 discrete instances of our application stack for ‘fault isolation’ and now we’re officially SAS 70 Type II (SSAE 16) compliant. Most of our internal efforts invested … Read More…

Pro-Tips from GDC / Billing for Game Developers

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Recurly exhibited at the Game Developer Conference this year in San Francisco. It was a new experience for us, but we were definitely energized by the game developer community and learned quite a bit about the unique billing challenges faced by game development studios. We were repeatedly asked about Recurly’s ability to support the following billing use cases: Micro-transactions (typically for in-game purchases) Stored Credit  (Also known as the ‘Skype Model’) Batched transactions (Also known … Read More…

Hardware outage post-mortem assessment

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Today at approximately 1:50pm we experienced a failure of an application server which resulted in a partial service outage. The outage impacted authentication to our web application as well as our transaction tier for approximately an hour. The application server hosted several critical internal services which required manual failover to ensure data continuity.  This was achieved. • There was no loss of data – queuing for recurring jobs performed as designed • Our API was available … Read More…

e-Commerce is a Continuum

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In case you hadn’t noticed yet, this year’s holiday shopping season just took a definitive turn towards an ‘extended dance version’ of Cyber Monday. Cyber Monday appears to have just become the ’12 Days of Commerce’ right under our noses. Clearly, the word is out that the battleground for e-commerce share of wallet is no longer a one day event.  Data-driven marketers now know that a) Purchase Intent is greatly improved by dropping a nice little … Read More…