Today, we’re excited to announce the release of our Ruby client library for Recurly. The library is available as a Ruby gem (via gemcutter.org) or plugin. Please see the Ruby client documentation for install instructions. With the Ruby client, just a few lines of code are required to start creating new subscriptions in Recurly from [...]
Recurly was born from the changing needs of web services. With the industry’s movement away from ad-based revenue models to Freemium and SaaS subscription models, the need for subscription billing has exploded. We’ve had experience with some of the larger swiss-army-knife billing systems as well as building systems from scratch. Neither option was close to [...]
One of the things most vexing and costly concepts for new businesses are “chargebacks”. Chargebacks are when a customer’s banks forcibly requests a return of funds. In a nutshell, its when bank is the one asking for a refund vs. a customer to business transaction. What’s the big deal about this? Well, it’s a bad [...]