This past week, I’ve heard from multiple customers who offer yearly subscriptions. They took the easy route and implemented it with one time transactions — in other words, the subscription is valid for a year and then never renews. When they find out about Recurly, sometimes they want to simulate that behavior and not have the subscription renew because that’s what their customers are used to. While Recurly can do that, there’s a better way to maximize your retention rate and still keep your customers happy.
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By Isaac Hall
on January 29, 2010
Pivotal Labs recently invited Recurly to present a TechTalk to a room of developers. Developers are smart people and can quickly figure out how to run credit card transactions using the numerous payment gateway APIs out there. So, we decided to a range of topics that you won’t learn from reading documentation — advice you’ll only learn from experience.
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By Isaac Hall
on January 26, 2010
As a .NET developer, I am excited to announce that Recurly now has a C#.NET client library well under way! We polled our customer base and found a large number of our customers are powering their websites with ASP.Net, but they don’t have many options today when it comes to simplifying their subscription billing.
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By Isaac Hall
on January 25, 2010
Today is another exciting day for Recurly. After two months of being in a private beta, we’re opening up the sign-up to everyone. Our product was fully functional entering private beta. With the help of our initial beta companies, we improved the user experience, expanded our payment gateway support, re-evaluated our pricing, and processed thousands of transactions.
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By Isaac Hall
on January 19, 2010
Wow! January has been an incredibly busy month for Recurly, and we’re just halfway through! We’ve been hard at work integrating the feedback from our beta users into Recurly, and we’ve got a lot of great progress to show. Last night, we phased in a number of updates to Recurly that ranged from cosmetic (a [...]
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By Tim
on January 15, 2010
