Over the past two years, we have become increasingly aware that payment gateways have been designed to serve traditional e-commerce (one-time transactions) as their primary use case. In many instances, the features and capabilities needed to process payments on a recurring basis are sorely lacking. We have viewed this as both a challenge and an [...]
After four months of work, our team is ready to unveil our biggest update yet: API v2 and support for multiple subscriptions on a single account. API v2 incorporates feedback we heard from our merchants and allows you to integrate with even more flexibility than ever before. For many customers, multiple subscriptions enables scenarios that were difficult workarounds with our first API.
Back in March 2011, we launched Transparent Post to simplify PCI compliance for our merchants. Today, we are taking it to the next level with the release of Recurly.js (http://js NULL.recurly NULL.com). Recurly.js is our open-source Javascript library that gives you great looking credit card forms to securely create subscriptions, one-time transactions, and update billing information for your customers.
Most companies offering subscriptions on the web serve a global list of geographies. It is also very short-sighted to assume that potential customers will be willing to subscribe to your offering if it is only offered in your local currency. Can you imagine if Spotify rolled out in the U.S. by only offering its service [...]
One of the most critical pieces of Recurly’s redesign project was updating the “account details” page. Our merchants rely on this page to interact with their users’ subscription information and access the core aspects of the Recurly service. Based on the feedback we gather from each and every support ticket and customer conversation, we had [...]
Our recent re-design of the Recurly application included a key feature enhancement. Our larger customers have graciously requested the need for User Roles and Permissions to be added to Recurly and we’re happy to finally deliver another customer-driven feature. The first person to setup a Recurly account for any company is given the default role [...]
Recurly now provides full support for promotions using coupons and discounts. Our simple interface supports percentage and dollar amount discounts on either a recurring or one-time basis, giving your business the flexibility to support multiple promotional scenarios. After speaking with our customers, we also included other features into our Coupon and Discount implementation: Specify coupon [...]
After many months of diligent effort, I am very proud to announce that Recurly is now officially PCI-DSS Compliant Level 1 as a Service Provider. PCI Data Security Standard (https://www NULL.pcisecuritystandards NULL.org/index NULL.php) (PCI-DSS) is a standard put forth by the major credit card brands to ensure your customers’ online transactions remain secure. Trustwave independently audited our network architecture, security policies, and development procedures to validate that your transaction data is 100% secure with Recurly. The PCI-DSS Level 1 certification is the highest certification a merchant or service provider can achieve.