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 [...]
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By Dan Burkhart
on March 10, 2011
If your company is currently feeling the pain of your current billing infrastructure feeling more like a ‘problem’ than a ‘solution’, then you need to attend: ‘Subscription Billing – Primer and Pitfalls’. Cambridge, Boston: Wednesday, 2/16 at 7p.m. RSVP HERE (http://subscriptions201 NULL.eventbrite NULL.com/) New York City: Thursday, 2/17 7p.m. RSVP HERE (http://subscription102 NULL.eventbrite NULL.com) Polaris [...]
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By Dan Burkhart
on February 8, 2011
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 [...]
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By Dan Burkhart
on February 7, 2011
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.
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By Isaac Hall
on January 18, 2011
Recurly’s merchants are located on four different continents, and our merchants’ customers cover the globe. So we’re excited to announce our internationalized hosted payment pages. Our hosted pages are now available in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, and Portuguese — a total of 10 languages.
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By Isaac Hall
on January 14, 2011
There are many reasons why a credit card will fail. Handling more error types means better customer facing error messaging and improved card handling. Imagine the difference between telling a customer “your credit card was declined, check the number and try again” versus “your credit card is perfectly valid, but has a restriction that prevents it from being used with us. Please try a different card.” Clear error message eliminate the customer confusion and follow up support.
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By Isaac Hall
on December 29, 2010
Today we’re announcing the availability of our Add-On for Heroku users. This Add-On makes it simple for Ruby developers who are using Heroku to install the Recurly Ruby gem and offer subscription billing for their Heroku hosted applications. Heroku’s Add-On catalog is HERE (http://addons NULL.heroku NULL.com). Documentation for this Add-On is available HERE (http://docs NULL.recurly [...]
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By Dan Burkhart
on December 2, 2010
We’re pleased to announce that Recurly now supports optional ‘Add-On’ items to be added to any subscription plan. Add-Ons offer a tremendous amount of versatility to your subscription offers because they provide user-level customization resulting in better customer choice. We all know how customers love to choose from a variety of options! Add-Ons also provide [...]
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By Dan Burkhart
on December 1, 2010