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.
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Startups need to be careful where they spend their money and AppSumo (http://appsumo NULL.com/) eases the burden by offering highly recommended developer tools at an insanely discounted prices. We’re excited to be part of AppSumo’s latest bundle, a $1,543 package selling for $47! Beyond a $75 credit for new Recurly customers, we’re excited about this [...]
As a new member of the Recurly team, my role has been centered around whipping customer support into shape. Due to the improvements we’re making in communication, we’ve seen customers using our hosted payments pages go live in 30 minutes, and customers using the API go live in under 8 hours. It’s exciting to be [...]
We’ve had an increase in our trial signups this week, and with that came an increase on questions about our pricing. The questions fielded this week made us realize we could simplify the way we presented our pricing. Today we rolled out changes to our pricing page. While Recurly pricing remains the same, we’ve hopefully [...]
Subscription business models are attractive for many different kinds of businesses. However, recurring billing can be tricky, error prone, and consuming from a customer support and engineering standpoint – which is why we recommend outsourcing your recurring billing and subscription management to Recurly. Step One: Create your subscription plans Once you sign up, you will [...]