Recurly’s mission is to streamline the mechanics of your subscription business so that you can focus on building compelling products and services. Keeping your customers up-to-date on the latest developments in your business returns better retention rates and higher customer value over time. Recurly’s new MailChimp integration automatically updates your marketing lists in MailChimp. We [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
At Recurly, our goal is to help our clients professionally manage their subscription billing. That means we want you to look your best. To that end, we are thrilled to announce the latest revision of our Hosted Payment Page. The latest version incorporates dozens of enhancements aimed at giving you more flexibility and improving the customer conversion funnel. First, let’s compare the old (left) and the new (right):
The short answer is: Flexibility and Total Cost Of Ownership We’re glad you asked – because this could save you many hours of development, and many curse words before learning the hard way – on your own precious company’s dime. Every payment gateway is designed to handle one-time transactions. Some gateways like PayPal and Authorize.Net [...]
We talk with lots of business owners on a daily basis, and we frequently hear that setting up a merchant account is a time-consuming and painful process. (We constantly hear stories of 4-6 week approval cycles). So, we worked with Intuit Payment solutions to bring an offering to Recurly merchants we believe our customers will [...]
Every so often I hear about a company that wants to bill all their subscribers on the first of the month. Sure, a lot of companies bill on the first of the month. This has its roots in the old school manual invoicing days of yore. In the digital age, there’s almost no excuse to invoice on the first of every month.