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Multiple Payment Gateway Support

I am very excited to announce the release of our latest feature: Multiple Gateway Support. Enabling more than one payment gateway on your Recurly account lets our merchants, large and small, intelligently route the transaction to the appropriate gateway based on the following criteria: payment type, currency, credit card type, and price.

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Recurly Now Supports User Roles

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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Must Attend Event for Subscription-Based Businesses

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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Promote Subscriptions with Coupons and Discounts

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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Recurly Achieves PCI Compliance Level 1

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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Internationalized Hosted Pages

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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Recurly Connects With MailChimp for Email Marketing Newsletters

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 [...]

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Common Credit Card Decline Categories

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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