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 [...]
Pivotal Labs recently invited Recurly to present a TechTalk to a room of developers. Developers are smart people and can quickly figure out how to run credit card transactions using the numerous payment gateway APIs out there. So, we decided to a range of topics that you won’t learn from reading documentation — advice you’ll only learn from experience.
Every Merchant Account provider has a frequently asked questions (FAQ) page yet they always leave out the really important questions. Yes, you absolutely need to know about the fees, supported gateways, address verification, Discover & AmEx, etc. However, there’s another class of questions that you’ll never know to ask until you run into a problem. [...]