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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 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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Recurly Add-On For Heroku Provides Easy Provisioning Of Subscription Billing

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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Support For Optional ‘Add-Ons’ Have Arrived

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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Lessons learned in online subscription billing

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.

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