After four months of work, our team is ready to unveil our biggest update yet: API v2 and support for multiple subscriptions on a single account. API v2 incorporates feedback we heard from our merchants and allows you to integrate with even more flexibility than ever before. For many customers, multiple subscriptions enables scenarios that were difficult workarounds with our first API.
Subscription billing models come in a variety of different flavors and apply to many different categories of businesses. However, there are a few common factors that must be considered when selecting the best vendor to handle billing on behalf of your business. Step One: Define your own billing requirements – what are your needs? Here [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
More than once, I’ve underestimated the efforts required to create a billing system. I have yet to find a start-up that budgeted correctly for the time and effort to integrate subscription billing. If your startup is new to subscription billing, there are a few key problems you’ll soon encounter. Knowing about these issues will help you budget your development resources appropriately and help you evaluate your recurring billing options.
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. [...]