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. [...]