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    Maxio

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AMaxio helps B2B SaaS companies maximize their revenue operations. The financial operations platform is designed to meet the unique financial challenges of B2B SaaS, including billing, subscription management, revenue & expense recognition, and SaaS metrics & analytics.

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    Recurly

    Score8.1 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Recurly is a subscription billing platform and manages customer communications via email, business performance monitoring, and account changes. A merchant bank account is required to work with Recurly. A payment gateway is part of the product but it integrates with other gateways, such as PayPal, to give shoppers a more comprehensive suite of payment options.N/A

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    Pricing
    MaxioRecurlyTakeUp.ai
    Editions & Modules
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    Grow
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    Free Trial
    YesYesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsBuild Plan - Developer-friendly sandbox where you can try out billing for free for 30 days. Grow Plan - Complete B2B subscription management platform with billing, revenue recognition, and reporting. Scale Plan - Tailored solution to support high billing volumes and advanced requirements. Talk with Sales about available volume-based discounts.——
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    Maxio (previously SaaSOptics + Chargify)
    Chose Maxio
    We evaluated several recurring billing services - but Chargify was the only one we found that supported our current merchant portal. They had the widest selection of merchant portals - and the most competitive service fees.
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    Chose Maxio

    Chargify met a list of set requirements and our budget at the time. The main items were:

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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
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    Likelihood to Recommend
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    Likelihood to Renew
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    Usability
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    9.3
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    Likelihood to Recommend
    Maxio (previously SaaSOptics + Chargify)
    In my opinion, Maxio is well suited for a large company with simple products/billing scenarios and 10s of thousands of dollars available to waste on implementation, learning curve, and mistakes. For any other company, I do not advise purchasing Maxio.
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    Recurly
    Recurly is great for tracking transactions and reviewing payment method declines. The platform is extremely helpful when dealing with scenarios where someone believes they have been fraudulently charged for the product. Recurly allows for transaction filtering, which is very helpful when trying to find possibly fraudulent charges very easy. If expecting precise, detailed information about a card decline, Recurly would not be very helpful.
    Incentivized
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    TakeUp
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    Pros
    Maxio (previously SaaSOptics + Chargify)
    • Managing deferred revenue.
    • Contract management is flexible and allows us to see data that we never had before.
    • Billing is painless and is now done within a couple hours. Previously it would take at least 1-2 days.
    • Business Metrics and Reporting.
    Incentivized
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    Recurly
    • It handles 1:1 and 1:many accounts to subscription set up.
    • It has a good billing customization option (cadence, pricing, etc.)
    • Can easily set up a customer account and invoice - billing link can be generated so no need to take credit card info over chat, phone, or email.
    • Great and responsive customer support.
    • Supports multi-language.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    TakeUp
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    Cons
    Maxio (previously SaaSOptics + Chargify)
    • Options for Cash-based businesses. While it's not GAAP compliant and most users are accrual, many SaaS start ups are still small and operating on a cash basis.
    • Commissions Module since SO already has all our data intergrations
    • So many different features and data entry points that manual data entry errors are common
    Incentivized
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    Recurly
    • I really can't think of any shortcomings on Recurly because they have tried to cover all bases well. However, I believe that pricing could be little competitive because Recurly can become quite expensive when you have acquired a good number of subscribers. So apart from price, there are no shortcomings I can think of on product side.
    Incentivized
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    TakeUp
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Maxio (previously SaaSOptics + Chargify)
    They are a crucial piece of what we do. We hope to have them as a vendor for a long time to come.
    Read full review
    Recurly
    I believe we would continue to use Recurly because they have shown that they are continually improving their software, and they listen to their customers
    Incentivized
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    TakeUp
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    Usability
    Maxio (previously SaaSOptics + Chargify)
    There is definitely a learning curve - to me the UI for reporting was not intuitive and often required me to ask our RevOps to pull data for me
    Incentivized
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    Recurly
    Recurly is very good at showing all the data we need to see on a day to day basis. Keeping track of invoices and subscriptions across many markets helps us see the overall map of our business operations. Our representatives that do not work in billing can easily understand from viewing the platform of our progress.
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    Support Rating
    Maxio (previously SaaSOptics + Chargify)
    They are willing to help with most challenges and are pretty easy to get ahold of by phone. They are limited in their reach, when it comes to bulk cancellations, along with some other bulk edits. It is no fault to them, Chargify is just a system that hasn’t been upgraded much over the years.
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    Recurly
    They have always been quick to respond and help. I love their chat feature at the bottom right-hand corner of the platform.
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    Maxio (previously SaaSOptics + Chargify)
    I inherited SaaSOptics from several predecessors that worked on it before me. I believe they used Chargebee or Chargify before SaaSOptics, but I haven't used them. I pray that the market comes up with a better product for subscription revenue management, SaaS metric reporting, and financial projections. Unfortunately, I don't have the time or the team to be able to successfully complete the transition to new software at this time, so I feel like I'm stuck with SaaSOptics at this point
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    Recurly
    Recurly does a much better job at handling subscription payments than QuickBooks Online. We only use QuickBooks Online when we have a client who cannot pay via credit/debit card. In those cases, we send out automatic invoices via QuickBooks Online instead. 95% of our clients are processed through Recurly.
    Incentivized
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    TakeUp
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    Return on Investment
    Maxio (previously SaaSOptics + Chargify)
    • Limitations in Chargify's invoicing capability has resulted in our finance team having to manually send invoices from our accounting system. This has resulted in 10-15 hours a week of resource wasted on something that Chargify should automatically do. If this isn't addressed, then the wasted time will increase as we scale.
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    Recurly
    • Providing an interface for our subscribers to manage their own accounts has simplified our business tremendously. This alone has freed up hours of our staff's time each day.
    • Many customers receive new credit cards due to expiration or fraud. The time we spent in updating this information prior to using Recurly's Revenue Recovery feature versus now is significant.
    Incentivized
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    TakeUp
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    ScreenShots

    Recurly Screenshots

    Screenshot of Payments with smart routing to improve transaction success rates and conversions by offering a variety of payment methods, such as credit cards, PayPal, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and ACH.Screenshot of The flexible ways to configure subscription billings workflows, and automate recurring invoicing based on the subscription parameters.Screenshot of Automated dunning communications to increase collection effectiveness. Configurable across period and timing, if the payment is past due or declined, selected and personalized dunning campaign launch.Screenshot of The features to set up and test different products, plans, and pricing options, plus promotional tools like free trials, coupons, and gift subscriptions and cards to attract more customers.Screenshot of Recurly analytics, which provides a 360° view into the health of a subscription business's plan performance, churn trends, campaigns results, financial metrics. These inform decisions for business growth.