PayKickstart vs. Recurly

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
PayKickstart
Score 4.2 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
PayKickstart provides shopping cart and affiliate management for online businesses. The vendor promises to help customers increase metrics such as sales, average customer/transaction value, and monthly recurring revenue with advanced out-of-the-box tools. These include customizable checkout pages & popup widgets, 1-click upsells, order bumps, coupons, free/paid trials, payment plans, address auto-complete, subscription saver sequence, and exit intent popup. PayKickstart has 0%…
$99
Recurly
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ 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.
$249
per month
Pricing
PayKickstartRecurly
Editions & Modules
Starter
$99.00
Growth
$199.00
Scale
$299.00
Starter
$249
per month
Professional
Get a custom quote
per month
Elite
Get a custom quote
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
PayKickstartRecurly
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsFor startups and SMBs looking to launch today and grow their subscription business fast, the Starter plan (formerly Core) is available with no monthly platform fee plus no payment volume fee for first $40,000 USD per month in first 3 months for new customers only.
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PayKickstartRecurly
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User Ratings
PayKickstartRecurly
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(2 ratings)
8.6
(23 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
9.2
(9 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
PayKickstartRecurly
Likelihood to Recommend
PayKickstart
ANALYTICS & REPORTING: It lets you gain the insight you need to make informed decisions to improve and grow business. It gives you access to all of your reporting and analytical data. Some of the insights you'll have access to:
  1. Transactional Reports
  2. Subscription Analytics
  3. Performance Reports
  4. Event and Activity Logs
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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.
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Pros
PayKickstart
  • Subscriptions
  • Checkout forms
  • Dashboard
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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.
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Cons
PayKickstart
  • Better payment plans
  • Support Crypto payments with the legal transparency
  • Build in A/B testing capability
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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.
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Likelihood to Renew
PayKickstart
No answers on this topic
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
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Usability
PayKickstart
No answers on this topic
Recurly
Apart from a lot of scope, which it has for improvement, like analytics, api's, customer service, downtimes. It still provides a lot of value, it is helpful for us in Business crtical areas, managing subscriptions and creating and launching coupons, ease of usability, camparatively lower maintainence are some valid reasons to prefer Recurly.
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Support Rating
PayKickstart
No answers on this topic
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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Alternatives Considered
PayKickstart
PayKickstart is an established named and has a repute of its own. PayKickstart is powerful and versatile. You can use it for a very simple one time fee checkout. Very easy to setup and compared to other platforms, lets you control the products and get daily insights of our data.
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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.
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Return on Investment
PayKickstart
  • It's been a pivotal tool for growth
  • It's helped me predict our monthly recurring revenue
  • It's been a critical part of our growth
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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.
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ScreenShots

PayKickstart Screenshots

Screenshot of DashboardScreenshot of Funnel BuilderScreenshot of Subscription ManagementScreenshot of Campaign DashboardScreenshot of Sample InvoiceScreenshot of Sales Report

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.