Rainex vs. Recurly

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Rainex
Score 10.0 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Rainex is a 30 min-to-set-up billing and subscription management platform Rainex consolidates subscription management, billing, and customer operations, handling everything from single payments to credit notes and discounts. It offers a unified platform to manage all processes, even without direct payment through acquiring. Free plan allows to get full access to Rainex functionality for free for the first 100 free transactions.…
$99
per month
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
RainexRecurly
Editions & Modules
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Starter
$249
per month
Professional
Get a custom quote
per month
Elite
Get a custom quote
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
RainexRecurly
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
Additional DetailsRainex provides following features in Standard plan: Subscription management One-time payments Addons and charges Credit Notes issuing Multilingual and variable auto-notifications, event notifications Auto-payment with renewable debit Auto-dunning. Auto-renew subscriptions Multi-language Multiple Payment Gateways LTD plan price and subscription Branded Customer Portal Portal widgets Single Sign-on Automatic Tax detection and calculation Real-time analytics Dedicated supportFor 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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User Ratings
RainexRecurly
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 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
RainexRecurly
Likelihood to Recommend
Rainex
Rainex is an easy-to-use platform. Guys have a great build clients support service. A very useful feature for us is a customer portal, that helps our clients to manage services without any integration!
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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
Rainex
  • Subscriptions management
  • clients notification
  • customer support
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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
Rainex
  • hard onboarding
  • lack of testing environment
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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
Rainex
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
Rainex
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
Rainex
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
Rainex
Rainex is much friendlier and cheaper than its competitors.
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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
Rainex
  • We have cut the monthly time spent on invoicing from 6 days to 1-2 hours per month
  • We have cut the monthly time spent on clients support (up sales and plans changing) to 15-20 hours
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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

Rainex Screenshots

Screenshot of Invoice brandingScreenshot of Email brandingScreenshot of Customer Portal brandingScreenshot of Dunning managementScreenshot of AnalyticsScreenshot of Event notifications

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.