Recurly
Recurly
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What is Recurly?
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.
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What is Recurly?
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.
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Who uses Recurly?
The most common users of Recurly are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees) and the Computer Software industry.
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May 31, 2022
Flexible
Recurly is being used by a department. Our client requested its use. We use Recurly to locate our customer's account; as well as assist with adding subscriptions. Payments are also taken. Our client has embedded several links to better assist our customers with the software he sells.
- Account location
- I can use the last 4 digits to locate a payment if the customer does not remember the email address.
- You can use coding to have other needs embedded such as links that can be used to assist the customer better.
- I would like it if an agent accessed Recurly for any reason that it tracks it using the agent's name or login information.
- The time stamp on refunds processed can be confusing as it sometimes shows midnight when we don't, as such, I would like to see a change in that.
- Would like if the report for transitioned showed who completed the transition.
June 07, 2021
Best Tool for Subscription-based Business Model
We use Recurly primarily for B2B billing functions (recurring and one-time.) It is being used by our accounting, customer service, and sales teams. A few years ago, I recommended Recurly to a fashion subscription company and they use it for their direct-to-consumer business. We like to use it because it has a great API and documentation plus the added flexibility to accommodate different customers on different billing set up. It is easy to use across all departments and compliant with PCI-DSS standards.
- 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.
- It would be great to have an ability to edit the pricing, charge description, quantity after the invoice has been created. For now, you can only edit the bill-to address.
- It would be great if it has an option not to timeout on a set amount of time. It could be pretty annoying to be asked to login and input 2-step code (if enabled) from time to time.
- When issuing refunds, it would be nice if it wouldn't create another invoice...just update the existing one.
March 01, 2021
Recurly has helped my business move forward!
Only the managers have access to it. We use it for recurring subscriptions for customers worldwide. The system send reminders for those using our annual subscriptions that their plan is about to renew (at least 1-2 weeks ahead of time) which is very helpful. Their invoice has a great system of itemizing everything charged.
- Inform customers of annual renewals about two weeks ahead of time.
- Easy to add itemized charges to be included with the next invoice.
- Record invoices.
- I have multiple subscriptions and often my customers would subscribe to two or more, I wish I could group it into one invoice.
- Ability to filter by notes - example, private mailbox numbers - rather than customer's name.
January 08, 2021
Made my life as a salesperson so much easier!
We needed a solution in sales, as our current payment platform was limited. Recurly has been easy to use, we recieved all the support we need to troubleshoot and has made it so simple.
- Link for customers to pay for their service
- Provides email to the customer
- We have access to see all activity and download receipts if we need to
- I wish the customer had more visibility into their payments/account info
- I would like it to be able to integrate with our ability to invoice customers, as not all want to pay with a credit card
November 28, 2019
A must-have for any SaaS company!
Recurly is our billing subscription management tool that we use with most of our customers. It allows us to create customer subscriptions, collect payment details, and bill customers based on their subscription plan type.
- Recurly provides detailed account records such as when billing for a customer is updated inside our software, renewal information, past due amounts, the list goes on and on.
- It is easy to view information and quickly update customer billing information when needed.
- The Support team is quick to respond whenever we run into an issue.
- It would be great to have the ability to generate a single payment invoice that details all the past due invoices, etc. This can be tough for larger customers that may have multiple in a month.
- It would be extremely helpful to be able to re-generate an invoice once it's been set up. Sometimes we need to update a customer's company name if it's changed and have to do it manually rather than in the system.
January 02, 2019
Recurly Review - B2C
Recurly is our go-to product for our subscription monitoring across a number of departments (Marketing, Product, BI, etc). Keeping track of our subscribers throughout the entire lifecycle helps us keep track and optimize LTV. It allows us to track our numbers daily and can quickly see the results each campaigns produced that we can learn from.
- Tracking subscriptions numbers
- Automate user outreach for payments and expiration dates
- Quickly generate coupon codes for use in a variety of campaigns
- Streamlined integration with other products
- Setting up default values to more quickly produce coupon codes
- Page load times are very slow and sessions time-out quickly after short inactivity
June 21, 2018
Give your end users flexible account management tools and save yourself hundreds of hours each year!
We serve emerging and professional speakers with a unique subscription based service. We offer multiple membership levels with options to upgrade, downgrade, and cancel directly by the user. Implementing Recurly has ended the late office nights manually updating accounts. Its API has also enabled us to monitor user activity in real time.
- Analytics of new versus renewing revenue
- Analysis of subscriber retention
- Managing subscription plans for individual clients
- We'd like to see the revenue statistics update in real time. Currently there seems to be many hours or even a day before the numbers reflect new orders.
We use Recruly to manage the subscriptions and billings of our PaaS. Since the marketing team handles the billing and other stuff around the product here in our organization we are the primary users of Recurly. Recurly makes it easy for us to track various metrics like MRR, active subscribers, LTV and many other metrics all in one glance. The way they built their dashboard requires great appreciation. There are many features in Recurly which makes it very easy to manage subscriptions which otherwise would be very hectic. Recurly is helping us save a lot of time and effort in managing subscriptions and billings as well as giving good insights into our performance. So this is one of those complete solutions which you would love you use.
- It is very easy to track MRR, which gives you insights into your overall revenues and health of the subscriptions. Though MRR is pretty easy to calculate Recurly puts it beautifully on the dashboard which is very easy to read.
- LTV, Recurly calculates lifetime value which is a good insight for adjusting Marketing spends. Even this is available on the dashboard.
- The other features like Subscriber churn Rate, Average revenue per customer etc are really great and would help the marketing team a lot.
- 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.
June 14, 2018
Recurly for Subscription Service
Recurly is part of our billing software and subscription management service. Finance and Support use the application as well as Sales. This software provides a solution to the problem of quick and easy billing for a subscription-based service. It also helps provide visibility across teams for when clients require an in-depth view of their billing.
- Quick and easy to set up
- Simple for the end user
- Navigation on the back end makes sense and is clean
- They could offer a lot more customization
- If you dont fit their one specific use case its hard to mold the process flow
- Some areas of the software seem redundant
May 01, 2018
Recurly vs. QuickBooks
Recurly is used primarily in the finance department. It provides a smooth experience for users to make purchases and provides automatic recurring billing. The Dunning cycle also helps with accounts receivables collection which frees up valuable time and shortens the A/R turnover cycle. Recurly provides useful reports for the accounting and leadership team.
- Recurring billing
- Collection
- Subscription management
- Integration with other software
- Recording of external payment
- Customization of Dunning
March 16, 2017
Do it will save you time and longer work days!
I love Recurly. It's user-friendlyy, easy to use and easy to bill clients. I am actually trying to get my current company to sign up for Recurly (wish me luck, budgets ugh).
I love it and found it super fantastic. A++++++ Must have for all business sizes from small few people companies to huge corps.
- Easy layout
- User-friendly
- Clean and sharp look
- I can't think of any but hmm - reminders maybe.
July 21, 2015
Recurly + SaaS = Magic
We use Recurly to handle all of our recurring subscription credit card transactions with all our clients. It is how we automatically bill our clients for our service each month. Currently our account management, sales, and engineering departments use Recurly. Recurly solves the problem of having to remember to charge our clients for service each month. It integrates into our payment processing service, and automatically runs transactions based on a pre-configured subscription. They support coupons, credits, refunds, prorated refunds, etc.
- Recurly is very easy to use. Their UI is very clean and intuitive, so my staff has no problem understanding how to handle payments in Recurly. They just released a new UI, which is currently in Beta, but does an even better job making the user experience great.
- Recurly really helps reduce the time involved in collecting payment from a client. They have a dunning process which detects when a transaction has failed, and automatically re-tries running the payment several times before giving up. Recurly gives you full flexibility on how the dunning process works, including the ability to send your client payment declined notifications every few days to inspire them to update their payment info.
- Recurly just added a new feature which can automatically update credit card information from clients whose card has expired. They ping the credit card company (visa, MC, AMEX, Discover) to retrieve new card information for cards who have just gone past their expiration dates. This is extremely handy, and has reduced the number of times we've had to contact our client to get updated billing information.
- Recurly has excellent customer service. You can chat with an agent and receive an instant reply to your questions. I love this.
- The coupons feature is a bit cumbersome. It can become tricky to set up, apply, and un-apply coupons for a particular client. If you have special billing cases where you discount for a few months or give a client service in any irregular fashion, using coupons can become tricky.
- We have a referral program with our clients where they receive a perpetual monthly discount for each client they refer to use. The client receives this discount as long as their referral remains active with us. We would like to be able to apply a discount to a client account, and have the ability to remove that discount in the event a referral ends service with us. In some cases a client has referred several clients, and we would like to apply a discount for each referral, and still have the ability to remove one or more discounts as referrals begin and end service with us. Currently there is no way to do this in Recurly. There isn't even a very good work-around, which is disappointing.
August 18, 2014
Recurly Review
Recurly is used in our organization as a reoccurring billing solution option for our customers. Recurly is used primarily in the accounting/finance department of the company. Recurly addresses the problem of maintaining numerous customers and being able to accurately billing them on a reoccurring basis.
- Recurly does a excellent job providing support and documentation for both the user-side of the program and the developer side of the program.
- Exporting reports is one area of Recurly that is lacking. In today's business world, accountants need the ability to easily custom make reports to be able to fit their business needs. Right now we must spend resources to pull numerous reports and reference them with each other to get the information we need.
- The ability to automatically prorate the 1st invoice and to be able to set default renewal date of for new subscribers would be a great feature to implement.
August 12, 2014
Recurring billing. Trust Recurly.
It's used for recurring billing for one of our clients. The organization uses it to manage their subscription billing, as well as their general day-to-day billing needs. It addresses issues involving storage of sensitive data and PCI compliance, as well as provides a catch-all solution for billing without in-depth integration.
- Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance
- Recurring billing
- Security
- API documentation
- Pricing
- Native clients (e.g., Python)