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What is Recurly?
Recurly is for companies seeking to grow their subscription business. The platform is designed to accelerate and enhance every aspect of the subscription lifecycle from plan and pricing creation to marketing promotions, subscriber management, payments optimization, recurring billing, churn reduction, and revenue recognition.
Recurly is presented as ideal for direct-to-consumer companies with high-velocity and high-volume transactions—digital streamers and publishers for example—seeking to expand to new channels, markets, and regions.
Recurly Features
- Supported: Fast, simple plan and add-on creation
- Supported: Flexible pricing models (incl. ramp/loyalty pricing)
- Supported: Trials and promotions
- Supported: Subscription lifecycle management
- Supported: 30+ supported languages
- Supported: 20+ payment gateways (incl. Adyen, Braintree, Cybersource, First Data, Stripe)
- Supported: 10+ payment methods (incl. credit cards, PayPal, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo)
- Supported: Automated and manual billing & invoicing
- Supported: 20+ prebuilt reports and dashboards
- Supported: Gift cards and subscriptions
- Supported: Multiple currencies (140+)
- Supported: Subscriber wallet
- Supported: Custom gateway routing & failover
- Supported: Automated exports
- Supported: Custom fields
- Supported: Revenue recognition automation
- Supported: Integrations with Salesforce, Netsuite, Xero, and Quickbooks
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| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | United States, United Kingdom, France, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Canada, Australia, China, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Ireland, New Zealand, Finland, Switzerland, India, Italy, Japan, Korea, Brazil, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, Sweden, Poland |
| Supported Languages | English, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Romanian, Russian, Slovakian, Turkish, Swedish, Polish |
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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.
Recurly starts at $0.
The most common users of Recurly are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
Recurly Customer Size Distribution
| Consumers | 0% |
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| Small Businesses (1-50 employees) | 20% |
| Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees) | 40% |
| Enterprises (more than 500 employees) | 40% |
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Easy to Use: Many users have found Recurly to be very easy to use, with a clean and intuitive UI that simplifies payment handling for their staff. The simplicity of the interface allows users to quickly navigate through the platform and efficiently manage payments.
Excellent Customer Service: Reviewers have consistently commended Recurly's customer service for its excellence. Users appreciate the ability to chat with an agent in real-time and receive prompt replies to their questions and concerns. This level of support enhances user satisfaction and ensures smooth operations.
Comprehensive Analytics: Users highly value Recurly's comprehensive analytics capabilities. The platform offers robust features for analyzing new versus renewing revenue, managing subscription plans on an individual client basis, and tracking important metrics related to subscription health. These insights empower businesses to make data-driven decisions, optimize strategies, and maximize revenue potential.
Cumbersome Coupons Feature: Some users have found the coupons feature in Recurly to be cumbersome and tricky to set up, apply, and un-apply for a particular client. They feel that it could be more user-friendly and intuitive.
Lack of Multiple Referral Discounts: Several reviewers have expressed disappointment with the lack of a good work-around for applying multiple discounts for referrals in Recurly. They would like the ability to easily apply a discount to a client account and remove it if a referral ends service.
Limited Customization Options: A common concern among users is the limited customization options in Recurly. Some customers feel that certain features should be optional add-ons to save costs, while others desire more flexibility in customizing dunning, pricing, charge descriptions, and quantity after an invoice has been created.
Based on user reviews, here are the three most common recommendations for Recurly:
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Users recommend discussing billing and reporting needs with the Recurly team. This ensures that specific requirements are met, as some manual reporting may be necessary for certain data.
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Many users suggest considering Recurly for SMB customers. It is seen as a suitable choice for small and medium-sized businesses due to its affordability and ease of use. Users have also found the support and implementation teams to be exceptional.
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While Recurly provides valuable analytics, some users recommend using additional programs for more advanced analytics capabilities. This can help businesses track financial resources more effectively. However, users generally praise the quick and quality support service provided by Recurly.
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March 22, 2024
Flexible
- 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
- 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!
- 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!
- 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 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
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- 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!
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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!
- Easy layout
- User-friendly
- Clean and sharp look
- I can't think of any but hmm - reminders maybe.
July 21, 2015
Recurly + SaaS = Magic
- 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
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- 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
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