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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…
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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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January 02, 2019
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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
- Develop a coupon-driven campaign easily
- Scales with you as you grow
- Keep track of reoccurring revenue
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.
- 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.
Zoho Invoice is great, but it is not as comprehensive as Recurly.
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.
- We have increased billing efficiency. Recurly saves us about 40 hours per month or more in administrative costs, plus the added mental effort to keep track of each client to make sure they are billed properly.
- We're able to deliver better customer service to our clients by allowing them to login and access past invoices, and easily update their billing information.
- Recurly has much better processing fees than a lot of their competitors. For example, we would currently be paying $2,000/mo more in processing fees if we were to use Stripe or Square for our billing.
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.