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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…
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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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August 18, 2014
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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.
- Recurly has streamlined our customer's ability to automatically sign up for subscriptions. Even though there are inherited limitations, Recurly has been continually improving their system.
- We have seen a increased rate of self subscribed customers since implementation.
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
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- API documentation
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- Native clients (e.g., Python)
- Offloads issues regarding storage of sensitive data to a 3rd party, thus lessening the burden of PCI compliance without sacrificing security.
- Stripe
Recurly offers a better and more robust API. Recurring billing is much more complex with Stripe than with Recurly. For small dollar amount transactions, Recurly typically makes more sense for our clients than Strip does.