Recurly pricing and plans
Launch, manage, and scale subscriptions from fast plan creation to automated billing, payments orchestration, subscriber management, churn reduction, reporting and analytics, and more.
Starter (formerly Core)
For startups and SMBs looking to launch today and grow their subscription business fast.
$249 $0/month¹
first 3 months—new customers only
Key features include:
- Fast, simple plan and add-on creation
- Flexible pricing models
- Trials and promotions
- Robust subscription management
- 30+ supported languages
- Multiple currencies (140+)
- 20+ payment gateways (incl. Adyen, Braintree, Cybersource, First Data, Stripe)
- 10+ payment methods (incl. Credit cards, PayPal, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Venmo)
- Automated invoicing
- 20+ prebuilt reports and dashboards
- 24x7 customer support
Available product add-ons:
- Revenue recognition - Standard
¹No monthly platform fee plus no payment volume fee for first $40,000 USD per month in first 3 months for new customers only.
Professional
For midsize companies ready to scale and optimize recurring revenue operations.
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All Starter features plus:
- Ramp pricing model
- Intelligent retries
- Backup payment method
- Gift cards
- ACH payment method
- Subscriber wallet*
- Custom gateway routing
- Gateway failover
- Manual invoicing*
- Invoice customization
- Automated exports
- Salesforce integration*
- Custom fields
- Single sign-on (SSO)
Available product add-ons:
- App management
- Revenue recognition - Standard
- Revenue recognition - Advanced
Elite
For enterprises with large payment volumes and diverse subscription offerings.
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All Professional features plus:
- Customer account hierarchy
- Custom report builder
- Advanced email deliverability*
- Oracle NetSuite integration*
- Dedicated Customer Success Manager**
Available product add-ons:
- App management
- Revenue recognition - Standard
- Revenue recognition - Advanced
Streamline and automate compliance for multiple revenue reporting standards with a global, enterprise-grade solution that’s fast to implement and easy to customize.
Standard
For startups, SMBs and companies with less complex revenue recognition needs.
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Required product: Subscription management
Key features include:
- ASC-606 or IFRS compliance automation
- Performance obligations (POB) at plan level
- GL accounting at plan level
- Multi-currency
- Revenue waterfall, liability, and transfer reports
- Automated period close
- Natively embedded Recurly UI
- Self-service onboarding
Available product add-ons:
- App management
Advanced
For larger organizations with advanced or custom revenue recognition needs.
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All Standard features plus:
- Configurable (ASC-606/IFRS-15) 5-step process
- Standalone selling price (SSP) analyzer
- Advanced allocations
- Variable considerations
- Expense accounting
- Revenue recognition for app stores²
- Multi-book, multi-entity accounting
- Advanced billing scenarios
- Product & revenue bundles
- 20+ configurable revenue reports & forecasting
- External data sources
- Manual journal creation
- Automated and configurable period close
Available product add-ons:
- Subscription management - Professional
- Subscription management - Elite
- App management
Gain instant, reliable access to cross-platform subscription analytics (app stores and web) through a simple, automated data sync—all in one place.
App management
For companies of all sizes seeking to gain subscription analytics across app stores and web.
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Required product: Subscription management - Professional or Elite plan
Key features include:
- Simple configuration
- Consolidated subscriber view
- Multi-platform product catalog
- Cross-platform analytics
- Cross-platform entitlements
- Cross-platform APIs and webhooks
Available product add-ons:
- Revenue recognition - Standard
- Revenue recognition - Advanced
Top 5 Frequently Asked Questions
What is subscription pricing or subscription-based model?
A subscription-based pricing model allows a customer or organization to purchase or subscribe to a merchant’s products or services for a specific period of time for a set price and billing frequency on a recurring basis.
Why is subscription pricing important?
One of the main reasons why subscription pricing is important is because it offers a convenient way for customers to try new items without a long-term, costly commitment.
Why adopt a subscription business model?
There are many reasons why subscription pricing is important to consider. One, it attracts more customers with its lower entry point (e.g. paying $15 monthly vs. $150 upfront). Two, it offers more predictable revenue for businesses. And three, it allows businesses to build stronger, more valuable relationships with their customers.
What is the difference between a subscription and a license?
The difference between a subscription and a license is that a license is typically sold as a one-time charge and allows the user to access the product indefinitely, while a subscription is billed on a recurring basis and provides user access only while they continue to pay the subscription fee.
How does a subscription management model work?
Subscription management business models are based on the idea of selling a product or service to receive monthly or yearly recurring subscription revenue.
What is revenue recognition?
Revenue recognition is GAAP accounting principle that defines when and how revenue may be recognized. Revenue recognition for recurring billing and subscription contracts can be challenging to understand, calculate, and report.
Can I purchase Recurly Revenue Recognition without using Recurly for subscription management and billing?
Yes! You can purchase Recurly Revenue Recognition as a standalone product. To learn more, visit the product documentation.
What is ASC-606 revenue recognition?
ASC-606 is a revenue recognition standard that affects all businesses that enter into contracts with customers to transfer goods or services—including public, private, and non-profit subscription businesses. Learn more about ASC 606 compliance for subscription services.
What are the five criteria for revenue recognition?
The five criteria for revenue recognition are: 1) identify the contract with your subscriber, 2) identify the performance obligations in the contract, 3) determine the transaction price, 4) allocate the transaction price across the performance obligation(s) defined in the contract, and 5) recognize revenue when your business satisfies a performance obligation.
What are the methods of revenue recognition?
There are several revenue recognition methods. The most common are sales basis, complete contract, installment, cost recoverability, and percent complete.
Why is revenue recognition needed?
Revenue recognition is an essential accounting principle governing both when and how much revenue to recognize in financial statements. Companies are required to accurately account for their revenue earned.
What is Recurly app management?
App management enables you to centralize your customer, subscription, and payment data from app stores (Apple App Store and Google Play) using the Recurly platform as a single source of truth.
Why should I consider using app management?
With app management, you can grow subscription revenue and enhance subscriber experience with a holistic cross-platform view of insights and opportunities. Further, you can gain efficiencies by developing cross-platform subscription workflows without the need to build and maintain app store data integrations.
How does app management differ from Mobile SDKs?
Our existing mobile SDK allows you to create subscriptions and collect payments through your Recurly payment/gateway rails directly within your mobile app experience. However, Apple App Store or Google Play do not generally allow this within their terms of service. If you need to create subscriptions or process payments through Apple/Google rails, the app management connector allows you to sync subscriptions and subscription data from Apple/Google to Recurly. For Apple, the connector requires another type of SDK to enable the syncing.
What are the costs of using app management?
The cost to use Recurly app management is a fixed annual platform fee and variable usage fee based on gross app store revenue.
Where can I find more information about Recurly app management?
You can find more information in the product documentation page, or by contacting Recurly.
¹During the first three (3) months of any Starter (formerly Core) subscription that started on or after January 1, 2023 (Promotional Period), a Qualifying New Merchant will not be charged a monthly platform fee and will not be charged fees for their Total Payment Volume (TPV) unless their TPV exceeds $40,000 USD or the Euro or British pound equivalent during a given month; Merchant will be charged a fee of 0.9% on all TPV beyond $40,000 USD per month. After the Promotional Period, unless Merchant cancels, Merchant will be charged a monthly platform fee of $249 USD per month and will not be charged fees for their Total Payment Volume (TPV) unless their TPV exceeds $40,000 USD during a given month; Merchant will be charged a fee of 0.9% on all TPV beyond $40,000 USD per month. Merchant bank account is required. Other fees may apply including Merchant bank account fees, payment gateway fees, and customer/card import fees. Merchants can cancel and close their Recurly account within the Admin section. Qualifying New Merchant means a Merchant that has not previously been a Recurly customer within the last 3 months. New or different subdomains from existing Merchants do not qualify for this promotion. Recurly reserves the right to cancel or modify the terms of this promotion in its sole discretion.
²App store connector and setup required.
*Requires additional fees.
**To qualify for a dedicated Customer Success Manager, you must meet a minimum account contract value (ACV) or purchase a dedicated package.
Merchant bank account is required. Other fees apply including merchant bank account fees and payment gateway fees. Fees may apply to import existing cards/customers.
Plans, pricing & promotions
Plans
Plans
Add-ons
Item catalog
Entitlements
Pricing models
Fixed recurring pricing
One-time pricing
Usage-based pricing
Volume pricing
Tiered pricing
Stairstep pricing
Ramp pricing
Prepaid account balance
Multiple currencies (140+)
Promotions
Trial management
Coupons & discounts
Gift subscriptions
Subscriber management
Customers & subscriptions
Subscriber account management
Subscriptions (create, change, cancel/expire)
Postpone subscriptions
Pause subscriptions
Multi-subscription support
Checkout
Subscriber wallet*
Account hierarchy
Subscriber lifecycle communications
Multi-language emails (30)
1 language
5 languages
all languages
Customizable email templates
Dunning campaigns
1 campaign
multi-campaigns
multi-campaigns
Advanced email deliverability*
Payments orchestration
Payment gateway features
Multi-gateway configuration
Test gateway
Custom gateway routing (merchant-initiated)
Gateway failover
Payment methods
10+ payment methods including:
Credit cards
PayPal
Amazon Pay
Apple Pay
Google Pay
Venmo
ACH
Payment gateways
20+ payment gateways including:
Adyen
Braintree
Cybersource
Stripe
Recurring billing
Billing & invoicing
Unlimited automated invoices
Subscription billing terms
Manual invoice billing*
Invoice & receipt customization
Taxes
Sales tax
VAT & GST support
Tax inclusive pricing
Churn management
Dunning campaigns
Account updater*
Static retries
Intelligent retries
Backup payment method
Reporting & analytics
Dashboards & reports
Subscribers
Monthly recurring revenue (MRR)
Plans
Billings
Churn analysis
Recovered revenue
Dunning effectiveness
Trial performance
Plan performance
Built-in Benchmarks
Explore (report builder)
Data imports and exports
Subscription data imports
Subscription data exports
Site activities export
Account activities export
Automated exports
Site management
User-based roles
Additional subdomain*
Custom fields
5 fields
10 fields
Multiple business entities
APIs, DevOps & others
REST API keys
5 keys
10 keys
10 keys
Webhooks (JSON & XML)
Recurly.js
Hosted pages
Native mobile SDKs
Partner integrations
Avalara AvaTax integration
Zendesk integration
Zapier integration
Xero integration
QuickBooks Online integration
Kount (fraud) integration*
Salesforce integration*
Snowflake integration*
Vertex (tax) integration
Oracle NetSuite integration*
Braze integration
Security & compliance
PCI compliance
Two-factor authentication
General data protection regulation
PSD2 compliance
Single sign-on
Customer support & success
Email support
24x7
24x7
24x7
Live chat support
24x7
24x7
24x7
Product documentation
Developer documentation
Professional services*
Revenue compliance
ASC-606/IFRS-15 automation
Revenue contracts
Product/revenue bundles
Advanced pricing models (e.g. usage, metered, delivery-based)
Performance obligations
Expense accounting (e.g. commissions)
Variable considerations (e.g discounts, refunds, royalties)
Standard contract modifications (e.g. upgrade, downgrade, extension, termination)
Contract modifications with allocation impact (when bundling multiple POBs)
Revenue carve out
SSP analyzer
Advanced allocation
Automated revenue release
Automated expense release
Disclosures
Multi-country revenue recognition
Multi-currency
Multi-entity
Multi-book
Revenue reporting & forecasting
Revenue reports
Revenue insights
Revenue waterfall
Deferred revenue waterfall
Costs & variable consideration (VC) reports
Cost details
Cost waterfall
Cost balances
VC details
VC waterfall
VC balances
Transaction details reports
Contract transaction details
Billing transactions details
Cost transaction details
Reports on balances
Contract balances
Unbilled balances
Remaining POB
Asset balances
Liability balances
Audit reports
User & role access
Transfer accounting details
Role details
Audit reports
Exception reports
SSP exception
Hold exception
Data import/export & synchronization
App store revenue²
Multi-platform revenue recognition
Apple App Store
Google Play
Transaction data & processing
Revenue workbench
Recurly subscriptions, plans & billing events
Import transactions & billings events from external system (e.g. CRM/pipeline data)
VC details
Manual journal entry import
Historical revenue data import
Upload sales orders, documents & expense records
Data transformation
Revenue bundles
Expense accounting bundles
Default values using formulas
Data set lookup values
GL & period close
Default chart of accounts
Journal account mapping
Automated generation of journal entries
Manual journal creation
Manual JE transfer
Automated JE posting to the GL (via API)
Automated period close
Configurable period close
* Requires additional fees.