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Rachel Quick

Senior Director of Customer Operations, Recurly

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Senior Director of Customer Operations at Recurly.

Latest posts by Rachel Quick

Sponsoring a Spark - The Story of a Recurly Intern

Recurly recently partnered with Tridistrict CAPS and their Business & Entrepreneurship program to support students interested in careers in the fields of business and entrepreneurship. This program is a collaboration of...

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Learn More About Mastercard’s New Requirements for Free Trial Conversions

Mastercard has recently released new requirements for free trial conversions. We believe this reflects a positive change in subscription commerce, where more customer transparency and ease of cancellation leads to...

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How to Use Webhooks to Recover Customers

As noted in a previous blog post, there are different ways to get information out of Recurly, and each option has different pros and cons depending on the specific objective....

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Minimizing the Impact of Declined Transactions

In today's blog post, we'll explore best practices to minimize the impact of declined transactions. We’ll also share tips for benchmarking and iterating on site configurations to improve transaction decline...

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Benchmarking & Minimizing Credit Card Transaction Decline Rates

Many merchants are concerned about their transaction decline rates and want to ensure that the rates are within what is normal for their industry or segment. Their concerns can be...

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Analyzing and Increasing Recovered Revenue for Subscription Billing

In subscription billing, you get paid over time, not up front - so having a stable payment method is crucial. However, credit cards and debit cards, the leading payment methods...

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How to improve your dunning emails for subscription billing

Recurly software decreases involuntary churn by using credit card updates and automatic retries to recover revenue without intervention by merchants or customers. Recurly recovers an average of 7%...

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Reduce Credit Card Declines with Automatic Retries and Dunning Techniques

For many merchants, the #1 feature of Recurly software is the ability to recover revenue and stop churn that would otherwise be lost to credit card declines. As I described...

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All About Dunning

Tired of chasing down customers for failed payments? Have spreadsheets tracking declines and email communications and promises to pay? Take advantage of Recurly's dunning management to save time, worry, and...

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Pro Tip: Navigate Between Multiple Recurly Sites

Whether you have multiple products using Recurly, or have a production, sandbox, developer, and QA site, Recurly makes it simple to navigate between each site with just one set of...

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Pro Tip: Pause Subscription Billing

From time to time your customers may ask that their subscription billing be paused while they go on vacation, use up their current product, or just want to hold off...

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Pro-Tip: Set Your Time Zone

Your Recurly account can be set to display all dates in your local time zone, but there may be times you want to change this configuration. For example, some merchants...

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Pro Tip: Accept PayPal Payments

Merchants today can use PayPal as a payment gateway, collecting credit card payments from their customers. But did you know that using Recurly.js or the Recurly Hosted Payment Pages, you...

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What’s the difference between void transactions and refunds?

In the dynamic world of subscriptions, managing payments effectively is key to customer satisfaction and financial success. Two terms that often come into play are void transactions and refunds. A...

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Pro Tip: Provide a Partial Refund

Refunding transactions is easy with Recurly, but did you know a transaction can also be partially refunded? This is great for circumstances where a user has partially used up service,...

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New Feature: Activity Log

Tracking the activity of a customer's account is a critical feature for your customer support staff - and it's now available through your Recurly admin console! Inside your customer's account...

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Merchant Highlight - Pipedrive Inc

Push notifications are great alerts for Recurly changes. Whenever an account is modified your push notification listener will be notified and a quick API query can be used to verify...

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