In a recent blog post, we discussed why it's important for subscription businesses to offer alternative payment methods like PayPal and Amazon Pay. Today, we’ll share aggregated data insights to show why merchants should consider using multiple payment gateways to grow their business. In this post, we’ll discuss payment gateway usage...
Recurly is continually reviewing and updating our payment gateways to ensure excellent transaction processing across each of our gateways. This means staying up-to-date on new gateway features to ensure Recurly supports the functionality most useful for our merchants’ businesses. Recurly has added support for level II card data when processing Adyen transactions....
It’s the time of year when graduations are celebrated as kids move from one education milestone to the next or begin their life in the “real world.” However, due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, this year most graduations weren't able to be celebrated in the traditional way. Recurly understood and...
Building a sustainable revenue stream requires two things: A powerful recurring revenue engine and relationships that drive engagement and loyalty. Both key to surviving during these uncertain times. We recently sat down with Robbie Kellerman Baxter, a leading expert on subscription pricing and membership models and the author of The Membership Economy and The...
At one time or another, most payment gateways experience outages and performance issues. It’s a fact of life that subscription businesses contend with because transaction success directly contributes to maximizing your revenue. In this post, we’ll outline a few straightforward tactics to avoid the high cost of a payment gateway...
Software as a Service or SaaS has been around since the 1960s when the model we know today as “cloud computing” or “SaaS” was simply called a “time-sharing system.” But it wasn’t until the dotcom boom of the 1990s that the SaaS business model took off and CRM, payroll, and accounting software...
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 three southeast metro-area school districts in Minnesota including South St. Paul Public Schools, Inver Grove Heights Schools, and West St....
Recurly’s fastest-growing merchants understand that global expansion is a corridor to new subscriber acquisition and revenue growth. To turbocharge that growth we are continually adding new payment options. These payment options support merchants global expansion desires by enabling you to offer the most popular payment methods that your subscribers can...
In modern business, companies are constantly experimenting with their pricing strategy to support their growth and changing market conditions. In the world of subscriptions, pricing continues to be a focus to optimize revenue and ensure subscribers are getting the value they are paying for. Recurly has enabled our merchants to...
Subscription Billing Benchmark Report The unique challenges that come with a subscription business are many. From churn and decline rates to revenue recovery, the obstacles are all too real. Recurly is in the business of making subscriptions a competitive advantage for our merchants and to this end, our business analysts...