What are recurring payments and subscription billing?

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital commerce, recurring payments and subscription billing are reshaping the way businesses and consumers interact. In fact, the global subscription ecommerce market is forecasted to grow to $2,419.69 billion by 2028. Subscriptions follow a business model in which customers and merchants engage in an...

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Streamlining Growth and Automating Processes: The Pipefy Story

“Doers drive change. We empower them.” -- Pipefy video These six words succinctly describe Pipefy’s mission: to make work easier and faster through workflow automation and organization. Since Pipefy launched in 2015, companies like Volvo, Wipro, Capgemini, and IBM have embraced Pipefy’s powerful platform. Today, Pipefy is used by...

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How LiveChat Grew Revenue and Increased Customer Happiness With Recurly

We’ve all seen those little chat icons that pop up at the bottom of countless web pages, asking if you need any help or want to chat with customer support.  As it turns out, there’s more to chat support than meets the eye. LiveChat, one of the pioneering providers of...

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Recurly Announces Support for Bacs via GoCardless

Recurly is excited to announce support for Bacs via GoCardless. Bacs is a direct debit banking method popular in the United Kingdom. Bacs allows you to pull funds from a shopper’s bank account, skipping the credit card networks altogether. With about 90% of the UK population paying at least one bill...

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The Importance of Multiple Gateways for Subscription Businesses

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...

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Recurly Adds Level II Card Support for Adyen Transactions

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....

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Recurly Celebrates Grads

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...

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The 3 stages of creating sustainable revenue streams

Long gone are the days of single revenue stream business models. From physical products to software companies, subscription offerings bring convenience to businesses and consumers. But how do you even get started on creating a sustainable revenue stream? It requires two things: A powerful recurring revenue engine and relationships that...

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The High Cost of a Payment Gateway Outage

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...

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How to Create an Effective SaaS Pricing Strategy

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...

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