Payment Gateways and the Complexity of Payments

The realm of payments encompasses a wide range of topics, from fraud and cross-border payments to artificial intelligence, mobile wallets, and compliance. Savvy subscription businesses realize that the payment process is...

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Addressing Seasonality in Your Subscription Business

Software as a Service—also known as the SaaS model—was one of the earliest adopters of the subscription model concept. There are, of course, a multitude of compelling, strategic reasons to...

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Increased Transaction Success and Subscription Scalability: Two New Case Studies From Recurly

Output is an LA-based company that develops innovative software products for musicians, composers, producers, and sound designers. The company’s focus is simple: groundbreaking concepts, new sounds, and new sources of...

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Visa’s New Free-Trial Mandate: What You Need to Know

To reduce chargebacks for subscription-related charges originating from free trials and similar promotional offers, Visa has released the Free Trial Mandate to provide clearer information to consumers related to these types...

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How Recurly Uses Machine Learning to Reduce Transaction Declines

One of the significant benefits of subscription commerce is the amount of data and related insights this model generates compared to one-time purchases. New data related to marketing, payments, and...

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Improved Efficiency and Analytics With Recurly’s Item Catalog

As noted in a previous post, the subscription e-commerce business is booming. This segment has grown by more than 100% per year over the past five years, according to McKinsey,...

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Introducing Recurly.js Elements

One of the key benefits of Recurly is the ability to collect and tokenize a subscriber’s payment information. Hosted Fields, included with Recurly.js, have historically been the primary mechanisms used to...

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Introducing React Components for Recurly

Recurly now supports a React interface for Recurly.js. React has enabled teams to build dynamic UIs quickly and effectively, and has proven itself time and time again in demanding systems. We are...

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Introducing Checkout Pricing for Recurly.js

For some time now, Recurly has supported Subscription Pricing, a feature of Recurly.js designed to make it quick and easy for our merchants to display detailed subscription pricing information to their...

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Recurly: A Year in Review - 2019 Edition

A new year and a fresh decade are upon us, full of opportunity. Today, look back at 2019 with appreciation for all the incredible strides that were made in our...

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