How Recurly Helps You Acquire New Subscribers

To be successful, subscription businesses need to retain subscribers and continually attract new ones. This is true for both the smallest startup and the largest enterprise. Recurly provides a number of tools to support our customers’ efforts to gain new subscribers. Use coupons to increase your subscriber base Everyone loves...

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Deepen Subscriber Insights With Custom Fields

Modern business software contains a wealth of customer data and has provided for much greater operational efficiency. It’s also added to the difficulty of managing and integrating data across systems. Creating custom data fields can help mitigate this by connecting data across systems. Custom fields can also be used to...

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New Subscriber Churn Benchmarks and Why Managing Churn Is Critical

In the last few weeks, the headlines around subscription commerce have centered on two main players: Moviepass and The New York Times. Moviepass, the trendy disruptor to the movie theater business model, continues to grab attention for its questionable pricing and product changes following an initial spike in new sign ups....

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Live Webinar: How To Cross New Frontiers With Your Subscription Business

The subscription model is booming. Subscription commerce grew more than 100 percent each year between 2011 and 2016, and the growth continues. Savvy companies are reaping the rewards: high recurring revenue that’s predictable paired with a competitive and sustainable business model. The potential ROI for global expansion is wide open,...

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How Recurly Supports Subscription Box Businesses

The subscription box segment was an early winner in subscription commerce. Whether based on a carefully curated selection of goods or the regular receipt of necessary consumables, subscription boxes have become an enduring success story. But what you put inside your box is only one piece of the puzzle. To...

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Subscription Payments Exchange Looks Beyond Trends

Recently, 50 payments professionals gathered at the Marine’s Memorial Club in San Francisco for the first-ever Subscription Payments Exchange conference hosted by Insight Exchange Network. The event sought to look beyond general trends—with a focus on understanding and following your customers when they want to pay. From a quick audience poll,...

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Choosing the Right Subscription Platform for International Expansion: A New E-book From Recurly

Increasingly, subscription businesses seeking to expand are pursuing a global strategy. But to do this effectively, these businesses need to make sure they have the right subscription management platform.   Capabilities to improve conversion at checkout such as support for multiple international currencies and payment options are vital. Your business will...

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Subscription Billing Terms Provide More Flexibility

Subscription businesses benefit from having the flexibility to create different plans and pricing structures to meet market needs. Subscription businesses also need the flexibility to offer billing intervals that may differ from the plan length.   For example, perhaps your business offers both monthly and annual plans, and the latter...

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Vertex + Recurly Streamlines Tax Compliance

Recurly is excited to announce that our subscription management platform is now fully integrated with Vertex, a leading provider of tax technology and services. Vertex provides comprehensive, up-to-date global tax rates, calculating and adding the correct tax to global e-commerce transactions through their Vertex O Series solution. With Vertex, Recurly customers...

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How to Address Subscription Box Fatigue and Retain Subscribers

The popularity of subscription boxes has been a boon to subscription commerce. But this popularity can be a double-edged sword. While recipients may love their different boxes filled with delightfully curated products or regularly needed essentials, sometimes this becomes too much of a good thing. Subscription box fatigue can happen...

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