How Recurly is Supporting Visa's Stored Credential Framework

Subscription commerce continues to expand rapidly across different industries, and card networks naturally want to stay ahead of market trends to provide the best experience. As a result, card networks like Visa and Mastercard periodically update their rules and regulations and release new requirements. One of the announcements came from...

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Subscription Summit Demonstrates the Staying Power of the Subscription Model

We’ve just returned from the third annual Subscription Summit, a meeting of the subscription box industry minds. Following are some observations that have stuck with us since the conference. The Power of Consumer Demand Consumer demand has driven businesses to innovate and deliver products and services in new ways, and...

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Streamlining Financial Operations: Key Learnings From Our Webinar

Recurly recently presented a webinar entitled “Scaling Subscription Billing: A Guide to Streamlining Financial Operations” which received a terrific response from the attendees. This response prompted us to publish this recap along with a link to the recorded webinar for those who missed the live webinar last week. This webinar,...

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International Expansion and Recurly

These days, any e-commerce offering has international potential: if customers from other nations are able to complete their purchase, the business is operating “globally.” But there’s much more that a subscription business can and should do to foster and grow its international market. Supporting international currencies and payment methods, and...

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How Recurly’s Credit Invoices streamline billing and accounting

On the surface, subscription billing may appear straightforward: bill the same amount each billing cycle. The reality is that the subscriber lifecycle can involve a number of complex pricing models and billing scenarios such as upgrades, downgrades, additional products, changing quantities, usage-based billing, or any combination of these—each of which...

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GDPR in the EU and How It Impacts Subscription Businesses

The European Union has released a new compliance standard titled the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will go into effect on May 25, 2018. It imposes new rules and regulations regarding data privacy that impact all subscription businesses using Recurly which operate in the EU, along with US-based merchants with...

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Pause Subscriptions to Minimize Voluntary Churn and Maximize Revenue

In either fixed or indefinite pause scenarios, you have the option to resume subscriptions  manually before the end of the pause term, at the subscriber’s request. Streamlined billing When subscribers request to pause their subscription, the subscription remains active until they reach the end of their current billing period, at which...

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Increase Customer Retention and Expand Globally With New Multilingual Emails

Global marketing involves more than simply selling a product in other countries. You need to speak to subscribers in their preferred language and ensure that their experience signing up and paying for your subscription product or service is streamlined and optimized. Recurly is pleased to announce support for 11 different...

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Subscription Commerce Best Practices: Highlights From SUBCOM East

The best way to learn about subscription billing best practices are from some of the people who helped establish them. SUBCOM provides that opportunity. I had the great fortune to hear about various subscription challenges and their clever solutions from folks who work at Rent the Runway, Pandora, ZipCar, Adobe, Match.com,...

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Minimize Churn, Maximize Revenue: a New E-Book From Recurly

Churn is a key metric in subscription commerce, tracked closely by the most specialized Box of the Month businesses to multi-million-dollar enterprise SaaS companies. This is because even slight differences in churn rates can have a significant impact on revenue growth. Understanding how to minimize churn and increase subscriber retention...

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