Company Values That Scale for Years

Recurly just turned seven years old. It seems like yesterday that we elected to found a company based on the belief that the world was moving towards a ‘pay-as-you-go’ model. We believed that lightweight, flexible, nimble billing systems would become a competitive requirement for companies seeking to align their offers with...

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Is a Usage-Based Billing Model Right for Your Business?

For any business, setting a price for what they sell is a key piece of the revenue and profit puzzle. Subscription businesses have the added task of determining not just price points but the billing model they will use. For example, many subscription businesses have a fixed recurring model (same...

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Build a Retention Process Not a Cancellation Process

We recently came across a great blog from Profitwell which discusses how to turn a cancellation into an opportunity for you to take action and understand better why some customers choose to leave. While it’s written with software as a service (SaaS) in mind, the concepts are applicable to nearly...

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From Upstart to Unicorn: How Dollar Shave Club Hit it Big

There can be no doubt that Dollar Shave Club’s phenomenal success can be attributed to many factors—its irreverent and hilarious viral ads, its exemplary customer service, efficient manufacturing and distribution, and its incredible ability to scale, and (perhaps most importantly) its business model. Yes, there were many things that led...

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Two-Factor Authentication, User Roles, Anti-Fraud: With Recurly, Your Data is Secure

There’s no doubt that the internet has brought myriad and far-reaching benefits to people and organizations worldwide. Unfortunately, it’s also brought hackers, fraudsters, and other criminal elements intent on stealing our personal and financial information. They are relentless, exceedingly inventive, and always looking for the next exploitable vulnerability. Because of...

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New Automated Revenue Recognition Speeds Month-End Close

At Recurly, we’re dedicated to creating best-in-class subscription management tools for our customers. One aspect of subscription management that is particularly meaningful, and challenging, to our customers is ensuring that they are able to properly account for their subscription revenue and close the books quickly and accurately each month. We’re...

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How to Use Webhooks to Recover Customers

As noted in a previous blog post, there are different ways to get information out of Recurly, and each option has different pros and cons depending on the specific objective. Using the right tool for the task at hand ensures an efficient use of resources and an improved experience for...

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“...As a Service” -- It’s Not Just for Software Anymore

These days, software as a service, or SaaS, is the most common way of selling software to both businesses and consumers. It’s easier than shipping physical packages, more cost-effective, and provides a variety of other benefits. Salesforce—one of the most highly valued cloud computing companies in the world, with a...

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Recurly Announces Support for Japanese Yen

Japan: a country steeped in tradition but exceedingly modern, with a storied history and a thriving economy (the world’s third-largest!). Most of us also associate Japan with its unique pop culture, epitomized by the global icon that is Hello Kitty (along with the lesser-known Mumitan); anime and cosplay; novelty cafes;...

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Hulu and Spotify Expand Their Reach in the Competitive Sea of OTT

The streaming media waters have been growing increasingly crowded as of late, and in order to keep their customers happy and fend off the competition, two well-known names in the space, Hulu and Spotify, are making some big changes to their current slate of offerings. Appealing to cord-cutters and cord-nevers,...

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