Keep more subscribers: Dunning process best practices

In today’s blog, we’re continuing our discussion about dunning. As a reminder, dunning is the process of communicating with customers (usually by email) to try to collect payments due. In...

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Live Webinar: Choosing the Right Subscription Billing Platform

To meet the demands of a high-performing subscription business, the right billing platform is critical for rapid and sustained growth. Join us as we share the definitive checklist for subscription...

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How a Flexible Dunning Schedule Improves Transaction Success Rates

Subscriber churn is a key concern for subscription businesses. When subscribers leave, the business loses both current and future recurring revenue. Of course, some churn is “involuntary”—occurring as a result...

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Subscription Commerce Trends for 2018

Subscription commerce is ever evolving. A few years ago, who would have expected Porsche to launch a subscription service? Or that monthly boxes of beauty samples or shaving supplies and OTT...

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How to Ensure That Price Changes Don’t Add Friction to the Subscriber Experience

In our previous post in this series, we discussed the importance of reducing the friction that occurs during the subscriber lifecycle in order to promote and support continued revenue growth....

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New Research on Subscriber Acquisition Methods and Results

Benchmark data is an invaluable resource. It can help businesses make better-informed decisions and provide an objective means to gauge business performance. Recurly has unique and valuable access to comprehensive...

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New Billing Models for Changing Consumption Patterns

The success of the subscription model has altered the e-commerce landscape. Numerous new and innovative businesses in a variety of industries are launching every week, focusing on the subscription model...

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What Is Involuntary Churn & What You Can Do About It

One of the main challenges subscription businesses face is churn, which lowers the number of subscribers and monthly recurring revenue. The two types of churn are voluntary and involuntary, and because each is...

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Live Webinar: The CFO’s Guide to Maximizing Revenue

Increasingly, CFOs and other business leaders are recognizing the many benefits of the subscription model—from predictable, compounding revenue to deep, long-term customer relationships. However, nothing jeopardizes subscription revenue faster than...

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Using Machine Learning to Optimize Subscription Billing

As a data scientist at Recurly, my job is to use the vast amount of data that we have collected to build products that make subscription businesses more successful. One...

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