E-sports: Cutting the Cord for Video Games

What do you people enjoy watching more than basketball and baseball? Would you believe it’s watching other people playing video games?  Seriously.  Dubbed e-sports, competitive gameplay in video games has...

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Comic Books Find Superhero in Subscriptions

If you were the typical kid growing up, you probably loved comic books as much as I did.  Of course, tastes and interests changed over time, and comic book sales...

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Subscription Breeds Innovation

Consumer expectations are changing the way merchants run their business, and there’s no better example than Dish Network.  Dish CIO John Swieringa’s recent comments on how the company’s IT group 

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Amazon’s Conversion Rates - Make Their Results Your Own

A new study by Millward Brown Digital highlights yet another reason why Recurly’s Pay with Amazon can significantly boost sales: customer conversions. Most notably among Prime members, Amazon’s conversion rate is a...

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Staying up to date with Recurly's client libraries

If you're using one of Recurly's client libraries to interface with our API, you're probably concerned with keeping up to date with the latest and greatest functionality Recurly has to...

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Recovered Revenue, Now Right at Your Fingertips

A few months ago, we discussed the methodology behind the revenue that Recurly recovers for you each month.  We heard from many of you who enthusiastically wanted to learn more about...

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Eliminate Payment Friction with Pay with Amazon

It’s never too early to begin planning for the busiest holiday shopping season of the year!  More important than ever, you need to ensure that your online retail website offers...

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Analyzing and Increasing Recovered Revenue for Subscription Billing

In subscription billing, you get paid over time, not up front - so having a stable payment method is crucial. However, credit cards and debit cards, the leading payment methods...

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How to improve your dunning emails for subscription billing

Recurly software decreases involuntary churn by using credit card updates and automatic retries to recover revenue without intervention by merchants or customers. Recurly recovers an average of 7%...

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Reduce Credit Card Declines with Automatic Retries and Dunning Techniques

For many merchants, the #1 feature of Recurly software is the ability to recover revenue and stop churn that would otherwise be lost to credit card declines. As I described...

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