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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PCI DSS 3.1 Standard Released with Immediate Effect

Image courtesy Infosecurity magazine Recurly is working hard to help educate subscription billing companies about the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard - PCI DSS. We...

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Identify 'Sneaky' Revenue Churn In Your Subscription Business

Understanding the true cost of subscriber churn is one of the most critical KPIs any SaaS business can measure. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to identify the ‘true’ cost...

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If You Only Knew - How Much Your Relative Churn Rate Matters

Churn is one of the most sensitive variables impacting the value of a subscription business. Your business is in a "drag race" with competitors to come out on top. How...

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Verizon Says “Holistic Approach” Needed for PCI Compliance

According to PricewaterhouseCooper, security incidents have grown an average of 66% per year for the last five years running. While breaches at retailers and entertainment companies make headlines, all kinds...

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How to Improve Subscription Renewal Rates

Hyper-targeted ‘lifecycle marketing’ promotions are well worth the effort Monitoring your subscriber churn rate is a basic requirement for any subscription business....

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Learning From Hulu's Subscription Cancellation Flow

After all of our postings on limiting customer churn, every subscription business must face the fact that your customers will choose to unsubscribe at some point. It happens. However, there...

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Making Elasticsearch Work Better in Recurly

Recurly’s customers rely on our search functionality to find accounts, transactions, and other information so they can solve their customers' problems. By March of 2014, however, Recurly’s search functionality had...

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Churn's True Cost

In our previous post, we described churn as an all-too-neutral term for what it really describes - losing customers, often quite quickly. Now, we take a look at what churn can...

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