Open Sourced: Starsky!

Introducing Starsky, an opinionated, high-level NodeJS module for building services with RabbitMQ. This post is full of nerdy stuff involving programming, message queues and why we decided to build our own RabbitMQ...

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Pro Tip: Calculating Your Monthly Recurring Revenue

Recurly’s Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) report is a helpful tool that gives you a best effort approximation of your monthly recurring revenue at any given time. Using the MRR report...

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Recurly .NET API Client v1.0.0 Released

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of our new .NET API Client Library! A complete rewrite of the previous client, it now brings full support of Recurly...

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Please Review Our New Terms of Service

At Recurly, we’re constantly making updates to our product to give you new features and an improved Recurly experience. With these new improvements come changes to our Terms of Service,...

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Credit Card Declines: Time of day is critical

DID YOU KNOW? Credit card decline rates increase 44% to 55% every day during the 'Wee Hours' of the morning? In the world of payment processing, there is a very predictable...

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Do I Need SSL since Recurly is PCI compliant?

We are often asked whether or not merchants need SSL, given the the fact that Recurly is already PCI compliant. The short answer is Yes. Any website handling credit card...

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Pro Tip: Navigate Between Multiple Recurly Sites

Whether you have multiple products using Recurly, or have a production, sandbox, developer, and QA site, Recurly makes it simple to navigate between each site with just one set of...

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Pro Tip: Subscription Renewal Dates with Recurly.js

When creating a subscription, Recurly will default to starting that subscription immediately. Sometimes you want to have the option to give a particular customer a different trial length, a future...

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Pro Tip: Recurly.js and Account Codes

By default, when a new subscription is submitted through the Recurly.js buildSubscriptionForm, the e-mail address will be used as the account_code for the newly created account. Many merchants would prefer...

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Pro Tip: Switching Your Payment Gateway

With so many different payment gateway options out there, it’s not at all uncommon for merchants to switch from one gateway to another. We get questions all the time about...

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