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Recurly’s fastest-growing merchants understand that global expansion is a corridor to new subscriber acquisition and revenue growth. To turbocharge that growth we are continually adding new payment options.  These payment options support merchants global expansion desires by enabling you to offer the most popular payment methods that your subscribers can...

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Recurly Announces Three New Quantity-Based Pricing Models

In modern business, companies are constantly experimenting with their pricing strategy to support their growth and changing market conditions. In the world of subscriptions, pricing continues to be a focus to optimize revenue and ensure subscribers are getting the value they are paying for. Recurly has enabled our merchants to...

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Annual Subscription Billing Metrics Report

Subscription Billing Benchmark Report  The unique challenges that come with a subscription business are many. From churn and decline rates to revenue recovery, the obstacles are all too real. Recurly is in the business of making subscriptions a competitive advantage for our merchants and to this end, our business analysts...

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Sell Items in Recurring Subscriptions With the Recurly Item Catalog

Following our Q1 release of the Recurly Item Catalog for easier management of your product and service offerings, we’re thrilled to announce the latest enhancement to our catalog functionality. You can now sell items as recurring charges on Recurly plans and subscriptions in addition to selling items as one-time charges. We...

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Hosted Payment Page Upgrades

At Recurly, we're always working behind the scenes to provide a better user experience for our merchants. Sometimes that comes in the form of a new product or feature release and other times, it comes in the form of a bug fix or an improvement to an existing product or feature....

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Managing Subscriber Churn During The Downturn

The disruptive force of the COVID-19 pandemic generated 17 million U.S. unemployment claims by mid-April, with the unemployment rate hovering near 15 percent — the highest since WWII. Record-setting workforce displacement and sluggish government response has left tens of millions of people virtually without funds and having to decide between...

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Brand Design in the World of Fintech

As designers, we are in charge of our brand's first impression and it’s our responsibility to build trust with our users through consistent brand experiences. This is especially important when designing for the Fintech space, given the sensitivity of the data with which we're entrusted. Many of our challenges as...

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How Gift Cards and Plans Can Help Acquire New Subscribers

In the past, we’ve shared how gift cards and plans can help you acquire new subscribers. Today, in the midst of COVID-19, gift cards and plans are as important as ever to help you acquire subscribers and retain the ones you already have. According to a report by NBC, one analyst...

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Hard Lessons Learned in the Land of the Free(mium)

Freemium has become a massively popular business model in SaaS in the last few years. While it can look like the secret ingredient to success for many businesses, it doesn’t work for everyone.  In this post, we’ll share how the team at Qwilr tried freemium, what happened, and what they...

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How Pausing & Postponing Subscriptions Can Retain Subscribers in Uncertain Times

COVID-19 has penetrated nearly every aspect of our lives and there is no precedence or template for how to respond to this ever-changing situation. Consumers are challenged with layoffs, shelter in place and quarantine orders, plus struggling with how to work from home while juggling the needs of their daily...

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