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What do you like best about Recurly?

I like how easy it is to set up accounts and subscriptions; it is straightforward to get Recurly setup and working. The automation of the billing is the highlight, it is very nice to set up an account and have the invoices set out automatically. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

Recurly is great for straightforward billing situations it is not very customizable for more complex billing situations. If someone is dealing with many custom billing situations, Recurly might not be the best tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recurly is the primary software we use for invoicing customers it saves a lot of time by automating the recurring payments and enabling customers to pay with credit cards. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Cinnamon Perryman of Recurly

We appreciate you’ve taken the time to share your experience with Recurly. We work with 2200+ customers worldwide, helping them with many complex subscription management and recurring billing requirements. If there’s something we can do to improve your experience, please let us know!

Recurly Overview

What is Recurly?

Recurly is a subscription management and billing platform that empowers businesses of all sizes to grow their subscription revenue. With a vision to make every brand a subscription expert, our mission is to help the world’s leading brands navigate, scale and thrive in the subscription economy. From subscriber management and payments orchestration to churn management and real-time analytics, our platform is designed to accelerate and enhance every aspect of the subscription lifecycle. Trusted by category-defining brands including Twitch, Paramount+, Alaska Airlines and FabFitFun, Recurly’s all-in-one, integrated platform simplifies subscription billing and revenue management, giving teams the tools to create winning subscriber experiences.

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Product Description

Recurly is a recurring revenue management tool that allows users to manage billing, subscription plans, and invoicing.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Recurly was created for companies seeking to grow their subscription business. The platform accelerates and enhances every aspect of the subscription lifecycle — from plan and pricing creation to marketing promotions, subscriber management, payments optimization, recurring billing, churn reduction, revenue recognition, and much more.

Recurly is ideal for direct-to-consumer companies with high-velocity and high-volume transactions — digital streamers and publishers, for example — seeking to expand to new channels, markets, and regions.

Recurly helps companies:

- Grow faster with an easy-to-use platform that gives you the flexibility to iterate, experiment, and adapt quickly without draining resources.

- Grow smarter with data-driven insights to capture more business and advanced revenue optimization built on machine learning to help you keep more revenue.

- Grow stronger with an experienced partner who can help you manage subscriptions at scale, anticipate and solve challenges before they pop up, and offer industry benchmarks.


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Recurly
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Year Founded
2009
HQ Location
San Francisco, CA
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@recurly
3,570 Twitter followers
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298 employees on LinkedIn®
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Recurly is how leading brands grow subscription revenue. We’re on a mission to help the world’s leading brands navigate, scale and thrive in the subscription economy. From subscriber management and payments orchestration to churn management and real-time analytics, our all-in-one platform is designed to accelerate and enhance every aspect of the subscription lifecycle — and it’s how our merchants are earning an average ROI of 14x. Trusted by category-defining brands like Sling, Twitch, BarkBox, FabFitFun, Paramount, Lucid, and Sprout Social, Recurly’s platform simplifies subscription billing and revenue management, giving teams the tools to create winning subscriber experiences. Founded in San Francisco in
009, Recurly has offices in Broomfield, London and Medellin.


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Eylül B.
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Eylül B.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"It's a stable billing management tool, unless you need help with something"
Recurly is a relatively stable platform and as a billing management tool that’s crucial. It rarely experiences major issues or complete breakdowns,...
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Prince S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"One of the Great Tools to Boost Subscription Based Businesses"
- The systems sends reminders to the customers (2-3 weeks in advance) who are on Annual or Monthly Subscription for renewals. - There are multiple...
TG
Tracee G.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Excellent product, empowers user to assist customer with ease"
Customer and billing information is easy to search through and locate. The steps to process refunds or provide invoices to customers are available ...
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Recurly Demo - Plans, pricing & promotions
Recurly provides merchants with simple, flexible features that allow them to quickly set up and test different products, plans, and pricing options, plus promotional tools like free trials, coupons, and gift subscriptions and cards to attract more customers.
Recurly Demo - Payment gateways
Recurly enables merchants to easily set up payments and smart routing to improve transaction success rates and customer conversions by offering a variety of payment methods, such as credit cards, PayPal, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and ACH.
Recurly Demo - Hosted payment page
Recurly offers a suite of hosted page features that allow you to get up and running quickly with little to no development work. Hosted payment pages are signup pages for your subscriptions that allow for logo and color customization to match your brand look and feel.
Recurly Demo - Dunning campaigns
Increase collection effort effectiveness with automated dunning communications. Configurable across period and timing, if the payment is past due or declined, selected and personalized dunning campaign launch.
Recurly Demo - Revenue recognition
Recurly revenue recognition is a global, enterprise-grade solution that’s fast to implement, easy to customize, and built for high-growth, high-velocity subscription businesses.
Recurly Demo - Reports & analytics
Recurly analytics provides a 360° view into the health of your subscription business—plan performance, churn trends, campaigns results, financial metrics—to quickly inform your decisions for business growth.
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Eylül B.
EB
Director of Sales and Customer Success
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Recurly?

Recurly is a relatively stable platform and as a billing management tool that’s crucial. It rarely experiences major issues or complete breakdowns, which gives us confidence that our subscription billing will run smoothly without unexpected disruptions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

Recurly's support team is responsive, which is great. However, the consistency in their answers can be hit-or-miss. You could be ssking the same question to different reps and get completely different responses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Recurly to manage our subscription billing and customer subscriptions. It also has a solid dunning management system that helps with failed payments. There is also basic subscription analytics for tracking key metrics, though it's more suited for straightforward reporting rather than in-depth analysis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Director - Marketing
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What do you like best about Recurly?

- The systems sends reminders to the customers (2-3 weeks in advance) who are on Annual or Monthly Subscription for renewals.

- There are multiple payment gateways that can be integrated for global clients

- Support team quicky reponds to the queries if we face any problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

- Customers sometime complain that they have limited visibility, which can be improved

- To operate it, one requires a bit of technical knowledge. This leads to dependency on technical person Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recurly has smoothen the process of our subscription based business, with this tool we do need to send reminders or offers manually. This tool automates the entire process and make it easy for our sales team as well as for our customers. With multiple payment options it becomes very easy to engage with our global customer base. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

TG
Customer Care Center Coordinator
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Recurly?

Customer and billing information is easy to search through and locate. The steps to process refunds or provide invoices to customers are available in only a couple clicks. Allows us to support our customers quickly and efficiently! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

Has trouble integrating with our CMS at times. We have to work them like they are 2 different systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recurly creates invoices and then processes billing for our user's subscriptions on their renewal dates. When a sub is cancelled, Recurly stops the billing process. Recruly also communicates with our CMS (in most cases) when payment has not been collected and stops the sub access automatically. Recurly also continues to try to recover past due payments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniel Z.
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Co-Founder
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Recurly?

Powtoon has experienced significant growth with Recurly for over 10 years, and I have witnessed the remarkable development of their product. I appreciate their Support and Success team; they are among the best Customer Success Managers (CSMs) I've had the pleasure to work with. The customer success representatives consistently deliver outstanding service, and the continuous innovation and improvement of their tools have been impressive over the years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

I'd wish they had a cancalation flow whouch would make the platform complete. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recurly is a comprehensive solution that effectively addresses billing and invoicing needs, as well as dunning payments and analytics. A robust platform that streamlines the entire billing cycle can significantly enhance operational efficiency by automating the invoice generation process, thereby reducing manual errors and saving invaluable time.

Implementing an effective dunning management system is essential for maintaining a healthy cash flow. An automated system that sends timely reminders for overdue payments can significantly reduce the risk of revenue loss. Personalized communication strategies can also be integrated to ensure that reminders are respectful and foster positive customer relationships, leading to increased customer loyalty.

Moreover, leveraging advanced analytics and reporting tools is crucial for informed decision-making. A dashboard that provides insights into key financial metrics—such as payment patterns, customer behavior, and revenue forecasts—enables businesses to identify growth opportunities and areas needing improvement. By analyzing this data, organizations can make strategic decisions that align with their financial goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Andrei R.
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CTO
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Recurly?

There is a number of things why I would recommend them:

- Great API

- Amazing people who help with all the aspects from impm, implementation to support

- New and important feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

Nothing comes to mind since they been a very reliable partner since day one Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a subscription business and billing customers properly is one of our foundational stones. We though a lot about doing ourself and in the end decided to go with Recurly. It was the right decision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

BA
Chief Sales Officer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Recurly?

Recur provides a suite of services that are relevant and helpful to many businesses. This is great for large corporations that have marketing and sales departments. All from email marketing automation to structure customer surveys are easily accessible thus creating an integrated customer journey. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

The problem with so many features is that working with them can be confusing for a small team like mine. Even mastering how to use and apply each tool may take time which to our dismay we can never afford. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recur did simplify some of the ways that we managed our relations with customers. The most helpful features were the automated email marketing campaigns; the invoicing structure integrated well with the platform. For our relativel Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Taylor P.
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Principal Product Manager, Commercial Revenue
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Recurly?

Recurly is not afraid to think outside the box or innovate to deliver something new. They're experts in their field and address questions or road blocks with high urgency and ownership. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

Some pieces of the base platform are rigid / non customizable which requires solution engibeering to overcome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Subscriptions are not our core business so engaging the experts at Recurly has saved us engineering hours, internal resource drain, and delivers a higher quality experience for our customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Lisa Preuss of Recurly

Taylor, thanks so much for sharing your experience with Recurly and providing feedback on areas of improvement.

Earvie P.
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Customer Service Representative
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Recurly?

It is very easy to navigate! It allows me to track and see all of our customers' transactions quickly and easily! I always open this tool whenever I need to search for the customer's unexplained charges to their accounts since I can truly depend on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

It keeps logging me out after a few minutes from leaving it, but other than that, there's nothing I can think of as everything is OK as is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

It helps me in locating, and managing charges on our customers' accounts, as well as determining why their cards are declined. It makes my job easier as I can always confidently answer all of our member's inquiries about their subscriptions. Manually billing and refunding our customers are also easy using this tool, it calculates taxes automatically in each state where our customers live. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Cinnamon Perryman of Recurly

We appreciate you’ve taken the time to share your experience with Recurly. We work with subscription businesses worldwide, enabling the full subscriber lifecycle, and we especially love celebrating with our customers as they grow – and glad to hear our platform helps determine why cards are declined, helps with subscriber inquiries, and eases tax calculations. If there’s something we can do to improve your experience, please let us know!

GS
Business Applications Developer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Recurly?

Well documented api and Salesforce integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

Inability to invoice customers prior to subscription starting. Inability to remove prorations of fixed amount subscripitons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Subscription management is great. Ability for auto-renewal, card retries, card validations, and integrations are fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Oscar S.
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Customer Support Representative
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Recurly?

Easy to use, organized, intuitive and up to date Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Recurly?

I like how they organize invoices, subscriptions, accounts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Recurly solving and how is that benefiting you?

Recurly helps us to apply refunds, to cancel subscriptions or reactivate them and communicates amazing with our platform Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.