Recurly is subscription management and recurring billing software: it handles plans, invoicing, metered usage, and dunning (automatically retrying and chasing failed payments) so a subscription business doesn't build that machinery itself. Once Recurly is running your billing, we build the automation around it, so a signup, upgrade, or cancellation in Recurly actually changes what happens in the rest of your business, not just in Recurly's own dashboard.
It retries failed payments automatically, but sales, support and accounting don't hear about them.
Got a Recurly problem? Let's solve it →Recurly handles the billing mechanics well on its own: it bills on schedule, retries a card that declines, and emails a subscriber whose payment keeps failing. What it doesn't do is reach into your other systems and act on any of that.
A new subscriber signs up in Recurly, and someone still has to go provision their account access, add them to the CRM, and tell the team that's onboarding them. A subscription cancels, and access to your product keeps running for days because nothing told the system that actually gates it. Revenue is sitting correctly in Recurly, and someone's still exporting a report every month to get it into the books.
A new subscription, an upgrade, a downgrade, a cancellation in Recurly triggers the matching change somewhere else: access turned on or off in your product, a record updated in your CRM, a task created for whoever handles onboarding or offboarding.
We build the sync that takes Recurly's invoice and payment data and posts it into the accounting software you actually run, mapped to your chart of accounts, instead of someone pulling a report and re-entering totals once a month.
Recurly handles the charge itself well. Tell us what happens, or doesn't happen, in the rest of your business after that charge goes through.
Recurly handling plans and renewals.
The problemA cancellation in Recurly doesn't remove access in the product until someone updates it, so people keep access they've stopped paying for, or lose it by mistake.
Subscription changes in Recurly trigger the matching change in the product and CRM. Access follows billing without anyone in between.
What we build on top of specific parts of Recurly.
Tell us what happens, or should happen, when a subscriber signs up, upgrades, or cancels in Recurly. We'll map out which of it can run on its own. And if subscription billing isn't where your business is actually losing time, that's fine too, we build on top of whatever's manual, any tool, any process.
Let's talk →Recurly is subscription management and recurring billing software. It handles billing schedules, invoicing, metered usage charges, and dunning, the process of automatically retrying and following up on failed payments, for subscription businesses.
Recurly prices in tiers based on billing volume and which features you need, plus transaction fees on top. Exact numbers change periodically, so check Recurly's own pricing page rather than treating a figure here as current.
They're not quite competitors in the way the search suggests. Stripe is primarily a payment processor (it also has its own billing product). Recurly is a dedicated subscription-billing layer that can run on top of a processor, including Stripe, handling the plans, dunning, and subscription lifecycle logic that a raw payment processor doesn't do by itself.
All three are subscription-billing platforms aimed at a similar problem, recurring plans, usage billing, dunning, but they differ in pricing model, enterprise feature depth, and which ecosystems they integrate with most deeply. Chargify has since rebranded as Maxio. Which one fits depends on your billing complexity and existing stack more than any one feature.
Recurly is built to keep raw card data off your own servers, which takes a large share of PCI scope off your plate. You're still responsible for how your own systems handle and display subscriber and payment data around that, so PCI compliance isn't fully solved just by using Recurly.
Recurly has some native and partner-built connections into accounting and CRM platforms, but how much of your actual chart of accounts or CRM workflow they cover out of the box varies. That gap, between a generic sync and one that matches how your business actually books revenue or manages accounts, is usually where custom work comes in.