Recurly

Recurly is a subscription management and recurring billing platform that automates the full lifecycle of a subscription business — from signup and plan changes to invoicing, payments, taxes, and revenue recognition. It supports fixed, usage-based, tiered, and hybrid pricing, along with trials, coupons, add-ons, and one-time charges, so teams can model complex packaging without building billing logic in-house.

A core reason companies choose Recurly is revenue recovery. Its intelligent dunning and Recurly Revenue Recovery use machine learning to retry failed payments at optimal times, update expired card details automatically through account updater services, and reduce involuntary churn — often recovering a meaningful share of otherwise lost revenue. Recurly is payment-gateway agnostic, connecting to Stripe, Braintree, Adyen, PayPal, and dozens of others, which lets merchants avoid lock-in, route transactions, and support multiple currencies and regions.

Built for mid-market and enterprise subscription brands across SaaS, media, streaming, and consumer services, Recurly provides analytics on MRR, churn, and lifetime value, plus integrations with accounting, CRM, tax, and data tools and a robust API for custom flows. Pricing centers on a platform fee plus a percentage of revenue processed, with Core, Professional, and Elite tiers scaling features, support, and terms. It competes with Chargebee, Zuora, and Stripe Billing for teams that want dedicated subscription infrastructure rather than a general payments stack.