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Recurly, Inc.
Company blog · blog.recurly.combusinessstartups
Recurly, Inc. is the company blog at blog.recurly.com, writing about business and startups. Since 2010, 28 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “Lessons learned in online subscription billing”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite Recurly's company blog posts on subscription billing, credit card portability, free trials, pricing, and incorporating in the USA, usually as sources or background for their own points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Recurly's blog covers subscription billing, churn reduction, revenue recovery, and growth strategy. Built for subscription teams that want to move faster.
Most-linked posts?
- Lessons learned in online subscription billing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2010-01-26
- Recurly Adds Automatically Update of Credit Cards2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-05-29
- /2010/05/credit-card-portability/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-05-11
- Recurly changes pricing structure, lowers monthly fee2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-07-02
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for this. We are a UK-based company and want to have a US "presence" as we have found that charging US customers from a UK payment processor results in greater than expected numbers of declined payments due to the "international" element of the transaction [1] Our plan was to get an EIN number for the business so that we can open a dollar bank account and register with a US payment processor to resolve this i…
Comment linking /2013/12/international-decline-rates/
on “Why you might not want to incorporate in the USA”Submitted Recurly billing down -- some customer data lost as a story · 62 points
HN discussionI'm using both, since not everyone loves PayPal. Also I was very curious about how to accept "direct" credit card payments, so wanted to set it up for that reason alone. Recurly isn't super cheap, but it's a very slick interface for browsing payments and looking at stats. With PayPal I feel strong hesitation to go to their site as they are always very slow. Recurly also helps collect payments even when credit cards…
Comment linking /2014/05/new-feature-automatically-update-credit-card-info/
on “Candy Japan crosses $10K MRR”Submitted Recurly releases API V2, client libraries and multi-subscription as a story · 20 points
HN discussionFor application requirements, we (Braintree) work with Visa, MasterCard and the sponsoring banks to make sure that all our merchants are in compliance. There are other payment providers that will turn a blind eye to these requirements in addition to postponing proper due diligence and underwriting until it's a problem for a merchant. We regularly have merchants approach us that are in some sort of bind (e.g. violati…
Comment linking /2010/05/credit-card-portability/
on “Need to process payments?”Submitted How to Plan a “Freemium” Revenue Model as a story · 17 points
HN discussionFYI: There are error in the display of the blogpost announcing it at: http://blog.recurly.com/
Comment linking /
on “Recurly.js library released for secure, customizable checkout forms”Submitted Masking Complexity through Progressive Disclosure as a story · 14 points
HN discussionThanks for the mentions of Recurly, we built our subscription billing engine from the ground up to make it as simple and easy to deploy subscription as possible. The untitled startup did a great unbiased review of the various subscription billing options out there (which you can find here: http://www.untitledstartup.com/2010/02/accepting-payments-on... ). They ended up choosing Recurly for their subscription billing…
Comment linking /2010/01/lessons-learned-in-online-subscription-billing/
on “Ask HN: What's the most simple way to accept monthly subscription fees?”Submitted The Ever Evolving Payments Landscape as a story · 7 points
HN discussionI was curious about the Recurly blog post you mentioned, so I looked it up. Here's the URL for anyone else: http://blog.recurly.com/2010/03/new-pricing/
Comment linking /2010/03/new-pricing/
on “Sorry. We Messed Up. (Zendesk responds to pricing criticism)”Submitted Why Pausing a Subscription Can Be a Powerful Retention Tactic as a story · 6 points
HN discussionBraintree is great for bringing this issue to light. I've personally been hurt by the lack of portability and have seen it affect several other companies. Here is Recurly's response: http://blog.recurly.com/2010/05/credit-card-portability/
Comment linking /2010/05/credit-card-portability/
on “Paypal and Authorize.net: Help End the Credit Card Hostage Situation”Submitted Introducing Starsky, an opinionated, high-level Node.js module for RabbitMQ as a story · 5 points
HN discussion@dangrossman I'd like to address your comment: Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Dan Burkhart, the President of Recurly. There was a very early pricing change, which was admittedly not handled well. We subsequently reached out to all of our customers twice via email surveys, and personally via telephone to all that indicated that they were willing to speak with us. Our latest pricing went over extremely well, AND we…
Comment linking /2010/07/new-recurly-pricing/
on “Ask HN: What "infrastructure" do you use at your startup/company?”Submitted Recurly Introduces Invoicing Features as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis is one of the stuff that I have in my bookmark library that seems most relevant: http://blog.recurly.com/2010/01/lessons-learned-in-online-su...
Comment linking /2010/01/lessons-learned-in-online-subscription-billing/
on “Ask HN: Payment processors and "escrow"”Submitted Lessons learned in online subscription billing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThe credit card rules converting the free trials to paid got a bit more strict recently, e.g. notifying the users before it starts https://blog.recurly.com/visas-new-free-trial-mandate-what-y...
Comment linking /visas-new-free-trial-mandate-what-you-need-to-know
on “AWS charged me $500 over 4 years for a “free” micro instance”Submitted Clustering redis to maximize uptime and scale as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Architecting the Future of Recurly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Good pitch to app developers: Top Ten Reasons to Use Recurly as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Credit and Debit Card Decline Messages: What They Mean and How Recurly Responds as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recurly integrates MailChimp to auto-update email lists as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Updates to the Recurly Pricing Page as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pricing Response from the Recurly CEO as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Capturing Value and Managing Change in API Ecosystems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Better Way to Calculate Your Churn Rate as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Recurly Adds Automatically Update of Credit Cards as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Better UX through progressive disclosure as a story · 1 points
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