Payments & POS
Recurly
Subscription management and recurring billing with churn-prevention tools.
4.0· 204 reviews· via G2Founded 2009 · San Francisco, CA
What is Recurly?
Recurly is a subscription management and recurring billing platform that layers on top of payment gateways. It automates the subscription lifecycle, dunning, and revenue recognition, with a strong focus on reducing involuntary churn.
Best known for: Subscription billing with churn-prevention tools
Key features
- Recurring billing and invoicing
- Subscription lifecycle management
- Churn-reduction and dunning tools
- Flexible pricing and plan models
- Revenue recognition and analytics
- Multi-gateway payment support
Who Recurly is best for
- Subscription businesses focused on reducing involuntary churn
- Teams wanting flexible plans, dunning, and multi-gateway support
- Media, SaaS, and D2C brands scaling recurring revenue
Ideal team: Growing subscription businesses that want automated recurring billing and intelligent dunning across multiple payment gateways.
Recurly pricing
Popular
Starter
$249/flat / mo + 0.9% of billing
- $249/mo + 0.9% of billing volume
- First $40K of monthly billings included
- 20+ gateways, 10+ payment methods, 1 dunning campaign
All-Access
Custom
- As low as <1% of billing volume, billed annually
- $1M billing-volume minimum
- AI churn prevention, orchestration, SSO
Costs to watch before you commit
- Recurly is a billing layer — card processing fees from your gateway are separate.
- The 0.9% of billing on Starter scales with your revenue on top of the $249 base.
- All-Access requires a $1M billing minimum and an annual commitment.
- Advanced churn, analytics, and Shopify features sit on higher tiers.
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