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Recurly vs Recharge: Which is a better fit?

Updated on January 26th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 1,751 reviews from Recurring Billing users.
% Fit
Not enough reviews
Feature ratings
Bank Reconciliation
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Billing & Invoicing
4.8
Invoice Processing
5.0
Payment Processing
4.9
Recurring/Subscription Billing
4.4
% Fit
Missing features
Feature ratings
Bank Reconciliation
NA
Billing & Invoicing
NA
Invoice Processing
NA
Payment Processing
4.5
Recurring/Subscription Billing
4.7
User satisfaction
4.6
User reviews60
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
4.4
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.7
4.6
User reviews21
Ease of use
4.7
Functionality
4.5
Value for money
4.3
Customer support
4.2
Price starts from
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Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
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Monthly subscription
Free version
Free trial
Best for

Recurly is ideal for DTC, high-velocity, high-volume companies -- in the digital media, streaming, publishing, SaaS, education, consumer goods, and services industries -- that are looking to scale.

Recharge is the leading solution for ecommerce merchants in Food & Beverage, Health & Wellness, Beauty & Personal Care, Home Goods, Pets & Animals, Fashion & Apparel, and/or other verticals.

User reviews
pros & cons
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Video reviews
Mike H
VP of Customer Success
4.0

Mike H.: Hey, my name is Mike. I'm a VP of customer success. I give Recurly a four out of five. For more reviews like this, click below. Recurly was honestly the first truly subscription oriented platform that we've used at our company. Previously we were using... I mean, I don't even remember the name of it now, but a very basic system for collecting payments. Recurly was the first one that was specifically designed for recurring, hence the name, subscription payments. We chose Recurly cause it was presented to us as the industry standard for SaaS companies or other companies that are collecting revenue on a subscription basis. It is, and it seemed to us at the time, easy to implement, very natural, intuitive to use, and the data analytics that you can use were big selling points for us. Getting started with Recurly was really easy; easy to implement, easy for people in the company to get a log in and begin using it for whatever role. Some complexities when it comes to extracting data. They've got some great analytics built in, but if we're looking to pipe data out into other business analytics tools, that was a little more difficult than we expected. One thing that I would recommend if you're looking at Recurly or a different tool out there is with Recurly, like I said, it's really intuitive, easy to implement; we found there were some limitations when it came to applying discounts and managing what types of subscriptions you could create. Some systems will allow you to have different discounts or different approaches to elements within a subscription. Recurly, basically, if I'm going to apply a discount to a subscription, I'm applying it to the whole subscription. I can't target a specific product or elements of that plan. So, I think you just have to look at your business process to figure out, is that something we're going to need? Or if we're applying a discount, some sort of a reduction; it's across the board for the entire subscription.

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Recurly

Top Features
39/40
  • Audit Trail
  • ACH Payment Processing
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Bank Reconciliation
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Client Portal
  • Contact Database
  • Credit Card Processing
  • CRM
  • Customer Accounts
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Fields
  • Data Import/Export
  • Deferred Billing
  • Discount Management
  • Dunning Management
  • Electronic Payments
  • Email Reminders
  • Invoice Processing
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Currency
  • Multi-Period Recurring Billing
  • Multiple Payment Options
  • Payment Processing
  • PCI Compliance
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Recurring Invoicing
  • Recurring/Subscription Billing
  • Refund Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Revenue Recognition
  • Sales Tax Management
  • Self Service Portal
  • Subscription Management
  • Tax Calculation
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Transaction History
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Recharge

13/40
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Recurly

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Recharge

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Recurly
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Recharge
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Recurly
  • By Recurly
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2010
Recharge
  • By Recharge Payments
  • Located in United States
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