A Recurly Alternative for Companies Paying a Percentage of Their Own Revenue

Chargebee meters much the way Recurly does, at zero point eight percent of monthly billing value with no platform fee, or ninety nine dollars a month plus zero point six five percent if you commit monthly. Zuora prices each program individually. Paddle is a different animal entirely, a merchant of record charging five percent plus fifty cents on every checkout and carrying the tax liability itself. All four will raise an invoice on the day you asked for. None of them decides what your plans should be.

No, and this is the part worth reading twice. Subscriptions, Commerce, Engage, and RevRec are four separately priced products. Starter carries what Recurly calls static churn prevention and exactly one dunning campaign. The intelligent churn tooling arrives on All-Access, the offer and campaign layer is Engage from sixteen hundred a month, and revenue recognition is RevRec from eight fifty. We will not go further than that, because the full feature matrix sits in a table we have not read line by line.

All-Access adds intelligent churn prevention and customized bundles over Starter, and there is a Shopify specific version of it priced the same way. Engage holds the churn propensity model, personalized offers, cancel save and upsell flows, AB testing, and segmentation. RevRec holds automated contract modifications and the revenue reporting standards. Recurly also says plainly that the more products you take the better the deal, which is a fair description of how the pricing works.

Often you should not, and we say so regularly. If somebody in your finance team already owns the plan catalog, reviews the dunning, and works the failed payment report, you would be paying us to duplicate work that is already getting done. Call us when that person leaves, or when nobody can name who it is.

We will not name a crossing point, because our fee is priced by hours of work. At forty thousand billed Recurly is two hundred and forty nine a month, and for a team that size with someone to run it, that is the better buy. Keep in mind the two costs are not the same kind of thing. Theirs is software. Ours is somebody configuring and watching it, and you buy the Zoho Billing license separately.

Both, and that is the part people miss. There is a flat two hundred and forty nine a month, and then a percentage of everything you bill above forty thousand. A small company billing heavily pays mostly percentage. A larger company billing lightly pays mostly platform fee. Neither number has anything to do with how much configuration work your setup actually needs, which is the only thing that predicts how much of somebody’s week this takes.

As a standalone billing platform it is the deeper of the two. The churn tooling is more sophisticated, the payment routing is stronger, and at real volume the gateway coverage matters. We would rather say that than pretend otherwise. Zoho Billing wins on a narrower point. It already sits in the estate where your customers, your accounts, and your reporting live, so a subscription and its ledger entry stop being two systems, and bought from us it arrives with somebody to run it.

That is the reason to choose it. Billing writes into CRM, Books, and Analytics directly, so a subscription raised against a customer lands on the same record your sales team works from, and the revenue reaches the ledger without anybody exporting a spreadsheet at month end.

We build the plans and the price book, set the proration and upgrade rules, configure the tax treatment for the places you actually sell into, connect and test the payment gateways, write and tune the dunning sequences, work the failed payment report every cycle, build the recurring revenue reporting, and connect it to CRM, Books, and Analytics. The figure covers the organization and does not move when your revenue does.

You do, and that is deliberate. The subscription is bought in your name and stays there. If you stop working with us you keep the account, every plan, every live subscription, and every invoice ever raised in it, and carry on without a migration. Zoho Assist is the only service where we carry the license.

Yes, and it involves one step a straight rebuild does not. Alongside rebuilding the catalog and moving the live subscriptions across, any plan nobody can justify gets retired rather than carried over, and the customers sitting on it get a decision rather than an exemption. Migrating four dead price points faithfully is not a migration worth paying for.

No. Month to month. Cancel any time and the service runs to the last business day of that month. Recurly All-Access, Engage, and RevRec are each billed annually by their own pricing page, so compare the commitment as well as the number.

Then take Recurly Starter at two hundred and forty nine, where you would sit under the forty thousand threshold and pay no percentage at all, and save our fee. At that volume the whole subscription base is small enough for one person to hold in their head. Come back when that stops being true.

Some businesses do. Once you need multi entity consolidation, usage based rating at real volume, or revenue recognition audited to a standard your board has specified, the ceiling is real and we will say so before you reach it.

Our monthly plan covers the subscription audit, the plan and price rebuild, the tax and dunning configuration, the migration off Recurly, and the revisions after it goes live.