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6 Reasons to Outsource Your
Recurring Billing Solution
Powering Subscription Billing Success
6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution
2
Introduction
Subscription businesses have often been referred to as
the holy grail of business because of the recurring revenue
generated from customers. However managing day-to-day
billing transactions can be daunting for business owners
who typically resort to building their own billing solution. The
better approach is to choose a recurring billing
management service.
Here are 6 reasons why outsourcing your recurring billing
management might be a better solution.
Managing
day-to-day billing
transactions can
be daunting for
business owners
who typically
resort to building
their own billing
solution.
6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution
3
1.
You Don’t Want the Responsibility of Storing Credit
Card Numbers
Often times companies are unfamiliar with the protocols
necessary to protect sensitive customer information.
Maintaining PCI Compliance (industry compliance standard
to store credit card info) is time consuming, costly and
can introduce risk to your organization. This can easily be
minimized by working with an outside billing solution that
holds PCI Level 1 Certification.
2. 
Employee Retention
Building a homegrown subscription billing solution isn’t
easy, and if you choose to do it yourself you are going to
need talented engineers and a fair amount of man hours
to build the minimal functionality not mention the ongoing
maintenance required to evolve with the industry. Engineers
typically want to work on the company’s core products,
not billing. Engineers often turnover after spending 36
months in the “billing department”. When you outsource
your subscription billing to a recurring billing service, you’ll
dramatically reduce your total cost of ownership in each of
these core areas:
•	 Engineering Development Time
•	 Ongoing Engineering Management and Maintenance
•	 Customer Service and Support
•	 Recruiting and Training to get new (replacement)
employees up to speed
6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution
4
3.
Flexibility and Total Cost of Ownership
Businesses that build their own homegrown billing system
often devote many hours of development time and financial
resources integrating with a payment gateway and automating
billing processes time and resources that likely could’ve have
been spent elsewhere. Let’s not forget to mention all the trial
and error to ensure the billing process works as intended.
Every payment gateway is designed to handle onetime
transactions. Some gateways like PayPal and Authorize.Net
offer basic recurring billing or subscription billing functionality,
and while they generally work for simple recurring billing
integrations, they barely address the complexities of
subscription billing.
Business owners face many complex pain points in handling
day-to-day billing and related customer issues that come along
with subscription billing. Unlike payment gateway solutions, a
recurring billing management solution lets you handle billing
changes elegantly.
4.
Customer Upgrades, Downgrades and Billing Cycle Changes
If you build it yourself, you need to be sure to handle the
sophisticated workflows that come with Recurring revenue
streams. Customers should be able to upgrade and
downgrade between plans easily, with automated proration
calculations and customer communications. Most businesses
prefer to offer multiple subscription plans. It’s good practice
to create a ‘migration path’ from an easy, no risk trial to the
plan with the maximum expected lifetime value. This is great
business practice, but the billing intricacies are nontrivial.
Let’s start with proration, it means prorating the current
month’s charge against the current payment — this can get
complicated quickly once you also factor in trial periods. If
your customers decide it’s too much and want to downgrade,
you might want to wait until the end of the current billing
cycle — now you’re tracking state. These simple tasks can
take months to build on your own; Recurly gracefully handles
these situations with a single API call.
6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution
5
5.
Failed Payments
Recurring billing APIs typically leave you in the dark when a
payment fails. On average, 5-10% of your payments will fail
every month due to changed credit card numbers, expiration
dates, and accounts overdrawn. (The longer the billing cycle,
the higher the failure rate.) As part of offering a subscription
service, you need to follow up with these subscribers to
keep their billing information accurate.
Billing solutions often provide account updater services
to check with major networks for updates to credit card
information. They also offer card recycling logic that helps
optimize credit card retries as well as automated
communication to cardholders to ask for their participation
in updating their profile. Billing solutions like Recurly have
already optimized for reducing your failed payments and can
help you recover lost revenue.
6.
Account Management Console for Customer Support
Subscriptions come with customer support requirements.
This is a commonly underestimated cost, and a billing
service makes it much easier to manage without building out
expensive custom solutions. Your customer service dept. can
view subscription information, issue credits  refunds, and
more. Any change made will be pushed back to your web
application with our Push Notifications and REST API.
6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution
6
Conclusion
A variety of advantages exist for outsourcing your recurring
billing management needs. From features and support to
security and maintenance, companies can focus on their
core business, while leaving the billing experts to innovate
and pass on that innovation without worry.
Looking to outsource your billing solution? SCHEDULE A DEMO
Recurly provides enterprise-class recurring billing management
for thousands of subscription-based businesses worldwide.
+1.844.732.8759 sales@recurly.com © 2015 Recurly, Inc.

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  • 1. 6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution Powering Subscription Billing Success
  • 2. 6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution 2 Introduction Subscription businesses have often been referred to as the holy grail of business because of the recurring revenue generated from customers. However managing day-to-day billing transactions can be daunting for business owners who typically resort to building their own billing solution. The better approach is to choose a recurring billing management service. Here are 6 reasons why outsourcing your recurring billing management might be a better solution. Managing day-to-day billing transactions can be daunting for business owners who typically resort to building their own billing solution.
  • 3. 6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution 3 1. You Don’t Want the Responsibility of Storing Credit Card Numbers Often times companies are unfamiliar with the protocols necessary to protect sensitive customer information. Maintaining PCI Compliance (industry compliance standard to store credit card info) is time consuming, costly and can introduce risk to your organization. This can easily be minimized by working with an outside billing solution that holds PCI Level 1 Certification. 2. Employee Retention Building a homegrown subscription billing solution isn’t easy, and if you choose to do it yourself you are going to need talented engineers and a fair amount of man hours to build the minimal functionality not mention the ongoing maintenance required to evolve with the industry. Engineers typically want to work on the company’s core products, not billing. Engineers often turnover after spending 36 months in the “billing department”. When you outsource your subscription billing to a recurring billing service, you’ll dramatically reduce your total cost of ownership in each of these core areas: • Engineering Development Time • Ongoing Engineering Management and Maintenance • Customer Service and Support • Recruiting and Training to get new (replacement) employees up to speed
  • 4. 6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution 4 3. Flexibility and Total Cost of Ownership Businesses that build their own homegrown billing system often devote many hours of development time and financial resources integrating with a payment gateway and automating billing processes time and resources that likely could’ve have been spent elsewhere. Let’s not forget to mention all the trial and error to ensure the billing process works as intended. Every payment gateway is designed to handle onetime transactions. Some gateways like PayPal and Authorize.Net offer basic recurring billing or subscription billing functionality, and while they generally work for simple recurring billing integrations, they barely address the complexities of subscription billing. Business owners face many complex pain points in handling day-to-day billing and related customer issues that come along with subscription billing. Unlike payment gateway solutions, a recurring billing management solution lets you handle billing changes elegantly. 4. Customer Upgrades, Downgrades and Billing Cycle Changes If you build it yourself, you need to be sure to handle the sophisticated workflows that come with Recurring revenue streams. Customers should be able to upgrade and downgrade between plans easily, with automated proration calculations and customer communications. Most businesses prefer to offer multiple subscription plans. It’s good practice to create a ‘migration path’ from an easy, no risk trial to the plan with the maximum expected lifetime value. This is great business practice, but the billing intricacies are nontrivial. Let’s start with proration, it means prorating the current month’s charge against the current payment — this can get complicated quickly once you also factor in trial periods. If your customers decide it’s too much and want to downgrade, you might want to wait until the end of the current billing cycle — now you’re tracking state. These simple tasks can take months to build on your own; Recurly gracefully handles these situations with a single API call.
  • 5. 6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution 5 5. Failed Payments Recurring billing APIs typically leave you in the dark when a payment fails. On average, 5-10% of your payments will fail every month due to changed credit card numbers, expiration dates, and accounts overdrawn. (The longer the billing cycle, the higher the failure rate.) As part of offering a subscription service, you need to follow up with these subscribers to keep their billing information accurate. Billing solutions often provide account updater services to check with major networks for updates to credit card information. They also offer card recycling logic that helps optimize credit card retries as well as automated communication to cardholders to ask for their participation in updating their profile. Billing solutions like Recurly have already optimized for reducing your failed payments and can help you recover lost revenue. 6. Account Management Console for Customer Support Subscriptions come with customer support requirements. This is a commonly underestimated cost, and a billing service makes it much easier to manage without building out expensive custom solutions. Your customer service dept. can view subscription information, issue credits refunds, and more. Any change made will be pushed back to your web application with our Push Notifications and REST API.
  • 6. 6 Reasons to Outsource Your Recurring Billing Solution 6 Conclusion A variety of advantages exist for outsourcing your recurring billing management needs. From features and support to security and maintenance, companies can focus on their core business, while leaving the billing experts to innovate and pass on that innovation without worry. Looking to outsource your billing solution? SCHEDULE A DEMO
  • 7. Recurly provides enterprise-class recurring billing management for thousands of subscription-based businesses worldwide. +1.844.732.8759 sales@recurly.com © 2015 Recurly, Inc.