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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Recurly

    Score8.7 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Recurly is a subscription billing platform and manages customer communications via email, business performance monitoring, and account changes. A merchant bank account is required to work with Recurly. A payment gateway is part of the product but it integrates with other gateways, such as PayPal, to give shoppers a more comprehensive suite of payment options.

    $249

    per month

    Zuora

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AZuora is one of the best-known subscription billing platforms. Zuora is an enterprise-level product and, as such, provides comprehensive metrics, tax automation, and support for multiple currencies. It also offers Salesforce and NetSuite integration out-of the-box. It often replaces cumbersome ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems that does not focus exclusively on billing.N/A
    Pricing
    RecurlyZuora
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $249
    per month
    Professional
    Get a custom quote
    per month
    Elite
    Get a custom quote
    per month
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    Pricing Offerings
    RecurlyZuora
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsFor startups and SMBs looking to launch today and grow their subscription business fast, the Starter plan (formerly Core) is available with no monthly platform fee plus no payment volume fee for first $40,000 USD per month in first 3 months for new customers only.—
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    RecurlyZuora
    Considered Both Products
    Recurly
    Chose Recurly
    It's more of a SaaS oriented solution than just payment processing and billing software. The advanced analytics is a huge advantage over the competition.
    Incentivized
    Zuora
    Chose Zuora
    Zuora provides way more functionality than Recurly or SaaSOptics as a billing engine. However, it is not a general ledger system like NetSuite ERP, it is still designed to be primarily a billing function that feeds into a general ledger via automated general entries. It has …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zuora
    We had attempted to move away from Zuora last year due to the high cost, but were unable to because: Intacct did not support our payment gateway or have SalesForce quoting Recurly does not have usage tiers in their SalesForce quoting QuickBooks does not have the bells and …
    Incentivized
    Chose Zuora

    Recurly was too basic for our needs. We didn't believe that we could scale with that technology.

    Stripe would have required that we integrate it along side 3 other pieces of technology in order to hack together a billing system. Chargebee was too new a player for us to trust …

    Incentivized
    Chose Zuora
    More customization is offered by Zuora, such as for permitting multiple sales channels and sales processes. Zuora is too expensive and in hindsight not worth the benefit realized after we are implemented now.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zuora
    Zuora had the strongest subscription billing.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zuora
    Zuora was by far the superior product and most reputable. It gave us the best opportunity to scale quickly without causing the business to slow. We felt Zuora was the right fit for our 300k+ subscribers worldwide and could help solve our decline rates.
    Incentivized
    Chose Zuora
    Most of our use cases have been met only by Zuora. We based our decision on the following factors:
    1. Choosing the software that meets 80-90% of our needs.
    2. Awesome customer support
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    RecurlyZuora
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (14 ratings)
    1.0
    (134 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    1.0
    (14 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.6
    (17 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    9.3
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    9.7
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    1.0
    (13 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.3
    (2 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    7.4
    (9 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    6.6
    (3 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    6.0
    (3 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
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    10.0
    (2 ratings)