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Recurly

by Recurly

Subscription billing and revenue management platform with recurring billing automation, dunning management, and revenue recognition for APAC SaaS companies scaling subscription businesses without custom billing infrastructure.

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5/5

"Recurly is the subscription billing platform for APAC SaaS companies — recurring billing, dunning management, and revenue recognition. Best for APAC SaaS businesses managing subscription lifecycle complexity at scale without custom billing engineering."

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What it does

Key features

  • Subscription billing — monthly, annual, and usage-based billing with trials, coupons, and pricing tiers
  • Dunning management — AI-optimised payment retry and failed payment recovery sequences
  • Revenue recognition — ASC 606 and IFRS 15-compliant recognition scheduling for subscription revenue
  • Multi-currency billing — APAC local currency billing including SGD, JPY, AUD, HKD
  • Subscription analytics — MRR, ARR, churn, and cohort analytics for APAC subscription health monitoring
  • Plan management — self-serve upgrade, downgrade, and plan change with proration handling
  • Integrations — Salesforce, NetSuite, HubSpot, Xero, and major APAC SaaS stack connectors
When to reach for it

Best for

  • APAC SaaS companies at Series A through pre-IPO wanting automated subscription billing without custom engineering
  • APAC digital media and content businesses managing subscriber lifecycle at volume
  • APAC companies preparing for enterprise sales or audit requiring ASC 606-compliant revenue recognition
  • APAC subscription businesses with significant involuntary churn from payment failures wanting dunning automation
Don't get burned

Limitations to know

  • ! Recurly pricing percentage-of-revenue model can become expensive as APAC SaaS businesses scale beyond $10M ARR
  • ! Complex enterprise billing scenarios (multi-party billing, reseller arrangements) may require custom development beyond Recurly capabilities
  • ! APAC-specific payment methods (GrabPay, GoPay, PromptPay) may require supplementary payment gateway integrations
  • ! Revenue recognition customisation for APAC-specific contract structures may require professional services configuration
Context

About Recurly

Recurly is a subscription billing and revenue management platform that provides APAC SaaS companies, digital media businesses, and software vendors with the technical infrastructure for recurring billing — automating the subscription lifecycle from initial charge through renewal, upgrade, downgrade, and cancellation without requiring custom billing engineering.

Recurly's subscription billing engine — which handles multiple billing frequencies (monthly, quarterly, annual, usage-based), multiple pricing tiers (per-seat, per-usage, flat-rate, hybrid), free trial periods, and promotional coupons across multiple currencies — enables APAC SaaS companies to support complex pricing models that customer acquisition and retention strategies require without building custom billing logic.

Recurly's dunning management — which orchestrates the automated retry, email notification, and account intervention sequences that recover failed subscription payments before they become involuntary churn — addresses one of the highest-impact revenue recovery opportunities for APAC subscription businesses. Failed payment recovery rates of 5-15% of payment failures (representing 1-3% of MRR recovery) are achievable through optimised dunning sequences; Recurly's machine learning-based retry timing, which learns optimal payment retry schedules from historical recovery data, outperforms fixed retry schedules.

Recurly's revenue recognition automation — which generates ASC 606 and IFRS 15-compliant revenue recognition schedules for subscription, multi-element arrangement, and usage-based revenue — provides APAC SaaS companies preparing for US-listing or enterprise sales (where revenue recognition accuracy is a standard due diligence requirement) with compliant revenue accounting without manual calculation. Recurly's recognition rules handle the subscription revenue accounting nuances (ratable recognition over subscription periods, recognition acceleration for pre-paid annual subscriptions, usage-based recognition for metered components) that spreadsheet-based approaches cannot scale.

Recurly's APAC currency support — which processes subscription billing in Singapore Dollars, Japanese Yen, Australian Dollars, Hong Kong Dollars, and major APAC currencies — enables APAC SaaS companies to bill customers in local currencies without currency conversion friction. Local currency billing improves APAC conversion rates by eliminating the foreign exchange cost uncertainty that international USD billing creates for APAC subscribers.

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