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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

    Salesforce Revenue Cloud

    Score8.8 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    Salesforce Revenue Cloud (formerly Salesforce CPQ or SteelBrick) is built and delivered on the Salesforce Platform and Salesforce1 Mobile App which enables users to create accurate sales quotes quickly and submit error-free orders on the fly from any device.

    $30

    Per User per Month

    Pricing
    RecurlySalesforce Revenue Cloud
    Editions & Modules
    Starter
    $249
    per month
    Professional
    Get a custom quote
    per month
    Elite
    Get a custom quote
    per month
    Basic
    $30
    Per User per Month
    Professional
    $50
    Per User per Month
    Enterprise
    $75
    Per User per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    RecurlySalesforce Revenue Cloud
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    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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    RecurlySalesforce Revenue Cloud
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    Recurly
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    Salesforce
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    100%
    Would buy again
    10 Answers
    100%
    Would buy again
    21 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    17 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    90%
    Happy with the feature set
    9 Answers
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    21 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    16 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    12 Answers
    Features
    RecurlySalesforce Revenue Cloud
    CPQ
    Comparison of CPQ features of Recurly and Salesforce Revenue Cloud
    Feature
    Recurly
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    Ratings
    Salesforce Revenue Cloud
    7.7
    32 Ratings
    12% below category average
    Quote sharing/sending00 Ratings7.931 Ratings
    Product configuration00 Ratings5.132 Ratings
    Configuration options00 Ratings5.130 Ratings
    Pricing rules00 Ratings8.029 Ratings
    Price adjustment00 Ratings8.031 Ratings
    Purchase history and open contracts00 Ratings9.024 Ratings
    Guided selling/Sales portal00 Ratings6.020 Ratings
    CPQ reporting & analytics00 Ratings8.924 Ratings
    CPQ-CRM integration00 Ratings9.929 Ratings
    Attachments to quotes00 Ratings9.031 Ratings
    Order capturing00 Ratings8.014 Ratings
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    Score7.9 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    RecurlySalesforce Revenue Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    6.0
    (14 ratings)
    8.0
    (48 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.6
    (3 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.9
    (12 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    RecurlySalesforce Revenue Cloud
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Recurly
    Recurly is great for tracking transactions and reviewing payment method declines. The platform is extremely helpful when dealing with scenarios where someone believes they have been fraudulently charged for the product. Recurly allows for transaction filtering, which is very helpful when trying to find possibly fraudulent charges very easy. If expecting precise, detailed information about a card decline, Recurly would not be very helpful.
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    Salesforce
    What I like best is the ease of use to be able to track all opportunities and quotes in my daily sales tracker I also like the fact that you can reorganize the view for your opportunities. For instance, it is very similar to a spreadsheet where you can filter them by date, dollar amount, name, and several other ways. I found this to be less appropriate when we have to do multiple roles while assigning one task to multiple users. Column resizing within the Quote Line Editor is not supported in the Salesforce mobile app.
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    Pros
    Recurly
    • It handles 1:1 and 1:many accounts to subscription set up.
    • It has a good billing customization option (cadence, pricing, etc.)
    • Can easily set up a customer account and invoice - billing link can be generated so no need to take credit card info over chat, phone, or email.
    • Great and responsive customer support.
    • Supports multi-language.
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    Salesforce
    • Salesforce CPQ easily maps to standard and custom fields within the opportunity in SFDC, allowing you to avoid time spent duplicating effort or copying and pasting deal criteria.
    • Salesforce CPQ connects directly to pre-determined price book, making it very easy to provide a proposal based on standard cost and/or add discounts to standard cost and reflect those reductions on the order form as appropriate.
    • Salesforce CPQ provides the ability for administrators to configure workflows for approval based on certain discount %'s on the standard cost, offering a quick and easy way to route automatically through the organization for approval.
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    Cons
    Recurly
    • I really can't think of any shortcomings on Recurly because they have tried to cover all bases well. However, I believe that pricing could be little competitive because Recurly can become quite expensive when you have acquired a good number of subscribers. So apart from price, there are no shortcomings I can think of on product side.
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    Salesforce
    • Our Salesforce is very messy, which tells me it's not super easy to clean up.
    • I always have a really hard time removing a contacts from an account - it seems like you can't simply remove the relationship so we have lots of people named DO NOT CONTACT or things of that nature.
    • Sometimes when saving it doesn't seem like things actually save.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Recurly
    I believe we would continue to use Recurly because they have shown that they are continually improving their software, and they listen to their customers
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    Salesforce
    The company is very easy to work with and is growing by leaps and bounds. We do not anticipate switching vendors anytime in the near future
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    Usability
    Recurly
    Apart from a lot of scope, which it has for improvement, like analytics, api's, customer service, downtimes. It still provides a lot of value, it is helpful for us in Business crtical areas, managing subscriptions and creating and launching coupons, ease of usability, camparatively lower maintainence are some valid reasons to prefer Recurly.
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    Salesforce
    After the initial set up, end users who are not the most tech savy are generally finding it easy to navigate
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    Support Rating
    Recurly
    They have always been quick to respond and help. I love their chat feature at the bottom right-hand corner of the platform.
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    Salesforce
    There have been some issues with multi-year pricing of certain products and services which we have been assured will be resolved but I guess are still underway, the support team apart from this has not been needed much and in the rare scenarios, it has been needed the resolutions of conflicts has been prompt and quick, so the overall support would have my high regards for being so helpful and customer-oriented so as to assure good performance of their toolset and customer satisfaction.
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    Implementation Rating
    Recurly
    We implemented Recurly ourself both for client, backend and bi in a weeks time
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    Salesforce
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Recurly
    Recurly does a much better job at handling subscription payments than QuickBooks Online. We only use QuickBooks Online when we have a client who cannot pay via credit/debit card. In those cases, we send out automatic invoices via QuickBooks Online instead. 95% of our clients are processed through Recurly.
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    Salesforce
    There is no comparison to a fully functional instance of CPQ. Nothing comes close due to the amount of customization and ease of use that CPQ offers once it's fully built out. Other solutions may be easier to build or administer, but for the users and business needs, CPQ is the best solution possible.
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    Return on Investment
    Recurly
    • Providing an interface for our subscribers to manage their own accounts has simplified our business tremendously. This alone has freed up hours of our staff's time each day.
    • Many customers receive new credit cards due to expiration or fraud. The time we spent in updating this information prior to using Recurly's Revenue Recovery feature versus now is significant.
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    Salesforce
    • Salesforce CPQ has helped a lot with overall visibility to the quote to order process. Reps have more insight into the business and the business has more insight into Sales Rep interactions. This makes troubleshooting issues much easier.
    • Our reporting capabilities have improved immensely. The ability to easily create fields allows you to capture new data points very easily.
    • Communication in Salesforce CPQ and Salesforce, in general, is a big improvement for our business. The ability to have a chatter feed on any object is very helpful. This can also be used for feed tracking to give some basic change management controls/history.
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    ScreenShots

    Recurly Screenshots

    Screenshot of payments with smart routing to improve transaction success rates and conversions by offering a variety of payment methods, such as credit cards, PayPal, Amazon Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and ACH.Screenshot of the flexible ways to configure subscription billings workflows, and automate recurring invoicing based on the subscription parameters.Screenshot of automated dunning communications to increase collection effectiveness. Configurable across period and timing, if the payment is past due or declined, selected and personalized dunning campaign launch.Screenshot of the features to set up and test different products, plans, and pricing options, plus promotional tools like free trials, coupons, and gift subscriptions and cards to attract more customers.Screenshot of Recurly analytics, which provides a 360° view into the health of a subscription business's plan performance, churn trends, campaigns results, financial metrics. These inform decisions for business growth.

    Salesforce Revenue Cloud Screenshots

    Screenshot of Configure. Price. Quote. Anytime, anywhere, on any device.