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100
This percentage of active, production Recurly sites have Stripe configured as a gateway.
What is 30%?
100
Using this service, only supported on Stripe, a merchant can instantly authenticate a customer's account and automatically generate a Stripe bank account token so that they can accept ACH payments via Stripe's ACH API.
What is Plaid (Link)?
100
A merchant needs a customer acquisition and retention strategy for their subscription business, which software provides this additional value?
What is Recurly?
100
This is the percentage-based and dollar per transaction fee each time a customer accepts a credit or debit card payments with Stripe.
2.9% + 30¢
100
In the following metaphor what things or people are being compared? The streets were a furnaces.
What are streets and furnaces?
200
Currencies like the Japanese Yen (JPY) and Mexican Peso (MXN), both supported by Recurly, are called this, owing to the fact they do not use cents.
What are ‘zero-decimal’ currencies?
200
Rather than being intelligent like Recurly’s, Stripe’s failed payment retry schedule is based on this.
What is # of days (time)?
200
Because of its competition with Braintree, Stripe does not offer this payment method.
What is PayPal?
200
This is the percentage-based and dollar per transaction fee each time a customer accepts ACH and Bitcoin payments with Stripe.
0.8% · $5 cap
200
This subscription feature, only supported in Recurly, allows a merchant to define a one-time charge processed at the time of sign-up.
What is a setup-fee?
300
Due to its close relationship with this bank, Stripe is very concerned with merchants’ chargeback rates
What is Wells Fargo?
300
Only supported by Stripe, this is a fast and secure way for U.S. Card Members to check out quickly at participating online merchants by using their americanexpress.com account login.
What is Amex Express checkout?
300
While more advanced than anything Stripe offers, Recurly’s Hosted Account Management pages do not allow an end-customer to do this to their subscription(s).
What are upgrades/downgrades?
300
Daily Double! A merchant has a customer base that’s not growing nor a high volume transaction rate. Which platform works best for them?
What is Stripe?
300
Also know as consumption or metered-billing, support for this type of billing is unique to Recurly.
What is usage-based billing?
400
Also called “sufficient physical presence,” this is a legal term that refers to the requirement for companies doing business in a state to collect and pay tax on sales in that state.
What is nexus?
400
Included with every standard Stripe account, this is a full fraud prevention toolkit, including advanced machine learning algorithms and the ability to create customized rules.
What is Radar?
400
To protect merchants from malicious bots that may attack their site, Recurly has implemented this on all Hosted Payment Pages.
What is reCAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart)?
400
A merchant is on the Recurly core plan and already has Stripe as a payment gateway. They have filed for bankruptcy and plan to defunct in 2 months. Which platform works best for them?
What is Stripe?
400
Only Stripe supports this currency, used in the world’s most populous country.
What is the Chinese Renminbi Yuan (CNY)?
500
Daily Double! Marketplaces and platforms (like lyft) use this Stripe product, not supported in Recurly, to accept money and pay out to third parties.
What is Connect?
500
This piece of information, necessary for Recurly to perform an ROI/Recovered Revenue analysis on behalf of a prospect already on Stripe, is missing from Stripe’s Payments CSV export.
What is failure_code?
500
Recurly offers a plethora of emails that merchants can customize, opt in/out of, etc., but Stripe only has emails for these.
What are receipts?
500
This add-on to Stripe claims to be “the most complete churn defense” and can cost $500+/month
What is Stunning?
500
In Stripe, these are solely a mechanism for subscriptions. In Recurly, these relate charges, credits, and payments together.
What are ‘invoices’?
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