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Introducing Helcim Recurring Payments: Your payments on autopilot

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Nic Beique | October 29, 2024

“Say hello to Helcim Recurring Payments—accept payments automatically and keep your revenue flowing effortlessly”
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    We’re excited to announce the public launch of our Recurring Payments tool, formerly known as Subscription Manager.

    We wanted to build the easiest and most affordable platform to automate your recurring billing, regardless of the size or type of business that you operate.

    Whether it’s for memberships, payment plans, rentals, monthly and annual subscriptions, donations, or any other recurring billing need - our new tool lets you automate the way you get paid with just a few clicks.

    Automate your recurring billing effortlessly

    Our new Recurring Payments makes it easy to get started and scales in complexity as your business needs grow. You can start with something as easy as creating custom plans with pre-set billing configurations and tie subscriptions to those plans - each with a unique customer profile and customization options.

    Then take it to the next level by creating add-on products and services that would help you cross-sell and offer service bundling and a higher level of customization.

    To make it easy for customers to subscribe to your service, you can create fully-branded payment links that allow your customers to choose a plan, add their billing information and subscribe.

    Helcim Recurring Payments

    As you scale, you can also take advantage of advanced features like trial management, dunning management, custom retry-logic, and subscriber management. We’ve also added a rich suite of developer APIs if you’re looking to further integrate with your existing apps.

    Credit cards and ACH payments in one place

    Unlike other providers which only offer one payment method for recurring payments, Helcim allows merchants to offer credit card, ACH and EFT/PAD payments in one platform. Toggle between credit card, ACH or both on a per-plan or per-customer basis, giving you more flexibility for how you want to get paid.

    On top of that, Helcim merchants enjoy less fees on both payment methods thanks to our transparent and affordable interchange plus pricing. Unlike typical market flat-rate providers, we’re also constantly finding new ways to lower your payment acceptance cost including our automatic level 2/3 commercial card interchange optimization.

    Self-service customer portal

    Your customer’s credit card and bank account information is securely stored in our card-vault, reducing your security and compliance risks.

    You can also set up a branded customer portal where your customers can manage their subscriptions on their own. After they subscribe using a payment link, they’ll automatically get invited to activate their portal. From there, they can add new subscriptions, adjust existing ones, or cancel whenever they need to. Plus, they can update billing details and access past invoices anytime.

    Keep more of your revenue

    Automating your recurring billing shouldn’t mean giving up an additional percentage of your hard-earned margin.

    Instead, we brought enterprise-level functionality without the enterprise-level pricing. For Helcim that means no monthly fees and only a small per-transaction software fee when a subscription is successfully charged.

    Helcim
    Recurring
    Stripe Billing Recurly Chargebee
    Monthly Fee
    None None Starts at $199 Starts
    at $699
    Reucrring
    Payments
    +0.4% +0.7% +0.9% +0.75%
    Credit Card
    Processing Rates
    Low
    Interchange
    Plus pricing
    2.9% + 30¢
    3.4% + 30¢ for
    stored credit cards
    Through
    third-party
    processors
    Through
    third-party
    processors

    As always, our payment service has no setup fees, monthly fees or cancellation fees as part of our commitment to be the world’s most loved payments company.

    Made for your unique business

    One of the amazing privileges of being a payments company is that we get to work with a wide-range of industries, yet we continue to be amazed at how universal the need has been for billing automation no matter the industry.

    Throughout the beta of this new tool, we’ve seen it used across nearly every industry we serve—from startups to lawyers, orthodontists, storage companies, gyms, associations, and beyond. One of our beta testers, Wendy Yellen founder of “Gracefully Unleashed” shared her experience, saying:

    "I love the recurring payments feature and I use it all the time. When someone joins, they usually join me for 3 to 12 months, so it's super convenient to set up all the payments at once – and that’s very easy to do."

    Wendy Yellen - Gracefully Unleashed


    This testimonial reflects just how much businesses are benefiting from the simplicity and convenience of automated recurring payments, no matter the industry.

    We’re excited by this new addition to our Helcim merchant platform and as we continue to help our merchants grow their businesses and thrive.

    The new Recurring Payments is now available to all Helcim merchants.

    Start accepting payments today.

    Create your free account instantly with no paperwork or commitments.

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