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How circuly Works and Enables You to Launch, Manage & Scale Subscription-Based Business Models for Physical Products
Discover how circuly works for subscription-based businesses with physical products, whether you have a shop system and PSP or not. Get an overview of the key operations, customer journey, and setup options.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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What Happens When a Customer Wants to Buy Their Product?
Enable your customers to buy out their products and efficiently deal with the operations.
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August 19, 2025
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How Does circuly Handle Subscription Renewal?
circuly offers flexible options for managing subscription renewals, allowing you to choose between automatic and manual renewals based on your business needs.
Last updated on:
August 7, 2025
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What if a Customer Doesn’t Pay? Can circuly Handle Debt Collection?
circuly provides a native solution for payment recovery, including payment retrieval and debt collection.
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August 7, 2025
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How Does circuly Deal With Failed Payments?
circuly provides an in-built payment retry solution to recover payments that fail.
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August 7, 2025
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How circuly's White-Label Checkout Works With Your Shop System
How is circuly connected to your shop system?
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August 19, 2025
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How circuly Connects to Your Existing Tech & Tools
circuly offers multiple ways to connect tools to it, such as native integrations, API-based integrations and connectors via webhooks.
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August 19, 2025
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How Subscription Models Answer the Biggest Challenges in eCommerce in 2025.
E-commerce in 2025 is more competitive than ever. Customer acquisition costs are rising, retention is harder to achieve, and brands are struggling with unsold inventory, unpredictable revenue, and growing pressure to become sustainable. In this article, we explore how subscriptions provide a solution.
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August 19, 2025
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How to Launch a Subscription Business in the UK: FCA Approval for Subscription Businesses
Learn when UK subscription businesses need FCA approval, types of permissions, compliance steps, and expert tips to launch legally and confidently.
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August 19, 2025
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What Is a Bike Subscription? How Does It Work, and Why Have Manufacturers and Retailers Adopted This Model?
What is a bike subscription? Discover why manufacturers & retailers are embracing monthly models, from recurring revenue to circular economies.
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August 19, 2025
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The Leading Bike Subscription Companies in 2025: A Global Market Landscape for Manufacturers, Retailers & Mobility Brands
Explore leading bike subscription companies in 2025. Who’s driving recurring mobility — and why manufacturers & retailers are embracing it.
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August 19, 2025
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How Bike Club Built Europe’s Top Kids’ Bike Subscription - And What Brands Can Learn From It
Discover how Bike Club scaled Europe’s largest kids’ bike subscription across the UK and Germany — and what your brand can learn about circular models, smart asset financing, and building loyal subscribers.
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August 19, 2025
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Reverse Logistics in Circular Business Models: Why It’s So Hard (And How to Get It Right)
Discover why reverse logistics is one of the most challenging (and critical) components of circular business models. This guide explores how returns, repairs, and redistribution shape operations—and what businesses must consider to scale circular models profitably.
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August 19, 2025
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How Logistics & Reverse Logistics Work in Circular & Product-as-a-Service Business Models.
Discover why reverse logistics is the backbone of circular business models and how to approach it strategically to scale rentals, subscriptions, and take-back programs.
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August 19, 2025
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How to Market Circular Business Models (Without Sounding Like a Sustainability Cliché).
Marketing a circular business model is not the same as marketing a linear one. This post breaks down why—and offers actionable strategies for small teams to build awareness, trust, and traction.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
Written by:
Linda Bülher & edited by Garima Singh
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Case Study: Whoop Business Strategy & Device-as-a Service Success.
How WHOOP turned a $500 fitness tracker into a subscription-first business. Learn how their Hardware-as-a-Service model targets elite users, drives retention, and builds value through insight—not ownership.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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Case Study: Peloton Faced Slowing Growth — Their Hardware-as-a-Service Model Changed Everything.
Discover how Peloton shifted from hardware sales to a hardware-as-a-service model, combining fitness equipment with digital subscriptions. Learn from their strategy, growth, and sustainability initiatives.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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Mister Spex Launched a Subscription for Glasses—circuly Powers The Subscription Infrastructure.
Eyewear-as-a-Service by Mister Spex — now live in 65 stores across Germany — highlights the growing shift toward access-based business models and the commitment of modern retailers to build innovative, customer-centric, and sustainable offerings for the future.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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How & When to Let Customers Purchase Their Subscription Products.
Learn when offering product buyouts in a subscription model makes sense, what operations are involved, and how to handle them without creating backend chaos. A practical guide for subscription businesses evaluating rent-to-own options.
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August 19, 2025

Subscription Management Software for Physical Products: What Makes It Different (and What to Look For)
Discover what makes subscription management for physical products unique—from billing and returns to asset tracking and renewals. A practical guide for scaling Product-as-a-Service models.
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August 19, 2025
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Product-as-a-Service Case Studies & Success Stories: Lessons learned from Philips, Riese & Müller, and More.
Explore real-world case studies of Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) from Philips, Riese & Müller, Hilti, and more. Learn how businesses are leveraging subscription models for growth, sustainability, and recurring revenue.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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Top 11 Questions About Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) Answered – With Real-World Examples
Discover how Product-as-a-Service (PaaS) is transforming B2B & B2C businesses. Learn key success factors, real-world case studies, and strategies for launching a subscription-based business model.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025

circuly x Debtist: Take Control of Your Cash Flow—Recover Outstanding Debts & Unpaid Invoices.
circuly has partnered with Debtist, to offer dunning and debt collection for subscription-based businesses natively within circuly’s subscription management software solution. With our Debtist integration subscription businesses and companies can automate dunning and debt collection to improve revenue recovery and bottom-line cash flow.
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August 19, 2025
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circuly x Posti to Enable Circular Business Models
circuly and Posti announce a strategic cooperation in a groundbreaking move towards promoting sustainable business models. With circuly's subscription management solution and Posti's extensive logistics network, the collaboration aims at supporting businesses in adopting circular business models through innovative subscription and rental services.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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Failed Payment Recovery for Product Subscription Business
For subscription businesses facing rising payment failures, this article offers strategies to prevent and recover unpaid invoices, including payment retrials, dunning, and debt collection. Learn how to protect your revenue.
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August 19, 2025
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Payment Retrial vs. Dunning and Debt Collection For Physical Product Subscription Businesses
Failed recurring payments—sometimes innocent, but always a potential risk to your revenue stream and customer relationships. A proper payment recovery process can help recover lost revenue and settle unpaid invoices. However, knowing when to use the right approach, whether it's payment retrial or dunning, is crucial. Learn more.
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August 19, 2025

How Skip, Cancel, and Pause Options Can Actually Drive New Subscribers and Increase Retention of Existing Ones.
Incorporating skip, cancel, and pause options into your subscription model is a strategic move that can drive more subscriptions and enhance customer loyalty. Learn more
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August 19, 2025
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Access-Based Business Models: More Relevant Than Ever Thanks to the EU's Right to Repair Law.
The EU's new right to repair law aims to make it easier for consumers to repair their products, thereby promoting sustainability and reducing electronic waste. How can businesses adapt to these new regulations in a way that benefits both them and their customers?
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August 19, 2025

Case Study: Paceheads - The Journey to Offering Sports Equipment in a Subscription Model.
Paceheads, a B2C sports equipment rental disruptor established in 2018, pioneers a flexible monthly subscription model, allowing users to test premium gear for up to 12 months. Facing challenges like manual workload and intricate subscription management, Paceheads partnered with circuly.
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July 28, 2025
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Business Model for the Circular Economy That Doesn’t Compromise Profits.
Access-based business model for physical products: a unique way to embrace circularity without compromising profits. 416% growth in GMV showcases that access-based business models can create success.
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August 19, 2025

Exchange Groups: Unleash the Power of Streamlined Choices.
Did you know that consumers are more likely to take action when presented with a limited yet personalised selection of products?
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July 16, 2025
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Creating a Higher Perception of Value for Subscription Products.
Tangible product subscriptions are not growing at the same exponential rate as information or digital subscriptions simply because consumers are still comparing subscriptions to one-off purchases. However, the willingness to pay more increases if the perceived value is higher. Learn more.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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Recommendations for Selecting a Location for the International Expansion of Your Subscription Business.
Expanding an ecommerce subscription business internationally can be an exciting opportunity for growth, but choosing the right location to expand to is crucial for success. Learn more
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August 19, 2025
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Generating Demand for Subscription Products - Role of Price, Product Portfolio and Flexible Contract.
When it comes to generating demand for your subscription products, product price, portfolio, and contract play an important ole. Learn more.
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August 19, 2025
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Marketing To-Do’s for New Subscription Businesses.
The road to conversion is not straight. There are multiple distractions, hurdles and confusions for the consumer along the way. Your job as a business is to make sure that you make the road to conversion as easy to navigate as possible so that, with your help, your prospects can become your customers.
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August 19, 2025
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A Comprehensive Guide to Referral Programs for Subscription Businesses.
Referral programs, simply put, can be thought of as customer acquisition channels alongside SEO, paid advertising, social media etc. Learn more
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August 19, 2025
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Data Collection for Subscription Business In a Cookie-less World.
In January 2020, Google made the announcement that it would not support third-party cookies in the Google Chrome browser. How will data collection look in a cookie-less world?
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August 19, 2025

SEO for Subscription Businesses - Get Your Subscription Business Discovered on Google.
Are you looking to get your subscription business discovered on Google Search? You’re right about focusing on SEO but you also need to pay special attention to search intent.
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August 19, 2025
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Subscription vs Rental vs Lease: Which Model Should You Offer For Your Products?
The most significant differences between a rental, a subscription and a lease model are the duration and the flexibility of the contract. Learn more about the differences between the three models.
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August 19, 2025
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Why Do Consumers Rent Tech?
In this article, learn why consumers rent tech instead of buying them. Device-as-a-service and home appliance-as-a-service are becoming the norm. Don't be left out.
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August 19, 2025
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How to Start a Subscription Business for Consumer Electronics.
This article focuses on the first few steps you need to take to start a subscription business for consumer electronics.
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August 19, 2025
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The Top Ten Benefits of a Subscription Model.
We listed down top ten benefits of a subscription model to help you decide if subscription-based offering is a perfect fit for your business.
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August 19, 2025

Product as a Service (PaaS): Everything You Need to Know in 2025.
Product-as-a-Service is a business model in which products are accessed instead of owned. Learn more about the different variants of the PaaS model and see if your business can benefit from this.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
Written by:
Jona Bering & Garima Singh
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Your Guide to Home Appliance as a Service.
In this post, we cover home appliance as a service and equipment as a service business models and the benefits they bring to both customers and providers.
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August 19, 2025

Usership vs Ownership: Why Millennials Rent Furniture.
Why would a demographic with the highest disposable income not invest in real estate? Meet the demographic who prefers usership over ownership.
Last updated on:
February 28, 2024
Written by:
Lirra Selibio
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How Is circuly Connected to Your CMS and Payment Service Provider.
Understanding where circuly exactly fits in when you use it to manage the subscription operations of your product rental business.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025

Top Tech Companies Piloting Device-As-A-Service.
Top tech companies see the value of Device-as-a-service to address supply chain and pandemic disruption and economic downturn. Read more.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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Sustainability Demands Impact Consumer Electronics Industry.
The current economic transition will open new markets for businesses that innovate and take advantage of green growth opportunities. Others will be put at risk.
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August 19, 2025

Key Challenges in the Consumer Electronics Industry and How to Navigate Them
The consumer electronics market faces some challenges brought by disrupted supply chains, the pandemic, and economic downturn. Learn how the market cope.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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A List of Payment Methods That Support Recurring Payments.
Are you planning to launch a subscription business? Sweet! Here's a list of payment methods that support recurring payments.
Last updated on:
July 11, 2025
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Designing a Conversion-Optimised Checkout Experience for Subscription Products.
Removing the element of surprise at the checkout page, you can increase your conversion rate. Find out more on how to implement this strategy.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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Pricing Models and Strategies for Physical Product Subscriptions.
Understand pricing models for physical products and employ pricing models and strategies to increase your monthly recurring revenue.
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August 19, 2025
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Furniture-As-A-Service: Everything You Need to Know.
Furniture as a service (FaaS) business model addresses the growing customer segment that demands flexible, sustainable, and accessible furniture.
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August 19, 2025
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Device-As-A-Service: Everything You Need to Know.
Device-as-a-service is a circular business model that addresses the growing customer segment that demands a flexible and sustainable device usership.
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August 19, 2025
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The Six Pillars of a Subscription Business for Physical Products.
Creating a seamless, digital customer journey for subscriptions involves several touch points - we call them the 6 pillars of a subscription business.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023
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How to Prevent Cart Abandonment for Subscription Products?
Learn from product-as-a-service businesses on how they prevent cart abandonment by providing flexibility to their customers.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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What Is the Two-Click Cancellation Law and Its Impact on Subscriptions: Updated 2023
The new two-click cancellation law gives a new meaning to subscription contracts. Vendors can no longer bind customers to yearly renewals.
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August 19, 2025
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Volkswagen Car Subscriptions: The Journey Towards Mobility Service Provider.
Why would a traditional car manufacturer like Volkswagen with a significant market share and an established brand tap into the world of car subscription?
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August 19, 2025
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Why Did Tier Launch a Subscription Model for Their myTIER E-scooters?.
Why did TIER, which operates in 160 European cities and has an estimated annual revenue of $205 million, decide to launch a subscription model?
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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Baby Goods Manufacturer Bugaboo Launches a Subscription Business.
Why did a dutch baby goods company launch a subscription business model in 2021?
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
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What Business Is Perfect for a Subscription Business Model?
Product-as-a-service is here to stay. If you are exploring a subscription business model for your products, read through and learn more.
Last updated on:
August 19, 2025
Written by:
Garima Singh and Jona Bering
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Pilot Testing: 7 Most Common Goals to Set for Your Subscription Pilot.
How to make sure your pilot test for a product subscription works? Check if they meet all the goals for a perfect pilot launch.
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June 9, 2023
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Consumer Decision Journey for Subscription Products.
The consumer journey for physical products starts at “purchase.” The subscriber decision journey explains how users make decisions for product-as-a-service.
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June 9, 2023
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Prevent Subscription Fraud and Chargebacks With Crif Integration.
Our subscription management software supports CRIF integration to prevent subscription fraud and chargebacks in your product-as-a-service businesses
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May 20, 2025
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How Mobility Service Providers Manage Their Subscriptions.
Mobility service providers (TIER, aboDeinauto, Meetse) use circuly to manage their car subscriptions. Learn how car subscription management looks like for them.
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February 28, 2024

Feature Release: Webhooks—Seamless Data Between Connected Tools.
Got a ton of tools specific to your subscription business and want data to flow between them seamlessly with minimum manual effort? Checkout webhooks!
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023
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Feature Release: Auto-Renew Subscriptions.
A way to counter churn in subscriptions is auto-renewal. But it is important to approach auto-renewal from both a legal and ethical perspective.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

How Subscription Companies Overcome Challenges and Grow With circuly.
Learn how our subscription management software designed for product-as-a-service helps companies offering or piloting subscription scale and grow.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

A Dedicated Place for Your Customers to Manage Their Subscriptions.
With the launch of the circuly customer login, we are closer to building the ULTIMATE digital renting experience, making your rental operations run smoothly.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

How circuly Makes Recurring Payments With PSP Like Stripe Better.
When it comes to recurring payments, PSPs like Stripe and Braintree, can't do a lot more besides collecting payment on fixed dates. But circuly fixed that.
Last updated on:
June 10, 2024

Feature Release: Charge One-Time Transactions.
Your customers gets a speeding ticket for their car rental or needs repair support and you need to charge a one-time transaction—our software has it automated.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: Change Recurring Payment.
circuly makes it possible by making payment service providers smart for online rental businesses.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: Extend Subscription Duration.
How to extend a subscription duration without asking your customers to reorder? Read through and learn more about subscription duration.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

How to Reduce Subscription Churn for Physical Products?
Subscription churn, especially involuntary and seasonal churn, is preventable. Here are some subscription churn solutions you can implement in your business.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Can a Subscription/Rental Business Also Go Headless?
The future of e-commerce is headless? But where does going headless fit in subscription e-commerce? Is it also a thing in subscription-based e-commerce models?
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

The Best Content Management System for Your Bike Rental Business.
A Content Management System (CMS) is a foundational building block of e-commerce. For a bike subscription business, you mainly need it for three reasons.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

7 Core Growth Strategies for Subscription Businesses.
Growth starts with having the right mindset. We discuss the needs of a subscription-based business model with the aim to fulfil the gap with growth strategies.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Can Auto-Renewal Help Tackle Customer Churn in Subscriptions?
A way to counter customer churn in subscription is auto-renewal. But it is crucial to approach auto-renewal from both a legal and ethical perspective.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Case Study: Baby Stroller Rental/Subscription With Strollme.
StrollMe, a baby goods rental company, operates their day-to-day business with several tools that help them scale and grow in no time.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Tools Perfect for Ecommerce Subscription.
Starting or running a subscription-based e-commerce business isn’t as complicated as it may appear to be. You only need three things: CMS, PSP, and circuly.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: Product Swap Process.
How can you replace broken products efficiently and fraud-proof against customers who keep both products? Here is the product swap process for PaaS model.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: Stock Validation at the Checkout Page.
Stock validation at the circuly checkout page ensures your customer knows the product is out-of-stock long before they reach the payment process.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

How to Leverage Your Rental Checkout Page.
A rental checkout page is a good source for collecting customer’s information for your marketing communication. Learn how to optimize your checkout page.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: Download Orders as CSV.
The download order as CSV feature enables you to get all the relevant and deselect fields you don’t need. You are in control on what to download.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: Advance Filter and Tags.
The circuly subscription management software empowers you to customize your order list view without the noise and clutter. Say hello to filter and tags.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Rental Management Software Guide—Top 9 Features to Look For.
What should you look for in subscription management software? What are some of the must-haves? We invite you to take a quick peek inside to find out.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

7 Basic Operational Tasks a Content Management System Can’t Do for a Rental Business.
A Content Management System (CMS) is the backbone of rental e-commerce. To build a scalable rental business, a CMS is a must. But is it enough? Find out more!
Last updated on:
September 10, 2024

Top 8 Challenges That Stop Your Subscription Business From Scaling.
Is there something stopping your rental/subscription business from scaling? Yes! There are and it's not what you think. Read more to know more.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Everything You Need to Know About Mobility-As-A-Service.
Mobility-as-a-Service is a circular solution to a growing demand for flexible, accessible, user-centric transportation.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023
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Using a Subscription Management Software Is a Necessity.
Customer journey, asset management and stock-keeping are some of the features of subscription software that help scale and grow your rental business.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: Digital Return Handling and Repair Support.
"What happens when the products come back from rental?" circuly now supports you in the process and makes it easy to operate your return handling.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

How to Price Your Product Subscription Like a Pro.
Discovering and setting the correct prices for subscriptions can put anyone on a razor edge, perfect for companies launching their subscription business model.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: To-Do Page.
Tick off tasks that needs immediate action with our new to-do page functionality. This will help you stay focused on what really matters to your customers. 🚀
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023
Written by:
Mete Cilingir

Why Ecommerce Subscriptions for Your Online Business Makes Sense.
Is subscription right for your rental business? See why it makes total sense from ecommerce, financial, customer acquisition, and market potential side.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Seamless Customer Experience for E-commerce Subscription Checkout.
Selling online and customer journey are easy. But when it comes to subscriptions or rental business, acquiring a product online is a hassle. circuly fixed it.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: Automated Invoicing.
With circuly’s automated invoicing feature, recurring payment becomes much easier to implement. Learn more about this feature.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: Transactional E-mail Automation.
Never miss sending a payment reminder or a return instruction e-mail to your customer. 🚀 Welcome to circuly’s new feature: automated transactional emails.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Best Content Management System for Your Rental Business.
To build a scalable rental business, a CMS is a must. Learn more the best ecommerce shop for your rental business to scale and grow in no time.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

Feature Release: Product Tracking.
We are proud to announce the launch of our new product tracking feature that will help you to save manual labor and scale your business! Read more!💥
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023

How to Harvest the Potential of the $4.5TRN Circular Economy
If you want your business lean towards the circular economy, read more in this article about circular business models and partnerships.
Last updated on:
June 9, 2023
Written by:
Victoria Erdbrügger