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The core comparison is not “who can create a checkout?” The real question is who can move a live app-store subscriber base onto web billing, then keep growing that web book over time. This is an alternatives frame, not a claim that the market already has clean direct competitors. Most buyers are comparing Recurr with inertia, an internal project, billing primitives, or lifecycle tooling that covers only part of the job. Recurr combines three jobs:
  • Nostos runs the migration program
  • Oikos runs the connected web book after migration
  • Kairos decides the next approved motion for each subscriber

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Comparison table

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What to test in diligence

Ask each option:
  • How do we decide which subscribers move first?
  • How do we preserve app access?
  • How do we avoid turning migration into a discount campaign?
  • How do we detect a churn spike that the migration caused?
  • What happens to subscribers who do not move?
  • How do new store cohorts move over time?
  • Who operates the lifecycle motions after migration?
  • How are offer, message, timing, and cadence decided?
  • Does the system act on the payment rail, or only send messages?
  • What does finance pay for, and when?

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Recurr’s answer

Recurr starts with a pilot before scale, charges migration fees only on subscribers successfully moved to web billing, and turns on Oikos as the web book comes online. Migration then keeps running at the same 5% for each new store cohort that matures, rather than closing out after the first waves. That makes Recurr a migration and growth operating layer, not just another payment integration or campaign tool.