October 20, 2026 - Recurly Subscription Management
October 20th brings a clean mix of platform improvements across gateway onboarding, invoicing, and API parity. Nuvei is now visible and selectable in the Payment Gateways page for merchants worldwide, and CyberSource migrated merchants will see improved sandbox reliability with fixes to 3DS triggering and partial authorization handling. Invoice templates gain a new toggle to show or hide the merchant billing email address — on by default, so no action is needed unless you want to change the behavior.
For merchants managing external subscriptions, Google Play lifecycle events will now consistently populate last_purchase, and external subscription responses now include references to linked external products and plans. Account Hierarchy merchants gain new controls over when a child account’s billing target can change, and V3 API users will find improved parity between the /subscriptions and /purchases endpoints, with several invoice-level fields now supported on both.
| Release Date | Feature | Type | Potential Impact | Description / Overview |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20 | Nuvei Gateway | Enhancement | Low | When onboarding Nuvei, merchants worldwide will be able to see and select the gateway in the Payment Gateways page. |
| Oct 20 | Cybersource Gateway | Bug fix | Med | For migrated merchants, we have addressed a sandbox issue where 3DS was not reliably triggering, and partial authorizations were not being voided properly. |
| Oct 20 | Invoice Templates | Enhancement | Low | Invoice templates now let you show or hide the billing contact email address. This setting is on by default, so the email address continues to appear on invoices unless you turn it off. |
| Oct 20 | Account Hierarchy | Enhancement | Low | Merchants using Account Hierarchy can now control whether and when a child account's billing target can change. Requires Account Hierarchy to be enabled; contact Recurly support to turn on this feature. |
| Oct 20 | App Management | Enhancement | Low | Populating /external_subscriptions.last_purchase for Google Play managed subscriptions consistently when receiving lifecycle events. |
| Oct 20 | App Management | Enhancement | Low | Updated the v3 /external_subscriptions response to contain references to the external_product and plan if the merchant has linked a plan through the /external_product_references. |
| Oct 20 | V3 API | Enhancement | Low | Added parity between the v3 /subscriptions and /purchases endpoints, with both supporting vat_reverse_charge_notes, customer_notes, terms_and_conditions, and credit_application_policy at the subscriptions[] level to persist to the subscription. |