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Guides and news on recurring payments, subscriptions, and growing your company.
A discount for everyone erodes margin on the whole volume and trains customers to wait for the next code. Paid membership flips the logic: fee first, perks second — the discount reaches only the customers who truly build your revenue.
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Comarch, Poland's largest ERP vendor, is adding AI agents and moving to subscriptions. When players this big set the direction, it's worth knowing Zevio is already there: the Analytics AI Agent works today, and more agents are on the way.
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Stripe is great at collecting payments, but it does not issue invoices in KSeF. Zevio has that bridge built in: the invoice is created at checkout and sent to KSeF automatically.
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The SaaS model runs on recurring revenue - and that only works when billing happens on its own. Two apps show what the move from transfers to subscriptions with Zevio looks like.
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Not every service fits a subscription, but most service businesses leave money on the table by not trying. A look at subscription models, real examples and the risks worth avoiding.
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Education runs on the rhythm of recurring classes and dues. More schools and academies are joining Zevio - and using our newest modules.
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Retention does not start in marketing - it starts at checkout. Here is how the payment process (recurring, retry and a simpler checkout) decides how many customers stay, and how to turn that into real growth.
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We are building Zevio so money flows as automatically as possible. But the most interesting thing about a payment is not that it went through - that matters a lot, but it is only part of it. What counts is what you can do in that single moment. Why the moment of charging is the best growth opportunity for a service business - that is what today's post is about.
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Your clients are asking about monthly memberships and subscription plans. Building your own engine is 6-12 months and 200-500k PLN. Forcing PSP migration creates friction merchants don't want. There's a third path - and in this post I show how it works.
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81 days, 3,085 active subscribers, PLN 377,746 ARR, and paywall conversion up over 460%. Tygodnik Powszechny is now Poland's fastest-growing opinion weekly. Here's what happened — and why BLIK outperformed Stripe by 10 percentage points in conversion.
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AI is starting to shop on behalf of humans — and faster than most businesses expect. The emerging PSD3 mandate model is structurally identical to a subscription. Companies that build recurring-revenue infrastructure today will be ready for agentic commerce without having to rebuild from scratch.
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Zevio (www.zevio.io), a Kraków-based startup, is among the first companies in Poland to launch a subscription and recurring payment management platform for small and medium service businesses, built on BLIK's recurring payment mechanism.
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Our clients are already accepting payments from Germany, France, Spain and other EU countries. Zevio monitors the OSS threshold in line with the EU e-commerce directive. And BLIK - our strategic partner - joined a European mobile payments network covering 130 million users. This isn't a plan for the future. This is today.
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I was at ECWE in Warsaw and one session stuck with me. Nikodem Marciniak from IdoSell talked about the psychology of subscriptions - why the customer's brain runs on autopilot and why the easier it is to leave, the less often customers actually do. A few takeaways every subscription business should know.
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Most businesses treat promotions as a strategy. Subscriptions are something entirely different - a decision about how to build customer relationships and stable revenue. On why a discount buys a transaction, but a subscription builds a business.
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BLIK is something Poles love. But there's a younger, lesser-known version of it - BLIK Recurring Payments. It's the technology Zevio is built on, and it's changing the way businesses can offer subscriptions in Poland.
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A 30-minute presentation that turned into over an hour of questions. The meeting at the Polish Press Publishers Chamber showed that recurring payments and subscription management is one of the most pressing challenges facing Polish publishers today.
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First 100 subscriptions in two days - and a finding that surprised us more than the number itself. Over 90% of users chose a paid BLIK subscription instead of free access with card payments. A lesson in how payment convenience changes purchasing decisions.
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Zevio didn't start with a business plan - it started with a lecture, a bold move, and a conversation over coffee in Kraków. This is the story of how two threads - the chaos of everyday payments and a publishing subscription problem - came together in one platform.
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