Recurlybot

Slack bot to notify new Recurly subscriptions.

Why

One of the things that are hard to replicate in companies with distributed teams is living the vibe of closing deals. This integration makes it easier to celebrate company success with a sense of fun and humor.

What's this?

A function that given a POST request from Recurly webhooks publishes a message in a the configured Slack channel via a Slack Incomming Webhook.

Features

• Notify new subscriptions in a configured Slack channel (plan name, customer name, company and subscription amount).
• Link notifications to a configured internal CRM. By default it links to the Recurly account page.
• Send a ramdon gif related to party or money.
• If you want to surprise the team by adding a custom gif you can setup the gif that will appear when an account closes the deal by adding a note to the Recurly account.

Configuration

Edit src/config.js or overwrite it using environment variables:

• SLACK_CHANNEL: the Slack channel where you want to puslish the notifications.
• SLACK_URL: Slack incomming webhook url.
• PROFILE_URL: Customer information page in case you want to link the notification to your CRM or to the Recurly account page.
• RECURLY_APIKEY: Recurly API key.
• RECURLY_SUBDOMAIN: Your company recurly subdomain.
• RECURLY_ENV: Recuring environment, use staging for staging or leave it empty for production.

Install

npm install recurlybot --save

Usage

Developing your own Recurly webhooks handler

const { notifyNewSubscription } = require('recurlybot');
 
const channel = 'new-customers';
const notification = `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<new_subscription_notification>
...
</new_subscription_notification>`; // XML notification from Recurly
 
notifyNewSubscription(channel, notification)
  .then(() => {
    console.log('Notification published in Slack');
  }).
  .catch((e) => {
    console.log('Error handling notification');
  });

Using an AWS Lambda function

See Recurlybot Lambda Packager