Recurv vs Vitality Utility Billing

Recurv automates payment collection for South African businesses, from customer authorisation and scheduling through retries and reconciliation. It supports once-off, fixed-term, ongoing, ad hoc, and variable-amount collections through cards and EFT debit orders, with retry logic for both. Customers can approve collections through links sent by email, SMS, WhatsApp, or QR code, or through an embedded website experience. Recurv matches collection outcomes and provides real-time insights, reports, dashboards, and mandate monitoring. Its REST API and real-time webhooks are intended to connect with accounting packages, ERPs, CRMs, membership platforms, and custom applications. API access is granted per account, with sandbox keys, reference material, and a solutions engineer listed for integration work. Recurv describes its South African EFT debit-order rails as SARB-compliant and itself as PCI DSS Level 1 compliant. Pricing is set at sign-up and provided on a demo call; the site describes a fixed monthly platform fee plus a per-debit fee but gives no amounts. Recurv is operated by Clickmoddev (Pty) Ltd in South Africa.

VITALITY Utility Billing is web software for property operators managing utility billing in-house. It supports metered, RUBS, and convergent billing for electricity, water, gas, trash, internet, and other utilities. Listed capabilities include automatic bill retrieval, consumption tracking, move-out final bills, custom reports, historical utility-spend analysis, rate management, meter data import, and a customer account portal. Property management integrations include Entrata, Yardi, RealPage, ResMan, and Rent Manager, with property, unit, resident, and charge data syncing in real time. Submeter connections include Itron, Siemens, Schneider Electric, Honeywell, Enphase, and other vendors. Vitality says every feature is included without tiered pricing or module upsells. Pricing starts at $0.50 a month per unit, with no free plan and no public billing schedule stated. Payment processing is not included. The company identifies operators managing 50 or more units using property management software as its best fit.