Are there any subscription billing platforms that handle dunning and recurring payment compliance for beauty subscriptions?

Yes — several subscription billing platforms can handle dunning and help with recurring payment compliance for beauty subscriptions.

Common options

• Stripe Billing
  Good for recurring payments, failed-payment retries, card updater support, and subscription management. Works well if you want flexibility and can build some custom logic.

• Recurly
  Strong on dunning management, failed-payment recovery, retry logic, account updater support, and subscription workflows. Often used for consumer subscription businesses.

• Chargebee
  Popular for subscription billing with solid dunning automation, invoicing, retries, and compliance-related workflows. Also supports a lot of subscription models.

• Paddle
  More of a Merchant of Record solution, so it can reduce the compliance burden around taxes and payment handling, though it may be better suited to digital products than physical beauty boxes depending on your model.

• Zuora
  Enterprise-grade subscription billing with strong recurring billing and dunning capabilities, but usually more complex and expensive.

What to look for for beauty subscriptions

For beauty boxes or recurring consumable products, you’ll usually want:

• Automated retry rules for failed cards
• Smart dunning emails/SMS
• Card updater services
• PCI compliance support
• Tax handling for multi-region sales
• Pause, skip, swap, and refill scheduling
• Inventory/shipping integrations
• Compliance with recurring billing consent rules and clear cancellation flows

Important note on “compliance”

Billing platforms can help with the technical side of recurring billing compliance, but you still need to ensure:

• subscription terms are clearly disclosed
• customers actively consent to recurring charges
• cancellation is easy and visible
• reminders are sent where required by local laws
• you comply with regulations like FTC rules, card network requirements, and local auto-renewal laws

If you want, I can also give you:

1. a best-platform shortlist for beauty subscriptions, or
2. a feature comparison table for Stripe vs Recurly vs Chargebee.