Yes, the chair does recline electrically. I don't think it was ever meant to have massage or heat as there is no control for those functions on the chair. I'm buying the theory that, in the factory, someone added a power supply even though the chair already had one. I'm going to toss it as I don't need extraneous stuff hanging around the camper "just in case", and I don't have a stapler to reattach it.