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Churn prevention

Churn prevention software focused on revenue you can save

Churn prevention software finds customers who are about to stop paying and acts before the revenue is gone. RevRescue focuses on the churn you can stop with process rather than product changes, which means failed payments, expiring cards, unpaid invoices and high-value accounts at risk, plus win-back campaigns for customers who already lapsed.

Customer success manager on a headset call with an at-risk account

Two kinds of churn need two kinds of tools

Churn prevention tools fall into two broad groups. The first group targets voluntary churn, the customer who decides to leave. Those tools add cancellation flows with pause and discount offers, exit surveys and health scores based on product usage. The second group targets involuntary churn, the customer who never decided anything but whose payment failed. Industry estimates suggest this second kind often makes up a fifth to two fifths of churn in card-billed subscription businesses, and it is usually cheaper to fix.

RevRescue is built for the second group and for the money side of the first. It recovers failed payments, makes sure big at-risk accounts reach a person, and runs win-back campaigns. It does not replace your product analytics or your onboarding.

What RevRescue does to prevent churn

What RevRescue does to prevent churn
Risk How it is caught What happens
Card about to expire Expiry date before next renewal Pre-expiry reminder with card update link
Renewal charge failed Payment failed event from billing Smart retry plus email, SMS with consent, in-app banner
Large account past due Value above your threshold, days past due Task for a person in HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive
Invoice unpaid Invoice past its due date Timed follow-up with a pay link
Subscription already ended Cancelled or ended for non-payment Win-back campaign with a reactivation link
Billing leak Leak Scan of billing data Report of under-billed seats, stale discounts and missed renewals

Why payment churn should be fixed first

Voluntary churn work is slow. Improving onboarding or adding features can take quarters to show up in retention. Payment churn work shows up the same month, because the customers involved still want the product. A hypothetical SaaS company at 200,000 USD MRR with a 6 percent failed payment rate has about 12,000 USD failing each month. Lifting recovery from half to three quarters of that is roughly 3,000 USD of MRR kept every month, compounding over the year, without changing the product at all.

Features that matter when choosing a churn tool

  • Billing system coverage. RevRescue works with Stripe, Shopify, Chargebee and Paddle, and pushes tasks to HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive.
  • Decline-aware retries. Timing based on decline code, issuer, payday and time zone, inside card network limits. See smart payment retries.
  • More than one channel. Email, SMS only with consent and with opt-out in every message, and an in-app banner.
  • Human handoff. Automation for most accounts, a person for the ones that matter most.
  • Clear numbers. The Revenue at Risk dashboard shows open risk, recovered this month and ROI against your plan.
  • Predictable cost. A flat fee by MRR band instead of a percentage of what you recover.

How a handoff to your team works

Automation recovers most failed payments, but a short personal message often saves an account that ignores emails. You set a threshold, for example any account above 2,000 USD MRR that has been past due for seven days. When an account crosses it, RevRescue creates a task in HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive for the account owner, with the amount due, decline history, messages already sent and a card update link ready to share. Automated reminders pause while the task is open, so the customer does not get a sales call and a generic email on the same afternoon. When the invoice is paid, the task closes itself and the result shows up in Recovered this month.

Pricing and setup

Plans are Starter at 99 USD a month for MRR up to 50,000 USD, Growth at 299 USD up to 250,000 USD, Scale at 799 USD up to 1,000,000 USD and Enterprise at 1,999 USD above that. Yearly billing halves each price. Setup is self-serve and takes about ten minutes with a Stripe restricted key or a connection to your billing system. See pricing, try the free recovery estimate, or read more about involuntary churn and win-back campaigns.

Frequently asked questions

What is churn prevention software?

It is software that spots customers likely to stop paying and acts to keep them, through payment recovery, outreach, offers or alerts to your team.

Does RevRescue handle cancellation flows?

RevRescue focuses on payment churn, at-risk accounts and win-back. It does not replace an in-app cancellation flow, and the two work well side by side.

How quickly does churn prevention show results?

Payment recovery usually shows up within the first billing cycle, because it acts on invoices that are already failing.

Is SMS outreach allowed?

Only to your own customers who agreed to receive texts. Every RevRescue SMS includes a way to opt out.

How is RevRescue priced?

A flat monthly fee by MRR band, from 99 USD, never a percentage of recovered revenue.

See how much churn you can stop this month

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