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Butter Payments alternative that never takes a share of recoveries
A Butter Payments alternative is a payment recovery tool with a different pricing or buying model. Butter Payments typically charges a share of recovered revenue and is sales-led. RevRescue recovers failed payments with retries timed per decline, card updates and dunning messages for a flat monthly fee by MRR band, with self-serve setup in about ten minutes.
Performance pricing compared with a flat fee
Butter Payments focuses on recovering failed card payments with machine learning, and teams that use it often point to its work on retry timing. Its commercial model is the main reason companies look elsewhere. When a vendor takes a percentage of recovered revenue, the bill grows as recovery improves and as your business grows, even if the work involved stays the same.
RevRescue charges a flat monthly fee based on your MRR band. If you recover more this month, you keep all of it. Finance can budget the cost a year ahead, and the ROI panel shows recovered revenue against a known number.
RevRescue and Butter Payments side by side
Based on publicly described offerings. Pricing at the time of writing, check their site for current terms. The share percentages in the example above are illustrative, not a quote of their rates.
| Butter Payments | RevRescue | |
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| Main focus | Failed card payment recovery | Failed payments, unpaid invoices, billing leaks |
| Pricing model | Typically a share of recovered revenue | Flat fee by MRR band, 99 to 1,999 USD a month, half price yearly |
| Buying process | Sales-led | Self-serve signup and setup |
| Retry timing | Machine learning retry timing | Per decline code, card type, issuer, payday and time zone, within network limits |
| Customer messages | Varies by setup | Email, SMS with consent, in-app banner, card update page |
| Unpaid invoices | Card focus | Reminders, payment links and owner escalation |
| CRM hand-off | Not a focus | HubSpot and Pipedrive from Growth, Salesforce on Scale |
| Billing leak detection | Not a focus | Leak Scan |
What you get beyond retries
- Customer-facing recovery. Retries alone cannot fix an expired or replaced card. RevRescue sends a card update link by email, by SMS where consent exists, and as an in-app banner. See card account updater.
- Invoice follow-up. B2B invoices with net terms get reminders and escalation, covered on unpaid invoice collection.
- People for big accounts. Past due accounts above your threshold become tasks for their owners in the CRM.
- Leak Scan. Finds unbilled usage, stale discounts, price rises not applied, renewals not invoiced, overage fees switched off and seats under-billed.
- Clear reporting. The Revenue at Risk dashboard, Recovered this month and an ROI panel against your fixed plan price.
When a share of recoveries can make sense
Performance pricing is not always worse. If your failed payment volume is very small, or you prefer a vendor that only earns when it recovers, a share model can feel lower risk at the start. As volume grows, a flat fee usually becomes cheaper, often by a wide margin. You can check where you stand with the free one-time recovery estimate or the recovery calculator, then compare the result with both pricing models.
Questions to ask any payment recovery vendor
Whichever tool you choose, a short checklist helps you compare offers fairly. Ask how the price changes when your MRR doubles, and whether recovered revenue from a card the customer updated themselves counts toward a fee. Ask which decline codes are retried and which are sent straight to a card update request, and how the tool stays within card network retry limits. Ask what access it needs to your billing account and whether that access can move money. Finally, ask how results are reported, so you can see recovered revenue month by month against what you pay. RevRescue answers these on the pricing and security pages.
Getting started without a sales cycle
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Pick your plan
Choose the MRR band that fits on the pricing page. Yearly billing halves the monthly price.
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Connect billing
Stripe with a restricted key in about ten minutes, or Shopify, Chargebee and Paddle via an app connection.
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Hand over retries
Switch off retries in the previous tool on the same day so each card is attempted by one system.
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Watch the ROI panel
Recovered revenue and plan cost are shown side by side from the first week.
Frequently asked questions
How does Butter Payments charge?
Butter Payments typically charges a share of recovered revenue and is sales-led. Pricing at the time of writing, check their site for current terms.
Does RevRescue take a percentage of recovered revenue?
No, never. You pay a flat monthly fee by MRR band, from 99 USD a month or 49 USD a month billed yearly.
Is flat pricing cheaper than a share of recoveries?
It depends on your volume. For most growing subscription businesses a flat fee costs less once recoveries reach a few thousand dollars a month.
Can I sign up without talking to anyone?
Yes. RevRescue is self-serve, from signup to connecting billing to switching on your sequence.
Which billing systems does RevRescue support?
Stripe, Shopify, Chargebee and Paddle, with CRM sync to HubSpot, Pipedrive and Salesforce.
Keep everything you recover with a flat monthly fee
Enter your MRR and failed payment rate. The estimate takes under a minute and needs no signup.