RecoverFree
I will tell you what failed payments are costing you
Answer three questions in a reply. I send back a written breakdown of what you are probably losing to failed subscription payments, how much of it is genuinely recoverable, and whether Stripe's own free features already handle it.
No Stripe connection. No account. No card. No call unless you want one.
The three questions
- Roughly what is your monthly recurring revenue? A range is fine. "Somewhere around $40k" is enough.
- Roughly how many subscription payments fail in a month? If you do not know, say so. That is a useful answer too, and it is more common than you would think.
- What happens today when one fails? Stripe's default retries, a tool you already pay for, something you built, or nothing in particular.
What you get back
- What that failure volume is costing you a month and a year, with the arithmetic written out so you can check every step.
- What Stripe already does for you for free, which is more than most people realise.
- A second question that turns the estimate into something precise. More on that below.
Why it takes two replies, not one
Three numbers tell me your volume. They cannot tell me your decline mix, and the mix is what actually matters, because it decides whether you have a retry problem or an email problem. Those need completely different fixes and one of them is free.
I could put an industry-average percentage in the first reply. I am not going to, because I would be making it up, and a number I cannot source is worth less than no number at all.
So the first reply gives you the cost, and asks you to do one five-minute thing: open Stripe, filter invoices to unpaid, look at the last twenty or so, and tell me which decline codes come up. The free lookup on this site explains what each one means if any are unfamiliar.
With that, the second reply tells you how much of your failed revenue is reachable at all, how much needs a new card rather than another attempt, and whether Stripe's free retries already cover the reachable part. Every figure traces back to your data rather than to a benchmark somebody invented.
The catch, stated plainly
I built RecoverFlow, so I am obviously not a neutral party. Two things make this worth your fifteen minutes anyway.
The first is that the numbers are yours and the arithmetic is shown, so you can check every step and ignore my conclusion if you disagree with it.
The second is that a real fraction of these end with me saying you do not need this. Stripe's built-in Smart Retries are genuinely capable, they cost nothing, and if your failures are mostly the kind Stripe already recovers then buying anything is a waste of your money. There is a whole page here about when that is the right call, written before I had any customers to lose by saying so.
Who is on the other end
Me. Bruce McGinley, one person in Massachusetts. Not a sales team, not a sequence, not a chatbot. If you reply, I read it and write back. More on the about page, including what this product does not have yet.
Send me the three answers
Email admin@recoverflow.org with your MRR, roughly how many payments fail a month, and what you currently do about it. I will reply with the breakdown.
If you would rather work it out yourself, the recovery estimator does the same arithmetic in your browser and stores nothing.
Email me the three answersCommon questions
Does the free audit require connecting my Stripe account?
No. It runs entirely off three numbers you send in a reply: your rough MRR, roughly how many subscription payments fail per month, and what you currently do when one fails. No Stripe access, no account and no card.
What does the audit actually tell me?
What your failure volume is likely costing per year with the arithmetic shown, roughly how much of it sits on decline codes no retry can fix, what Stripe already does for free, and whether any paid tool is worth it for you.
What if I do not know how many payments fail?
Say so. It is a common answer and still useful, because not knowing is itself the finding. Stripe's dashboard can show you, and the audit explains where to look.
Is this just a sales pitch?
Partly, obviously, since I built the product. But the numbers are yours and the arithmetic is shown so you can check it, and a real share of these end with me saying Stripe's free features are enough and you should not buy anything.