Dunning Management Software

Your failed payment recovery team

Churn Buster is dunning software for subscription businesses on Stripe, Shopify, and other platforms. Recover failed payments with a retention team that tunes the work with you. Since 2013, across 1,000+ accounts.

After almost 5 years using Churn Buster, we tested the latest Smart Dunning features from our subscription platform and saw a notable drop in performance. Switched back with renewed confidence.
John O'Nolan Founder & CEO · Ghost.org

An air-tight approach to failed payment recovery

When you work with Churn Buster, access to our software is just the beginning. Plug into the comprehensive retention system refined over a decade of proven strategies, new insights, and the latest tech.

Powerful Software

Run adaptive failed payment recovery that finds your recovery ceiling and minimizes background mistakes.

Unmatched Data

Get access to advanced analytics and learn which strategies work, and which are a distraction.

Proven Playbook

Refined over millions of recovery data points and thousands of clients, our playbook keeps you focused on the highest impact areas.

Senior Team

Work with our team of retention specialists who do one thing really well. We rarely encounter a churn problem we haven’t solved before.

CHURN BUSTER VS. NATIVE DUNNING

Set-and-forget is not a strategy.

Your platform's native dunning is the starting point. It retries and it emails, and for some brands that's enough. What it won't do is adapt to your decline mix and your customers—work that's worth more as you scale.

When brands come to us

A platform switch, and failed payments became a problem. A number dropped, and nobody can say why. Or a new hire audits the stack and finds failed payments neglected. Every conversation starts the same way: a closer look at what your passive churn is actually doing.

We tried our subscription platform's failed payment recovery to consolidate software and hopefully get even better recovery. We saw a decline in performance and moved back to Churn Buster.
Aleksandar Stolevski Co-Founder, BREO Box
OUR COMMITMENT

We’re your retention team.

Setup takes about an hour and our team does the heavy lifting. You get sanity checks, a 45-day review, ongoing maintenance, and monitoring for common issues. When something spikes and your platform won’t explain why, ask us. We’ve seen it before.

Every account has a recovery ceiling.

Some customers are going to churn no matter what, and that line sits in a different place for every business. Finding it and holding it is our job, with a product that catches the background mistakes that compound.

Our fee is flat.

Set by your MRR, not by self-reported recovery performance, so our incentives stay aligned with your business. It comes out to about 1% of failed payment volume, which keeps the value high at any size.

What we'll tell you that most vendors won't

We don’t publish a lift number, because lift depends on what’s missing in your setup. On a tour we’ll look at yours and tell you where the opportunities are.

Loved by retention teams

Real teams, real recoveries.

We’d rather show you the receipts than tell you we’re great. Here’s a sample.

After almost 5 years using Churn Buster, we tested the latest Smart Dunning features from our subscription platform and saw a notable drop in performance. Switched back with renewed confidence.
John O'Nolan Founder & CEO, Ghost.org
The ROI is easy to measure, all of our retention efforts have paid off, and our customers are happy with us.
Niccolo Gloazzo Director of eCommerce, Kettle & Fire
We tried our subscription platform's Failed Payment Recovery to consolidate software and hopefully get even better recovery. We saw a drastic decline in performance and quickly moved back to Churn Buster.
Aleksandar Stolevski Co-Founder, BREO Box
It's a perpetual honeymoon phase with Churn Buster. They genuinely care about your success and your growth.
John Roman CEO, Battlbox
It felt different from the other demos, where the salespeople could be very pushy. This felt more like a conversation with a confident, friendly person.
Nicole Bulman Billing Support Manager, Privy
We're easily retaining an extra 21% of subscribers every month. It's massive for the company.
Tad Frost CMO, Short Par 4

It’s not our first rodeo — we’ve got you.

$5+ Billion
Recurring revenue under management
50+ Million
Failed payments handled
10+ Years
Focused 100% on solving subscription churn

Ready to optimize? Chat with our team about your current strategy and how we can help.

  • Proven best practices on day one
  • Ongoing data-driven optimization
  • Access to a team of retention experts
  • Full data transparency

FAQs

How is Churn Buster different from my subscription platform's native dunning?

Native dunning included with your platform is a great starting point. It retries payments, sends an email, and for some brands that's all that’s needed. What it can't do is tune itself to your decline mix and your unique customer attributes. As companies scale this work becomes increasingly valuable.

How long does Churn Buster take to set up?

About an hour, with our team on the call. Campaigns start from our tuned defaults, then we adjust to your data over time.

Which subscription platforms does Churn Buster integrate with?

Stripe, Recharge, Shopify, Loop, Skio, Stay AI, Seal, Ordergroove, Smartrr, Awtomic, Recurly, Braintree, Checkout Champ, Rivo, Subbly, Inveterate, and custom setups via API.

What changes in our platform?

A few settings in your platform, in most cases. You turn off your platform's failed payment emails so customers don't receive two sequences, and on some platforms you update your retry schedule to align with recovery campaigns. We walk through this with you during onboarding.

How much does Churn Buster cost?

A flat monthly fee set by your MRR tier, starting at $269/mo for a single product. The fee adjusts as your MRR crosses a tier, up or down, and it doesn't rise when your recovery rate does. It's set to pay for itself at roughly a 1% improvement in recovery rate; a low bar that keeps it highly valuable for companies of all sizes.

Is there a contract or minimum term?

No. Month-to-month, cancel any time. Enterprise teams whose procurement requires a countersignable order form can have one.

How does Churn Buster measure recovery rate?

Rolling Analysis on completed cohorts, on your own data. Every failed payment resolves to one of four outcomes — recovered by retry, recovered by card update, cancelled, or lost — and a recovery counts only when a payment clears. You can see it in your dashboard at any time, segmented to cut through the noise and find meaningful trends.

How do you handle our customer data?

Security documentation and a data processing agreement are available on request, and you can export your data at any time while you're a customer. Customer records can be deleted anytime.

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