Most subscription churn is not a decision. It is a card that failed and a follow-up that never came. RevGuard wins those customers back automatically and heads off the next failures before they happen. It runs on free automation software on any machine with an internet connection, so your billing data never leaves your hands.
Vathsalya and NeurAI are early RevGuard users who agreed to share these figures as feedback and promotional material.
Small numbers, real ones. Vathsalya and NeurAI run RevGuard on their own Stripe accounts and agreed to share these figures as feedback and promotional material.
Want to be the next one? Buy it, set it up, and email us your first cycle. We will write it up with you, numbers and all. hello@revguardlabs.org
Three automation workflows that cover both ends of involuntary churn: the payment that already bounced, on Stripe or PayPal, and the card about to expire. They install into free automation software such as n8n, on any machine with an internet connection, in about 15 minutes.
The moment a charge fails, it goes to work: it finds out why the card failed and responds the right way, without ever bothering a customer who has already paid.
PayPal retries a failed charge on its own, then suspends the subscription and stops. RevGuard picks up exactly where PayPal leaves off.
The cheapest failed payment is the one that never happens. Once a day it finds Stripe cards about to lapse and nudges customers before the charge can fail.
Everything on this list is built and tested against the real API. If it is not here, we have not shipped it yet, and we will not pretend otherwise.
Stripe gets the full program: retries, emails, and the watchdog. PayPal gets verified events, the email sequence, and re-checks before every send. We are not limited to these two: if your provider has webhooks and an API, we build and test it for you, and the next ones are already in progress. Email us before you buy.
Turn on one channel or all of them. Add a custom note to every message. The sheet log records every outcome, so it doubles as an audit trail your accountant can read.
Every recovery ends in one plain record with an access signal. Restore on payment. Degrade to read-only when it is truly unrecoverable. Never a hard cancel, ever.
The recovery tools that work are expensive and want your billing keys on their servers. RevGuard flips both.
It runs on any machine with an internet connection, on automation software you control, and talks to your own Stripe or PayPal. Nothing routes through us. No third party ever sees your customers or their cards.
No percentage of what you recover. No $250-a-month floor. Pay once, keep 100% of every dollar it brings back, this year and every year after.
Respects Visa's and Mastercard's retry caps out of the box, so aggressive dunning never earns you fines or dispute damage.
Before every retry and every email it re-checks with your provider. The instant an invoice is paid, by retry or by the customer, the whole sequence stops.
When recovery finally fails, it tells your app to gently downgrade the account to read-only, not hard-cancel. A soft landing keeps the door open.
Import the workflow, connect your provider, flip on your email. A step-by-step guide walks you through every field. No code to write.
Stripe or PayPal pings RevGuard. The signature is verified and forged events are dropped.
It asks the provider why the card failed and routes on the real decline code.
On Stripe: payday-timed or fast retries within network limits, quietly, before any email.
A warm email sequence with a one-click payment-update link. Stops on payment.
Records recovered revenue and pings your channels. Recommends grace if it cannot recover.
We looked at every serious option before pricing RevGuard. Here is what we found, including the things they do better. Prices are as published by each vendor on 2 September 2026.
| Tool | Price | First year | What they have that we do not | What you give up |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Churnkey | $250 / monthStarter, billed yearly. Higher tiers on request. | $3,000 | Machine-learning retries, cancel-flow offers, SMS and in-app dunning, analytics. | Your Stripe keys live on their servers. The bill never ends. |
| Churn Buster | $149 to $249 / monthPlus a $1,000 one-time advisory fee. | $2,788 or more | Cancel flows, a hosted card-update page, recovery analytics, a team that has done this since 2012. | Hosted. Monthly, forever. |
| Baremetrics Recover | +$129 / monthAdd-on. Needs a Baremetrics subscription too. | $1,548 plus Baremetrics | Seven-email dunning, SMS, in-app paywalls, a branded card widget, metrics dashboards. | Cannot buy it alone. Hosted. |
| Paddle Retain | Percentage of recoveredContact sales. Free only if Paddle is your merchant of record. | Depends on churn | ML retries, card updater with Apple Pay and Google Pay, dunning in 19 languages, win-back flows. | A cut of every dollar recovered, or moving your whole billing to Paddle. |
| Stripe Smart Retries | Free with Stripe BillingStripe Billing itself costs 0.7% of billing volume. | 0.7% of billing | Zero setup. It is already on if you use Stripe Billing. | Basic emails, no logic you control, no PayPal, does not retry India-issued cards. |
| Free community templates | $0Community-made flows on automation hubs. | $0 | Free. A fine starting point if you enjoy building the rest yourself. | One basic flow. No signature checks, no re-checks, no card-update link, no watchdog, no support. |
| RevGuard | $199, onceLifetime. Free updates. | $199 | Three tested workflows, decline-code retries, PayPal, notifications anywhere, a degrade signal, and a human on email at any hour. | No ML, no SMS, no cancel-flow surveys, no hosted dashboard. On purpose. |
If a price above has changed, email hello@revguardlabs.org and we will correct it the same day.
No ticket queue and no bot. Write to hello@revguardlabs.org at any hour, any day, and one of the people who built this replies within 12 hours, any day of the week, usually much faster. We stay with you until it runs on your setup.
If you can import a file and paste an API key, you are set. The guide walks through every field and there is no code to write. Most people are live in about 15 minutes, and if you are not, email us and we finish it with you.
Free automation software such as n8n, running on any machine with an internet connection, plus a Stripe or PayPal account. A laptop works, a small cloud box works, whatever you already have works, and the guide shows you how.
Stripe and PayPal ship today, tested against their real APIs, and we are not limited to them. If your provider has webhooks and an API, whether that is Razorpay, Chargebee, Braintree, Paddle, or something in-house, email us before you buy and we build and test it for you. Several are already in progress. Nothing goes on this site until it runs.
Completely. It runs entirely on your infrastructure and never sees a full card number. Only you and your provider ever touch the sensitive parts.
Yes. Pay once, own it forever, keep 100% of everything it recovers. No subscription, no percentage, no upsell.
No. It checks your provider before every action and stops the moment an invoice is paid, and it stays inside card-network retry limits by design.
Exactly that. Email hello@revguardlabs.org whenever you like and a person replies within 12 hours, any day of the week, never a bot. Setup help is part of the price.
We will tell you. If you need SMS, cancel-flow surveys, or a hosted dashboard, one of the tools in the comparison above is the better buy, and we will say which.
No subscription. No cut of your recoveries. It pays for itself the first time it saves a single customer.
Set it up once. Let it quietly recover revenue while you build.
Get RevGuard for $199, once