Renewvane

Free Leak Check

Type three or four totals from your own Stripe Dashboard and see, in about five minutes, whether a failed payment tool is likely worth paying for. No sign up, no Stripe key, no access to your account.

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Your last 90 days, from Stripe

Your result appears here as you type. Fill in the first three boxes to see it.

Where to find these numbers in Stripe

You need to be signed in to your Stripe Dashboard with a role that can see Billing. Stripe sometimes moves menu items, so if a name below looks different, the Dashboard search box usually finds it.

  1. Use live data. Make sure the Dashboard is showing your live account, not a sandbox or test mode.
  2. Open the revenue recovery overview. In the left menu choose Billing, then Revenue recovery. The address is dashboard.stripe.com/revenue_recovery. Use the date control on that page to pick the last 90 days. If 90 days is not offered, pick the closest range and enter its length in Days covered.
  3. Failed payments. At the top of the overview, Stripe shows Failed payments: the dollar volume of subscription payments that failed on the first attempt. Type that total into Failed payments.
  4. Recovered payments. Next to it is Recovered payments: the volume Stripe got back through its retries and emails, plus anything else you did. Type it into Recovered payments.
  5. In recovery (optional). Further down, the Recovery breakdown chart splits failed volume into Recovered, Not recovered and In recovery. In recovery is recent failures that Stripe is still retrying. Add up In recovery for the same dates and type it in, so those payments are not counted as lost.
  6. Average payment. Go to Billing, then Overview (dashboard.stripe.com/billing). Find ARPU, the average revenue per user, and type it into Average monthly payment. If you cannot find it, use your most common monthly plan price.
  7. MRR (optional). On the same Billing overview, MRR is your monthly recurring revenue. It is only used to show failures as a share of revenue.
  8. Number of failed payments (optional). Only fill this in if you already track how many renewals failed on the first try, for example in your own records. The failed payments list under Transactions may count several attempts on the same invoice, so it can overstate the number. Leave the box empty and the page estimates it from your average payment.

Things to know: Stripe's revenue recovery overview covers recurring subscription payments only and leaves out the first payment after a free trial. Our line is set in US dollars. If you bill in several currencies, treat the result as a rough guide.

When Stripe's built in tools are enough

Stripe Billing already includes Smart Retries, a failed payment email with a link to update the card, expiring card emails, and confirmation emails when a bank needs the customer to approve a payment.

If the amount still lost after Stripe is small, those tools are enough, and no paid tool, ours included, can win back more than what is still lost. As a rule of thumb, if less than about $150 a month is still lost (three times our $49 price), save your money.

Before paying anyone, check these are on:

  • Billing, Revenue recovery, Retries: Smart Retries on. Stripe recommends 8 tries within 2 weeks.
  • Billing, Revenue recovery, Emails: Send emails when card payments fail, and Send emails about expiring cards.
  • Settings, Billing, Subscriptions and emails: Send a Stripe hosted link for customers to confirm their payments when required.

How the band is worked out

We turn your totals into monthly numbers (the total times 30, divided by the days covered) and use the same line our service uses after a full audit:

  • Likely pays for itself: at least $2,500 a month fails on the first try, across at least 20 failed payments a month.
  • Borderline: from $1,500 up to $2,500 a month, still with 20 or more failed payments a month. It may or may not pay for itself.
  • Likely not yet: anything below that.

Why the failed amount and not only what is lost: our emails go out on top of Stripe's own, so what we could add grows with how much fails. Twenty failed payments a month is also roughly the smallest volume where a holdout group can measure our effect within six months (at exactly 20 a month that takes a holdout of about 17%). The full reasoning is on the pricing page.

This is an estimate from totals you typed. It is not a promise of results.

What comes after the Leak Check

If your band looks promising and you want to go further, we will talk it through with you first. A connected audit, which reads your invoices directly to give exact numbers, is coming later. It will only ever happen if you choose to connect, through a secure page on our own web address, never by sending a key in an email or a chat. Until that page is open, the Leak Check is the whole first step.

Prefer rough guesses to real totals? Try the leak calculator.