Payment performance for SaaS businesses built on recurring customer value

Failed payments shouldn't
drive SaaS churn.

You acquired the customer. You earned the renewal. Now make sure the payment goes through.

Revaly helps SaaS companies get more recurring payments approved the first time, and recover more when they fail.

Find your recoverable ARR

Protecting recurring revenue for subscription businesses

The problem

Sometimes churn has nothing to do with your product.

Your customer may still use and value your product. But one failed recurring payment can still cost you the account.

And it can happen for reasons that have nothing to do with the customer's intent to stay:

Expired card

A card expires

Issuer rejection

A bank rejects a legitimate charge

Gateway timeout

A gateway times out

AVS mismatch

An AVS mismatch triggers a decline

Retry exhaustion

A generic retry schedule runs out

Payment churn can look like product churn.

You might launch win-back campaigns, offer discounts, adjust onboarding, or invest in retention programs to bring back a customer who was never dissatisfied in the first place. If the real issue was a failed payment, those tactics don't address what caused the churn.

Meanwhile, the impact shows up across the business:

Lost MRR and ARRLower gross and net revenue retentionLonger CAC paybackLower customer lifetime valueLost expansion potentialMore account-recovery workLess predictable forecasting

The solution

Solve payment churn at the source.

Revaly helps prevent legitimate payments from failing and recover more recurring revenue when they do.

How it works

Payment performance before, during, and after every recurring charge.

Explore how Revaly intervenes at each stage of the recurring billing cycle to keep revenue on track.

Legitimate SaaS payments can fail before they reach a true approval decision.

Revaly helps clean up the transaction before authorization by:

Keeping card credentials current.
Correcting incomplete or poorly formatted billing data.
Structuring payment requests for each gateway.
Adding payment history and trust context.
Strengthening the signal sent to the gateway, network, and issuer.

Result: More legitimate charges are approved before they become failed payments.

The SaaS opportunity

Make every account work harder.

SaaS growth depends on more than new-logo acquisition. It depends on:

Successful renewalsActive seatsExpansion revenueUsage-based billingAnnual contract retentionNet revenue retentionCAC paybackCustomer lifetime value

Revaly helps protect the payment moments that make those metrics possible.

Protect renewals

Keep monthly and annual subscriptions active.

Protect account access

Prevent payment issues from interrupting the product experience.

Protect expansion

Preserve the accounts, seats, usage, and upgrades that drive net revenue retention.

Protect CAC payback

Recover the revenue required to turn acquisition and onboarding investment into profitable accounts.

Proof and assessment

Protect the revenue you already earned.

Revaly helps recurring-revenue businesses replace blind retries with intelligent payment performance.

Failed-payment recovery increased by 69%, from 38% to 64%.

ClinicSense was losing subscribers to failed payments without a clear way to recover them. Revaly replaced manual, generic retries with signal-driven recovery tailored to each decline. Failed-payment recovery rose by 69%, reducing involuntary churn and protecting recurring revenue without adding headcount.

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Up to 35% higher recovery rates across markets.

Immunotec's existing system relied on three fixed retries. Revaly replaced that approach with decline-specific, signal-driven recovery. Recovery rates improved by 20–35% across markets, while recurring approval rates moved above benchmark. Immunotec also reduced payment-related service calls and improved cash-flow predictability.

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Additional customer outcomes

15%

Adaptive HealthA 15% lift in recovered payments, with each recovered customer generating approximately three additional billing cycles.Read the story

78%

Dollar Shave ClubRecovery rates increased from 8.2% to 14.6%, a 78% improvement, unlocking millions in additional annual recovered revenue.Read the story

45%

Hooked on Phonics45% more revenue recovered than the company's in-house recovery process, increasing subscription profitability and customer LTV.Read the story

Integrations

100+ integrations. Zero disruption to your stack.

Connect Revaly to the platforms your publishing business already runs on — Zuora, Recurly, Chargebee, Stripe, and 100+ billing, CRM, and gateway integrations. No migrations, no engineering lift, live in days.

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FAQ

Questions, answered.

It plugs in. Revaly works alongside your existing subscription, CMS, and payment stack — no rip-and-replace. You keep your current billing and access-management setup; Revaly adds prevention and recovery on top of it.

Don't let a payment failure become lost ARR.

A failed payment shouldn't end a customer relationship. Revaly helps you prevent avoidable declines, recover failed payments, and protect the recurring revenue you've already earned.

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See what payment performance can unlock

Tell us about your SaaS business and we'll show you where failed payments may be affecting your revenue, retention, and customer lifetime value.

Failed payments shouldn'tdrive SaaS churn.