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Failed Payment Recovery Estimator
Most SaaS businesses lose 8–15% of MRR to failed cards. Find your number.
Leave blank to use 8.7% industry average (pre-filled).
What % of failed payments do you currently recover? Industry avg is 25–35%
Optional context; core estimates use MRR and failure rate only.
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Guide
What causes failed payments in SaaS?
Why declines are not the same as cancellations—and how teams size recovery, dunning, and upside.
Not the same as voluntary churn
Failed charges usually come from expired cards, insufficient funds, credit limits, and bank fraud rules—not from customers intending to cancel. That is why failed payment recovery is its own discipline: the customer often still wants the product.
Retries + outreach
Without retries and customer outreach, false negatives become permanent churn in your metrics. Modern SaaS dunning combines backoff schedules, card updater services, and targeted emails so you recover revenue before subscriptions lapse.
How this estimator helps
This tool applies your payment failure rate to MRR, subtracts what you already recover, and shows the leak. Teams use it to size failed payment recovery initiatives before investing in tooling.
Typical upside
A structured SaaS dunning program often lifts recovery rates from the mid-twenties to seventy percent or more—closing the gap you see in the "recovery opportunity" card above.