Failed payment recovery for Stripe

Get back the revenue your failed payments cost you.

Retries planned around why each payment failed, reminder emails sent as you, and a card update page that charges the new card straight away. You pay a share of what we recover — nothing if we recover nothing.

  • Pay only on recovery
  • Cards stay in Stripe
  • Cancel any time
Illustration — not real customer data.

Most failed payments aren't customers leaving.

Cards expire. Salaries land a few days late. A bank wants an extra confirmation. The customer still wants your product — the payment just didn't go through, and nobody followed up the right way.

  • Every failed renewal becomes a case with a plan.
  • Customers get one clear way to fix it, on any device.
  • You see what was recovered, how, and what it cost.

What could you get back?

$1,250recovered each month
Our fee (10%)
$125
You keep
$1,125 / month
Assumes 5% of renewals fail and 50% are recovered. Adjust assumptions
5%
50%

Industry estimates put failed renewals at 2–8% of MRR. You only pay on what is actually recovered.

Running in about ten minutes

  1. Step 1

    Connect Stripe

    One click through Stripe. Failed invoices from the last 30 days are imported, so you see what's at risk right away.

  2. Step 2

    Each failure gets its own plan

    Retries, emails and alerts are scheduled from the decline reason — not a fixed calendar.

  3. Step 3

    Customers fix it in one click

    From an email, a text or a banner in your app to a Stripe-hosted card page. The new card is charged immediately.

A different plan for every kind of failure

Retrying a card that can't work wastes attempts and can count against you with card networks. LastRetry reads the decline reason first.

When a payment fails because of…LastRetryStripe on its own
Insufficient fundsRetries the day after the 1st and the 15th, on weekdays — when salaries have landed.Retries on its own schedule
Expired or replaced cardNo retries on a card that can't work. Asks for a new one, and charges it the moment it's added.Keeps retrying the dead card
Bank wants confirmationSends the customer straight to confirm the payment with their bank (3-D Secure).A generic failed-payment email
Temporary declineShort back-off during banking hours, on weekdays.Retries on its own schedule
Your best customersSpotted by lifetime value: a personal email, an alert to you, and a text if you turn SMS on.Treated like everyone else

What your customers see

Your name, your support inbox, one obvious button. Customers fix it from wherever they are.

EmailExample

Acme Analytics

Please update your card for Acme Analytics

Hi Maya, your payment of $49.00 was declined by your card issuer — often this just means the card has expired.

Update card
Card update pageExample
A customer entering new card details on their phone

Stripe-hosted, works on any phone. The new card becomes the default and the invoice is charged right away.

Banner in your appExample
Your last payment of $49.00 didn't go through.Update payment

One script tag. Shows only to customers with an open case, and only when you've signed their id on your server.

Gets better on your own data

A/B tests that wait for real numbers

Test your own email copy against ours, and retry schedules against each other. A winner is called only after 30 closed cases per version.

AI drafts — you approve

Claude drafts alternative emails from your product description. Checks reject made-up amounts, offers and threats; nothing goes out unapproved.

Every attempt on the record

Each retry is logged with its timing, decline reason and outcome, so the schedule can be tuned on evidence, not guesswork.

Pay only for what we recover

A share of recovered revenue, invoiced monthly. No subscription, no setup fee, no minimum — and $0 if we recover nothing.

Starter

10% of recovered

Up to $50K MRR

Scale

5% of recovered

$250K–500K MRR

Every plan has everything: smart retries, emails, card update page, in-app banner, experiments and AI drafts. SMS is optional at $0.10 per text. Your tier follows your MRR automatically.

What your monthly statement looks like

Example
CustomerRecoveredFee (10%)
Maya C.Added a new card from our email$49.00$4.90
Leo H.Retry the day after payday$199.00$19.90
Priya N.Paid outside LastRetry$99.00Not billed

Refunded or disputed later? The fee is waived — or credited on your next invoice.

Built to be trusted with billing

Specifics, not badges.

  • We never see card numbers. Customers enter cards on Stripe's own page; cards are stored on your Stripe account.
  • Access through Stripe Connect. Revoke it from Stripe or from LastRetry, any time.
  • Only what recovery needs. Failed invoices, the customers on them, and setting a new card as default. Not your prices, products or payouts.
  • Hosted in the EU. Frankfurt, with a GDPR data processing agreement as standard.
  • Leave cleanly. Deleting your account removes every case and customer record.
A small software team working together at laptops

Made for SaaS between $10K and $500K MRR

Big enough that failed payments add up, too small for a retention team or a $500-a-month tool. We're new — so instead of logos, you get a public rate, a timeline for every case, and nothing to pay until it works.

Questions

What counts as “recovered by LastRetry”?

A failed invoice paid by one of our retries, by a card the customer added on our page, or within 7 days of the customer opening one of our links. Anything paid another way is marked external and never billed — and every case shows its full timeline, so you can check each one.

What does it cost if nothing is recovered?

Nothing. There's no subscription, setup fee or minimum. You pay a share of what's recovered, invoiced monthly.

Do I need to change my Stripe setup?

One setting: turn off Stripe's own automatic retries, because LastRetry schedules retries per decline reason and two systems retrying the same card just burns attempts. The setup page walks you through it.

Can I see my numbers before committing to anything?

Yes. When you connect Stripe, invoices that failed in the last 30 days are imported, so you see what's at risk straight away. Pause or disconnect whenever you like.

Will customers know you're involved?

Emails go out under your product name and replies land in your support inbox. The card update page shows your product, not ours.

Is the AI writing emails to my customers?

Only if you approve it. AI drafts alternative copy from your product description, automatic checks reject made-up amounts, offers or threats, and nothing is sent until a person on your team approves it.

See what failed payments are costing you.

Connect Stripe and your past-due invoices from the last 30 days show up in a minute. Free until something is recovered.

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