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Churn Buster or Flycode
Both recover failed subscription payments. The difference is how the work gets done, how it's measured, and how you pay for it. Flycode emphasizes ML retry optimization. Churn Buster runs payment retries and customer communication together, shows you the logic, and charges a flat monthly fee.
The deciding question is who measures the result
Churn Buster is for subscription businesses that want failed payment recovery and cancellation prevention from one partner, with a team tuning the account and a flat price tied to MRR. Flycode is for teams that want ML retry optimization on autopilot and are comfortable validating the results against their own billing data. The deciding question is who measures the result: you, or the vendor whose invoice may depend on it.
Churn Buster or Flycode
| Churn Buster | Flycode | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Flat monthly fee tied to your MRR | Confirm current terms with Flycode |
| Recovery approach | Retries plus customer communication (email, SMS, in-app) | ML driven retry optimization, plus email |
| How decisions get made | Rules you can see and change, tuned with our team | Model output, limited visibility |
| Scope | Failed payments and cancellations (Cancel Flows) | Failed payments |
| Track record | Recovering failed payments since 2013 | Newer payment recovery vendor |
Flat pricing keeps the incentives clear
Our fee is flat. When your recovery rate goes up, our price stays the same. We're not taking credit for payments you'd have recovered anyway, and we don't earn more when more of your payments fail.
Performance pricing can sound aligned. Look at who defines "recovered." When a vendor sets the baseline, picks the attribution window, and decides which customers count, the number that sets your bill may be theirs, and payments data is hard to audit from the outside.
Before you sign with any pay on performance vendor, ask:
- How is my baseline recovery rate measured, and by whom?
- Which recoveries count as yours, versus retries that would have succeeded anyway?
- Do customers who cancel mid-campaign stay in the denominator?
- Can I verify the number from my own data?
- What happens when we disagree?
If you want the answer before you change anything, get a baseline from your own data and judge any vendor against it, including us. Our pricing is public.
Retries and customer communication work together
On many Churn Buster accounts, roughly half of recovered revenue comes from retries and half from customer communication, so we tune both.
Retries are routed by decline code. Insufficient funds gets retried before anyone is emailed; an expired card gets an email right away. Deliverability is monitored, SMS goes to high value customers, and in-app prompts catch people while they're logged in. Sequences change by segment and decline reason, and every rule is one you can read, question, and change with our team.
Flycode's model does the retry optimization itself. That's a fair choice if you want to hand it off. It's a poor fit if you want to know why a decision was made, or change it.
Recovery is a discipline, not a feature
The gains come from hundreds of small decisions: retry cadence, copy, send time, offer construction, deliverability. We've done that work since 2013 across 1,000+ subscription businesses, with setup and reviews from people who know your numbers.
Flycode's model is the product, and your team stays hands-off. That's a fair choice if you want to delegate retry optimization; it's a poor fit if you want the recovery work explained and tuned with you.
One partner for both halves of churn
Cancel Flows covers the other half of churn: cancellation deflection, retention offers, and the reasons people leave. Run it with Dunning and one partner covers both.
Choose the model that matches how you want to work
Choose Churn Buster if you want a flat price, decisions you can see, customer communication alongside retries, and a team tuning your account.
Choose Flycode if you want retry optimization on autopilot, run several processors, and are comfortable with the vendor measuring the result. If that's the deciding factor, we're probably not the right fit.
Flycode alternatives FAQ
Is Flycode performance-based pricing?
Flycode is commonly evaluated as a performance-based recovery option. Ask Flycode to confirm the current pricing model, baseline, attribution window, and which recoveries count before you compare it with a flat-fee tool.
Does Churn Buster charge a percentage of recovered revenue?
No. Churn Buster charges a flat monthly fee tied to your MRR. The fee doesn't change with your recovery rate.
Does Flycode handle cancellations?
Flycode focuses on failed payments. Churn Buster covers failed payments through Dunning and cancellations through Cancel Flows.
How do I compare Flycode and Churn Buster on my own data?
Start with a baseline from your own billing data before changing anything. Then judge any vendor's result against the same recovery rate methodology, including us.
What's the main difference between Churn Buster and Flycode?
Churn Buster combines payment retries with customer communication and shows you every rule; Flycode emphasizes ML retry optimization. Churn Buster charges a flat fee, so your invoice is not based on vendor-reported recovery.
Talk to our team
We'll look at your current recovery setup and tell you where the room is, including when there isn't much.