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title: "Precision Payment Retries — ML-Driven Failed Payment Recovery"
description: "Machine learning-optimized payment retry schedules that recover maximum revenue from failed payments while preserving your reputation with banks and customers."
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  - /feature/payment-recovery/dunning-campaigns/index.html.md
  - /feature/cancel-flows.html.md
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# Precision Payment Retries

## Overview

Do you have complete confidence in your payment retries performance? Churnkey's Precision Retries recover maximum revenue from failed payments while preserving your hard-earned reputation.

- Recover up to 89% of failed payments
- See immediate ROI on day one
- Optimized with machine learning

Churnkey takes into account a wide variety of factors like time of day, card type, location, and more to retry your customer's payment method when it has the highest probability of succeeding. Precision Retries retry just the right amount at the right time for the right decline codes.

Your business deserves a retries strategy that quietly improves your revenue while preserving your reputation. Leave it to us.

## Key Features

### Driven by Decline Codes — and More

You only get a handful of attempts to retry a credit or debit card, so you've got to use them wisely. Churnkey groups retry attempts by decline type (hard vs. soft), intelligently getting to work on codes for insufficient funds, try again later, and others. Hard declines automatically get handled by the campaign infrastructure.

### Optimized with Machine Learning

Churnkey's machine learning models learned from tens of millions of transactions to identify the most effective retry strategies. This means we can pinpoint the optimal times and frequencies for retrying failed payments, maximizing your recovery rate. By leveraging this data-driven approach, you're not just retrying payments, but doing so in the most intelligent and efficient way possible.

### Backed by Dunning Campaigns

Sometimes a more personal touch is needed. Churnkey's dunning campaigns complement the automated retry system. Carefully crafted email sequences reach out to customers when automated retries haven't succeeded or the decline code makes it difficult to recover with retries alone.

### Clear Metrics

Track recovered revenue, failed payment reasons, campaign progress, and more. You'll always have the right data at your fingertips in real-time so you can make the most relevant decisions. Debit cards failing more often? Campaign underperforming? You'll know right away.

## Part of the Payment Recovery Suite

Precision Retries are one component of Churnkey's comprehensive Payment Recovery suite:

- **Precision Retries** — ML-driven retry schedules (this page)
- **[Omnichannel Campaigns](/feature/payment-recovery/dunning-campaigns/index.html.md)** — email, SMS, and in-app messaging for hard declines
- **Payment Recovery Wall** — in-app messaging to prevent usage in past-due accounts

## Customer Testimonials

> "On any given day, we have a few dozen subscriptions with failing payments. It could be a full-time job for someone to follow up with all these customers. Luckily, Churnkey takes care of it for us. In a typical month, Churnkey recovers over $20k in revenue and saves over 200 customers from churning."
> — Reilly Chase, CEO of HostiFi

## FAQ

### How is Precision Retries different from my billing provider's built-in retries?

Most billing providers use static retry schedules (e.g., retry every 3 days). Churnkey's Precision Retries use machine learning trained on tens of millions of transactions to determine the optimal retry timing, frequency, and approach based on decline code, card type, time zone, and more.

### Does Precision Retries work with hard declines?

Precision Retries focus on soft declines where the bank may approve a subsequent attempt. For hard declines (e.g., stolen card, closed account), Churnkey automatically routes recovery to omnichannel dunning campaigns where customer action is required.

### Will retries hurt my reputation with payment processors?

No. Precision Retries are specifically designed to maintain your reputation with banks and processors. By retrying intelligently — the right number of times, at the right intervals, for the right decline codes — Churnkey avoids the excessive retry patterns that can harm your merchant standing.

### How quickly do retries start after a payment fails?

Precision Retries can begin within minutes of the initial payment failure. The timing of subsequent retries is dynamically determined by our ML models based on the specific failure characteristics.

## Related

- [Payment Recovery](/feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md) — Parent overview of the full Payment Recovery suite
- [Dunning Campaigns](/feature/payment-recovery/dunning-campaigns/index.html.md) — Omnichannel campaigns for hard declines
- [Cancel Flows](/feature/cancel-flows.html.md) — Personalized retention experiences
- [Webhooks](/feature/webhooks.html.md) — Real-time data integration