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title: "How Churnkey Works — Retention Automation Platform"
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# How Churnkey Works

## What is Churnkey?

Churnkey is a retention automation platform for subscription businesses. It addresses every type of churn — voluntary cancellations, failed payments, and lapsed subscribers — through a unified platform that integrates with your existing billing system. Implementation takes as little as 15 minutes.

## Platform Overview

Churnkey customers achieve results including:

- **54%** reduction in voluntary cancellations
- **89%** recovery rate for failed payments
- **28%** increase in customer LTV
- **14%** boost in MRR

## Core Capabilities

### 1. Personalized Cancel Flows
Replace your default cancel button with a personalized retention experience. Cancel flows include surveys, dynamic offers (discounts, pauses, plan changes), and intelligent segmentation. Reduce active churn by up to 54%.

[Learn more about Cancel Flows](/feature/cancel-flows.html.md)

### 2. Payment Recovery
Automated failed payment recovery optimized by AI models. Includes precision retries, multi-channel dunning campaigns (email, SMS, in-app), and dunning offers. Recover up to 89% of failed payments.

[Learn more about Payment Recovery](/feature/payment-recovery/index.html.md)

### 3. Reactivation Campaigns
Targeted win-back campaigns for churned customers, segmented by cancellation reason, health score, and sentiment. Reactivation rates up to 34%.

[Learn more about Reactivations](/feature/reactivations.html.md)

### 4. Customer Insights & Feedback AI
AI-powered analysis of customer feedback collected at the point of cancellation. Automatic categorization, natural language search, and priority ranking for product improvements.

[Learn more about Feedback AI](/feature/customer-insights-ai.html.md)

### 5. Intelligence Suite (AI-Powered)
Account Agent, Adaptive Offers, Compliance Agent, and Automatic Translations — AI tools trained on 500M+ billing events that optimize your retention configuration automatically.

[Learn more about the Intelligence Suite](/intelligence/index.html.md)

### 6. Analytics & Metrics
Customer health monitoring, cancellation insights, cohort analysis, churn trend tracking, and real-time subscription analytics.

[Learn more about Analytics](/feature/cancellation-insights.html.md)

## Integrations

Churnkey works alongside your existing billing system:

- [Stripe](/integrations/stripe/index.html.md)
- [Chargebee](/integrations/chargebee/index.html.md)
- [Braintree](/integrations/braintree/index.html.md)
- [Paddle](/integrations/paddle/index.html.md)
- [Maxio](/integrations/maxio/index.html.md)
- [Recurly](/integrations/recurly/index.html.md)
- [Slack](/integrations/slack/index.html.md) (notifications)

## Want to Build It Yourself?

The Churnkey SDK is open source. `@churnkey/react` ships the cancel flow as a drop-in component, headless hook, or framework-agnostic state machine. The `@churnkey/mcp` server brings Churnkey data into Claude and Cursor.

- **Repository:** [github.com/churnkey/sdk](https://github.com/churnkey/sdk)
- **Docs:** [sdk.churnkey.co](https://sdk.churnkey.co)
- **Overview:** [SDK reference](/sdk-overview.html.md)

## Testimonials

> "Because of Churnkey, our marketing team was able to design the best exit funnel that increases LTV, reduces churn, and gives us the right insights to reactivate users."
> — Austin Distel, CMO of Jasper

## Related

- [Pricing](/pricing/churnkey-pricing.html.md) — Plans tailored to your business
- [Case Studies](/case-studies/index.html.md) — Customer success stories
- [Documentation](https://docs.churnkey.co/) — Technical implementation guide
- [Open Source SDK](/sdk-overview.html.md) — Free on every plan
- [Schedule a Demo](https://churnkey.co/schedule-a-demo)