Most failed payments aren’t cancellations. They’re accidents. Sticky.io Recovery has more than tripled recovery rates for subscription brands with AI-timed retries, intelligent routing, and MID-safe guardrails. And you only pay for what we actually recover.
A failed payment doesn’t just cost you the charge, it usually costs you the customer. Enter your decline volume and see what a higher recovery rate is worth, every month.
Sticky.io sits between your billing system and your processors. The moment a payment fails, our engine reads the signal, builds the recovery path most likely to approve, and schedules each retry for when the odds are best.
The 90-second overview of Recovery by Sticky.io
The moment a payment fails, our engine reads the decline code, BIN, issuer behavior, and customer history. Then it picks the retry window and the best-performing gateway for that specific decline.
Recovery works best as the first responder, not the last resort. Card networks cap how many times a transaction can be reattempted, issuers score every blind attempt, and buyers stop expecting the charge. The earlier the handoff, the more of the transaction is still winnable.
Full retry budget, issuer trust intact, and any recovery lands on the billing date your buyer expects.
Each blind attempt spends the network retry cap and chips away at the MID’s standing with issuers, dragging approvals on healthy traffic too.
Past the caps, every attempt draws reattempt fees. And a late recovery surprises the buyer into the chargebacks that feed your VAMP ratio.
Expired cards, reissued numbers, lapsed customers. There’s still money here, but it’s a different job with different expectations.
Route the decline to Recovery the moment it happens. Sometimes the right move is an immediate re-route, sometimes it’s waiting 18 hours. Either way, the decision gets made while the transaction is still winnable. And you don’t have to take the decay on faith: the dashboard reports recovery efficiency per attempt, so you can watch it in your own data.
VAMP is the Visa Acquirer Monitoring Program: it tracks every merchant’s fraud and dispute ratios, and crossing its thresholds means fines for your acquirer and remediation or termination risk for your MIDs.
Integration is two API endpoints, with webhooks for every event. Your billing system keeps doing the billing; Sticky.io takes over the moment a payment fails, and you stay in control throughout.
CRM, subscription platform, or in-house billing. No migration, no checkout rebuild.
Reads each decline the moment it happens, decides whether, when, and where to retry, and routes every attempt down the path most likely to approve.
Your processor relationships stay yours. We orchestrate retries across the rails you already have, and can add more when you need them.
Every recovery event is available over API and webhooks for your own reporting, multi-currency support is built in, and our team scopes the exact engineering lift for your stack as part of the free assessment.
Recovery does two jobs, relentlessly: smarter retries and honest reporting. That’s the whole product, on purpose. Nothing to bolt on, no engineering lift.
The engine reads each decline’s code, BIN, issuer behavior, and customer history, picks the retry window with the best odds of approval, and routes the attempt across the gateways and MIDs you already have. Guardrails keep every attempt inside network rules and your risk tolerance.
Full visibility into why payments fail, and exactly what Recovery earned. Every recovered dollar is attributed to the engine and measured against your baseline, so finance sees what your old setup wouldn’t have caught and the fee always has proof behind it.
These brands ran on the Sticky.io platform with Recovery working inside it. The standalone product runs on the same engine that drove their results.
“Sticky.io gave us the ability to take our company and our membership experience to a whole new level. I don’t know of another platform I’d recommend like Sticky.io.”
“If you’re looking for a billing platform that will work with you to solve your business needs, Sticky.io is it.”
There’s no setup fee, no license, and no minimum. You pay a small share of the revenue Sticky.io recovers for you, and nothing else.
We can price this way because we know where the recoveries are. If the engine didn’t work, this pricing model wouldn’t either.
For enterprise teams: formal agreements, security review, and dedicated implementation support are available when procurement needs them.
Most teams still run the old playbook: fixed retry schedules, generic dunning emails, a single gateway, and a quarterly review of what got lost. Here’s how that stacks up against AI retries, gateway cascading, MID-safe guardrails, and performance-based pricing in one engine.
| Sticky.io Recovery | Native Billing Retries (built into your billing platform) | Traditional Dunning (legacy schedule-based tools) | Concierge / Manual (human-run recovery services) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI-powered retry timing | ✓ Issuer-aware, adaptive | ~ ML-based, generic to platform | Fixed intervals | Human-driven |
| Multi-gateway cascading | ✓ 160+ gateways | Single processor only | ~ Limited integrations | N/A |
| Decline-code intelligence | ✓ Live, granular | ~ Basic codes only | ~ Reporting only | N/A |
| MID-safe retry guardrails | ✓ Built-in | ~ Fixed caps only | ~ Limited | Manual judgment |
| Recovered-revenue attribution | ✓ Uplift vs. baseline | ~ Platform metrics only | ~ Reporting only | ~ Manual reports |
| Pay-only-when-we-win pricing | ✓ Yes | Bundled with platform fee | ~ Often subscription + share | ✓ Yes (but capped scale) |
| Best for | Enterprise subscription businesses | Single-platform start-ups | Legacy enterprise contracts | Low-volume, high-LTV brands |
Sticky.io Recovery gives finance, payments, growth, and ops the answers they each need, without the spreadsheet handoffs.
Forecast renewals with confidence, lift CLTV without adding cost centers, and stop watching earned revenue disappear into involuntary churn.
Improve first-attempt approval rates across every gateway, MID, and region, with the issuer intelligence to know exactly why.
Stop involuntary churn from eroding hard-won acquisition spend. Recovered revenue compounds into ARR, retention, and a healthier bottom line.
Keep revenue flowing across multiple MIDs and high-risk verticals with retry guardrails and network-compliant reattempt limits built in.
Tell us a few things about your subscription business and our team will build a custom recovery estimate based on your real decline data, issuer mix, and gateway setup. No commitment.
No commitment.
Ask your favorite AI how Sticky.io Recovery compares to other failed-payment recovery tools, then make up your own mind.