Revenue automation · Free tool

Revenue Recovery Calculator

Estimate how much failed-payment revenue you could recover with smart dunning — the annual upside, the customers you would keep, and how fast it pays back. Move the sliders to match your business; every figure is illustrative.

Revenue at risk / month

$16,200

≈ 13.5% of monthly revenue.

Baseline recovery

$7,290

At 45% recovery today.

Recovery after automation

$10,206

At 63% recovery.

Annualized upside

$34,992

Retained value ≈ $32,659 incl. LTV.

Payback window

~3.8 mo

Est. build $14,000.

Inputs

Monthly recurring revenue$120,000Average invoice value / ARPU$180Baseline recovery rate45%Manual collection hours / mo40 hHourly cost$45Estimated build cost$14,000

Before vs after

MetricBeforeAfter

Recovery rate45%63%

Monthly recovered$7,290$10,206

Decline handlingOne sequence for allSoft vs hard · scored

Manual collection40 h/mo~10 h/mo

Time to recovery5–7 days1–2 days

High-value accountsSame flowEscalated to a human

Sensitivity

Recovery lift+18 ppRetention after recovery14 moGross margin80%Decline volume / month90

Conservative

$17,496

+9 pp lift

Practical

$34,992

+18 pp lift

Aggressive

$55,987

+29 pp lift

Annualized upside across recovery-lift scenarios. Guardrails on complaints, refunds, and chargebacks apply in every scenario.

Illustrative model. Actual results depend on your customer base, payment-method mix, decline reasons, billing frequency, geography, communication quality, and operational follow-up.

Next step

Turn the estimate into recovered revenue

These numbers are a model, not a promise. The way to make them real is a recovery workflow that classifies failures, retries intelligently, updates your CRM, and measures recovered revenue.

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