Failed payment recovery
Before you buy a dunning tool, find the failed payments worth chasing.
A failed payment is only useful if you know what happened next. LeakCheck helps founders spot failed charges, retry gaps, dead trials, and past-due subscriptions in Stripe.
Use a read-only connection or upload an export. This page uses synthetic examples, not real customer billing data.
Checklist
The quick recovery audit.
Use this before spending on a recovery platform. If these checks are clean, you may not need another tool yet.
List failed charges
Group failures by customer, invoice, and subscription so the same issue is not counted twice.
Check retry path
Look for failures that never received a useful retry, email, card update, or owner follow-up.
Separate recoverable cases
Expired card and SCA issues behave differently from canceled, disputed, or bad-fit customers.
Find dead trials
Trials that ended without conversion may be activation or lifecycle problems, not just payment issues.
Review coupons
No-expiry discounts can quietly create permanent leakage that looks like normal MRR.
Rank by impact
Prioritize the fixes that matter instead of chasing every failed invoice manually.
How LeakCheck helps
A report before a workflow migration.
LeakCheck is not trying to replace Stripe. It gives you a ranked audit so you can decide whether recovery tooling, manual follow-up, pricing cleanup, or better onboarding is the right next move.
- OKRead-only Stripe audit or export upload.
- OKRanked findings with evidence and suggested actions.
- OK$49 first audit before monitoring.
See what a failed-payment finding looks like.
Start with the sample report, then run your own audit when the trust model feels right.
View sample report