ChurnNote is a SaaS churn recovery tool that turns cancellations into feedback, failed-payment recovery, and win-back follow-ups by monitoring Stripe and Lemon Squeezy billing events. It sends a short plain-text email asking why customers left, groups the replies into patterns, and helps founders decide whether to recover, win back, or accept the loss. Founded by Praveen, ChurnNote focuses on small SaaS founders who need an affordable, single-purpose alternative to enterprise customer-success platforms.
What is ChurnNote?
ChurnNote is a churn recovery platform for SaaS businesses using Stripe or Lemon Squeezy. It listens for billing events such as failed payments, cancellations, and refunds, then triggers recovery workflows like founder-style exit emails, save offers during the cancel flow, and win-back sequences when product changes address the reason for leaving. It never moves money, never sees card numbers, and can be locked to a restricted Stripe key for security.
Key Features
- Stripe & Lemon Squeezy integration — Connects in under two minutes; reads billing events only (failed invoices, subscription status, cancellations).
- Plain-text exit emails — Sends a short, founder-voiced email (e.g., from [email protected]) that elicits honest replies; supports custom SMTP for your own domain.
- Reply intelligence — Captures email replies and groups cancellation reasons into categories: pricing, missing feature, bad experience, switched tool, not using it, or failed payment.
- Smart Cancel Flow — When a customer clicks cancel, shows a reason-based save offer (pause, downgrade, discount) before they leave.
- Failed payment recovery sequence — Sends up to three recovery emails with fresh payment links; recovers involuntary churn.
- Ship-to-Recover — Ties win-back follow-ups to product changes: when you ship a feature that left customers asked for, ChurnNote drafts a targeted email to those customers.
- Churn Radar — Flags at-risk accounts (e.g., inactive for 14 days) before they cancel.
- Flat $12/mo pricing — No revenue cut, no per-event fees, no enterprise tiers.
Who is it for?
- Solo founders — Recover failed payments and capture churn reasons without hiring a support team.
- Small SaaS teams on Stripe or Lemon Squeezy — Understand why customers leave and win them back when you ship what they asked for.
- Bootstrapped startups — Avoid the $50–$150/mo cost of separate dunning, cancel-flow, and win-back tools; ChurnNote covers all in one $12/mo plan.
What can you do with ChurnNote?
- Recover failed payments — Automatically email customers whose cards declined, with a link to update payment info.
- Save cancellations in real time — Offer a pause, downgrade, or discount the moment a customer clicks cancel.
- Capture why customers leave — Send a plain-text email after cancellation; replies are parsed and categorized automatically.
- Win back customers when you ship a fix — Mark a feature as shipped, and ChurnNote drafts a personal win-back to every customer who left for that reason.
How does ChurnNote work?
- Connect your Stripe or Lemon Squeezy account (no credit card required).
- Run a free Churn Leak Report to see recoverable MRR on the table.
- ChurnNote detects failed payments, cancellations, and at-risk customers automatically.
- For each signal, it triggers the appropriate recovery workflow: dunning emails, cancel-flow save offers, exit emails.
- You review any follow-ups before they send; win-backs are queued until you ship the relevant product change.
Pricing
$12/month (or $99/year, saving $45). Includes all features, no per-recovery fees. 30-day guarantee: if ChurnNote doesn't find a single recovery opportunity in the first 30 days, you get a full refund.
FAQ
Does ChurnNote work with Lemon Squeezy?
Yes, ChurnNote integrates with Lemon Squeezy the same way it works with Stripe: detect cancellations, send exit emails, group reasons, and queue win-backs.
Can ChurnNote stop all cancellations?
No tool can. ChurnNote reduces avoidable churn by spotting at-risk customers early, recovering involuntary churn from failed payments, and helping you act on real cancellation reasons.
What is product-change win-back?
It waits until you ship a feature or change that addresses a customer's cancellation reason, then drafts a targeted win-back email. For example, if a customer left because Slack integration was missing, a win-back is queued the day you ship Slack.
Does ChurnNote replace a cancel flow tool?
ChurnNote includes a Smart Cancel Flow that asks why and offers a save path, but it also adds Churn Radar, failed payment recovery, reply intelligence, and product-change win-backs, covering more of the retention loop than a standalone cancel flow tool.
What is the difference between dunning and cancellation recovery?
Dunning recovers involuntary churn (e.g., failed card payments). Cancellation recovery handles voluntary churn (customer intentionally canceled). ChurnNote does both.
