AI-native revenue protection

Most Failed Payments Aren't Lost. They're Just Handled Wrong.

enComm classifies every failure, builds a recovery plan per customer, and executes it automatically.

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SJ
Sarah Jenkins Pro Plan — $149/mo
Hard decline LTV $2,850
Automated Recovery Flow
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Step 1 Payment Failed
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Recovered ✓ Smart Retry Succeeded
3
Step 3 Cancelled

What Is AI Payment Recovery?

AI Payment Recovery is the process of recovering failed recurring subscription payments using intelligent payment failure classification, adaptive retry timing, and personalised multi-channel outreach.
Unlike traditional dunning systems that follow fixed retry schedules, enComm creates a recovery plan for every subscriber based on payment failure type, customer value, engagement history, and recovery probability.

THE PROBLEM

Every failure is different. Most platforms treat them the same.

Insufficient funds need a well-timed retry. An expired card needs a payment update. A European bank flagging SCA needs an authentication link, not another "please update your card" email.

Same retry schedule & same email template don't work for different types of failures.

Generic dunning
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Day 1
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Day 3
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Day 7
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Email
Failed
enComm
Soft
Recovered ✓
Hard
Recovered ✓
Auth
Recovered ✓
The Encomm Difference

Every Subscriber Gets Their Own Recovery Plan.

enComm intelligently adapts the recovery plan for every subscriber, automatically.

Personalized recovery journeys across the subscriber lifecycle

Intelligent retention experiences built around customer behavior

Continuous revenue protection before, during, and after churn signals

Every AI decision is explained in plain English on the dashboard. No black box.

Generic dunning
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Day 1
↻
Day 3
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Day 7
✉
Email
Failed
enComm
Soft
Recovered ✓
Hard
Recovered ✓
Auth
Recovered ✓

No static workflows. No generic automations. No one-size-fits-all retention.

HOW ENCOMM WORKS

How AI Payment Recovery Works

enComm evaluates every failed payment before taking action. Instead of forcing every subscriber into the same sequence, enComm builds recovery paths designed around resolution probability.

Diagnoses failure code and root cause before action

Builds an adaptive recovery plan per subscriber

Stops outreach the moment the payment is resolved

AM
Alex Morgan $199/mo · 18 months
Hard decline LTV $3,582
Hard decline · High LTV · parallel day-0 outreach
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Day 0 — Email + payment link Sent
Personalized 1-click update link dispatched
✓
Day 1 — AI call → customer updated card ✓ Success ✓
AI Voice Agent engaged customer and secured new payment method
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Day 2 — SMS — cancelled (resolved) Resolved
Follow-up SMS auto-cancelled because recovery was already completed
RECOVERED — Subscription Active
+$2,388 ARR Saved
01

Classify

Diagnosis before action

Every failure is classified first: soft decline, hard decline, authentication required, or ambiguous. AI parses raw gateway codes into plain English.

Diagnosis is visible on the dashboard.

02

Plan

A different sequence per customer

enComm reads LTV, email engagement, and channel availability to select the highest-probability recovery path for each subscriber.

The plan is visible before the first step runs.

03

Execute and adapt

Outreach stops the moment it's resolved

When a customer updates their card or resolves the issue, outreach pauses and a retry fires immediately. Remaining steps are suppressed.

No redundant contacts after someone has acted.

WHAT’S INSIDE

Built into every recovery case

Smart retry timing
Scheduled at the most likely window for success, not a fixed interval
AI-written outreach
Every email and SMS generated for this customer and this failure, not a template
AI voice calls
Call brief generated before every call. Full transcript in dashboard.
Learn about AI voice recovery
Branded recovery page
Your domain, your logo. Auto-populated from your store URL at setup
Learn about branded recovery
Multi-channel orchestration
Email, SMS, voice, sequenced by customer behaviour, not a fixed order
Learn about multi-channel recovery
Full audit trail
Every decision is logged with a plain-English rationale you can read

Recover More Subscription Revenue Automatically

Replace fixed dunning workflows with an adaptive payment recovery infrastructure designed for recurring revenue businesses.

OUTCOMES

More revenue recovered. Less noise for customers.

No wasted retries on dead cards
Faster recovery for high-value subscribers
Plans stop the moment the issue is resolved

Recovery Analytics & Forecasting

Payment recovery performance should be measurable, not guesswork.
enComm provides centralized recovery analytics that help subscription brands monitor recovered revenue, recovery rate, payment failure trends, revenue at risk, and long-term subscription recovery performance.

Revenue at risk
$42,850
Total open recovery cases in $
Recovery rate
92.4% ↑ 4.2%
% of cases resolved this period
Cases resolved
318
Count, with active trend
Cases by failure type
Soft 48%
Hard 28%
Auth 16%
Ambiguous 8%
All recovery activity in one view. Updated in real time.
COMPARISON
How enComm Compares
Traditional DunningenComm’s AI Payment Recovery
Fixed retry schedule
Adaptive retry timing
Same workflow for everyone
Subscriber-specific recovery
Generic reminders
Context-aware outreach
Email-only recovery
Email, SMS, & AI Voice recovery
Static rules
Dynamic recovery logic
Fixed template email & SMS copy
AI-written copy that adapts to the recovery plan
Generic Recovery page without branding
Branded Recovery page with contextual message & retention offer

Your next failed payment doesn't have to be lost revenue.

enComm starts working the moment a failure hits. You set the rules. The system handles everything else.

No transaction fees, no overage fees. Recovery share only on revenue actually recovered.
Free plan available. Recovery plans from $149/month.
Active (3)
Recovered
Archived
Emma R. — $89/mo Next: Smart retry scheduled
Soft decline
Liam K. — $240/mo Next: AI call tomorrow
Hard decline
Sophia M. — $120/mo Status: Subscription active
Recovered ✓
Frequently Asked Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about AI payment recovery and enComm.

Q What is AI payment recovery for subscriptions?
The automated process of classifying failed subscription payments, building a per-customer recovery plan, and executing multi-channel outreach, smart retries, email, SMS, and AI voice calls, until the payment is resolved.
Q Why does traditional dunning underperform?
Traditional dunning uses fixed retry schedules and identical outreach templates for every failed payment. Sending the same email multiple times or retries on dead cards misses the optimal window for recoverable failures and treats high-value subscribers the same as everyone else.
Q What's the difference between AI payment recovery and standard dunning?
Standard dunning applies the same retry schedule and template emails to every failure. AI payment recovery classifies each failure first, then builds a different recovery sequence for each customer based on failure type, customer value, and engagement history.
Q Does enComm work with Shopify?
Yes — natively. enComm also works as a recovery layer on top of ReCharge and Stripe Billing, with Chargebee and Recurly coming soon.
Q What happens when a customer updates their card mid-recovery?
All remaining outreach pauses immediately, and a confirmatory retry fires. No redundant messages after the customer has already acted.
Q Does enComm place AI calls to customers?
Yes. AI outbound calls with a pre-generated call brief, full voice conversation, and transcript stored in the dashboard. Placed only within your configured calling hours, in the customer's local timezone.
Q Are there transaction fees?
No. Zero transaction fees on every plan, always. enComm earns a recovery share only on revenue it actually recovers.