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Where PayDam fits in failed-payment recovery.

PayDam is intentionally narrower than a retention suite. It keeps Stripe as your billing system and adds the branded customer recovery layer around failed invoices.

Stripe native recovery uses Stripe Billing emails and hosted pages with your Stripe account branding. It is best when you want recovery to stay inside Stripe settings. PayDam is better when you want branded multi-touch sequences, Stripe Billing Portal links, recovery-specific engagement tracking, and a focused failed-invoice queue.

Competitor pricing and feature packaging change often. The comparison below reflects linked public pages reviewed on May 10, 2026.

Capability	PayDam	Stripe native recovery	Stunning	Churnkey	Baremetrics Recover
Setup	Self-serve. Connect Stripe and send recovery emails the same day.	Already inside Stripe. No setup.	Onboarding and configuration required.	Guided onboarding. Multi-week setup typical.	Enable inside existing Baremetrics account.
How you buy it	Self-serve signup. Monthly billing. No sales call. No annual contract.	Included with Stripe Billing.	Sales call or demo required. MRR-based pricing.	Sales call required. Annual contracts common at higher tiers.	Add-on to Baremetrics subscription.
Starting price	Free at $0/mo + 5%. Paid plans from $19/mo + 4%.	Included with Stripe Billing fees.	Public example shows ~$120/mo at $40K MRR.	Starter shown at $250/mo for teams under $5K/mo churn volume.	Baremetrics base plan plus Payment Recovery add-on shown at ~$129/mo.
Scope	Failed-payment recovery only. Branded emails, Stripe-powered recovery pages, invoice-level dashboard.	Payment retries and Stripe-native recovery emails.	Failed-payment recovery with multi-channel outreach (email, SMS, in-app).	Full retention suite: payment recovery, cancellation flows, segmentation, experiments.	Recovery inside the Baremetrics analytics stack.
Branded recovery emails	Yes. Your domain, your logo, your copy. HTML editor on Pro and Scale.	Limited. Stripe-branded emails from Stripe Billing.	Yes. Customizable email and SMS campaigns.	Yes. Customizable campaigns with segmentation.	Yes. Customizable email templates.
Multiple Stripe accounts	Yes. Up to 5 on Scale with per-account tracking.	No. One workspace per Stripe account.	No. One workspace per account.	No. One workspace per account.	No. One workspace per account.
Cancellation flow tools	No. PayDam is intentionally focused on failed-payment recovery.	No.	Subscription management and cancellation-related emails.	Yes. Cancellation flows are core to Churnkey.	Cancellation Insights is a separate Baremetrics add-on.

PayDam

Setup Self-serve. Connect Stripe and send recovery emails the same day.

How you buy it Self-serve signup. Monthly billing. No sales call. No annual contract.

Starting price Free at $0/mo + 5%. Paid plans from $19/mo + 4%.

Scope Failed-payment recovery only. Branded emails, Stripe-powered recovery pages, invoice-level dashboard.

Branded recovery emails Yes. Your domain, your logo, your copy. HTML editor on Pro and Scale.

Multiple Stripe accounts Yes. Up to 5 on Scale with per-account tracking.

Cancellation flow tools No. PayDam is intentionally focused on failed-payment recovery.

Stripe native recovery

Setup Already inside Stripe. No setup.

How you buy it Included with Stripe Billing.

Starting price Included with Stripe Billing fees.

Scope Payment retries and Stripe-native recovery emails.

Branded recovery emails Limited. Stripe-branded emails from Stripe Billing.

Multiple Stripe accounts No. One workspace per Stripe account.

Cancellation flow tools No.

Stunning

Setup Onboarding and configuration required.

How you buy it Sales call or demo required. MRR-based pricing.

Starting price Public example shows ~$120/mo at $40K MRR.

Scope Failed-payment recovery with multi-channel outreach (email, SMS, in-app).

Branded recovery emails Yes. Customizable email and SMS campaigns.

Multiple Stripe accounts No. One workspace per account.

Cancellation flow tools Subscription management and cancellation-related emails.

Churnkey

Setup Guided onboarding. Multi-week setup typical.

How you buy it Sales call required. Annual contracts common at higher tiers.

Starting price Starter shown at $250/mo for teams under $5K/mo churn volume.

Scope Full retention suite: payment recovery, cancellation flows, segmentation, experiments.

Branded recovery emails Yes. Customizable campaigns with segmentation.

Multiple Stripe accounts No. One workspace per account.

Cancellation flow tools Yes. Cancellation flows are core to Churnkey.

Baremetrics Recover

Setup Enable inside existing Baremetrics account.

How you buy it Add-on to Baremetrics subscription.

Starting price Baremetrics base plan plus Payment Recovery add-on shown at ~$129/mo.

Scope Recovery inside the Baremetrics analytics stack.

Branded recovery emails Yes. Customizable email templates.

Multiple Stripe accounts No. One workspace per account.

Cancellation flow tools Cancellation Insights is a separate Baremetrics add-on.

Public sources checked May 10, 2026: Stripe Revenue Recovery, Stripe Smart Retries, Stunning features, Stunning pricing, Churnkey pricing, Churnkey payment recovery, Baremetrics Recover, and Baremetrics pricing. This table reflects those linked public pages as of that date.

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