{"id":14599,"date":"2017-04-19T11:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/?p=14599"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T15:32:30","slug":"end-involuntary-membership-site-churn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/fr\/blog\/end-involuntary-membership-site-churn\/","title":{"rendered":"How to End Involuntary Membership Site Churn with Churn Buster"},"content":{"rendered":"

As a membership site or SaaS owner, one of the best ways to increase revenue is to attract a steady stream of new paying customers. However, if you\u2019re not doing all you can to keep your existing users, then your marketing efforts could be a waste of time. In most cases, it\u2019s more efficient to retain an existing customer than attract a new one.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it\u2019s well worth investing a little time and money in doing all you can to reduce the rate of user turnover of your site. That\u2019s what we\u2019ll discuss in this article, including a look at a tool that can help squash your involuntary membership churn rates.<\/p>\n

What Could be Causing 10-20% of Your Membership Churn<\/h4>\n

We\u2019ve talked about how you can go about reducing your membership site\u2019s churn<\/a> before on this blog and while ensuring you have the best product out there will help, sometimes it\u2019s the little bumps in the road that can cause a membership to end.<\/p>\n

Administrative issues, such as expiring payment details can unintentionally terminate a membership that would\u2019ve otherwise stayed active. If a user forgets to update their credit card details for example, then their membership could end without them even realizing. This is known as passive or involuntary churn and it\u2019s often the easiest type of customer loss to fix. With some sources<\/a> estimating average involuntary churn rates as high as 10-20% of transactions, it makes financial sense to do all you can to help your happy customers maintain an active subscription.<\/p>\n

When it comes to beating passive churn, there\u2019s a purpose-built tool that can put hands-off systems in place to help reduce your membership site\u2019s involuntary churn rate. Using an automated service like this frees up time and resources to let you focus on making your product the best it can be and delivering excellent customer support.<\/p>\n

How to Stop to Involuntary Membership Churn and Retain 10-20% of Users<\/h4>\n

As we\u2019ve just covered, reducing the number of users that end their subscription is one of the core components of increasing your recurring revenue. Taking it a step further, one of the most efficient ways to minimize this user churn is to make it as easy as possible for customers to step over the small hurdles that can trip them up and involuntarily end a membership relationship.<\/p>\n

But how do you go about catching the subscriptions that are at risk of ending by accident, without spending all your time on the lookout for the triggers that lead to involuntary membership churn? Thankfully, there\u2019s a tool that was built specifically to solve this problem.<\/p>\n

Introducing Churn Buster<\/h4>\n

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If you\u2019re using Stripe to handle payments on your SaaS or membership site, then as well as all the advanced membership site reporting services<\/a> you can use to grow your business, you can also start using Churn Buster<\/a> to improve your customer retention rates. Churn Buster<\/a> is focused on helping you achieve zero involuntary churn. It won\u2019t stop members choosing to quit your service, but if you want to ensure none of your members are leaving by accident, Churn Buster could be for you.<\/p>\n

Recovering Failed Payments Before Churn Occurs<\/h4>\n

The core focus of Churn Buster is resolving issues around failed membership payments. To achieve this Churn Buster will remind members to update their payment details before they expire, help resolve insufficient fund issues, and more. Messages from Churn Buster are delivered via email or through in-app notifications depending on your preferences.<\/p>\n

Although part of this approach involves automatically contacting your users when an issue is detected, Churn Buster will also automatically retry to process a payment before disturbing your customers. This optimized retry schedule can help overcome failed payments caused by daily spending limits, temporary holds, and processing timeouts. Churn Buster claims<\/a> simply retrying a card can recover up to 20% of charges. Stripe does have a retry schedule. However, long after Stripe will have given up, Churn Buster will continue to keep those members at risk from succumbing to involuntary churn in the recovery funnel to maximize retention rates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A Simplified Payment Update Procedure<\/h4>\n

Even with the best will in the world, your customers aren\u2019t always going to find the time to update their payment details. Maybe they get the email reminder at the wrong time, open it on their smartphone, or don\u2019t have their login to your site on\u00a0hand when they\u2019re ready to enter their new card details.<\/p>\n

Churn Buster and its card update page templates can help overcome these issues. Although the update pages are hosted on your website and are 100% white label with no mention of Churn Buster, your customers can now securely enter their new payment details through a fully mobile-optimized form that doesn\u2019t require them to log in. Simply by removing those obstacles, you can expect to see your involuntary churn rate reduce.<\/p>\n

How Much Could Zero Involuntary Churn Save You?<\/h4>\n

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To get an idea of how much a service like Churn Buster could help you, there\u2019s a one percent retention impact calculator<\/a> on their website. You can also check out the case studies<\/a> on their website to get a more detailed overview of how this service can help.<\/p>\n

As you\u2019d expect from a powerful tool like this, Churn Buster is a commercial service. However, as its sole purpose is to reduce your involuntary churn rate, it should more than pay for itself.<\/p>\n

Final Thoughts<\/h4>\n

The rate at which your customers voluntarily quit your product can be hard to improve. Maybe a user left because there\u2019s another service that better meets their needs, perhaps the problem they had has now been solved, or there could be any other number of reasons why they decided to end their subscription.<\/p>\n

While you should definitely work on fixing the issues that lead to voluntary member attrition, you might want to first focus on solving the problems that lead to involuntary churn.<\/p>\n

Tackling involuntary churn can produce some quick wins that can really help increase your revenue. After all, if a customer is leaving your service involuntary, due to an administrate issue, then it makes sense to remove that obstacle and ensure they remain a happy user. Often it\u2019s as simple as using a tool like Churn Buster and watching your involuntary membership site churn numbers start falling and your revenue increasing.<\/p>\n

How have you been dealing with involuntary churn on your membership site? Would a purpose built tool help improve your bottom line? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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