Failed payments

Stop losing customers who meant to pay.

Cards expire, banks decline, limits are hit. A surprising share of cancellations are not choices at all: the payment failed and nobody told the customer. Pixatom checks the flow that should catch them.

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A gap from a sample blueprint

Nobody tells the customer the payment failed

Fix before launch

Seen in failed payment flows in the evidence library

Customers who wanted to stay are cancelled without knowing why.

Fix Email straight away with a one-tap link to update the card, and remind them before access changes.

The flow map

See the steps your plan is missing

Pixatom draws the flow you describe and marks where gaps sit and which steps are missing.

  1. Step 1 Renewal charge fails Critical gap
Gap found at this step Step your plan is missing

Problems it catches

Gaps it catches in failed payment flows

Examples of the gaps a pre-flight check raises. In a real one each gap names its sources, and you agree with it or mark it not relevant.

Nobody tells the customer the payment failed

Fix before launch

Seen in failed payment flows in the evidence library

Customers who wanted to stay are cancelled without knowing why.

Fix Email straight away with a one-tap link to update the card, and remind them before access changes.

Access is cut off on the first failure

Fix soon

Seen in failed payment flows in the evidence library

Teams lose work mid-week and blame the product.

Fix Keep access while retrying, with a clear banner and a date.

Updating a card means contacting support

Fix soon

Seen in billing settings flows in the evidence library

Every failed payment becomes a support ticket.

Fix A card update page linked from the email and the app.

What it covers

Flows you can check

  • Payment retries
  • Emails and in-app notices when a payment fails
  • Updating a card
  • What the customer can still do while payment is late
  • Reactivating after a lapse

Who it is for

Built for

  • Subscription businesses of any size
  • Product managers who own retention or billing
  • Founders building a paid app

What you leave with

From a few lines to a tested decision

01

Recover revenue you are already earning

Catch the customers who meant to stay.

02

Fewer support tickets

Self-serve card updates instead of emails back and forth.

03

A clear plan

A blueprint with the retry schedule, messages and screens, ready to build.

Questions

Does this replace my payment provider settings?

No. Your provider handles the retries; Pixatom helps you design what the customer sees and does around them.

More on plans and billing.

Get a blueprint for your failed payment flow

Sign up, walk through the free demo, then choose a plan when you are ready to run your own pre-flight check.