COMPARISON

RecurMend vs Stunning

Both ship the same core recovery features. Stunning has been doing it since 2012 with MRR-scaled pricing; we're the newer flat-fee alternative with built-in lift measurement.

Which one fits

Both products recover failed Stripe payments. The right pick depends on scope, pricing predictability, and how much you care about lift measurement.

Pick RecurMend if

  • You want flat pricing that stays the same as your MRR grows.
  • You care about holdout-group lift measurement from day one.
  • You want a modern dashboard with real-time recovery state.
  • You're Stripe-only and don't need Foxy/Subbly support.

Pick Stunning if

  • You value the brand maturity of a tool that's been running since 2012.
  • You're also on Foxy or Subbly (Stunning supports those alongside Stripe).
  • Your MRR is small enough that their slider-priced floor is the cheaper option.
  • Pre-dunning and welcome-email orchestration matter to you.

Feature by feature

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 RecurMendStunning
Recovery emails
SMS recoveryGrowth+
Branded card-update page (custom domain)
Apple Pay / Google Pay on card-update page
Pre-dunning / welcome emails
Subscription management portal
Cancellation + reactivation workflows
Holdout-group lift measurement
Stripe integration
Foxy / Subbly integration
Pricing modelFlat from $79/moScales with MRR

The pricing math

Both products price differently. Here's what you'd pay at three SMB scale points.

$40k MRR

RecurMend

$79/mo · Starter

Stunning

$120/mo · slider

$100k MRR

RecurMend

$79/mo · Starter

Stunning

Scales with MRR

$200k+ MRR

RecurMend

$149/mo · Growth

Stunning

Scales with MRR

The holdout-measured difference

Live lift chart on every dashboard. Control cohort gets no outreach; test cohort gets the full sequence. The gap is the recovery you actually drove.

RecurMend dashboard lift chart showing recovery rate per week, test cohort above control cohort

Scope, honestly

We're not trying to win every row. Some things Stunning does that we deliberately don't — and vice versa.

What Stunning does that we don't

  • Pre-dunning and welcome emails alongside recovery sequences.
  • Subscription management portal for end-customers.
  • Cancellation and reactivation workflows.
  • Foxy and Subbly integrations in addition to Stripe.
  • Track record — has been recovering failed payments since 2012.

What we do that Stunning doesn't

  • Holdout-group lift measurement built in — control vs test cohorts from day one.
  • Magic-link card update on your own domain (Scale tier).
  • Flat-fee pricing that stays the same regardless of your MRR.
  • Modern dashboard with real-time recovery state and lift charts.

Switching from Stunning

  • Both tools connect to Stripe via OAuth — no data migration step.
  • Disconnect Stunning's Stripe access, then connect RecurMend. The next failed payment flows through our sequence instead of theirs.
  • Customer data stays in Stripe. Neither tool stores card numbers.
  • Pre-dunning emails and the subscription portal don't migrate because we don't run them. If you depend on either, keep Stunning for that piece and route only the post-failure recovery layer through us.

Common questions

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