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Failed Payment Recovery in Appstle Memberships

Effectively using Appstle Memberships Recover failed payments feature to reduce churn and engage with customers.

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🌟 Why Failed Payment Recovery Matters

Your customers value your memberships—but payment issues can still happen.

Common reasons for failed recurring payments include:

  • 💳 Expired or replaced cards

  • 💸 Insufficient account balance

  • 📉 Card spending limits reached

When payments fail for these reasons, it leads to involuntary churn—customers want to stay subscribed, but technical payment issues stop them.


👉 Failed Payment Recovery in Appstle Memberships helps you automatically retry payments and retain loyal members with minimal manual effort.


🔄 Reducing Involuntary Churn with Failed Payment Recovery

✅ How Appstle Memberships Helps

Failed Payment Recovery in Appstle Memberships is a set of automated tools designed to help you reconnect with customers and recover failed transactions.

  • ⚙️ Pre-set defaults
    Appstle includes ready-to-use retry logic, notifications, and recovery actions.

  • 🎛 Full merchant control
    You can customize these settings to match your business needs and retention strategy.


🔁 Failed Payment Recovery Settings

📍 Where to Configure

Settings → General Settings → Failed Payment Recovery


Setting

Description

Options / Default

Retry Attempts

Number of times Appstle will retry charging a customer’s card after a payment failure

1–10 attempts (Default: 8)

Retry Interval

Days Appstle waits between each retry attempt

1–10 days (Default: 1)

Action After All Retries Fail

Decide what happens if all retry attempts fail

❌ Cancel membership
⏸ Pause membership
⏭ Skip failed order


✏️ Enable & Customize the Email

📍 Where to Configure

Settings → Customizations → Email Templates


🛠 Steps to Customize

  1. Locate “Transaction Failed”

  2. Click Edit

  3. Customize the email to:

    • Match your brand voice 🎨

    • Reassure customers 🤝

    • Encourage quick payment updates


🔐 Customer Experience

The failed payment email directs members to the Manage Memberships section in the Member Portal, where they can:

  • ✔️ Click Update Payment

  • ✔️ Receive an email from Shopify to update their payment information

🕒 Once payment details are updated, Appstle automatically retries the order the following day.


🤝 Need Help?

Have questions or need assistance with any subscription settings?

Our experts are available 24×7×365 to help you.

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