Choose ChurnWard when
- You want emails sent for you and are comfortable granting write access to billing.
- You have no time for even a weekly manual recovery pass.
- You bill through Dodo Payments and want their existing Dodo dunning integration.
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MRRdue vs ChurnWard
ChurnWard is a capable automated dunning tool at the same price point as MRRdue. The real difference is access: ChurnWard needs permission to act on your billing; MRRdue physically cannot touch it. Here is an honest comparison.
ChurnWard: $29/mo flat, unlimited. MRRdue: $29/mo for one provider account. Competitive details verified July 2026, always confirm current pricing on their site.
Side by side
| Feature | ChurnWard | MRRdue |
|---|---|---|
| Billing access required | Write access (retries, billing edits, or broad OAuth scopes) | Read-only restricted key, verified with a write-probe at connect |
| Who emails your customers | They send from their infrastructure | You send: templates, mailto/Gmail, draft-to-inbox, or your own endpoint via signed handoff |
| Automated recovery emails | Yes, 4-email dunning sequences, win-backs, sent for you | No by design. MRRdue arms you or your automation; it never emails your customers |
| Sending domain & deliverability | Sends from ChurnWard's domain today (custom domain is on their roadmap) | Always your own address and infrastructure — replies land in your inbox |
| Expiring card alerts | Yes, pre-dunning notifications | Yes — expiring-card alerts with ready-to-send update requests |
| Payment retries | Silent retries on their schedule | Never, Stripe stays the retry engine; MRRdue times suggestions around Stripe's retries |
| Recovery queue & risk scoring | Sequence-centric view | Ranked queue by dollars at risk, decline code, retry history, recoverability estimate |
| REST API / agent access | Not offered | Read-only REST API plus a native MCP server for ChatGPT/Claude/Cursor, on the paid plan |
| Exports & handoff | Limited | CSV/JSON exports, signed webhooks, n8n/Zapier/Make recipes, Slack alerts |
| Recovery attribution | Claims recovered revenue from its sequences | Labeled honestly as correlation: recovered-after-your-outreach vs organic |
Choose MRRdue when
- You do not want any third party able to retry cards or email your customers as you.
- You want recovery emails to come from your own domain — a vendor's sending domain hurts deliverability and trust.
- You want to see exactly what is recoverable and control every message that goes out.
- You want your own automation or AI agents on the recovery queue via API and webhooks.
- Your compliance posture requires read-only vendor access to billing data.
Common questions
Is MRRdue a drop-in ChurnWard replacement?
Not exactly. ChurnWard sends dunning emails for you; MRRdue deliberately does not. MRRdue finds and ranks recoverable revenue, writes the emails, and hands them to you or your own automation to send. If you specifically want a vendor sending on your behalf, ChurnWard fits better.
Why does read-only access matter?
A tool with write access can retry cards, edit subscriptions, and email your customers, which also means a bug or breach on its side can too. MRRdue connects with a Stripe restricted key that has read scopes only, verified at connect time with a write-probe, so the blast radius is structurally zero.
See your own recoverable revenue first.
Explore the demo with sample data, then connect a read-only restricted key. Your 14-day trial starts only after a successful connection, no card required.