COMPARISON

Mendworthy vs FlyCode

FlyCode recovers retryable declines with per-merchant ML retries, backup-card auto-charge, and multi-PSP routing — and takes a percentage of what it recovers. We do the other half: a flat fee for the branded, multichannel, one-click card-update experience your customer actually sees. Stripe already does the retrying for free.

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 Mendworthy if

  • You want a flat, predictable fee — never a percentage of recovered revenue, forever.
  • The customer-facing experience — branded, multichannel, consolidated, no-login, on your domain — is what you want to own.
  • You're fine letting Stripe Smart Retries handle the retryable declines for free.
  • You want holdout-measured lift so you know what the outreach actually earned.

Pick FlyCode if

  • Your failures are retry-dominated — hard declines a smarter retry or backup card could clear.
  • You want cross-processor (multi-PSP) failover routing.
  • You're comfortable paying a percentage of recovered revenue in exchange for pay-on-results.
  • The recovery machinery matters more to you than the customer-facing experience.

Feature by feature

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 MendworthyFlyCode
Recovery emails
ML retries on failed charges
Backup-card / alternate-card auto-charge
Multi-PSP (cross-processor) routing
Branded card-update page on your own domainScale
Per-customer consolidation (one update clears all open invoices)
Holdout-group lift measurement
Pricing modelFlat from $79/mo% of recovered revenue

The pricing math

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

Lower volume (≤150 sequences/mo)

Mendworthy

$79/mo · Starter

FlyCode

% of recovered

Growing volume (≤600 sequences/mo)

Mendworthy

$149/mo · Growth

FlyCode

% of recovered

High volume (≤1,500 sequences/mo)

Mendworthy

$299/mo · Scale

FlyCode

% of recovered

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.

Mendworthy 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 FlyCode does that we deliberately don't — and vice versa.

What FlyCode does that we don't

  • Machine-learning retries that re-attempt failed charges on an optimized schedule.
  • Backup-card / alternate-card auto-charge to clear a decline without customer action.
  • Multi-PSP routing — retrying a charge across more than one payment processor.
  • Pay-on-recovery pricing with no minimum — you pay a percentage only on what's recovered.

What we do that FlyCode doesn't

  • A flat monthly fee — never a percentage of your recovered revenue.
  • The customer-facing experience: branded email + SMS and a no-login card-update page on your own domain.
  • Per-customer consolidation — one card update clears every open invoice at once.
  • Holdout-group lift measurement — a control vs test cohort from day one, so the recovered number isn't just Stripe's retries taking the credit.

Switching from FlyCode

  • Both tools connect to Stripe via OAuth — no data migration step.
  • You can run both: let a retry engine work the retryable declines while we own the branded, customer-facing card-update flow.
  • Customer data stays in Stripe. Neither tool stores card numbers.
  • If retry-ML is carrying your recovery today, keep it — we compete on experience and a flat fee, not on out-retrying a retry engine.

Common questions

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