How to turn cancellation replies into churn insights.

From one reply to a real insight

"Honestly, I switched to
ToolX because they had
the Slack integration I
needed. If you add it,
I'd come back."

The 6-step replies → insights system

1. 1

   Send the exit email

   Triggered by Stripe customer.subscription.deleted or Lemon Squeezy subscription_cancelled. Plain-text email from your sender domain, sent within minutes of cancellation. This is the entire input — no email, no replies, no insights.

2. 2

   Capture the reply

   Replies thread back to your inbox. ChurnNote ingests them via inbound parsing — the reply lands as both an email you read and a structured record on the customer's timeline.

3. 3

   Detect the churn reason

   AI reads the reply and tags it: pricing, missing feature, too complex, switched tool, bad experience, no longer needed, or other. The verbatim text stays attached so you can always see the specific words behind the tag.

4. 4

   Group similar replies

   Replies with the same tag cluster together. 'Switched to ToolX for Slack integration' and 'Moved to ToolX because of their Slack support' are both Missing Feature → ToolX → Slack. The cluster is what tells you what to ship.

5. 5

   Track monthly patterns

   Look at clusters month over month. If pricing was 12% of cancels last month and 38% this month, something changed. If missing-feature mentions of one specific feature keep recurring, that's your highest-leverage win-back trigger.

6. 6

   Follow up when something changes

   When you ship the fix, launch the cheaper plan, or address the feature, follow up only with the customers whose reason matches. Targeted win-backs convert at 5–15%; generic 'we miss you' broadcasts convert at <2%.

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