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The recovery isn’t the gross store fee — it’s the gap between what the store takes and what direct web-billing costs. This page splits the cost into its parts so you can see where every percentage point goes.

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What Recurr costs

Recurr’s fee is structurally separate from your payment-processing cost:
  • Platform fee — 3.5% on web-billed subscription revenue, flat across the lifetime of the subscription.
  • Migration performance fee — 2.5% per subscriber migrated, tied to the Migration Program. Lands across each migrated subscriber’s first 12 months on web.
StageRecurr take
First 12 months on a migrated subscriber6% (3.5% platform + 2.5% performance)
Year 2+ ongoing on the same subscriber3.5% (platform only)
Any new web subscriber acquired post-migration3.5% (no migration performance fee on new web subs)

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What Stripe costs

Stripe’s standard rates pass through — Recurr doesn’t mark them up.
  • US: 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction
  • EU / UK / AU: ~1.5–1.7% + a small local flat fee (varies by market)
  • International cards, local payment methods, currency conversion: priced per Stripe’s published rates
See Stripe’s pricing for the full schedule. The flat fee’s impact on your percentage basis depends on average transaction size — small-ticket monthly subs feel it more than annual subs.

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Worked example (US baseline, $17 ARPU)

Assumptions in this section. US-based app on Stripe (2.9% + 0.30/txn).Averagetransaction0.30/txn). Average transaction 17 — a 50/50 mix of 10monthlysubsand10 monthly subs and 100 annual subs. At $17 ARPU the per-transaction flat fee adds ~1.76 points to the Stripe percentage basis, so all-in Stripe is ~4.66%. Your live Migration Audit resolves your country-specific Stripe rate and uses your actual ARPU.
Plugging the assumptions into the recovery formula (store fee %) − (Recurr % + Stripe %):
Subscriber moved from……Y1 costNet recovery Y1…Y2+ costNet recovery Y2+
iOS Year 1 (30%)10.66%~19 cents8.16%~22 cents
iOS Year 2+ (15%)10.66%~4 cents8.16%~7 cents
Google Play (15%)10.66%~4 cents8.16%~7 cents
The “Y1” column shows the migration-year delta (recovery is permanent for as long as the subscriber stays subscribed; Y1 includes the migration performance fee). The “Y2+” column shows the ongoing steady-state delta. EU/UK/AU subscribers recover proportionally more because their Stripe rate is lower. Annual-heavy books recover proportionally more because the flat fee amortizes across a larger ARPU.

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Year-one recovery, on your numbers

The audit puts these per-dollar deltas through your specific blended fee rate, country-resolved Stripe rate, ARPU, baseline migration percentage (55% of contactable subscribers), and ARR. A representative US-based app at 5MARRwitha225M ARR with a 22% blended rate, 17 ARPU sees:
  • Year-one recovery: ~$310K
  • Steady-state ongoing recovery: ~$380K/year
  • 3-year cumulative: ~$1.1M
Your numbers will scale with ARR and your specific fee mix. The audit shows ranges across conservative / baseline / optimistic migration scenarios. Run the 60-second audit → For the full public-audit baseline, see model assumptions.

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What’s not captured here

The recovery math above is just the fee delta. There’s a separate one-time benefit during migration that doesn’t show up in the steady-state figure: the cash-flow release from the store-to-Stripe settlement window. That’s the next page. The cash-flow release →