Watch every member's journey.
Thousands of simulated members trial, pay, pause and cancel, month by month. Switch on Memberstack's retention levers and see exactly who they save.
The short answer
How do you see which members a retention lever saves?
Run the same simulated members twice, once with your retention levers on: the simulator walks thousands of them through trial, paying, pausing and cancelling, month by month, so the members a lever saves are the difference. Failed payment recovery uses Memberstack's published 67% recovery rate; every other lever is a labelled, editable assumption.
A spreadsheet averages. This one walks.
A churn formula tells you how many members leave. The simulator shows you who, when, and which of them you could have kept.
Every member walks
Each signup becomes a simulated member who trials, upgrades, pays, pauses, cancels or comes back, one month at a time, with odds set by your numbers.
Same people, same luck
Both runs use identical dice for every member and every month. If someone ends up somewhere different, a lever put them there, not chance.
Six real levers
Each lever is a Memberstack feature or a free MemberScript. Its impact is measured on its own, so you know which to set up first.
Questions about the simulator
How it works, where the numbers come from, and what happens to the ones you type in.
It creates a simulated member for every person who signs up, then walks each one through your membership month by month: trial, free tier, checkout, paying monthly or annually, pausing, cancelling and coming back. Every step is a roll of the dice weighted by your numbers. Add up thousands of those journeys and you see where your numbers lead, with the individual stories still attached. It's a model, not a forecast: it shows what your rates add up to, not what will happen.
The simulation runs twice, with and without the retention levers, and both runs use exactly the same random numbers for every member and every month. So the member who would have cancelled in month seven still decides to cancel in month seven in both runs. The only thing that differs is whether a lever was there to catch them, which means any difference between the runs is caused by the levers, not by chance.
Re-rolling picks a new seed, so different people have different luck. Small memberships move more between rolls because a handful of members either way is a big share. If a lever's impact holds up across several rolls, it's real; if it swings between positive and nothing, it's within the noise at your size.
Failed payment recovery uses Memberstack's published figures: 67% of failed payments recovered, against a 35% industry average. Every other lever's effect is an assumption, labelled as one, and you can edit it on the lever's card. The defaults are deliberately conservative (for example, one in ten would-be cancellers pausing, and one in ten abandoned checkouts finishing after a reminder), so the result is a cautious estimate rather than a best case.
No. The whole simulation runs in your browser and nothing is sent to a server. If you copy a link, your numbers and the dice go into the URL so whoever opens it sees exactly the same simulation.
As accurate as the numbers you put in. It's a model, not a forecast: it assumes your rates stay steady, and real memberships have seasons, launches and price changes. Use it to compare choices, like which lever is worth setting up first, rather than to predict an exact revenue figure.
Look at the impact on each lever's card: it's that lever on its own against none at all. The biggest number is usually the best place to start, but check what each one costs you to set up. Most are a Memberstack setting or a free MemberScript, so the effort is small.
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