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Subscription brands ($1–10M)

Turn more buyers into subscribers & maximize your subscription LTV.

Scale your subscription brand with better offers, an optimized subscription platform, and high-retention lifecycle messaging. Done for you in 30 days.

70%+ third-order retention60%+ subscription take rate30+ subscription brands
SunMed cohort table: month 3 retention rose from 61% and 63% before to 72% and 73% after
61→73%SunMed, 90-day repeat purchase rate
Live in 30 days
Works with
Recharge, Stay AI, Loop and Skio

Trusted by 80+ DTC brands

Logos of DTC brands RetainUP has worked with

There's a reason your subscription revenue isn't growing.

The old way

  • Hiring an email agency that's never built a subscription program
  • Twenty subscription metrics & no idea what to fix next
  • A subscription platform set up once & never touched again
  • A PDP offer that doesn't match your emails
  • Subscriptions split across teams & owned by nobody

The new way

  • Subscription experts who read cohorts, from offer to cancel flow
  • A clear next fix, every month
  • A subscription platform improved every month
  • One offer across PDP, emails & portal
  • One owner for take rate, retention & LTV

What we believe about subscription growth

01

LTV is the primary KPI.

Open rate, save rate and take rate are inputs. Every decision should serve your LTV and your P&L, because that is what grows your business.

02

Offer beats message.

Great emails can't save a weak offer. A great offer lifts your take rate, order value and retention at the same time.

03

No habit, no subscriber.

If customers aren't using your product, they won't stay subscribed. Your product needs a place in their daily routine.

04

The first 90 days decide everything.

Control every message a new subscriber gets until the habit sticks. Then loosen up.

05

Gifts beat discounts.

Discounts teach people to wait for the next deal. Gifts give them a reason to stay and protect your margin.

06

Transparency wins.

Your subscribers get easy cancellation and clear pricing. You get straight numbers in every report.

Your email agency can’t fix your subscription. Offer structure, frequency, cancel, customer portal, milestones and gifts all need more than email.

Real subscription results

SunMedCBD supplements
61% → 73%
90-day repeat purchase rate

Full lifecycle system across email and SMS, built from zero.

BokaOral care
41% → 63%
90-day repeat purchase rate

New subscription program, retention built from scratch in 30 days.

FreshCapMushroom supplements
69% → 79%
90-day repeat purchase rate

Onboarding, renewal reminders and cancel flow rebuilt.

Two ways to maximize your subscription LTV

Most brands start here

Subscription LTV Maximizer™

Done for you. Built and live in 30 days.

For $1–10M brands with subscriptions and no full system in place.

  • Offers: plans, gifting, bundles, PDP
  • Subscription platform: cancel flow, customer portal, payment recovery
  • Lifecycle messaging: 10+ flows across email and SMS
  • 30-day performance report

Live in 30 days, or a full refund.

See how it works
Already live

Subscription LTV Optimizer™

Done with you. Ongoing subscription consulting.

For brands with a live subscription program and 5,000+ active subscribers.

  • Analysis: every subscription KPI read each month, cohort by cohort
  • Report & plan: what changed, what caused it, and the next move
  • Optimization: one improvement built, shipped and A/B tested
  • Calls & Slack: two calls a month, plus answers inside 24 hours

Three-month start, then monthly.

See how it works
Rahi Jain
Subscription LTV Specialist

Hi, I'm Rahi Jain.

I help DTC brands maximize their LTV from subscriptions. I've been in ecommerce since 2009, and from 2012 to 2019 I scaled my own fashion brand past $20M. I know how much growth depends on customers coming back.

When I started my agency, we built email for DTC brands. The flows looked great. Subscribers still left. The problem was never the email. It was the offer they subscribed to, how often the box arrived, and what happened when they clicked cancel.

So I stopped selling email and started fixing subscription programs. The offer first, then the subscription platform, then the messaging. That is how the Subscription LTV Maximizer™ and Optimizer™ came together.

I've worked with 80+ DTC brands, including Bioderma, Boka and SunMed. I work directly with every brand and take only 4-6 new brands a quarter.

2009
In ecommerce since
80+
DTC brands
30+
Subscription programs
The Subscription Retention Newsletter

The subscription strategy your email agency never shows you.

One email a week on subscription retention: the numbers, the strategy, and what to fix first.

Free. Plus the Scorecard™ methodology when you join.

FromRahi Jain, RetainUPSubjectWhat's a good subscription retention rate?

Ask two subscription apps what good retention looks like for a supplement brand.

Skio says 20 to 30% are left at order 3. Recharge looked at 1,800 supplement brands: 57.6%.

Same category. Same order. Twice apart. Here are the bands we use:

RatingOrder 3 retention
Poorunder 45%
Average45 to 62%
Good62 to 72%
Excellentover 72%

Subscription breakdowns on YouTube

Every week, see how a big subscription brand runs its program, and what your $1-10M brand can copy.

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Common subscription questions

Why do I need a subscription specialist? My email agency already runs retention.

Email agencies are good at email. But email can’t change the things that make a subscriber stay: the offer they picked, how often the box arrives, what happens when they hit cancel, and whether a failed card gets recovered. All of that sits in Recharge, Skio, Stay AI or Loop, and that is where the work happens. Your email team keeps running campaigns, and your subscription layer gets its own owner.

Which should I start with, the Maximizer or the Optimizer?

If your subscription program has gaps, start with the Maximizer. It builds the offer, the subscription platform and the messaging in 30 days. If everything is already built and the numbers have stopped moving, start with the Optimizer, which reads your cohorts every month and ships one improvement at a time.

How do we work together?

Everything is done for you. You give feedback and approvals, and the building is done for you. Rahi is on every account, with a strategy call and an execution review each month, and Slack in between.

How long until my subscription numbers improve?

The Subscription LTV Maximizer™ is live in 30 days, and most brands see early movement in the first two weeks as flows go live. Retention gains show over the next 60 to 90 days, as your first cohorts reach their second and third orders.

What is your approach to growing subscriptions?

Six rules. LTV is the primary KPI and everything else is an input. The offer matters more than the message. No habit means no subscriber. The first 90 days decide whether someone stays. Gifts beat discounts. And transparency wins, so cancelling stays easy. Fix the offer first, then the subscription platform, then the messaging. Most programs are built in the opposite order.

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Free subscription audit

Not sure where to start? Get your Subscription LTV Scorecard™

The same audit paying clients get, free for you.

  • A personalized 20-page report
  • 8 dimensions, 48 checkpoints
  • Benchmarked against Grüns, IM8 and Mars Men
  • Delivered in 24 hours

Just your email and store URL.