Payments for the subscription economy
Streaming, gaming, publishing, and ticketing all run into the same problem: recurring payments across a very large number of customers, with almost no tolerance for silent failure. Worthy handles the subscription lifecycle end to end.
Trusted across media and entertainment
- Streamline
- PixelForge
- Chapter
- FrontRow
- Playhouse
- Broadcast
The whole model runs on lifetime value
In subscriptions the acquisition cost is already spent. What remains is keeping the renewal approving month after month.
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A declined renewal is churn
Keeping cards on file fresh and renewals approving is the difference between compounding growth and a slow leak nobody attributes correctly. Most involuntary churn is a payments problem misread as a product problem.
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Failures are recoverable if you act correctly
A failed payment is not a lost customer when the retry is routed and timed well. The gap between a naive retry and a tuned one is a meaningful share of monthly recurring revenue.
Purpose-built for
subscription economics
Protect renewals, recover failures, and defend against the dispute codes this vertical sees on repeat.
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renewal authorization on tokenized card-on-file volume
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The tools to protect and grow recurring revenue
Bill reliably, recover what fails, and keep card-on-file volume approving as cards expire and reissue
Billing
Subscription billing that holds up
Recurring billing, dunning, and network token updates when cards expire or reissue. Retry logic tuned to issuer preferences reduces involuntary churn without consuming engineering cycles.
Retention
Keep renewals approving
Every card on file is upgraded to a network token where the network supports it, and freshness is maintained automatically as issuers reissue. Renewal authorization stays high at every tier.
Disputes
Defend against media chargebacks
Media disputes cluster in a handful of reason codes. Templates are tuned to each, and evidence assembles automatically from subscription data, access logs, and support history.
Plans
Launch and test pricing models
Tiered plans, annual and monthly options, household bundles, and promotional pricing, all configurable without a release cycle. Test what converts and keep the winner.
A streaming service recovered a meaningful share of failed renewals without touching acquisition
Network tokens kept cards on file current through reissues while multi-processor retry reclaimed renewals that a single-processor setup had been losing to involuntary churn every month.
94.6%
renewal authorization on tokenized card-on-file volume
Products used
Decline Recovery
Customer Vault
Disputes
Smart Routing
Patterns we see across media models
Representative engagements grouped by the kind of media business where each pattern shows up most.
Streaming and video
A streaming service reduced involuntary churn by adding network tokens and retry timing tuned to issuer behavior, protecting revenue that had been leaking at renewal.
Decline Recovery
Customer Vault
Ticketing and events
A ticketing operator absorbed on-sale traffic spikes without degradation, then processed refunds for a postponed event through one structured workflow.
Smart Routing
Disputes
Digital publishing
A publisher ran metered paywall conversions, corporate seat licensing, and one-click reactivation for lapsed subscribers through a single billing configuration.
Decline Recovery
Reconciliation
Gaming and interactive
A games studio handled microtransaction volume alongside subscription tiers, with fraud rules tuned to patterns specific to in-game purchasing.
Risk engine
Acceptance Engine
Connect your content and commerce stack
Worthy integrates with subscription management, entitlement, and customer systems so payments fit the media stack you already run rather than duplicating it.
Built to clear your security review
Holding millions of cards on file raises the bar on how that data is stored and handled.
Ready to protect your renewals?
The team can benchmark your renewal authorization and involuntary churn against comparable books on the first call. Bring your subscription cohort data if you have it.