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Winback campaigns that save customers.

Incentivize customers across every channel at the exact moment they want to cancel. Win customers back with the right offer at the right moment. Stop churn at the finish line, and turn retained customers into future advocates of your brand with an outstanding reward experience.

Winback flow overview

The cheapest new customer is the one a winback campaign saved.

Every cancellation is a chance to protect lifetime value at a fraction of cold-acquisition cost. Fight churn at every touchpoint, and even turn churning customers into brand advocates with an outstanding reward experience.

Reduce

Churn rates

Customers are retained at the cancel attempt and in the switching window.

Maximize

Lifetime value

Saved customers stay longer and bring in more revenue over time.

Increase

Net growth

Every retained or won-back customer counts as real growth.

Cut

Cost of acquisition

Keeping a customer costs a fraction of winning a new one.

Catch them at the cancel attempt. Recover the ones who leave.

Two moments matter: the cancel attempt and the next switching window. Aklamio lets you deliver the right offer at both.

Build winback offers

Configure save and return offers across every cohort, channel and moment that matters: cancel attempts, contract ends, billing shocks, seasonal triggers. One offer library, every scenario.

Save at the cancel attempt

When the customer hits the cancel flow, the platform surfaces the save offer in-product or on the call center or shop agent's desktop. Payout only if they stay.

Save before contract ends

As a canceled contract nears its end, present a compelling renewal offer before the customer signs with someone else.

Win back from a competitor

For customers who left anyway, surface a return offer at the next switching window: contract end on the new provider, a billing shock, a seasonal trigger.

Reward on stay or re-sign

Payout triggers when the customer actually keeps their contract or signs back. Every saved and won-back outcome auditable per cohort and per channel.

Turn them into brand advocates

A reward just received is the strongest moment to ask for a referral. Roll the cohort straight into your referral program and let them earn again.

The right offer for every churn reason.

Every cohort calls for a different offer at a different moment. Run them all on one platform, with one ledger.

Currently canceling

In the cancel flow right now

The save offer surfaces in-product or on the agent's desktop, payout only if they stay.

Recently canceled

Within 90 days of switching

The buyer's-remorse window where the new provider's weak spots are still fresh.

Lapsed accounts

Six months after canceling

A full re-acquisition with a stronger offer.

Contract end on the competitor

Regulated-market switching window

The customer's new contract is now up for renewal. The cleanest switching window, potentially even shortened by a contract buyout program.

Service-failure churn

Lost over an incident

Lost over an outage, billing error or support incident, recoverable with goodwill and a fresh offer.

Inactive leads

Signed up, never converted

Kept in the cohort for a second attempt at the right moment.

The features and services that bring a lapsed customer back.

Every winback program runs on the same platform and the same managed service. These are the parts that do the work.

API connectors that embed the platform into your stack for automation and full data access.

Instead of an in-house build: winback campaigns on Aklamio.

The usual alternative is an in-house build. Here is how it compares with winback campaigns on Aklamio.

In-houseAklamio
SpeedMonths to launchSet up in a few days
TargetingEvery segment its own projectPer audience, by churn reason or value
Reward varietyEvery reward type its own projectVouchers, donations or cash, list price intact
ExperienceGeneric flows and redirectsOn-domain and in your brand
Measuring impactControl groups built in-house, or not at allControl groups measure the effect
Multi-marketEvery market implemented againConfigured once, deployed across markets

Built for regulated industries. Ready for procurement.

Compliance and fraud prevention are handled by the platform, not handed back to your team.

GDPRCCPAISO 27001SOC 2FCAMFARBAC

Data protection

GDPR compliant by design. CCPA compliant for US programs. EU data residency and processing agreements available.

Certified & compliant

ISO 27001 certified. SOC 2 compliant. FCA regulated in the UK. Evidence and security questionnaires available on request.

Access & audit

Role-based access control and full audit logs, with multi-factor authentication on every account.

Fraud prevention

Aklamio runs fraud detection and response around the clock. Fraudulent claims caught before they cost you.

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Quick and easy to claim a £20 reward earned from a Lebara referral. Paid straight into my bank account.

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Questions we get asked

Straight answers on when an offer should reach the customer, who should be eligible, and how a real winback is told apart from a customer who would have returned anyway.

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When should a winback offer reach the customer?+

The strongest moment is the cancellation attempt itself, before the customer has committed elsewhere. An offer presented in the cancel flow reaches someone who has decided to leave but has not yet signed with anyone else, which is the last point at which the decision is still open. Offers sent after the account closes still work, but they compete against a provider the customer has already chosen.

Does a winback offer train customers to threaten cancellation?+

It can if every cancellation is met with the same offer, which is why eligibility is a rule rather than a reflex. Restricting the offer by tenure, by value, by how recently the customer last received one, or to segments your churn model flags, keeps it away from customers who are gaming it. The reward is also issued against a confirmed retention or reactivation rather than at the moment the threat is made.

What is a realistic winback rate?+

It depends far more on timing and on why the customer left than on the size of the reward. Customers leaving over price or over a competitor offer respond to an incentive; customers leaving over a service failure usually do not, because the reward does not address what went wrong. Segmenting by reason for leaving before spending on an offer is what separates a program that pays back from one that does not.

Can a winback campaign target former customers who left years ago?+

Yes, where you still hold a lawful basis to contact them. A lapsed audience is uploaded or read from your CRM, and the offer is scoped to that list for a bounded period as a campaign. Long-lapsed customers often respond better than recent leavers, because the reason they left has usually been fixed and the relationship has had time to cool. The longer ago the cancellation, the more a winback campaign effectively becomes a sales promotion.

How does a winback reward avoid cannibalizing customers who would return anyway?+

By holding out a control group and comparing return rates. A share of the eligible audience is deliberately left without an offer, and the difference in return rate between the two groups is the program's true effect, not the headline number of customers who came back. Without that comparison a winback program will always look successful, because some customers return on their own.

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