Revenue leakage calculator
How much are you leaking?
Most businesses lose 1% to 3% of revenue to leakage they never see: failed payments, aged invoices, prices that never moved, duplicate charges. Size the likely figure from industry benchmarks below, then replace it with the real number from your own data.
How much are you leaking?
Estimate what is slipping through the cracks.
A rough sizing from industry benchmarks. The only way to know your real number is to look at your own data, which is exactly what the free report does.
Industry benchmarks suggest 1-3% for most finance teams
Revenue you have already earned but not fully collected: failed payments, missed uplifts, overdue and duplicate invoices, silent churn.
This is only an estimate. Get a free, read-only report of exactly what is leaking in your own data, with the source record behind every finding.
What this estimate is, and is not
This is a benchmark-based sizing, not a measurement of your business. The 1% to 3% range is a commonly cited industry estimate rather than a single published figure. On payments, GoCardless found across 55,000 businesses and 52 million transactions that around 2.9% of UK Direct Debit payments fail and roughly 30% of churn is involuntary. Your real figure depends on your own data and can be higher or lower.
The only way to know is to look. See what revenue leakage is, the detection approach, or the guides on finding each kind of leak in your own systems.
Common questions
How does the revenue leakage calculator work?
It applies a leakage rate to your monthly revenue to size the likely annual loss. The default range, 1% to 3%, is a commonly cited industry estimate for how much revenue leaks away undetected. It is a rough sizing of the problem, not a measurement of your business. The only way to know your real figure is to look at your own billing, payment and accounting data, which is what the free report does.
Where do the benchmark numbers come from?
The 1% to 3% leakage range is a commonly cited industry estimate rather than a single published figure. On the payments side, GoCardless, measuring across 55,000 businesses and 52 million transactions, found that around 2.9% of UK Direct Debit payments fail, and that roughly 30% of customer churn is involuntary, a payment that failed rather than a customer who chose to leave. Failed collections alone put real numbers behind the estimate.
What actually leaks?
Failed card payments and direct debits that were never retried, invoices that aged past their due date without being chased, recurring prices or contract rates that never moved at renewal, the same customer charged or invoiced twice, cash received but never matched to an invoice, and credit notes left unapplied. Each is small, sits in a different system, and looks like someone else's job, which is why it goes unnoticed.
Is the estimate my real number?
No. The calculator sizes the problem from benchmarks so you have a starting figure before you have looked. Your real number depends on your own data, and it can be higher or lower than the estimate. The free revenue leakage report replaces the estimate with the actual figure from your connected systems, with the source record behind every finding.
How do I find my real leakage figure?
Request a free revenue leakage report. LeakIQ connects read-only to the systems you already run, or reads a CSV or JSON export, and surfaces each leak with the source record attached so your team can verify it against the ledger. It is NDA-backed, read-only, and yours to keep, and LeakIQ never writes back to your systems or moves money.