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Churn

The rate at which customers users or recurring revenue stop during a period.

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Plain English

How much usage or revenue is being lost.

In context

Churn must specify whether it measures customers users or revenue and which denominator and time window apply.

Example

Monthly customer churn fell after the support change.

When you'll hear this

  • business review
  • growth analysis
  • customer success

Common misunderstanding

Customer churn and revenue churn can move differently because customers have different values.

Also known as

attrition

Commonly used by

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