Trial management
Convert try-first shoppers into ready-to-commit buyers with flexible trial management.
Create, test, and track your free trial’s performance with easy-to-use tools
Let subscribers try before they buy
Allow cautious customers to test your product. This is integral to subscription success—and free trials are an easy way to make it happen.
Test and adopt the right trial strategy
Understand which subscribers convert and why. Test free trials and gauge performance using robust analytics that track acquisition channel, conversion, and cancellations.
Get noticed with personalized offers
Convert more trial customers into loyal customers. Free trials, combined with coupons and gift subscriptions, add powerful tools to your promotions strategy.
Improve customer acquisition, profitability, and lifetime value with free subscription trials
Drive brand loyalty from day one. Free trials give subscribers a taste of your product’s value, encouraging them to stay longer. If you’re looking for proven ways to increase subscriber acquisition and retention, make free trials a part of your strategy.
- Configure by days or months
- Notifications include automatic emails at the end of the trial
- Require a credit card, or request payment, at the trial close
Configuring credit card trials
Simply set a trial period and the paid subscription kicks in at its conclusion using the credit card provided. Subscribers have the option to cancel during the trial.
Allowing for cardless trials
Improve the subscriber sign-up experience and support customer acquisition efforts by offering free trials without billing information.
Offering free trial coupons
Control availability and access to free trials by setting up trial coupons, which helps track the effectiveness of subscription promotions.
Automating trial-ending emails to stay compliant
Be proactive with automatic emails that notify subscribers three days before their trial period ends, as required by some payment providers, including Visa® and MasterCard®.
Measuring your trial’s performance
Track the performance of your subscription trials and monitor conversion rates from trial to active subscriptions—all from an intuitive dashboard.
Recurly has been integral in helping us sort out our pricing plans and deciding how we actually wanted to move our business forward. We wouldn’t be able to function as a business without it.
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