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Trial Validator
Check your free trial setup against SaaS onboarding best practice — card requirement, length, reminders, and onboarding guidance.
About this validator
A free trial's job is to get a prospect to the moment they see your product's value, without so much friction that they leave before getting there — or so little structure that they drift away unnoticed.
This validator checks your trial setup — length, card requirement, reminders, and onboarding — against common SaaS conversion patterns.
Frequently Asked Questions
How is this different from the Subscription Health Audit?
The audit scores your entire subscription lifecycle — trial, activation, renewal, cancellation. This validator checks just the trial setup specifically, with an automatic verdict, in under a minute.
Should trials require a credit card?
There's a real tradeoff — card-required trials convert to paid at a higher rate but have far fewer signups; no-card trials get more signups but convert lower. Neither is universally correct, but a no-card trial without reminder emails is a genuine risk, since users can drift away with no prompt to act.
Is my input data saved anywhere?
No. Everything is evaluated in your browser from your selections. Nothing is sent to or stored on our servers, and no account is required.
Go deeper
This validator checks one artifact. For a full system-wide score, run the Subscription Health Audit.
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