# How to Offer Free Trials Without Requiring a Credit Card

> How to offer a free trial without requiring a credit card: manage trial state in your own app, gate features on a trial_ends_at timestamp, and trigger checkout only at upgrade. Includes code examples, upgrade triggers, and conversion benchmarks.
- **Author**: Aarthi Poonia
- **Published**: 2026-03-31
- **Category**: Payments, SaaS, How-To
- **URL**: https://dodopayments.com/blogs/en/free-trial-no-credit-card

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**To offer a free trial without requiring a credit card, keep the trial entirely inside your own application and create a subscription in your payment provider only at the moment the user upgrades.** You never touch a payment API during the trial itself.

That is four steps:

1. Collect an email at signup and create the user record. Ask for nothing else.
2. Store a `trial_ends_at` timestamp on that record.
3. Gate premium features by comparing the current time against `trial_ends_at`.
4. Trigger checkout when the trial expires or when the user hits a paywalled feature.

Nothing else is required. No card is stored, no subscription object exists during the trial, and nothing needs cancelling if the user never converts. Because there is no payment object, a trial that never converts costs you nothing in processing fees.

The harder part is conversion, because you have removed the automatic charge that used to do the work for you. A card requirement filters for high-intent leads, but it also blocks curious prospects who are not yet convinced. Asking for payment details at signup turns away a large share of the people who would otherwise start a trial, and buyers are increasingly wary of adding another recurring charge to a card they have to remember to cancel.

This guide covers the trade-off between the two models, the exact implementation using Dodo Payments, and the upgrade triggers that decide whether a no-card trial actually produces revenue. If you are still choosing a model, [free trial vs freemium for SaaS](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/saas-free-trial-vs-freemium) compares them directly.

One clarification before the detail, because two different people search this. If you are a buyer trying to start a trial without a card or a PayPal account, the only reliable route is to pick a vendor that runs an opt-in trial, since there is no legitimate way to bypass a checkout that has been built to require payment details. If you are the vendor deciding whether to require them, the rest of this guide is the implementation. The good news for the first group is that the second group keeps growing: removing the card field is now one of the cheapest conversion levers available to a self-serve product, and it costs the vendor nothing in processing fees for trials that never convert.

## The Data: Credit Card Required vs. No Credit Card

Choosing between these two models is a trade-off between volume and conversion rate. Neither is objectively better, but they serve different business goals and market segments.

> The best payment infrastructure is the one your team never has to think about. If your developers are debugging payment edge cases instead of building features, something is fundamentally wrong with your stack.
>
> \- Ayush Agarwal, Co-founder & CPTO at Dodo Payments

### Credit Card Required (Opt-Out)

In this model, users provide payment details upfront and are automatically charged when the trial ends unless they cancel. This typically results in a higher trial-to-paid conversion rate, because the friction happens at the start and the charge is the default outcome. However, the total number of signups is meaningfully lower. This model is often used by B2C services or established B2B tools where the brand trust is already high.

If you collect a card at signup, customers may notice a temporary pending line item from card verification, which our guide to [authorization holds](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/authorization-hold) explains.

### No Credit Card Required (Opt-In)

Users sign up with just an email address. When the trial ends, they lose access unless they manually enter their payment details to upgrade. This model produces materially more trial signups than the opt-out model. The conversion rate is lower, but the absolute number of paid customers can still come out ahead because the top of the funnel is so much wider.

The direction of each trade-off is consistent even though the exact numbers depend entirely on your product, price point, and audience:

| Metric                   | CC Required                   | No CC Required                  |
| :----------------------- | :---------------------------- | :------------------------------ |
| Signup Rate              | Lower                         | Higher                          |
| Trial-to-Paid Conversion | Higher                        | Lower                           |
| Revenue per Visitor      | Often lower due to low volume | Often higher due to high volume |
| Implementation Effort    | Moderate                      | High (requires nurture)         |

### Which model should you actually pick

There is no universally correct answer, but the decision is more tractable than it looks because a few product facts do most of the work.

Choose a no-card trial when your product delivers visible value inside the trial window without a services engagement, when your price point is low enough that the buyer decides alone, and when you have the marketing capacity to run onboarding email and in-app nudges. Self-serve tools with a short time-to-value are the clearest case.

Choose a card-required trial when your sales motion already involves a human, when onboarding requires configuration or data import before the product does anything useful, or when your infrastructure cost per trial user is high enough that unqualified signups are genuinely expensive. Running expensive inference for anonymous signups is the version of this that catches AI products.

Be honest about the cost of each. A no-card trial buys volume and pays for it in support load, abuse, and a longer nurture cycle. A card-required trial buys qualification and pays for it in a much smaller top of funnel plus a share of conversions that were never really intentional. The failure mode is picking the no-card model for the wider funnel and then not building the nurture and prompting work that makes the wider funnel convert.

The decision is also reversible, which takes some pressure off it. Moving from a card-required trial to a no-card one is a straightforward change on the payment side, since you are removing a step rather than adding one, but it shifts work onto onboarding email, in-app prompting, and lifecycle messaging that has to exist before the switch, not after. Run it as a cohort test rather than a flag flip: send a share of new signups down the no-card path, and compare the two on paid customers per thousand visitors and on month-three retention rather than on trial-to-paid conversion alone.

### The churn quality difference nobody models

Trial-to-paid conversion rate is the wrong single metric to compare these two models on, because the two models produce structurally different customers.

A card-required trial converts partly by default. Some share of those conversions are people who intended to cancel and did not get around to it. Those customers show up in your conversion rate immediately and then show up again a month later as refund requests, as disputes filed by someone who does not recognize the charge, and as first-invoice cancellations. The conversion number looks strong and the cohort decays fast.

A no-card trial has no default. Every conversion is an active decision made by someone who has already used the product, entered their card on purpose, and knows what they are paying for. The conversion rate is lower, but the customers behind it tend to renew more reliably and dispute less, because there is no ambiguity about what they signed up for.

The practical implication is to judge the two models on month-two and month-three retention rather than on the trial-to-paid number alone. If you only measure the conversion event, the card-required model will always look better than it is. The diagnostic tactics in [reducing customer churn](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/reduce-customer-churn-tactics) apply directly here, and it is worth separating deliberate cancellations from [involuntary churn caused by failed payments](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/involuntary-churn-failed-payments) before you conclude a trial model is underperforming.

One more consideration sits upstream of both models. If your plan structure or price point is wrong, no trial mechanic fixes it. Whether you charge once or on a recurring basis changes what a trial even means, which [one-time vs subscription pricing](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/one-time-vs-subscription-saas-pricing) covers, and the way you present the number at the upgrade moment matters as much as the number itself, which is the subject of [pricing psychology](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/pricing-psychology).

## Implementation with Dodo Payments

Implementing a no-credit-card trial requires a clear separation between your application's authentication and the payment layer. You want to let users in immediately and only trigger the payment flow when they have reached a value milestone or their time is up.

### 1. The Signup Flow

Your signup form should be as minimal as possible. Ask for an email and a password, or use social login. Do not mention payments, billing, or credit cards at this stage. The goal is to get the user into the product in under 30 seconds.

Once the user signs up, your backend should create a user record and set a `trial_ends_at` timestamp in your database. A standard 14-day or 30-day window is common, but you should choose a length that gives users enough time to experience your "Aha!" moment.

Store slightly more than the expiry date while you are at it. Three fields carry their weight later: `trial_started_at`, so you can measure time-to-value per cohort rather than guessing at trial length; `trial_extended_at`, so support can grant a one-off extension without editing the expiry by hand and losing the audit trail; and a nullable `intended_plan`, set whenever a user clicks into a paid feature, so the upgrade screen can pre-select the plan they already showed interest in instead of asking them to choose again. None of these touch your payment provider, because at this stage there is nothing to touch.

### 2. Granting Trial Access

Instead of creating a [subscription](https://docs.dodopayments.com/features/subscription) in your payment provider immediately, you manage the trial state internally. Your application logic should check the `trial_ends_at` date to determine what features the user can access.

Using a [merchant of record for SaaS](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/merchant-of-record-for-saas) like Dodo Payments allows you to keep your billing logic clean. You don't need to worry about creating "free" subscriptions in a third-party system that you might have to clean up later if the user never converts.

There is a second option worth knowing about. Dodo Payments also supports native trial periods on subscriptions, where the subscription exists from day one and simply does not bill until the trial ends. That is the right pattern for a card-required trial, and the wrong one for a no-card trial, because it needs payment details upfront. The distinction matters when you are reading the [subscription documentation](https://docs.dodopayments.com/features/subscription): use the native trial period when you collect a card, and application-side trial state when you do not.

#### If you bill by usage rather than by seat, grant credits instead of days

A time-boxed trial assumes the cost of serving a trial user is roughly flat. For metered products it is not, because one user can consume in an afternoon what another consumes in a month. A 14-day window gives you no protection against that.

The better shape for a usage-priced product is a fixed allowance rather than a fixed deadline: grant a quantity of credits, calls, or tokens at signup, meter consumption against it exactly as you would for a paying customer, and prompt the upgrade when the allowance runs low rather than when a clock expires. The trial then costs you a known maximum, and the prompt arrives at the moment of demonstrated need instead of an arbitrary date.

That approach requires your metering to exist before your billing does, which is the sequencing described in [how to implement usage-based billing](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/implement-usage-based-billing) and the model comparison in [usage-based billing for SaaS](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/usage-based-billing-saas). The underlying primitives are documented under [usage-based billing](https://dodopayments.com/billing/usage-based-billing), and if the allowance is denominated in credits rather than raw events, [adding credits billing to an AI app](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/add-credits-billing-ai-app) covers the ledger design. For a sense of how other products size an allowance before charging, [usage-based pricing examples](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/usage-based-pricing-examples) collects the patterns.

### 3. In-Trial Engagement and Value Delivery

A no-CC trial is a race against time. You must prove value before the clock runs out. During the trial, you should track usage stats and display them to the user. Show them how much time they've saved, how many reports they've generated, or how much revenue they've tracked.

Strategic upgrade prompts are essential here. Instead of just a "Trial ends in 3 days" banner, use feature gates. If a user tries to access a premium feature, show a modal explaining the value of that feature and offering an upgrade. You can also use [subscription pricing models](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/subscription-pricing-models) that scale with usage to make the upgrade feel more natural.

### 4. Trial Expiry and the Checkout Overlay

When the trial expires, you should restrict access to the core product. Instead of a "403 Forbidden" page, show a dedicated "Trial Expired" screen. This screen should summarize the value they received during the trial and provide a clear call to action to upgrade.

This is where the [overlay checkout](https://docs.dodopayments.com/developer-resources/overlay-checkout) from Dodo Payments earns its place. You can trigger the checkout directly on your "Trial Expired" page without redirecting the user to a different domain. This keeps the context high and the friction low. Offering one-tap [digital wallet](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/digital-wallet-solution) options at this moment, where the customer pays with Apple Pay or Google Pay instead of typing a card, further reduces drop-off at the exact point conversion is most fragile. The [checkout documentation](https://docs.dodopayments.com/features/checkout) covers the hosted and overlay variants and what each one can be customized.

### 5. Webhook Activation

Once the user completes the payment through the overlay, Dodo Payments sends a `subscription.active` or `payment.succeeded` [webhook](https://docs.dodopayments.com/developer-resources/webhooks) to your server. Your backend listens for this event, identifies the user via the `customer_id` or metadata, and updates their status from `trialing` to `active`.

This automated flow ensures that users get instant access to the product the moment they pay. It also handles the complexities of [global billing](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/global-billing) and tax compliance automatically, so you can focus on your product. You can follow our [integration guide](https://docs.dodopayments.com/developer-resources/integration-guide) to set this up in minutes.

Because Dodo Payments operates as a Merchant of Record, the tax treatment of that first charge is handled for you across 190+ countries, including VAT, GST, and US sales tax. That matters more on a no-card trial than a card-required one, because your first paying customers in a new country often arrive before you have thought about registering there. Once a user is paying, point them at a self-serve [customer portal](https://docs.dodopayments.com/features/customer-portal) so plan changes and invoice downloads do not become support tickets.

### 6. Turning the Upgrade Into a Durable Subscription

The upgrade is where the trial stops being application state and becomes a real subscription, and there are four details that decide whether that transition holds up in production.

**Map your user to a customer once, not per checkout.** Create the customer record in Dodo Payments on the first upgrade attempt and store the returned identifier on your user row. Pass your own user ID through as metadata on the checkout session too. When the webhook arrives you then have two independent ways to resolve the event back to a user, which saves you when someone upgrades using a different email than the one they signed up with.

**Make activation idempotent.** Webhooks can be retried and can arrive out of order, so the handler that flips a user from `trialing` to `active` should be safe to run twice. Key it on the event ID or the subscription ID and make a repeat delivery a no-op. Without that, a retried `subscription.active` event can double-extend an entitlement or fire a second welcome email. The [webhook documentation](https://docs.dodopayments.com/developer-resources/webhooks) covers signature verification and retry behavior.

**Do not block the user on the webhook.** Overlay checkout returns a success event in the browser before the webhook necessarily lands on your server. Treat the browser event as permission to show an optimistic "you are upgraded" state, and treat the webhook as the authoritative write. If the two disagree after a short grace window, trust the webhook and reconcile.

**Plan for the first renewal, not just the first charge.** A no-card trial means every one of your paying customers entered their card exactly once, recently, on a device you do not control. The first renewal 30 days later is where expired cards, issuer declines, and 3D Secure step-ups surface. Enable retries and recovery emails before that renewal cycle arrives rather than after, using [subscription dunning](https://docs.dodopayments.com/features/recovery/subscription-dunning) on the provider side and the sequencing described in [dunning management](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/dunning-management). Users who abandon the upgrade checkout halfway are a separate recoverable group, which is what [abandoned cart recovery](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/abandoned-cart-recovery-saas) addresses.

If you want the wider mechanics of how recurring charges, billing cycles, and proration behave once the subscription exists, the [recurring payments guide](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/recurring-payments-guide) is the fuller reference.

## The Conversion Funnel

The journey from a free trial user to a paid subscriber is a series of psychological transitions. You aren't just asking for money; you are asking the user to commit to your tool as a solution to their problem.

```mermaid
flowchart TD
    A[Signup - Email Only] --> B[Trial Active - Full Access]
    B --> C{Value Milestones}
    C -->|Milestone Hit| D[Upgrade Prompt]
    C -->|Usage Limit Hit| E[Feature Gate]
    D --> F[Trial Expiry]
    E --> F
    F --> G[Checkout Overlay]
    G --> H[Paid Subscriber]
    H --> I[Ongoing Billing & Retention]
```

Each stage of this funnel requires a different communication style. Early in the trial, focus on education. In the middle, focus on utility. Toward the end, focus on the consequences of losing access. If you find that users are dropping off, you can use a [freemium calculator](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/freemium-calculator) to model how different trial lengths or feature sets impact your bottom line.

## When to Prompt an Upgrade

Timing is everything. If you prompt too early, you look desperate. If you prompt too late, the user might have already moved on. Here are the four most effective times to ask for the upgrade:

- **Feature Gates:** When a user clicks on a feature that is only available in paid plans. This is the highest intent moment because they have already expressed interest in the functionality.
- **Usage Milestones:** When a user reaches a certain volume of activity (e.g., "You've sent 100 emails this month"). This proves they are getting heavy use out of the tool.
- **Time-Based Reminders:** Gentle nudges at the 7-day, 3-day, and 24-hour marks. These should be helpful, not annoying.
- **Value-Based Triggers:** After a user completes a key action that delivers significant value, such as successfully integrating an API or closing a deal within your CRM.

If none of these are converting, the problem is usually upstream of the prompt. [Why free users don't upgrade](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/why-free-users-dont-upgrade-saas-tactics) covers the diagnosis, and [checkout optimization](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/checkout-optimization) covers the part of the funnel where intent is already high and drop-off is still happening.

## Technical Implementation: Code Examples

To implement this, you need a way to check the trial status and trigger the checkout. Here is a conceptual example of a trial middleware and a checkout trigger using the Dodo Payments SDK.

### Trial Status Middleware (Node.js/Express)

This middleware checks if a user's trial is still valid before allowing access to protected routes.

```javascript
const checkTrialStatus = (req, res, next) => {
  const user = req.user;
  const now = new Date();

  if (user.subscriptionStatus === "active") {
    return next();
  }

  if (user.trialEndsAt && now < new Date(user.trialEndsAt)) {
    return next();
  }

  // If trial is expired and no active subscription
  return res.status(403).json({
    error: "Trial expired",
    message: "Please upgrade to a paid plan to continue using the service.",
    upgradeUrl: "/billing/upgrade",
  });
};
```

### Triggering the Checkout Overlay

When the user clicks "Upgrade," you can use the [Dodo Payments SDK](https://docs.dodopayments.com/developer-resources/dodo-payments-sdks) to open the checkout overlay.

```javascript
import { DodoPayments } from "dodopayments-checkout";

// Initialize once; events arrive through onEvent
DodoPayments.Initialize({
  mode: "live", // 'test' or 'live'
  displayType: "overlay",
  onEvent: (event) => {
    if (event.event_type === "checkout.redirect") {
      // Customer is sent to the session's return_url (e.g. /dashboard?status=upgraded).
      // Flip trialing -> active only when the subscription.active webhook arrives.
    }
  },
});

const handleUpgrade = async (productId) => {
  try {
    // 1. Create a checkout session on your backend
    const response = await fetch("/api/create-checkout-session", {
      method: "POST",
      body: JSON.stringify({ productId }),
    });
    const { checkoutUrl } = await response.json();

    // 2. Open the overlay
    await DodoPayments.Checkout.open({ checkoutUrl });
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("Upgrade failed:", error);
  }
};
```

By using [embedded payments for SaaS](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/embedded-payments-saas), you ensure that the transition from "trial user" to "customer" is as smooth as possible. Understanding [how the payment gateway works](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/how-payment-gateway-works) behind that overlay helps you reason about where declines and delays creep in. The less the user has to think about the payment process, the more likely they are to complete it.

## Best Practices for No-CC Trials

If you decide to go with the no-credit-card model, follow these best practices to maximize your conversion rate:

### 1. Optimize Trial Length

A 14-day trial is the industry standard for a reason. It is long enough for a user to explore the product but short enough to maintain a sense of urgency. If your product has a very long implementation time, you might need 30 days. If it provides instant value, 7 days might be enough.

### 2. Be Transparent About Expiry

Don't let the trial end silently. Send an email three days before expiry and another one on the day of. Include a summary of what they will lose access to. Transparency builds trust, which is vital for long-term retention and [reducing churn metrics](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/reduce-churn-metrics-saas).

### 3. Use "Soft" Restrictions

Instead of locking the user out of the entire app, consider a "read-only" mode. Let them see their data but prevent them from adding new data or performing core actions. This keeps them coming back to the app, which gives you more opportunities to prompt the upgrade.

### 4. A/B Test Your Prompts

Test different copy, colors, and placements for your upgrade buttons. Sometimes a small change in how you frame the value proposition can lead to a significant lift in conversions. You can also experiment with offering a small discount for users who upgrade before their trial expires.

### 5. Monitor for Subscription Fatigue

In an era of [subscription fatigue](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/subscription-fatigue), users are wary of adding another recurring bill. Make sure your pricing is clear and that it is easy for them to see the ROI they are getting from your tool. [Subscription model best practices](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/subscription-model-best-practices) covers how plan structure, billing intervals, and cancellation flow affect whether that second month happens.

### 6. Price the Trial for the Market You Actually Sell To

A no-card trial widens your top of funnel geographically as well as numerically, because there is nothing stopping a user in another country from signing up. If your checkout only accepts cards in one currency, you will convert a fraction of them. Dodo Payments covers 40+ payment methods, 80+ currencies, and 220+ countries and territories, with 22 languages at checkout, and Adaptive Currency lets the customer pay in their own currency while the merchant pays 0% FX. Base pricing is 4% + 40c per domestic US transaction plus 0.5% for subscriptions, with no fixed monthly cost, so a month of trials that convert badly does not cost you a platform fee.

Payment method breadth matters most at the exact moment a no-card trial converts, because that is the first and only time you ask. A user who has no card on hand, or who simply prefers not to use one, needs an alternative in the checkout or they abandon. PayPal is available at an additional 3%, buy now pay later through Klarna and Afterpay or Clearpay also at 3%, and ACH Direct Debit in the US or SEPA Direct Debit in the EU at a flat 1.5% capped at $15 or EUR 15, which replaces the card fee rather than adding to it. The full list is in the [payment methods reference](https://docs.dodopayments.com/features/payment-methods).

### 7. Decide Who Carries the Tax Liability Before You Scale

The moment a no-card trial converts into a paid subscription from another country, the sale creates a tax obligation somewhere. On a payment service provider you own that registration and filing. On a [Merchant of Record](https://dodopayments.com/payments/merchant-of-record) the platform does, because it is the legal seller on the invoice rather than you. This is easy to defer while trials are free and expensive to fix once conversions are global, and the trade-off is set out in [merchant of record vs PSP](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/merchant-of-record-vs-psp) with the underlying model explained in [what is a merchant of record](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/what-is-a-merchant-of-record).

### 8. Match the Trial Model to Your Distribution Channel

The four-step pattern above assumes you control the checkout. That assumption breaks the moment your product ships through a channel that owns billing for you, and the workaround is different in each case.

Inside a native mobile app, a free trial has to run through the store's own introductory-offer system, and the store stays the merchant of record on the resulting subscription. Teams that want a no-card trial with their own checkout usually move the upgrade step to the web instead, which is the same reasoning behind [selling software outside the app store](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/sell-software-without-app-store) and the trade-offs covered in our [RevenueCat alternatives](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/revenuecat-alternatives) comparison.

Membership sites and course platforms have the mirror-image problem. The platform already gates content and holds the member record, so the trial state lives there rather than in your database, and your control over upgrade timing depends on what the platform exposes. If that constraint is what pushed you toward a custom build, [Memberstack alternatives](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/memberstack-alternatives) and [Teachable alternatives](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/teachable-alternatives) compare how much of the billing layer each option hands back to you.

## FAQ

### Is it better to offer a free trial or a freemium plan?

A free trial gives users full access to premium features for a limited time, while a freemium plan gives them limited access forever. Free trials are better for complex products that need to be fully experienced to be understood. Freemium is better for products with strong network effects or very low marginal costs.

### How do I prevent people from signing up for multiple free trials?

While you can't stop it entirely, you can limit it by requiring email verification, blocking disposable email domains, and tracking device fingerprints or IP addresses. However, don't make your security so tight that it creates friction for legitimate users.

### Do I need a payment provider during a no-credit-card free trial?

Not during the trial itself. The trial is application state held on a `trial_ends_at` timestamp in your own database, so you only need a payment provider at the moment a user upgrades, which is when you create the customer and subscription and take the first charge. That is why a no-card trial costs you nothing in payment fees for users who never convert, and why nothing needs cancelling when a trial lapses.

### How can a user get a free trial without a credit card or PayPal?

From the buyer's side, the only dependable route is choosing a product that runs an opt-in trial, where signup takes an email address and payment details are requested only at upgrade. There is no legitimate workaround for a checkout that has been built to require a card, and virtual or disposable card numbers usually fail verification or breach the vendor's terms. From the vendor's side, supporting this is straightforward: keep trial state in your own application, gate features on an expiry timestamp, and offer alternatives such as ACH or SEPA Direct Debit, Klarna, or Apple Pay and Google Pay at the upgrade step so the conversion does not depend on a card either.

### What happens if a user's payment fails during the upgrade?

Keep a [dunning management](https://dodopayments.com/blogs/dunning-management) flow in place. If the initial upgrade payment fails, allow the user a grace period to update their card details before revoking access again. On Dodo Payments, revenue recovery covering abandoned carts, dunning, and payment retries is free to enable, and the 5% fee applies only to revenue that is actually recovered, so there is no downside to switching it on before your first failed upgrade.

## Final Thoughts

Offering a free trial without a credit card is a powerful way to grow your SaaS. It removes the biggest hurdle to signup and allows you to build a relationship with your users based on the value of your product. By combining a frictionless signup flow with strategic upgrade prompts and a short, well-timed checkout, you can turn a high volume of curious visitors into a loyal base of paid subscribers.

If you are ready to build a better checkout experience for your SaaS, check out [Dodo Payments](https://dodopayments.com), the [billing platform](https://dodopayments.com/billing), the [payments stack](https://dodopayments.com/payments), and our [pricing](https://dodopayments.com/pricing) to see how we can help you scale globally without the headache of tax and compliance.
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