Trials & first-cycle discounts

Two levers help you win new tenants: a free trial so they can try the platform before paying, and a lower price for the first billing cycle so the first invoice is easy to say yes to. Both are set from the operator panel, no coupon codes required.

What you can do

• Set the trial length in days and the plan every new sign-up starts on.
• Give any price a first-cycle amount that differs from the regular one, for example a discounted first month or first year.
• Remind tenants by email a set number of days before their trial or plan runs out.
• Turn trials off altogether so tenants must choose a plan during sign-up.

How it works

A trial is a subscription with no payment method behind it. When it ends, the tenant is moved to the fallback plan you chose for expired subscriptions and the dashboard asks them to pick a paid plan; nobody is charged without choosing to be. First-cycle prices are passed to the payment gateway as part of checkout: Stripe applies a one-time coupon, PayPal uses an introductory billing cycle, and wallet payments simply charge the lower amount. From the second cycle on the regular price applies automatically.

Included in every FS Poster SaaS licence: Starter, Ultimate and Infinity.