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title: "TrialValid: card-backed free trials for Stripe sellers"
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summary: "TrialValid holds the plan price on a card at sign-up, starts a free trial in your Stripe account and captures the hold just before the trial ends."
related: ["https://trialvalid.com/product.md", "https://trialvalid.com/docs.md", "https://trialvalid.com/pricing.md"]
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# TrialValid: card-backed free trials for Stripe sellers

> **For AI agents:** the complete index of TrialValid pages is [llms.txt](https://trialvalid.com/llms.txt). Every page is also served as markdown at its URL plus .md.

TrialValid holds the plan price on a card at sign-up, starts a free trial in your Stripe account and captures the hold just before the trial ends.

TrialValid holds the plan price on a card at sign-up, starts a free trial in your Stripe account and captures the hold just before the trial ends.

## What it does

- Holds the plan price on the buyer's card at sign-up. A card that cannot be held never starts a trial.
- Starts a free-trial subscription in your own Stripe account, ending on the date the buyer was shown.
- Captures the hold two hours before the trial ends, then credits the customer balance so the first invoice nets to zero and the buyer is charged once.
- Keeps a time-stamped record of what the buyer was shown, and sends a reminder before the first charge.
- Money stays in your Stripe account, and the plan price is the whole cost.

## Where to go next

- [Product overview](https://trialvalid.com/product.md)
- [Trial lifecycle](https://trialvalid.com/docs/trial-lifecycle.md)
- [Pricing](https://trialvalid.com/pricing.md)

## Questions

### What does TrialValid do?

It puts a hold on the buyer's card for the plan price when they sign up, starts a free-trial subscription in your Stripe account, and captures the hold shortly before the trial ends. A card that cannot be held never starts a trial.

### Whose Stripe account does the money go to?

Yours. You connect your own Stripe account. Money always sits there, and the plan price is the whole cost of TrialValid.

### What does TrialValid cost?

Starter is $29 a month for accounts with $0 up to $10,000 of monthly recurring revenue, and it starts with a 14-day trial for $1. Larger accounts pay $95 to $1,995 a month and begin with a booked onboarding call.

### How do I get started?

Starter begins online with a 14-day trial for $1. Growth and larger plans begin with a booked onboarding call, where we set up your first trial page with you.

### What happens if the buyer cancels?

Before the card is confirmed, the hold is released. While the hold is open, the subscription is canceled and the hold released. After the capture and before the trial ends, the subscription is canceled, the capture refunded and the credit reversed. After the trial ends, you refund the invoice in Stripe.

### Does TrialValid store card numbers?

No. The card is collected by Stripe Elements and Stripe.js on the hosted page. TrialValid stores ids and metadata that Stripe returns, not card data.

## Related

- [How card-backed free trials work](https://trialvalid.com/product.md)
- [Documentation](https://trialvalid.com/docs.md)
- [Plans from $29 with a 14-day trial for $1](https://trialvalid.com/pricing.md)

Index for agents: https://trialvalid.com/llms.txt.