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SaaS Free Trial With Or Without Credit Card? Here's How To Choose

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Aveo Software

January 27, 2023

SaaS Free Trial With Or Without Credit Card? Here's How To Choose

Free trials for SaaS products have become a necessity for many companies. It is no longer trouble for many providers to choose between offering a free trial or not, but what's the headache nowadays is deciding how to deliver their free trials.

Credit Card Required (Opt-Out)

Pros:

  • Higher conversion rates (40-60%)
  • More qualified leads
  • Lower support burden from tire-kickers

Cons:

  • Fewer sign-ups overall
  • Negative perception from some users
  • Higher churn if users forget to cancel

No Credit Card Required (Opt-In)

Pros:

  • More sign-ups and wider top of funnel
  • Lower barrier to entry builds goodwill
  • Better for product-led growth strategies

Cons:

  • Lower conversion rates (15-25%)
  • More unqualified users consuming resources
  • Requires stronger onboarding and nurture sequences

How to Choose

Consider your product's complexity, average contract value, and growth stage. High-ACV products with longer sales cycles often benefit from credit card required trials. Lower-ACV, self-serve products typically do better with no credit card.

At Aveo Software, we build SaaS products with trial conversion baked into the architecture from day one.

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