Card pre-authorization at trial signup

Trial signups that pre-authorize the card.

Hosted, branded trial signup pages for SaaS. Place a hold on the card at signup, capture automatically when the trial converts, all through Stripe on your own account.

  • Stripe-native, no platform fees
  • Branded pages on your domain
  • Automatic capture at trial end
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Acme · Start your 14-day trial
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Email
jane@acme.com
Card information
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We’ll place a $1 hold for verification.
You won’t be charged until your trial ends. Cancel anytime.
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Built on the payment rails you already use
StripeAdyenBraintreeMollieRecurlyChargebee
Stripe is the default provider. Adyen, Braintree, Mollie, Recurly, and Chargebee are available on Pro 500 and above.
~10 min
Average setup time
From Stripe OAuth to first live page
6
Payment providers
Stripe, Adyen, Mollie, Recurly, Braintree, Chargebee
SAQ A
PCI scope
Cards never touch Trial.io servers
99.95%
Enterprise SLA
Backed by a written agreement
How it works

From Stripe key to first paid trial in under 10 minutes.

  1. Step 1

    Connect Stripe

    One-click OAuth with your existing Stripe account. Trial.io places holds and captures on your account, so payouts and refunds stay where they always have.

  2. Step 2

    Build your page

    Drag-and-drop editor for pricing, branding, custom fields. Use your own domain, your own copy, your own product imagery.

  3. Step 3

    Launch and capture

    Embed the form or share the hosted URL. We place the pre-auth, manage the 7-day Stripe reauthorize window, and capture when the trial converts.

Features

Everything you need to run a card-required trial.

The plumbing for trial signup, pre-authorization, and automatic capture, without writing a single line of Stripe code.

Card pre-authorization

Stripe PaymentIntent with manual capture, on your connected account. Filter tire-kickers on day one.

Branded hosted pages

Match your brand, your copy, your product. Serve pages from your own domain with a CNAME.

Smart reauthorization

Stripe holds expire after 7 days. For longer trials, we save the payment method and reauthorize automatically, 2 hours before trial end.

Drop-in or hosted

Embed the form on your marketing site with a single script tag, or send users to a fully hosted URL. Both are SSR-fast.

Built-in analytics

Trial conversion, drop-off, payment failures and retry outcomes in one dashboard. Export anywhere.

Webhooks and integrations

Stripe-native webhooks, plus Slack and Segment out of the box. Wire trial events into your stack with zero glue code.

Holds that don’t expire on you

Stripe holds expire after 7 days. Your trials don’t.

Most card-pre-auth tools fall apart the moment your trial is longer than a week. Trial.io quietly handles the reauthorization in the background, so a 14, 30, or 60-day trial converts as cleanly as a same-day charge.

No customer prompts, no zero-dollar charges, no “please re-enter your card.” Just a captured payment when the trial ends, every time.

  1. Day 0 · Card collected

    User signs up, we create a Stripe PaymentIntent with manual capture on your connected account. A small hold (default $1) lands on their card.

  2. Day 6 · Auto-reauthorize

    Before the Stripe 7-day hold expiry, we save the payment method, release the original hold, and queue an off-session capture for the actual trial end.

  3. Trial end · Capture

    Two hours before trial end, we run the off-session charge. Successes notify you in Slack. Failures retry with a customer-facing recovery flow.

Build vs buy

The plumbing your team would otherwise spend a quarter building.

Card pre-authorization sounds simple until you handle the Stripe 7-day hold expiry, the SCA edge cases, and the dunning flow. We’ve done that work.

What it takes to ship
With Trial.io
Time to ship card-required trials
2 to 4 sprints of engineering
Ten minutes, no code
7-day Stripe hold expiry
Manual cron and re-auth handling
Handled automatically, off-session
Failed-capture recovery
Build your own dunning flow
3-retry recovery flow built in
Branding and custom domain
Custom checkout build
Drag-and-drop editor, CNAME setup
Conversion analytics
Wire up your own dashboard
Funnel + payment outcomes included
Multi-provider support
Rip out and replace your code
Stripe, Adyen, Mollie, more
Why teams trust us

Card pre-auth without rolling your own.

PCI scope SAQ A

Cards are tokenized by Stripe Elements client-side. Trial.io never sees, stores, or transmits the card PAN.

OAuth, not your secret key

Connect through Stripe’s OAuth flow. We hold a scoped access token, encrypted at rest. Revoke any time from Stripe.

Built on Stripe primitives

Standard PaymentIntents with manual capture. No proprietary wrappers, no funds flow through Trial.io.

The reauthorization is the product

Stripe holds expire on day 7. The off-session re-auth logic is the part you’d otherwise build yourself.

Ready to ship?

Stop trialing the wrong customers.

Free for the first 100 trial signups. No credit card required to start.