SKILL-036 Billing and monetization Locked skill

Free trials

A trial is just a subscription in the `trialing` state. Decide up front what happens at trial end, and remind the user before it arrives.

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What this skill helps you build

Give prospects the full product for a fixed window — then convert or expire them cleanly, with reminders before the trial ends.

The production takeaway

A trial is just a subscription in the `trialing` state. Decide up front what happens at trial end, and remind the user before it arrives.

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Inside this skill

The full skill expands these implementation areas with decisions, edge cases, prompts, tests, and framework-specific code.

Billing and monetization
What this helps you build

A time boxed free trial of your paid product: the user gets full or near full access for a fixed window, you remind them before it ends, and at expiry they either convert to a payi

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Billing and monetization
When to use this

Offer a trial when your product's value takes more than a glance to feel and you want prospects to experience it before paying. Specifically: Your "aha" moment requires real usage

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Billing and monetization
The core idea

A trial isn't a separate concept bolted onto billing — it's your subscription state machine starting in trialing . The only new decisions are: do you require a card up front, and w

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