Ccbill eliminates free trial surcharge
 

As part of its ongoing expansion of options for merchants, global payment processor CCBill has moved to eliminate the surcharge for free trial initial and recurring transactions for all existing and new merchants. The elimination of surcharges is a step to remove what has been a barrier to merchants in trying new ways to attract and grow their membership base. The announcement is another step in the company?s ongoing efforts to adapt to the changing way consumers are buying and subscribing from websites across the globe.

?We wanted to open up more opportunities for our merchants to attract new members, and free trials has always proven very successful in attracting members who might not have joined in the past,? said Gary Jackson, CCBill?s Managing V.P. of Sales, ?But in the banking networks, no transaction is without costs. In this case, we are making that investment and covering the initial cost, allowing our merchants to try new marketing options without added surcharges. I like to call these Seriously Free Trials.?

http://blog.ccbill.com/2014/03/ccbil...surcharge.html

Free trials are the money. A factor of about 6 times more income on one of my sites. However, this site caters to professionals who inherently have more money and not fraud savvy.

It's all about the numbers. In adult i would hope this free service pre authorizes the card. If it just passes mod10 check then any programmer could have that done, and fee for that is nada.

P.s. since when did ccbill allow zero dollar trials? I had to get special permission for a $1 trial.

I think its a shame this had not been done a few years ago.

Is this old news or something?

Also, it won't work if it says

"$0 3 day trial then $29.95 every 30 days"
in drop down menu

then, what should be the right conversion price for you?
because it's normal to see $0 and then $39,99... and 2 pre-checked cross sales for $44.95 each

Not how ccbill shows it... you will get *maybe* a 15% conversion ratio, likely less.