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I clicked on the free trial, but do you remember the payment date?
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Will payment be made automatically when the free trial ends?
The service is determined. If you have entered your payment information, your paid subscription will begin the moment the trial ends. If you have not entered your payment information, your account may be suspended or expire without charge. So, you need to check the end time and automatic payment separately and add them to the calendar.
Key takeaways
It's too late for the free trial if you write down just one end date. Up to two review schedulesYou will have time to make a decision.
What happens after the experience is over? The service is determined. You cannot simply believe that “all experiences are automatically paid for” or “it’s okay because you didn’t put in a card.”
One calendar schedule End date and time zone, conversion conditions, confirmation path, cancellation deadlineWrite it down together.
What's in your mailbox is not your schedule
I remember the day the experience started, but the end date is only written in the sign-up email. That email gets pushed down by other emails, and you have to remember the search term to find it. Storing things and creating a schedule are two different things.
After the experience is over, it varies depending on the service.
You must check the conditions first. The official instructions for the two services are written differently.
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Guide to Google Workspace
Guide to Microsoft 365
When there is a payment method
At the end of your trial, your paid subscription will automatically begin
You will be charged after your trial ends unless you turn off recurring billing
When there is no payment method
Your account will be suspended
It expires as is at the end of the period
One side locks the account without payment information, and the other side quietly expires it. Therefore, you must check the conditions for each service separately.
Write down four things on one calendar schedule
End date and time zone — Translate the time displayed on the service to Korean time. If you take out the time zone, the days are off.
Payment conversion conditions — Write down whether the card is registered and, if so, whether it will be charged upon expiration.
confirmation path — Write down the path to that screen, such as “Settings → Payment → Subscription.”
Termination Deadline — Write down how long you have to press before you are charged.
Create a separate review schedule ahead of the end date
On the day of termination, it is already too late. Please create another review schedule a few days in advance and include three things in the schedule description.
One task to do that day — You can make a judgment only by writing it down as an actual task, such as “I will try to create a September customer settlement sheet using this tool.”
Who will decide whether to keep it or not? — It is determined by the person in charge of writing. If there is no one to decide, decisions are postponed.
A place to write down the results — If you write it down that day in the maintenance box of your subscription management table, you will not have to look for it again next month.
Leaving a notification is not a cancellation.
A calendar schedule is a device that creates a time point for review. This is why cancellation must be done separately on the management screen for each service, and the route must be written down in advance.
The two guides cited are official document sentences for each service, and conditions are different for each service, so this article does not generalize the conversion conditions for specific services.
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I saw it when I signed up, but I don't remember it now.
I pressed the start free trial button. The end date and time are written in the sign-up email. Do you remember now whether it will be paid that day or not?
After the experience is over, it varies depending on the service.
If you entered your payment information, your paid subscription will begin that day. If you did not enter your payment information, your account will be suspended or simply expired.
Move what is in the email to the calendar
Include the end date and time zone. If you leave out the time zone, the days may be off.
Schedule a review ahead of the end date
Write down one task you will do that day and who you will decide to keep. If you find out on the day of the end date, it is already too late.
I only check one thing today
Check the end time and automatic payment of the service you are trying and put that value into the calendar.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will the free trial ultimately be automatically paid for?
Each service is different. Google Workspace notes that if you have already registered your payment information, your paid subscription will automatically start the moment the trial ends, and if you end the trial without setting up payment, your account will be suspended. Microsoft notes that unless you turn off recurring billing, you will be billed after the trial ends, but any trial without a payment method associated will expire at the end of the period and you will not be charged. Therefore, please do not memorize one conclusion and check it for each service.
Is it safe if I don't register my card?
This may mean you won't be charged, but it doesn't mean it's safe. There are services that will freeze your account if you end the trial without setting up payment. If there is any data created in it, it will be difficult to take it out when it is stopped. If the materials created during the experience will be used in your work, please write down in your review schedule whether you plan to export them before the end.
How many days in advance should I schedule the review?
There is no set answer, but it is a good idea to leave enough time to actually do the tasks written down in the schedule. In the video, two days ahead are used as an example. If there are multiple people in charge or approval is required during the decision process, it should be placed further up front. What is important is not the length of the day, but that the itinerary description states what you will do that day and who will decide.
Can I cancel my calendar notification if I just leave it on?
It doesn't work. The calendar schedule is just a device to create a review point, and cancellation must be done separately on the management screen of each service. So, I instructed them to write down the confirmation route in the schedule description. If you write down the route to the screen, such as “Settings → Payment → Subscription,” you will not have to look for the route again that day.
First decide what you need and what you don't need
When you select the conditions for BlueCanvas cost estimate, the included items and estimated price will be displayed on the screen. You can first check what is included and what is separate.
