A Free Trial of the Site Builder for Your Prospects

Our free trial feature makes it easy to set up and manage free trials of the site builder. Prospects can create and optionally publish a site before signing up for a hosting account.

What better way to entice new customers than to let them build their own web-site with no obligation? Once a prospect has "invested" in creating a site and is pleased with the results you have an almost guaranteed conversion to paid hosting. 

The trial works like this:

1. The prospect visits your page which describe the free trial.  You provide the terms of service, the privacy policy and/or anything else you need the prospect to see or do before "signing up" for the free trial.  Your free trial description page then links to the the free trial registration page provided by siteZen
2. The free trial registration page asks the prospect for an email address and a password.  After that he/she is presented with a screen where an activation code is entered.  The activation code is automatically sent in a welcome email.  This verifies that the prospect has a valid email address.
3. The prospect gets to edit and optionally publish their site during the trial period which may be up to 90 days.  Each time they come back they need only enter their email address and password.
4. When they sign up for a hosting account, they can automatically transfer the trial site by entering the code supplied in the welcome email.

 As an administrator or reseller you control the following aspects of the trial:

• The maximum number of days before the trial expires.
• The maximum number of days before the trial site is deleted (up to 90 days).
• The content of a welcome email that is sent when the prospect signs up for the free trial.
• Whether or not the free trial allows the prospect to publish their site.
• Any special headers and footers that are to be placed in the published sites.
• The ability to expire, extend or delete any free trial user.

Click here to see a demonstration from the point of view of the prospect (starting at the registration screen).