Free Trial Payment Processing

Negative-option trials are the highest-risk subscription model. Roots works only with offers that pass a disclosure review and sets up Tier 3 registered processing. Roots works with virtually any legal business, subject to underwriting.
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Payment solutions for free-trial & negative-option offers

How these solutions fit free-trial & negative-option offers

See what each option adds to the way your business takes and tracks payments.

High-Risk Merchant Account

For free-trial & negative-option offers: Present your model for subscription orders and recurring product purchases to specialist processing partners, with product and fulfillment documentation prepared. Roots Payments places free-trial and negative-option marketers with acquiring banks and processors that knowingly underwrite trial-to-paid subscription offers, so the account is built to last instead of flagged after the first review. We work with virtually any legal business, subject to underwriting; pricing, limits, and terms depend on the acquirer's review. Reserves may apply, and any reserve is disclosed in your agreement before you sign.
  • Pre-underwriting review of your website, checkout, and documents (checkout screenshots, terms, affiliate policy, and cancellation evidence)
  • Application packaged and submitted only to acquirers with appetite for your category
  • Plain-English walkthrough of pricing, reserve, and termination terms before you sign
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E-commerce Payments

For free-trial & negative-option offers: Add online checkout for subscription orders and recurring product purchases, with order references carried through payment and fulfillment. Roots connects your store to a gateway and acquirer that approve your category, with fraud screening and 3-D Secure configured for card-not-present risk.
  • Check that your cart platform's own acceptable-use policy allows your products
  • Gateway setup, fraud-rule tuning, and test transactions before launch
  • Checkout disclosure review (refunds, shipping, age or eligibility limits)
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Chargeback Management

For free-trial & negative-option offers: Organize evidence for disputed subscription orders and recurring product purchases, including customer authorizations, delivery details and service records. Roots coordinates chargeback-management services to help your business handle disputes and organize responses.
  • Discuss your business goals on a free consultation
  • Coordinate your provider introduction and setup
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Recurring Billing

For free-trial & negative-option offers: Schedule and manage payments for subscription renewals and recurring replenishment, including renewals and customer account balances. Recurring charges are a leading dispute source for free-trial and negative-option marketers when customers forget or can't cancel. Roots sets up billing with express consent capture, renewal reminders, simple online cancellation, and account-updater services, in line with ROSCA and state automatic-renewal laws.
  • Review of offer terms and checkout disclosures against ROSCA and state automatic-renewal laws
  • Billing platform setup and gateway integration
  • Descriptor and receipt design that customers recognize
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Free-Trial & Negative-Option Offers payment questions

Start with the workflows your business needs. Options on this page include Free Trial Merchant Account, Free Trial Payment Gateway, Free Trial Chargeback Management. Roots helps compare the setup, software and processing requirements around how you operate.
Yes. Bring your current POS, checkout or billing tools and recent processing statements. We review your product catalog, checkout, account history and processing application, then plan the changes your free-trial & negative-option offers business needs.
Request a quote for your business. The review covers your payment mix, locations, software, hardware recommendations and implementation work. Consultations and payment reviews are free.
Bring recent payment statements, the systems you use and a record of how a customer places an order, receives a service or pays a bill. Tell us which free-trial & negative-option offers workflows need to improve so we can scope a practical setup.

Let’s set up payments for your free-trial & negative-option offer business

Book a free 30-minute payment review to compare costs, address payment problems and plan your next steps.
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