Pro and Platinum both come with a 14-day free trial, and you don't need a card to start one.

## Starting it

Pick a paid plan from **Settings → Plan & Billing → Upgrade**, or during onboarding at the **Plan** step. You get full access to everything in that plan for 14 days.

Your subscription status shows as **Trialing**.

## What you get

Everything in the plan, immediately:

**On Pro** — identity verification, SoundCloud sync, calendar sync, custom document uploads, embeddable widgets, and the extra analytics.

**On Platinum** — all of the above plus the PLATINUM badge, GigGuard eligibility, and API access.

The lower platform fee and faster payout delay apply during the trial too. That's worth knowing — a booking collected during your Pro trial is charged at 10%, not 20%.

## When it ends

If you don't upgrade, you move automatically to **Lite**. Nothing is charged.

Your profile, bookings, mixes, posts, reviews, and payment history all stay. What you lose is access to the paid features — and your fee rate returns to 20% with a 6-day payout delay.

## What to do with 14 days

Most DJs waste the trial by leaving it until the end. A better use:

**Days 1–2.** Do the one-time setup — identity verification on Pro, and importing your SoundCloud mixes. Verification carries on being useful, and imported mixes stay on your profile after the trial ends.

**Days 3–5.** Connect your calendar and set up any widgets on your own site.

**The rest.** Take bookings and see what the lower fee actually saves you.

## Working out whether to keep it

The honest maths: what did you collect during the trial, and what would the fee difference have been? Dropping from 20% to 10% on a couple of decent bookings a month usually covers a Pro subscription on its own.

If you collected nothing during the trial, the plan isn't the problem — your profile and service areas are. See [Your First Week: Getting Bookable](/hc/djs/articles/1786145597-your-first-week-getting-bookable).

## One trial

The free trial is available once. If you've used it, upgrading starts billing straight away.

## Upgrading before it ends

Select **Upgrade** at any point. You'll be charged when the trial period finishes, not immediately.