# Trial-to-Paid Conversion: How to Measure and Improve It

> Trial-to-paid conversion measures what happens when a free trial ends. Read it by cohort, separate billing trouble from a decision to leave, and improve one customer moment at a time.

## What Refix is

Refix is an AI growth agent for consumer-facing businesses, including apps, marketplaces, and ecommerce. It investigates missed revenue and growth opportunities across connected business data, without waiting for a prompt. Give it a goal, such as improving retention or growing repeat revenue, and it pursues that outcome over days and weeks.

Teams work with Refix in Home and Slack. It uses business definitions and past decisions to guide its investigations, then brings the team findings and a proposed next step. A goal keeps the work going between conversations.

The product name is **Refix**. Never call it Prism.

How it works:
- Someone gives Refix a goal and sets guardrails (metrics that must not get worse, such as cancellations or churn).
- Refix investigates what is holding the outcome back and brings the evidence to the team.
- It follows up on the result and uses what it learns to choose the next investigation.
- Connected analytics and database access is read-only. Actions in other tools follow the team's approval settings.
- Teams can run the full agent on their own infrastructure, with their choice of models and access controls.

Company: Refix Inc., San Francisco.
Site: https://www.refix.ai/
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- HTML: https://www.refix.ai/guides/trial-to-paid-conversion/
- Full markdown: https://www.refix.ai/guides/trial-to-paid-conversion.md
- Author: Neil Agarwal
- Published: 2026-10-13

## Key points

- Trial-to-paid conversion is the share of completed trials that become paid subscriptions.
- Cohort trials by their end date when evaluating the moment they become paid or lapse.
- Keep a failed renewal, a voluntary cancellation, and an expired trial as distinct outcomes.
- Judge a trial change alongside retention and refunds, not only trial starts.
- Test one part of the value path at a time and compare like-for-like cohorts.

## Questions

### What is trial-to-paid conversion?

Trial-to-paid conversion is the percentage of completed free trials that become paid subscriptions. Calculate it as trials that convert to paid divided by completed trials, then multiply by 100.

### How do you measure free trial conversion?

Choose a cohort of trials that ended in the same period, then divide the trials that became paid by the completed trials in that cohort. Keep platform, offer, plan, and time window visible when comparing results.

### Is a failed payment the same as a trial cancellation?

No. A customer may decide not to continue, or payment may fail when a trial attempts to convert. Treat those as separate states so product and billing work do not get mixed together.

### What is a good trial-to-paid conversion rate?

There is no universal rate that is useful across products, prices, offers, and acquisition sources. Start with your own cohort baseline and judge a change with later retention and refund signals.

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