Thirty days. One machine. No card.
The trial is the whole product — every feature, the AI, the books, the lot — running for thirty days from the moment you install it. When the thirty days are up the software stops starting, and nothing else happens.
No account, no card, no sales call, and nothing is sent to us. The trial is a licence file on your disk, checked on your machine.
What actually happens on day 31
Said plainly, because this is the part most trials bury.
What stops
FoundrySuite will not start. It tells you the trial has ended, tells you the date it ended on, and stops. That is the entire mechanism — there is no remote switch, no feature that degrades, and no part of the product that quietly stops answering.
It also tells you where to buy, from inside the program. You will not have to remember this page, or go hunting through your email for a receipt: the licence panel counts your trial down from the first day, and when it reaches zero it says the trial is over and offers you the purchase link. The deadline is never something you discover by being locked out.
What does not
Your data. Everything you entered stays in the folder it is in: your contacts, your pipeline, your invoices, your ledger. Nothing is deleted, nothing is moved, nothing is held back. Buying a licence later reopens the same installation with all of it intact.
We cannot switch it back on. That is on purpose. The trial is a thirty-day window with no extension mechanism, because a deadline you can extend by asking is not a deadline. If you reach day 31 and want the software, the answer is to buy it — which is a real transaction, and we would rather it were one than a conversation.
Six questions worth answering first
The ones people email us about, answered here so you do not have to.
What happens to my data if I do nothing?
It stays where it is. The application refusing to start is the whole of what an expired trial does — it never opens the database, so it cannot alter it. Copy the folder out at any point; it is ordinary files.
Does the trial phone home, or check in with you?
No, and this is structural rather than a promise. The trial licence is an Ed25519 signature over a small JSON file, checked against a public key compiled into the program. There is no request to make, so there is nothing to make one, and the check works on a laptop in a tunnel with no signal at all. Read how the licence is verified if you want the mechanism.
Can I use it on more than one machine?
No. A trial is bound to one workstation, exactly as a paid licence is — so one download cannot be activated across every computer its holder has. If you need a second seat, that is a second licence, from the same purchase.
Is the trial the same software as the paid one?
Yes. There is no cut-down edition. Every feature, including the local AI, the bookkeeping and the compliance tools, is in the trial build.
What does the licence I buy afterwards look like?
Permanent, and it never expires. A licence is a document we signed; it carries no end date, and the program refuses to accept one even if we tried to put it there. The instalment plans on the pricing page are ways of paying for that same permanent licence over time, not rentals — paying over twenty-four months does not buy twenty-four months of software.
Do I need a card to start?
No. There is no payment step, no sign-up and no card. The trial is a file you install.
What the trial is for
It exists so you can put a month of real work into it before spending money, which is the only way to find out whether software suits you.
Put your own contacts in it. Run your own quotes through it. Give it the client you are least worried about losing. The features that will tell you whether FoundrySuite fits are the ones that need your data, and thirty days is enough time to find out.
Or skip the trial and buy it now
Some people would rather not spend thirty days finding out. That is a reasonable position, and it buys the same thing the trial would have: a permanent licence for one workstation, whichever way you pay for it. There is no rental version of this product to end up in instead.