What *Really* Happens When You Add New Substack Subscribers with a Free Trial?

Karen Cherry
8 min readMay 13, 2022

All the details you can’t find out from Substack

So you’ve got your Substack payments turned on and you found some new readers? Good for you!

Wherever you get your new fans, it’s easy to upload them to your Substack list from your dashboard. You’ve probably been doing this already.

But — newsflash! —did you know you can add your new fans as free trial subscribers, instead of just free subscribers? How cool is that?

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Karen Cherry

Substack writer. Secret tree hugger. Aussie business owner with >$18K revenue on Substack. Refusing to dumb it down.