When the Start Free Trial offer is available, an eligible new Personal collector can use a real production inventory for 60 days without entering a credit card.
Who is eligible #
- A new registrant choosing the Personal path with no paid or complimentary membership.
- Club join requests, new Club registrations, administrators, demo sessions, paid members, and Lifetime Complimentary members are excluded.
When the trial starts #
The clock starts immediately when registration completes. It does not wait for the first item, first login, or first upload. The Trial & Membership workspace and TIM banner show the current deadline and days remaining.
During the active trial #
- Full Personal inventory browsing, editing, uploads, imports, and ordinary features are available.
- One successful evaluation export is included.
- Choose CSV, JSON, portable backup, JMRI, or RailModeller data for that evaluation export.
- Opening Import & Export or an export that fails before completion does not consume the allowance.
- Reports and label PDFs do not qualify as the evaluation export and require a Personal membership.
- A second export requires a Personal membership.
After the trial ends #
The collection remains preserved and can still be browsed in read-only mode. Editing, imports, exports, and uploads are paused. Trial automation never deletes the inventory, and an expired unpaid trial inventory is protected from the normal retention purge workflow.
Convert to membership #
Start a Personal membership from Trial & Membership or the membership action shown in TIM. A signed Stripe payment confirmation or a Lifetime Complimentary grant converts the trial and returns access decisions to My-Trains Memberships automatically.
The interactive demo is separate. Starting or ending a demo session does not start the production trial clock.
