Do I need a credit card to start the trial?

No. The 14-day trial is created with your account and asks for nothing else — no card, no billing address, no sales call. You enter card details only at the moment you choose a plan, and payment runs through Stripe.

What happens on day 15 if I do nothing?

The workspace turns read-only rather than disappearing. Reports, CSV exports and invoice PDFs keep working; what stops is creating or editing time entries and syncing from the desktop app. Subscribe whenever you are ready and tracking resumes where it left off.

Will I be charged automatically when the trial ends?

No, and there is nothing to charge. Because no card was collected at sign-up, an expiring trial cannot quietly become a subscription. The only way money moves is you choosing a plan and entering payment details yourself.

Is there a free plan after the trial?

No. BillNotch is one flat price with no usage limits rather than a permanently cut-down tier, so the trial is how you evaluate it. Pro is $9 a month for one seat, or $90 a year; Team is $12 per seat per month, or $120 per seat per year.

Is the trial a limited version of the product?

No. The 14 days are full access — automatic desktop tracking, categorization, projects and clients, PDF invoicing, reports and the Revenue Leak Finder. There is no feature you only meet after paying, which is the point: you should be evaluating the real thing.

Fourteen days of time tracking, no card at the door

Asking for a card before anyone has used the product is a bet that some people will forget to cancel. It is a real revenue strategy and it is a bad one to build a business on, so BillNotch does not run it. Signing up creates the account and starts a 14-day trial in the same moment. There is no payment step to skip past, because there is no payment step.

14 days · full access · no card

Start tracking freePro is $9/mo when you decide — less than one billable hour.

What “no credit card” actually buys you

Mostly it buys the absence of a small anxiety. Nothing can auto-renew, because there is no payment method on file to renew against. Nothing needs cancelling on a date you have to remember, because a lapsed trial simply lapses. And there is no partial charge, no authorization hold and no refund conversation waiting at the end of the fortnight — the first time BillNotch touches a card is the time you type one into Stripe’s checkout on purpose.

The trial is also not a shape of the product. It is the product: automatic desktop capture on Windows, macOS and Linux, categorization into your projects, PDF invoicing, reports and the Revenue Leak Finder, all on for the whole 14 days. A trial that hides the good half is an ad, not an evaluation.

What happens on day 15

This is the part most trial pages leave vague, so here is the exact behaviour. If the 14 days end without a subscription, the workspace hard-locks to read-only. It does not delete, expire, or hold your invoices hostage.

Your history stays and stays readable

Every tracked entry, project, client and invoice is still there and still on screen. Nothing is hidden behind an upgrade prompt and nothing is deleted on a countdown.

Exports keep working

Reports still run, CSV still downloads for any date range, and invoice PDFs still render. If you decide BillNotch is not for you, you leave with the data rather than negotiating for it.

A running timer can still be stopped

Starting new work is what locks; ending it is not. A timer already counting when the trial expires still closes and still writes its entry, because losing an afternoon to a billing boundary would be indefensible.

New capture pauses

What stops is writing: new time entries, edits, and the desktop app’s uploads. The tracker keeps its own local record in the meantime, so subscribing later picks the thread back up.

The rule underneath all four is a single one: reads stay open, writes stop. It is the difference between a lock and a hostage situation, and it is worth knowing before you spend two weeks putting real client work into a tool.

And then what does it cost?

Pro is $9 a month for a single seat, or $90 a year. Team is $12 per seat per month, or $120 per seat per year, and is billed on active members — the seat count goes up when an invited person accepts, not when you send the invitation, and comes back down when you remove them, prorated either way. Neither plan meters projects, clients, invoices or history. Pricing lays out both plans in full.

What it will not do for you

There is no free tier waiting at the end of the trial. If you are searching for a tracker that stays free forever at a reduced size, that is a legitimate thing to want and this is not it — the 14 days are the whole free part. There is also no extension by request; it is one honest fortnight, priced afterwards at less than an hour of most people’s work.

And two weeks is a genuine constraint. Automatic capture gets sharper as you confirm your own work, so the categorization you see on day two is worse than the one you would have on day forty. Judge the trial on whether the hours it caught are hours you would have lost, not on whether it guessed the right project unaided on the first afternoon.

Common questions

Do I need a credit card to start the trial?: No. The 14-day trial is created with your account and asks for nothing else — no card, no billing address, no sales call. You enter card details only at the moment you choose a plan, and payment runs through Stripe.
What happens on day 15 if I do nothing?: The workspace turns read-only rather than disappearing. Reports, CSV exports and invoice PDFs keep working; what stops is creating or editing time entries and syncing from the desktop app. Subscribe whenever you are ready and tracking resumes where it left off.
Will I be charged automatically when the trial ends?: No, and there is nothing to charge. Because no card was collected at sign-up, an expiring trial cannot quietly become a subscription. The only way money moves is you choosing a plan and entering payment details yourself.
Is there a free plan after the trial?: No. BillNotch is one flat price with no usage limits rather than a permanently cut-down tier, so the trial is how you evaluate it. Pro is $9 a month for one seat, or $90 a year; Team is $12 per seat per month, or $120 per seat per year.
Is the trial a limited version of the product?: No. The 14 days are full access — automatic desktop tracking, categorization, projects and clients, PDF invoicing, reports and the Revenue Leak Finder. There is no feature you only meet after paying, which is the point: you should be evaluating the real thing.

Start the 14 days on a normal Tuesday

Install the tracker, work the day you were going to work anyway, and read what it caught. The automatic time tracker explains what gets recorded, no screenshots, ever covers what never does, and pricing lists both plans.

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