I was doing a search for "free product" and was not surprised to see a large number of posts requesting this facility, predominantly for granting a "Free Trial Period" to new site members for paid membership sites, as Ubercart provides already all the tools for granting a role and expiring it in due course - meaning most code required to grant a "Free Trial Period" for a role is already available.
My surprise is that in view of the repeated numerous requests nobody has volunteered to address them although this would seem easy, as most of the code is already there!!
Of course, one may use recurring payments, if payment method is compliant, providing a free initial period - but this represents a very "pushy" method, that also requires the submission of payment data (credit card, etc) by a member who has not already tried the service or product and made up his mind about the item's desirability. Asking for payment data at the point of offering a "Free Trial Period" is very "pushy", presumptuous and undesirable.
May we kindly request, in a sweet and friendly manner, that this facility be provided?
ON THE DOUBLE ??
