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# Offer a free first month (optional)

**Setup time is approximately 1 minute**

Give customers a risk-free way to try your membership by offering the first month free.\
Note that only a membership billed monthly or both monthly and yearly can offer the first month free.

1. Select the membership tier that you want to offer as an upsell and click Edit.

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2. Select **Offer the first month free?**.

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3. Click **Save and Publish**.