Do subscribers on a free trial count toward my plan limit?
Yes. Free trial subscribers are on a paid tier — they have an active feed token and a first payment scheduled at the end of the trial. They count toward your plan’s paying subscriber limit.
A genuinely free membership level (no payment required at any point) is different: free-tier subscribers don’t count toward the paying subscriber limit, but they do hold an active token and count toward the total token cap. Free trial ≠ free tier.
Benecaster runs no analytics, no advertising and no cross-site tracking. The only optional storage on this site is two cookies set by Stripe, our payment processor, to detect card fraud — and only on the checkout page, the free Launch signup page and your account page.
Required — these keep the site working and cannot be turned off.
Name
Set by
What it does
Kept for
wordpress_logged_in_*
Benecaster
Keeps you signed in to your Benecaster account.
Until you sign out, or two weeks with "Remember Me".
wordpress_sec_*
Benecaster
Secures your signed-in session over HTTPS.
Until you sign out, or two weeks with "Remember Me".
wp-settings-*
Benecaster
Remembers your admin screen preferences.
One year.
benecaster_ls_purchase_sign_in
Benecaster
Signs you in to your new account on the page you bought from, once your purchase has gone through.
Thirty minutes, or until you are signed in.
benecaster_ls_cookie_consent
Benecaster
Remembers the choice you make on this banner, so we do not ask again.
One year.
Optional — these load only if you accept.
Name
Set by
What it does
Kept for
__stripe_mid
Stripe
Lets Stripe recognise the device across payment attempts to detect card fraud.
One year.
__stripe_sid
Stripe
The same fraud check, for the current visit only.
Thirty minutes.
Only on a referral link — set only if you accept it there.
Name
Set by
What it does
Kept for
benecaster_ls_referral
Benecaster
Remembers the referral code you arrived with, so your discount is still there if you come back later. Set only if you accept it on the referral link page.
Thirty days.
Decline and we do not load Stripe's library at all. You can still browse and sign in; you will be asked again at the point you need to enter a card.