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# Try

> The Try section covers starting and managing a Business Central trial: signing up, extending the trial, first setup tasks, converting to a subscription, and fixing sign-up problems. It answers questions about trial length, sample data, extensions, and self-service sign-up errors.

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## Overview

This section is for people evaluating Business Central before buying. It explains how to start a free trial, either through Microsoft-based sign-up in countries with built-in localization or through a partner (Cloud Solution Provider) in countries without it. Trials come with localized demo data, and sandbox environments are mentioned.

Once the trial is running, "Get ready for doing business" introduces assisted setup guides, company information, user creation, permission assignment and role-specific home pages. "Extend your trial version" and "Trials and subscriptions" cover how long a trial lasts, how to extend it, and how to move to a paid subscription, including data import, removing licenses and canceling.

Start with "Sign up for a free trial". Use the Trial FAQ for quick answers, and the self-service sign-up troubleshooting page if account creation fails.

## Key points

- The initial 30-day trial can be extended once by another 30 days; partners can extend again.
- A subscription is required after 90 days in total.
- Sign-up is either Microsoft-based (localized countries) or partner-based through Cloud Solution Provider programs.
- Trials include sample data, which can be removed; the FAQ covers conversion to a paid license and cancellation.
- The FAQ describes a trial that lasts indefinitely with continued logins, or 30 days when you use your own data.
- Assisted setup guides help with company information, user creation and permission assignment.
- Self-service sign-up can fail because of work email requirements, regional restrictions, Microsoft 365 integration or IT admin settings.

## Learn pages

- [Extend your trial version of Business Central](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/admin-extend-trial): If you need more time to decide whether to subscribe to Dynamics 365 Business Central, you can extend your trial version once. Learn about your options.
- [Get ready for doing business](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/ui-get-ready-business): Outlines the assisted setup guides, videos, help articles, and pages to use to get ready to do business in Business Central.
- [Sign up for a free trial](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/trial-signup): Learn how to quickly sign up for and start a free Dynamics 365 Business Central trial. Explore the app with tours and videos, and find more learning resources.
- [Trial FAQ](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/trial-faq): Solutions to common questions related to Dynamics 365 Business Central trial setup and management. Learn how to resolve platform and app-specific issues.
- [Trials and subscriptions](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/dev-itpro/administration/trials-subscriptions): Learn how it works with trials and subscriptions for Business Central online, and how the admin can cancel subscriptions.
- [Troubleshoot Issues with Self-Service Sign-Up \| Microsoft Docs](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/ui-troubleshoot-self-signup): Learn about the most common reasons why you may not be able to complete the signup to Business Central, and ways to work around them.
- [Unsubscribe or Remove Business Central](https://learn.microsoft.com/dynamics365/business-central/admin-cancel): Learn how to remove or delete your Business Central experience if you have a trial subscription, or if you have a paid subscription.

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- [Page 1801 "Assisted Setup"](../../../objects/page/1801.md) · on [Table 1990 "Guided Experience Item"](../../../objects/table/1990.md)
- [Page 1803 "Assisted Company Setup Wizard"](../../../objects/page/1803.md) · captioned "Company Setup" · on [Table 8627 "Config. Setup"](../../../objects/table/8627.md)

Source: Microsoft Learn (CC BY 4.0). Descriptions are Learn's own.