Free Trial Upgrade — SaaS
A conversion-focused trial-expiry email with a vibrant purple-to-blue gradient hero (gradient-fill heading, gradient pill CTA), check-marked benefit rows, a deadline urgency card, and a promo-code line.
The prompt
Paste the brief below into ChatGPT or Claude with Temway's MCP enabled — the agent builds the email step by step. Or adapt it for your own brand and copy.
- An email is a top-to-bottom stack of blocks — the recipe follows that order.
- A
[layout]step becomes a single image (great for heroes); everything else stays live text and links. - Theme the footer to match — the recipe's last step does exactly that.
Want this exact email? Tell your agent to clone the Temway share i61fIG8-vm9usi9ob8EdN, then rebrand it. For the full model, point it at
get_concept — email-structure, layouts-vs-emails,
design-recipes.
A conversion-focused email for the final days of a free trial. A vibrant gradient hero, a reminder of what they’d keep, a deadline card, and a last-nudge promo code — urgent but helpful, never pushy.
Snapshot
- Goal: convert trial users to paid before the trial ends.
- Audience & tone: users in the last days of a 14-day trial. Urgent but helpful — clear about what’s at stake.
- Palette: page
#f5f3ff· container#ffffff· text#1e1b4b/#3730a3(muted) · accent purple#7c3aed(hero gradient#7c3aed→#2563eb) - Font:
"Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif - Artwork: one
gradient-herolayout hero (a single rasterized image); everything below is native.
Build recipe
Each step is one block in the flat stack, top to bottom.
[native]= a real email block.[layout]= a free-form layout embedded as a single image.
- [layout] Gradient hero — apply the
gradient-herolayout template; purple→blue diagonal gradient (#7c3aed→#2563eb) with a gradient-fill heading. Overlay: eyebrow ”⏰ YOUR TRIAL ENDS IN 3 DAYS”, heading “Keep your Pro features”, subline “Don’t lose your setup.” Text-only artwork — the working CTA is step 5. - [native] Heading — text. “What you’ll keep”.
fontSize: 22,fontWeight: 700, color#1e1b4b, center. - [native] Benefit rows — text. Four check-marked rows: ”✓ Unlimited projects · ✓ Advanced analytics · ✓ Priority support · ✓ API access”.
fontSize: 15, color#3730a3, left, checkmarks in purple#7c3aed. (Rows stack — not cards.) - [native] Deadline card — text. “Your trial ends Friday at midnight. After that, you’ll move to the Free plan.”
fontSize: 14,fontWeight: 700, color#5b21b6, center, tintedbackgroundColor: #ede9fe, padding. - [native] CTA — button. Label “Upgrade now”, purple
#7c3aedfill, white text, rounded, center. - [native] Promo line — text. ”✨ Use code UPGRADE20 for 20% off your first year” — code bold in purple
#7c3aed.fontSize: 14, center (native text so it stays copyable). - [native] Footer — social + address. Recolor:
social.color=#7c3aed,address.color=#9ca3af,address.fontFamily="Trebuchet MS", Helvetica, sans-serif.
Make it yours
- Swap the four benefits for the features your plan gates.
- Adjust the deadline and the promo code (or drop the code).
- Recolor the purple→blue hero to your brand.