Start a Trial Flow from Mobile Device - for Instagram or Tiktok marketing

I want to use Instagram or Tiktok advertising to encourage people to start a trial of my plugin. This way I can get trial sign-ups, and potentially grow a remarketing list without requiring people to make a purchase directly from the advertisement. The problem is there is no good way to start a trial from a mobile device. The usual trial flow requires getting a download, and then activating the trial from within the app/plugin, all of which has to happen on a desktop device. So I want some flow that I can put on a landing page for mobile advertising that does not require a desktop download.

One alternative would be to ask a customer to start a new account, and for them to remember that they wanted a trial of a given product when they open the email later on a desktop (if they even do this). This will be quite obscure and unlikely to be successful, since even if they create a new account on the mobile advertising landing page, it will not link directly to the product for the advertisement they responded to.

Another alternative is to request an email address and send them a special email to start a trial of the product. The only way to do this right now would be with the third party mailing list service. I understand Moonbase may add this possibility with the Email Campaigns feature in development. However there is currently already an way to create a new license for a product in the management app, which sends a specific email to the customer to collect a license of a product. Theoretically I could have a duplicated product just for the trials with bundling to cross-grade to a full license of the same app with a purchasable product (if this makes sense).

Or maybe [here’s the feature request] there could be a way to send a trial flow starter email via an API in a similar way to this. Then I could put that flow into a landing page for my mobile marketing campaign, and the email the customer receives would encourage them to complete the rest of the flow.

As it is, I either need to build a mobile flow myself using third party email marketing services, or just send email marketing directly to purchase pages instead. I’m concerned this may have less success than encouraging a trial only.

I hope you can help support mobile marketing strategies other than purchase only.

Best regards,

Nick