TrialPay was an alternative-payments and offer-based advertising company founded in 2006 and based in Mountain View, California, backed by Battery Ventures among others. Its platform let merchants and game developers offer users a product for "free" in exchange for completing an advertiser-sponsored action (a purchase, trial, or signup), with the advertiser paying the merchant — monetizing users who would not otherwise pay. TrialPay shipped web, Android, and iOS SDKs plus offer-wall and monetization APIs (e.g. GetBuyCoinsInfo / GetBuyDirectInfo) widely used in social and mobile games. Visa acquired TrialPay in April 2015 and folded the technology into the Visa Commerce Network; TrialPay no longer operates as a standalone company and its public developer surface (help.trialpay.com, trialpay.com) is offline.
TrialPay is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Advertising, Monetization, and Offerwall.
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- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
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onboarding: unknown
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public: false
label: Unknown
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generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/trialpay.png
name: TrialPay
description: TrialPay was an alternative-payments and offer-based advertising company founded in 2006 and based in Mountain
View, California, backed by Battery Ventures among others. Its platform let merchants and game developers offer users a
product for "free" in exchange for completing an advertiser-sponsored action (a purchase, trial, or signup), with the advertiser
paying the merchant — monetizing users who would not otherwise pay. TrialPay shipped web, Android, and iOS SDKs plus offer-wall
and monetization APIs (e.g. GetBuyCoinsInfo / GetBuyDirectInfo) widely used in social and mobile games. Visa acquired TrialPay
in April 2015 and folded the technology into the Visa Commerce Network; TrialPay no longer operates as a standalone company
and its public developer surface (help.trialpay.com, trialpay.com) is offline.
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x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: visa
x-acquired-date: '2015-04-01'
x-live-api-surface: false
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
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- Monetization
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- Gaming
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- Acquired
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- Company
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- Advertising
- Monetization
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apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/trialpay-domain-security.yml
name: TrialPay Domain Security (probed)
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-07-21'
status: minimal
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