# Pre-emptively reset trial in Ignition 8.3

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pre-emptively-reset-trial-in-ignition-8-3/115313>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [April 29, 2026, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pre-emptively-reset-trial-in-ignition-8-3/115313 "2026-04-29T19:34:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![akivabrookler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/41988e/32.png) [@akivabrookler](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/akivabrookler)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pre-emptively-reset-trial-in-ignition-8-3/115313/1 "2026-04-29T19:34:34Z")

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Is there a way I can preemptively reset a trial in Ignition 8.3. For example, I want to do some perspective testing on a local gateway and know in 7 minutes the trial will expire. Can I rest it ahead of time so I have the full 2 hours to work with?

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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pre-emptively-reset-trial-in-ignition-8-3/115313/2 "2026-04-29T19:39:18Z")

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> [@API call to reset trial](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/api-call-to-reset-trial/110074):
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> While testing API calls, I came across the “license-status\>Trial Information” API. I did the standard GET call for that and received the expected response { "licenseMode": "Trial", "trialState": "AllInDemo", "trialSecondsLeft": 4078, "expired": false, "emergency": false, "emergencySecondsLeft": 0, "development": false, "developmentSecondsLeft": 0 } Once the trial had expired, I tried a POST instead of GET with the body as { "licenseMode": "Trial", "tria…

Re-setting early is against the license agreement.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2026, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/pre-emptively-reset-trial-in-ignition-8-3/115313/3 "2026-04-29T20:15:32Z")

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Not only is it against the license, but the transition to "trial expired" before you can reset is **deliberate** breakage, to prevent pseudo-production use of trial mode.