Your Customer receives a code that enables them to activate their software:

• for an integrated e-store (e.g., Kagi or Avangate and Avangate ARMS — or your own e-store), the code(s) arrive with the Customer's emailed receipt
• for a non-integrated e-store, the codes arrive by separate email only minutes after the Customer's emailed receipt
• there is no Vendor effort/time required (related to licensing) during the sales process
• to license the application, the User provides their license code and presses a button to activate
• the application is licensed to a given system
• the User can un-license an application to move it to another system
• multiple application copies/versions are allowed on a licensed system
• applications can run from a server (i.e., mounted/shared volume)
• Users can password-protect access to licensing operations (for multi-license codes)
• licenses can be easily and securely managed by the User
• licensing codes cannot be passed around to be used by others without the User giving away their own/purchased license(s)

We are available to perform any licensing support:

• timely, friendly support your Customers regarding any licensing questions and issues
• correspondence is entered into the customer's record (in the licensing DB)
• optionally, you can perform your own licensing support
• expert, in-depth support for Vendors and their developers, including setup assistance
• LicenseControl is a mature product so support is minimal

Frankly, the reason we can offer included support is because we find that less than 7 minutes of support per work-day is all that's required during the first year for every 10,000 licenses delivered.

No other service in the industry provides LicenseControl's unique combination of capabilities:

• Customer control over legitimately licensed products
• Customer can move a licensed product from one system to another
• "above board" licensing operations that respect the end-User's privacy
• no requirement for end-User or corporate licensing servers
• "pretty good piracy protection"
• Vendor/developer ease of use
• unprecedented low costs for serious piracy deterrents

For more detail, see The Strategy.

LicenseControl provides the kinds of licensing required by software Vendors to support both end-User and corporate Customers:

• secure Licensed mode of operation
• "try before you buy" Trial modes of operation
• reduced functionality download/Trial with full functionality when licensed
• time-limited with full functionality via a Licensed Trial
• upgrade licenses:
• including support for upgrades from legacy, non-LicenseControl licenses
• upgrades priced based upon the version-to-version jump
• upgrades priced based upon the date-ranges from the date first licensed
• add-on licenses to increase the number of licenses supported by one license code
• licenses for delivery via e-store sales
• integrated e-stores such as Kagi or Avangate and Avangate ARMS
• fully integrated Kagi even does all the accounting for you
• existing PayPal IPN integration
• a formal specification to easily enable your custom e-store integration
• configurable setup for virtually any e-store via an email-based integration
• licenses for delivery via pre-boxed "brick 'n mortar"/walk-in store sales
• licenses that later require a one-time "refresh"
• allows payment verification and thwarts fraudulent purchases
• easy end-User and corporate/multi-system licensing administration
• including cloned/replicated systems delivery
• multi-language localizations supported
• support for various business models
• an underlying willingness and ability to address other requirements when they arise

For more detail, see The Strategy.

LicenseControl makes it easy for you to get started and to keep going, regardless of whether you have an established business with high-volume sales or are just getting started:

• low per-license fees
• discounted rates for higher-volume sales
• no minimum sales requirement
• no monthly costs
• free developer code and tools
• free testing licenses
• free support
• free licensing software
• minimal fee for Not For Resale (NFR) and evaluation licenses
• minimal fee for full functionality, time-expiring Licensed Trials
• no fee for limited-functionality, non-licensed, Trial-mode operation

For more detail, see Our Rates.

Vendors have secure, web-based interfaces that allow anytime access:

• Vendor setup, maintenance and administration of:
• licensed product definitions
• mapping e-store products/SKUs to licensed products (for integrated e-stores)
• email processing setup for non-integrated e-stores
• license-code generation for:
• non-integrated e-stores that distribute from a batch of license codes
• inclusion in Brick 'n Mortar sales packages
• product testing
• NFR/evaluation licenses
• those specially priced, "one-off" sales
• real-time business administration:
• Customer/license search engine
• license status and sales reports by date range
• licensed product reports by date range
• detailed licensing transaction history
• license-fee accounting reports
• fine-tuned tools for support:
• Customer/license search engine
• detailed licensing transaction history
• quickly determine the exact status
• disable/enable licensing IDs
• deactivate/activate licenses
• easily see through "social engineering" attempts to get free licenses
• Customer communication database
• always see the complete history of communications
• business and developer FAQs
• responsive service when you need it

For more detail, see Vendor Services.

The tools you'll need to secure your applications are available to signed-up Vendors at no cost, including upgrades. The tools consist of libraries used to add the security mechanisms to your code and tools, procedures and FAQs that help developers create a secured, deliverable application. The process of adding LicenseControl to your code is straightforward and easy and adds only minutes to the construction process.

Free licenses are provided to test completed product deliverables and for general, internal Vendor use. This includes end-to-end testing that involves the sales process.

For more detail on securing your application, see Developer Information.

The underlying LicenseControl mechanisms are the result of person-years of design and development matured over years of delivery experience and based upon a design created by decades-rich experience in the area of application and business security.

There are both passive and active anti-piracy strategies that involve encryption and multiple anti-hacking mechanisms. These are backed up by business process deterrents with active abuse monitoring and reporting.

LicenseControl is the result of significant design effort by experienced computer and business professionals — it's only priced as though it comes from hobbyists.

One of our underlying philosophies is a respect for information and other privacy, both for Vendor and Vendor-Customer information. There are many things we do, and don't do, to show this respect:

• LicenseControl never communicates information to our licensing server "behind a User's back"
• Users can verify the content of all information that originated on their system and was sent to the licensing server (see our LicenseControl FAQs)
• only licensing operations, not subsequent application startups, require communication with the licensing server so there's no way to monitor a User's usage patterns, location, etc.
• it is not necessary for a Vendor to provide their Customer's information details
• during the licensing process, no User-identifying or business-related information is transferred to our licensing server, only numeric (not named) system identification and licensing information

We respect other's privacy as though it was our own. In the end, we are bound by Canada's information privacy laws which are relatively severe — and we think this is a good thing.