Licensing Services - The Features

We deliver on the promise of making software licensing easy and inexpensive. Building your own secure licensing mechanisms just to sell your software is costly and challenging to maintain. Using license codes that can be "passed around" to other users results in a significant loss of revenue. See The Problem for more information on this topic.

Our licensing solution lets you focus upon developing and marketing your products and minimizes your costs for protecting your software while maximizing your revenue. Combine that with an effective zero cost of entry, minimal per-license costs, no minimums or monthly costs and you have "licensing for the rest of us" ... delivered in a manner that users appreciate.

As a Vendor, we give you control over your setup, anytime access to your licensing resources and real-time reports for your sales/licensing transactions. If you use Kagi as your e-store (as we do), learn more about our integrated Kagi e-store support. A PayPal integration also exists as well as a specification to enable custom e-store integrations.

Sign up with us today so we can help you increase your profits via satisfied, compliant customers.

Core Features

for an integrated e-store (e.g., Kagi, PayPal 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 during the sales process
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
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)

Effectively Zero Entry Cost and Attractive Rates

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.

Vendor Web-Based Administration with Real-Time Reporting

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

• Vendor setup, maintenance and administration of:
  • licensed product definition
  • sales to licensed product mapping for integrated e-stores
  • sales to licensing mapping 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
• 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.

Free, Easy-to-Use Developer Tools and Testing Capabilities

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.

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.

Respect for Information Privacy

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:

In the end, we are bound by Canada's information privacy laws which are relatively severe ... and we think this is a good thing.

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