As noted above, license management software embedded in our products administers and controls use of licenses. Information about licenses is maintained by a "license server" in a central database, and is downloaded to the PC where the software is running and temporarily "persisted" there.
This means that the "client" software -- Analytic Solver -- must periodically communicate with the central license server, over the public Internet. Once the current license status is "refreshed", the client software can continue to run without access to the public Internet for a period of time, called the "License Duration," that is encoded as part of the license.
This license management system provides the flexibility to allow one named individual to use the software on multiple computers. But in situations where this system cannot be used -- for example, in applications where a computer must be totally isolated from the Internet, or where no risk of a delay in "license acquisition" is acceptable, there is a backup licensing mechanism in our products, that relies on a "license code," stored in a text file named Solver.
Please contact us if you feel you will need this backup mechanism. All of our licenses have a limited term -- Frontline does not offer "permanent" licenses. The license term coincides with our Annual Support service term -- Frontline does not offer licenses without Annual Support.
The minimum term is one year; you can choose two years or three years and realize savings. As of October 1, , our prices for annual software licenses are the same each year in the past, we offered "renewal licenses" at lower prices than first-year licenses. But we offer discounts if you prepay for more than one year at a time. This simply requires a commitment up-front to two years.
A three-year costs less than under our former pricing. Like other software vendors, Frontline Systems formerly offered "permanent" licenses, where the license had no expiration date.
But computer hardware and software does not last forever -- in fact it changes rather rapidly. In recognition of this reality, Frontline has moved to subscription licenses. A look at Frontline Systems company history or our press release archives shows that, over the last 5 years, we've released 9 major new versions of our products, radically re-making our product line. During the same time, Windows 7, 8 and 10, Excel , , , , and Excel for the Web have been released, multi-core PCs have become common and Frontline's newer releases have fully exploited them , and cloud computing has emerged.
Each license unit comes with your choice of activation method Key device of your choice or Internet service. Group license rates apply only to Premium licenses ordered in one new transaction. To determine the unit price for Braille when ordering five or more Premium units at the same time of any mix of editions , find the Quantity in the table below and then multiply the Single User price including the cost of any options by the Multiplier in the table, and then round to the nearest whole dollar.
When figuring quantity for the rate table, do not count options units, i. The group price multiplier is based on the quantity being ordered at the same time. Part Numbers: for group license part numbers and corresponding prices, include the Rate category number in the part numbers of all items. Group Rates multipliers to the Single-user Price table; you may round the resulting unit prices to whole dollars.
Quantity: Multiplier: 1. Braille work groups holding 5, 10, 20, 50, or 80 or more current licenses are entitled to order any quantity of additional Braille Premium licenses at the group discount rates for 5, 10, 20, 50, or 80, when ordering Braille software directly from Braille, LLC these discounts not available from a reseller.
Price changes should occur only on a monthly cadence. Partners can use the price list preview to know of price changes coming in the next month. Price changes mid-month rarely occur, usually to correct an error in the data. Any mid-month price changes will be broadly announced and be reflected in the price sheet with a new EffectiveStartDate. Partners will be billed in their currency based on the currency value in the price list.
This billing charge will remain constant for a billing plan that is shorter than the term. Annual term P1Y prices reflect the 12 months, partners divide the total by 12 to get the monthly plan charge. The new commerce price list has three fields that work together to help the partner understand the amount they will be billed when transacting. TermDuration describes how long the subscription will last.
The UnitPrice amount is for the term being purchased. If a partner purchases an annual term with monthly pricing they will be billed one twelfth the total amount each monthly billing period.
The amount billed each month for an annual term with monthly billing will be the same each month throughout the term. Price changes during the term do not impact billing plan charges for an existing subscription. Price changes are only relevant for renewals, transitions and new subscriptions. New commerce trials will have a billing plan as "None" since there is no cost for trials.
The price list includes termDuration data that explains how long the term lasts. Many products support both monthly P1M and annual P1Y. However, not all products support monthly term. Partners should reference the current price list and filter by termDuration to view product SKUs by term. Select the market and then export the price list file.
The file is a compressed, comma-delimited text file. The structure of items in the new commerce pricing file differs from the traditional office price list. The offer matrix contains purchase information and rules for the product SKUs. It is market agnostic. Partners use these values to determine which line items are active and current. Sometimes line items are duplicate in the price list and partners can always look to the latest date ranges to identify the current line items and price points.
Partners should always rely on the latest date range unless the date ranges overlap. Below is an example of overlap. In the above example, a transaction made on November 2 would be related to the top line item. A transaction made on November 4 would be associated to the second line item. Overlap is a condition the Partner Center team is working to resolve because it can cause confusion for price list consumers. New commerce supports future pricing. Partners can export and view future pricing for the coming month.
Traditional license-based price lists included flags for new offers, deleted offers, changed and unchanged. New commerce pricing files enable partners to track these changes by leveraging the EffectiveStartDate and EffectiveEndDates. New offers will be identified when they are in the future price file but not in the current price file.
Partners transact in regions that are assigned when they are onboarded. The European region is unique since this region supports more than one currency. In these cases, a partner will get pricing in all supported currencies for the customer market they request pricing information for.
All European market price lists will include pricing in all supported currencies in the European region. Partners will be billed based on the market price sheet and currency line item aligning with the partner billing currency.
The multi-currency support enables a key scenario that had been blocked for years in traditional license-based, enabling a partner to purchase a product sku for a customer in a different country when the product sku isn't available in the partner's country.
This scenario is now enabled and no longer blocked in new commerce. Products now available in this scenario include some of the calling plans only available in specific EU markets. For the October 14, Technical Release partners may see some variant prices for markets with different currencies than their own.
This is due to some system limitations that will be addressed going forward. In these cases partners can always rely on being billed the amount reflected in the price list for the customer market and partner billing currency.
Existing license-based subscriptions enforced ownership limits, or the number of subscriptions a partner could purchase for a customer.
These typically were small business SKUs or offers with less than a seat maximum. In traditional license-based subscriptions partners could see the limits in the offer list matrix for existing seat-based products as Concurrent describing the number of subscriptions the partner could have. New commerce implements a seat constraint across the purchased product SKUs.
New commerce small business subscriptions with less than a maximum will apply the maximum at the product SKU level. So a partner could have multiple small business subscriptions for a customer as long as the aggregate of the seat counts stays under the declared maximum. The maximum for small business applies regardless of where the customer's product SKU came from, that is, multiple partner or channel.
Traditional license-based included a Concurrent setting with a limit value, usually of 2. These settings mean the customer could have a maximum of 2 subscriptions for the offer from a given Partner. Below is an example of the traditional license-based offer and the concurrency setting:.
New commerce license-based uses a Max Seat Count with a value to enforce these small business limits. So, a given customer could have 4 subscriptions from 4 different partners if the total number of seats from all subscriptions was less than The limit is on the number of aggregate licenses purchased for the product SKU, not on the number of subscriptions.
Partners can view these values in the offer matrix for new commerce and get these values in the SKU using the catalog APIs. Here is an example of a new commerce product SKU with the max count value:. This API is now extended to support license-based new commerce pricing.
The price sheet and offer matrix APIs supports pricing for updated new commerce license-based online services only. It doesn't support traditional office license-based services available for download only from Partner Center pricing and offers page.
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