The basics of account-based licensing
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Have your end-users log in and use the software without needing license codes.
Account-based Licensing makes the user themselves the identifier for their entitlements: Email Address and Password. There are no license codes to send back and forth, nothing for the user to remember to keep, and nothing to stress out down the line when they need it again and can't remember where they saved it. When you use Zentitle Account-Based Licensing, your customers get the same user-centric experience that they get nowadays from Adobe, Microsoft, or all those SaaS Services like Dropbox, Evernote, Google, and iCloud. Users can roam from device to device, only ever needing to remember their email address and password (any username is supported, email address is most common). Most of all, though, Account-Based Licensing is incredibly flexible. You can use it in conjunction with pretty much all of our Licensing Models to deliver and control entitlements exactly as you want.
Subscriptions, Usage Based, Feature Based, and Concurrent models, and much, much more are all possible. With Zentitle, we don't restrict you by only allowing simple fixed use cases that in real life are restrictive, plus you get a truly modern platform with the assurance of Nalpeiron's 20 years in leading in the software licensing industry. It works extremely effectively if you sell to business customers, too. Our comprehensive license models, along with Dynamic Entitlements and Account-Based Licensing, make managing your customer entitlements much easier and, importantly, much more hassle-free for the customers themselves. Zentitle provides an End-User Portal for you so that your end-users or even your multi-user business customers have just what they need to get full insight into the software they own and how they use it.
The End User Portal works hand-in-hand with Account-Based Licensing, giving you everything you need to support your customer base with a high degree of self-service, which in turn minimizes your operational support overheads. Of course, the End User Portal is brandable to ensure brand continuity. Account-Based Licensing easily integrates with your own approach to managing user identities, from companies such as Auth0, Okta, etc. - allowing you to have a single sign-on identity that can be used across license activations for on-premise software, logging in to SaaS offerings, entering support tickets, accessing customer portals, forums, downloads, and the like. This enables a ‘Best of Breed’ approach that leverages the power and flexibility of the Zentitle platform in combination with standards-based identity management platforms (such as those supporting OpenID Connect, OAuth2, SAML2, etc.) For those who don’t need the full flexibility of a separate dedicated identity management solution, Zentitle can provide a central point of control for end-user identities for a similar modern experience of ‘login and use’.
Account-based licensing doesn't have to center around an individual person. It can be used to great effect in many commercial and industrial applications where a device is not operating as a person. If you've been wondering about how you can use Account-Based Licensing in business, industrial, commercial, or hardware/software infrastructure deployment, then reach out and ask about the use cases you are thinking of.
