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      • Zentitle for SaaS Licensing
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        • Creating a Zentitle Entitlement in SalesForce
        • Editing Zentitle Entitlements in SalesForce
        • Managing Software Activations in SalesForce
    • Configuration
      • Import customers
      • Account Based Licensing (Identity-based licensing)
        • Setup Account Based Licensing with OpenID tokens.
        • Setup Account Based Licensing with username/password
        • Branding the user experience
      • End User Portal
        • End User Portal User Access
        • End user - Use of the portal
        • End User Offline Activation
      • Custom Fields
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    • Customers and contacts
    • Customers
      • Adding (managing) contacts
      • The contact page
      • Setting up End User Portal (EUP) access
      • Inviting contacts to EUP
      • Disabling Customers
      • Managing Entitlements (from the Customer page)
  • UI: Entitlements
    • Entitlements
      • Using Entitlements
      • Maintenance options
    • Working with Entitlements
      • Activation Codes
      • Contacts (ABL)
      • Activations
      • Activity log
      • Notes
    • Managing Entitlements
      • Allocating entitlements
      • Change the offering (upgrade/downgrade)
      • Entitlements with overrides/changes
      • Renewing an entitlement
      • Resetting the usage count
      • Disabling Entitlements
      • Entitlements in overdraft (seats)
  • UI: Product Catalog
    • Product paradigm
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      • Managing offerings
      • Maintenance options
      • Change offering (upgrade/downgrade)
      • Custom Fields
    • Plans
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    • Global Features (and attributes)
  • UI: Local License Server
    • Local License Server (LLS)
      • Local License Server Installation
      • LLS License End-User Management
      • Entitlements to be used on LLS instances
      • LLS Licensing API
      • LLS Release Notes
  • UI: Help
    • Support
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    • Licensing & Management APIs
      • API docs
      • API Rate limits
      • Collecting credentials for integration
      • API Versioning
    • The Licensing Client (.NET)
      • Configure NuGet Source
      • Configuring the Activation
      • Configuring the SharedActivation
      • Working with SharedActivation
      • Licensing API Nonce
      • IActivation interface
      • Zentitle2Core Library
      • Exceptions
      • FAQ
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    • The Licensing Client (C++)
      • Configuring the Activation
      • Licensing API Nonce
      • IActivation interface
      • Zentitle2Core Library
      • Exceptions
      • Release Notes
    • The Zentitle2Core Library (C++)
      • Security
      • Offline Activation
      • Generating Device Fingerprint
      • Using the Zentitle2Core Library
      • Troubleshooting and FAQs
    • Platform Summary
      • Turboscale architecture
      • SaaS Application Licensing
      • On-Premise Licensing
        • 1-Step Offline Deactivation: On-Premise
        • 2-Step Offline Activation: On-Premise
    • Offline Activation
    • Virtual Machine Control
    • No-code Test Application
      • Creating a Product and Entitlement
      • Download the demo files
      • OnPremDemo.dll.config setup
      • Test the demo application
        • Install Desktop Runtime
    • No-code SaaS Example
      • Creating a Product and Entitlement
      • Download the demo files
      • Collecting the serverside parameters
      • Edit appsettings.json file for IDE based Testing
      • Edit docker-compose.yml file for Docker-based Testing
      • Test the demo application
        • Using docker to test
    • Naming conventions/Glossary
  • Premium Features
    • Overdraft Tracker (Basic)
      • API references (Overdraft)
      • Overdraft Tracker on the dashboard
      • Reporting with the Overdraft Tracker
    • Network Licensing
    • Change log feature
  • Use Cases
    • Dark Site Local License Server (Network-based licensing)
    • Renewals (Customer Success) Management
    • Subscription grace periods
    • Self-service - End-user portal
    • Virtualized Environments
    • Usage-Based Licensing
    • Trial Management
    • Identity Based Licensing: Understanding IDP
    • Single Tenant Option
    • Entitlements with ERP & billing systems
    • Entitlements with Subscriptions
    • Entitlements with a CRM
    • E-commerce Integration
    • IoT and hardware licensing
    • SaaS Applications
    • Overuse tracking (overdrafts)
    • Order Fulfillment
  • Zentitle and M&A deals
  • Other
    • Zentitle2 Changelog
      • Terms and Conditions Changelog
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Zentitle2 documentation: License Management Software

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Welcome to the Zentitle2 documentation hub.

Here, you will find , covering topics such as utilizing the Zentitle2 dashboard to set up and configure your products and offerings, integrating Zentitle2 into your back-office for process automation, and leveraging the Zentitle2 licensing APIs seamlessly within your applications.

Thank you for choosing our platform, and let's start on this journey of .

Zentitle software license management quick overview

Zentitle2 Cloud-based software license management

What is Zentitle2?

Zentitle2 is a comprehensive software license management solution designed to help businesses efficiently manage and enforce their software licenses. Understanding the different types of software licenses is crucial for effective license management. These licenses can be broadly categorized into proprietary and open-source types, each with its own set of restrictions and use cases. One notable example of an open-source license is the GNU General Public License (GPL), which allows access to the source code and is often free, playing a significant role in the software licensing landscape.

Zentitle is a cloud-based software license management platform that enables software vendors, whether you deliver on-premises software, SaaS, hardware devices, or IoT solutions, to easily price, package, and sell your offerings in any business model you choose. Whether you need concurrent, floating, consumption-based, or usage-based licensing, Zentitle provides the agility to monetize your products the way that best fits your customers and your business goals. Using software for commercial purposes without acquiring a valid commercial license can lead to license agreement violations, resulting in legal and financial repercussions.

By leveraging Zentitle2, organizations can ensure compliance, reduce the risk of legal issues, and optimize their software usage.

If you’re a software vendor looking to simplify and strengthen your software license management and ensure compliance with software license agreements, a cloud-based software license platform like Zentitle offers a powerful, flexible solution designed for today’s fast-moving market. Additionally, it is crucial to track software licenses throughout their lifecycle to optimize usage, eliminate unnecessary costs, and enhance compliance.

What Does Zentitle Do?

Zentitle is a cloud-based software license management platform that enables software vendors, whether you deliver on-premises software, SaaS, hardware devices, or IoT solutions, to easily price, package, and sell your offerings in any business model you choose. Whether you need concurrent, floating, consumption-based, or usage-based licensing, Zentitle provides the agility to monetize your products the way that best fits your customers and your business goals.

Why Cloud-Based Software License Management?

Traditional, manual software license management is time-consuming and error-prone. A cloud-based platform automates the entire process, ensuring:

  • Consistency and Accuracy: Every license and entitlement is managed through a single, centralized system of record, so you always know exactly what rights have been sold to each customer and can confidently track changes and audit trails.

  • Compliance and Control: Automated enforcement of license terms ensures customers stay within their agreed usage, reducing the risk of overuse or underuse and giving you full visibility into real-time usage data.

  • Operational Efficiency: Automating fulfillment and entitlement delivery eliminates manual effort, reduces errors, and accelerates the order-to-cash process, freeing your team to focus on innovation and customer value rather than back-office tasks.

Flexible Pricing, Packaging, and Go-to-Market

With Zentitle, you can:

  • Quickly Launch and Monetize New Products: Go from concept to market faster by leveraging pre-built licensing models and workflows.

  • Tailor Offerings to Customer Needs: Use feature-based licensing to enable or disable specific software features per user or license, supporting sophisticated upsell and cross-sell strategies.

  • Adapt to Market Changes: Instantly adjust pricing and packaging without code changes, allowing product management to respond to customer demands and competitive pressures with agility.

  • Empower Developers: By abstracting business models from the application code, developers can focus on building core product functionality, while product managers can configure business models independently.

Real-World Benefits

  • Accelerate Revenue Growth: Streamlined licensing and entitlement management means faster onboarding, renewals, and upsell opportunities, driving recurring revenue and customer satisfaction.

  • Enterprise-Grade Reliability: Zentitle supports millions of users 24/7 and meets the security and operational standards required by leading software companies worldwide.

  • Scalable for Any Business: From startups to billion-dollar enterprises, Zentitle's cloud-based platform grows with your needs, supporting any product, license model, or business case.

Why Choose a Cloud-Based Software License Platform?

A modern, cloud-based software license management solution like Zentitle gives you:

  • Centralized control and real-time insights into all your software licenses and entitlements

  • The flexibility to monetize software through any model, subscription, usage, feature-based, and more

  • Automated compliance and streamlined operations, reducing costs and manual errors

  • The ability to quickly adapt to market changes and customer needs, staying ahead of the competition

Zentitle's cloud-based software license management platform empowers software vendors to automate, optimize, and scale their licensing operations, freeing up resources to focus on delivering value, growing revenue, and delighting customers.


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Licensing API

How to activate, query and manage entitlements from applications (ideal for on-prem. apps)

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The REST API to manage entitlements within the Zentitle2 platform (ideal for SaaS apps)

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How to activate & manage entitlements using the client library & APIs

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