Editions and licensing

Applies to: BarcoderX Basic and Ultimate

Status: Planned. Nothing is released yet, and nothing can be bought yet. The editions and the license model below are decided. This guide has no prices: they are published on barcoderx.com. It also has no license terms. The license agreement, the OEM terms and the privacy notice are prepared separately, with legal counsel.

BarcoderX is sold as licenses for software that your developers run on your own infrastructure. Nothing is hosted for you. BarcoderX keeps only your developer account, your license keys, the list of versions that you are entitled to download and a record of your activations (the license ID, a hashed machine fingerprint, the version and the time). No labels, templates, print jobs or other customer data ever reach BarcoderX.

What you can license

A bundle of the SDK and the editor add-on is offered in each edition.

The two editions

The SDK and the server come in two editions, Basic and Ultimate. They differ only in the barcode symbologies they include. Every other feature is identical: the same output formats, the same printer languages and the same API.

The label editor add-on has a single edition.

For the symbologies themselves, see Barcodes.

How a license works

• A one-time perpetual license. You pay once and keep the license. It does not expire.
• Two years of updates and support are included in the price. A perpetual license covers every BarcoderX release that is dated inside your two-year window, and those releases keep working for as long as you like.
• Renewal is optional. Each yearly renewal adds one more year to the window.
• A release dated after your window produces marked output until you renew. The exact rules, including any short period of grace, are set before the first release.
• Evaluation is free. You can try BarcoderX without a key. Its output is marked. See Evaluation mark and license keys.

Sizes of a license

• Developer licenses come in packs for 1, 5 or 10 developers. A developer license is for people who build applications with BarcoderX.
• OEM licenses are for putting BarcoderX inside a product that you sell or give to others. They come for 1 developer, 5 developers or unlimited developers.

A developer license covers one named developer on up to three machines. Build servers are covered by the team's developer licenses. Running your finished application in production needs a deployment license. Redistribution inside your own product needs an OEM license. What the OEM terms allow is not described in this guide.

Buying and renewing

Purchases, renewals and invoices are planned to run through Stripe. After you buy, you receive a license key. See Evaluation mark and license keys to learn how to register it. A customer portal for downloading keys and managing activations is planned for after the first release, and its timing is not fixed. Until then, keys are delivered to you directly.

A license never stops your printing

Licensing in BarcoderX is built so that a license problem can never stop a warehouse. The worst that can happen is that labels carry a visible evaluation mark. Nothing in the license system makes a render, an export, a command generation or a print fail. Verification works without a network connection, and only activation and the periodic check-in leave your environment: the license ID, a hashed machine fingerprint and the version. They never block output.

BarcoderX is a product of P4 Software.