Can Perpetual and Subscription License Under Same Company Pool?

[fatinsyafiqah9397]

May I know if Archicad perpetual license and subscription license under same company pool? We're having perpetual license and wish to purchase new subscription license. But the thing is we want all license to be under same company pool for better monitoring.

[Barry Kelly]

There should be no problems.

Perpetual and subscription has nothing to do with it, that is just how you pay for them.

They are just hardware, software or cloud licences, and they can all belong to the same company pool.

You might just have to allocate them to particular people within the company.

Barry.

[MinhNguyen]

Is that true Barry? When I read the FAQ about Subscription, regarding the conversion from perpetual to subscription, GS said the company can only choose "all-or-nothing" approach, which (I guess) implies that the perpetual keys cannot be under the same "company" from the backend with subscriptions? I'm interested in this as well, but don't bother to check so far as we have no intention going subscription anytime soon

[Barry Kelly]

Hi Minh,

If you change a perpetual license to collaboration subscription, as far as I understand your 'perpetual license will be locked at version 25 (it will need to be reprogrammed with license manager).

This perpetual license could be a software or hardware key.

You will then receive a cloud license (26+) for the collaboration subscription.

So it must be possible to have software, hardware and cloud licenses all in the same company pool.

If you already have perpetual hardware or software keys, and you purchase extra collaboration subscription licenses, I have not heard that you have to change your current perpetual licenses.

Collaboration licenses are only cloud licenses as far as I know.

This will mean it must be possible to have a mixture of all license types in one company pool.

In fact I had this when beta testing 27 (I think it was).

I have hardware and software keys for our company but I was using a cloud license for the testing.

But please anyone from Graphisoft, please feel free to set the record straight.

Barry.