TurboActivate caption text and exceeeding activations limit

1. Would the customer see any LimeLM or TurboActivate branding?

Not if you don't want them to.

2. Does the activation module display "TurboActivate" or is it possible to put my applications name on the activation dialogue?

Do you mean the TurboActivate wizard? You can change the title of the wizard and all references to "TurboActivate" using translations.

Or you can build your own wizard using the TurboActivate API. It doesn't need to be complicated. Just a textbox and an "Activate" button is all you really need.

3. When it says 1200 activation and 2 users, it means 1200 end user product activation per month and 2 employees accessing the LimeLM control panel right?

It means 1200 "allocated activations" total. Each product key can have 1 or more "allocated activations". An end-user can activate and deactivate a key a million times and it's still only using the 1 "allocated activation" for a product key.

And yes, "users" means your employees with the ability to log into your LimeLM account and/or manipulate the account using the web API.

What happens if more than 1200 activations need to be done in a particular month? Would the end user see any message?

If you're using the web API to generate product keys (e.g. you have a purchase page that automatically generates the product keys using our API) and if you go over the plan limit, the LimeLM automatically upgrades you to the next largest account type.

So everything works smoothly. The user never knows anything happened.

Does that make sense?

Thank you. Yes, I understand 1 and 3. I am having a bit of trouble understanding allocated activations.

2a) Say I have 500 new customers a month for my product in the first 3 months of the product launch and 100 new customers a month afterwards, And I have taken the smallest plan offering 300 allocations a month. I permit an end-user 1 activation. Key verification is done every 30 days. How would that work out and what would be your suggested plan considering cost?

2b) Also does key verification (say every 30 days) also count as an activation?

2c) If I stop your service would my customers who have already installed and are using the product still be able to verify their keys issued through LimeLM?

2d) I am guessing that since the key is tied to a hardware id, the end-user can reinstall my product on his machine any number of times. Would the customer have to contact me again for an activation file or can he use the same activation file he received earlier?

2a) Say I have 500 new customers a month for my product in the first 3 months of the product launch and 100 new customers a month afterwards, And I have taken the smallest plan offering 300 allocations a month. I permit an end-user 1 activation. Key verification is done every 30 days. How would that work out and what would be your suggested plan considering cost?

The "activations" listed on the signup page are total activations for the plan -- not monthly. Meaning if you're on the Basic plan then it's 1200 total allocated activations. Not 1200 every month -- 1200 total. Of course you can always upgrade your plan at any time to one of the larger plans.

So if you get 300 customers every month, then by the end of the fourth month (once you've reached 1200 allocated activations) then you'd upgrade to the Plus plan.

2b) Also does key verification (say every 30 days) also count as an activation?

No. You generate a product key and you set how many activations you'll allow. For example, you create a product key with 1 allowed activation. The customer can only activate that product key on 1 computer. They can re-verify or re-activate a billion times if they wanted to, it still only counts as 1 activation. An if you want to add it to your software, you can let them deactivate and then activate on another computer. That *still* only counts as that same 1 activation.

2c) If I stop your service would my customers who have already installed and are using the product still be able to verify their keys issued through LimeLM?

We cover this on the signup page:

Cancel anytime you're not locked in.

If you cancel your account it will be put in dormant mode. This means you no longer pay the monthly cost, but your users will still be able to activate & deactivate their product keys.

You can re-enable your account later and pick up where you left off.

2d) I am guessing that since the key is tied to a hardware id, the end-user can reinstall my product on his machine any number of times. Would the customer have to contact me again for an activation file or can he use the same activation file he received earlier?

The user can re-activate on the same machine without having to contact you at all.

Thanks. I am going to sign up. I have sent a mail about alternate payment options.