Wayan Jaya wrote:Wayan Jaya wrote:Wayan Jaya wrote:
Well in that case why does our subscription have an expiry date. My understanding which may be wrong is that when you purchase sdv4
It included updates for 1 year after that there is an annual fee to keep receiving updates. Why would they say your subscription is valid until (xxx cc XXX) if thereafter I didn't pay my subscription would not be valid one assumes therefore that one has to pay I can't remember the amount or even if
it has been mentioned
Here is a post by Hans Top (the Big boss)
Hello Everybody !
My comments to your questions:
1) CoffeeCup Software is NOT subscription based software, when you purchase software from us you are acquiring a PERPETUAL license for the software.
2) Software updates, support, free templates and any other great things we may come up with ARE INDEED a subscription and this "subscription" for Site Designer costs $69 per year at the moment.You will receive ONE YEAR of free updates with your purchase, and you may use the last upgraded version during that year PERPETUALLY. If you upgrade your version beyond the free upgrade period, the software goes into trial version mode which lasts 7 days. Once you have then purchased the upgrade from your MyProducts area on coffeecup.com, the trial mode will automatically switch to registered/entitled mode.
I hope the way I explained this is understandable. We have implemented this so that we can keep on selling perpetual software licenses, but still have a way to receive compensation for the work we keep doing to improve the software and services we offer.
So now when your subscription ends on whatever date you have, then you will be given the opportunity to renew your subscription for a further year to keep receiving free updates. for a fee of
69$ per annum (as it stands at the moment)
If you do not pay to subscribe then you CAN STILL CONTINUE to use the
last SDv4 build (XXXXX.XX)that you downloaded last perpetually.
if there is an update that is available but you are not subscribed, you can still download it & use it for 7 days, after which you either choose to pay the annual subscription fee to keep using it , or not pay and it will stop working.
Excellent advice on maintaining past versions ( I would still like a v.4 that performs well)
This seems pretty standard in the world of software assuming that CC is referring to version and not build.
This is my read/assumption...Example: you purchase v.4 and CC stays at v.4 for 2 years, you would still get build updates, fixes, patches, etc. within that version. If the version changed to v.5 you would pay for the upgrade.
If in 12 months of purchase the the v.4 went to v.5 or v.5 to v.6 it would be free. Again, pretty common.
IF you had v.4.3225 and at month 13 they did v.4.3227 and wanted you to pay? Not sure what I would do, in reality $70 a year isn't bad if you do development for a living (which I don't).
Lots of good discussion and info...Thank you to all that have contributed.