CodeMeter - wibu-systems ag

CodeMeter: Pay-Per-ChangeThe most economical wayDo you want a dongle for all purposes? ThenCodeMeter is your choice! You only need toorder one product to protect single licenses,network licenses, modular licenses and timelimitedlicenses.This simplifies your inventory management – nodifferent SKUs with different prices and youalways have the right dongle ready to sendto your customer. But the best of all: you caneven convert a single license to multiple usernetwork licenses after shipping to a customerby remote control.The standard situationThe price for CodeMeter is the sum of thehardware cost and the license it protects. It isthen up to you to program your licenses intothe CodeMeter Stick. This is comparable witha license for a software product: not about CD-ROM product cost but intellectual properties.But why telling you this? You as the softwaredeveloper are familiar with this.Independent of the CmStick variant, you receivea cover product in different colors or, for themetal variant, a cap. Usually you have three (ortwo) positions on your calculation:Finally you calculate with the whole price forthe dongle. The only other option which influencesthe price of the hardware is the size ofthe optional flash memory.Inexpensive StartIn some cases you have the requirement“I have only a single software package which isactivated once and for this I need a simple, verycheap dongle. Do you have a light variant?”.Technically spoken, no.From the price, yes!We provide you the complete hardware – includingnetwork licenses and internal clock – as apay-per-use variant for inexpensive introductoryconditions: You buy the CmStick for about 60%off the standard price.And now the best part: You can later use thesame CodeMeter Stick for additional applicationsor even network licenses by just buyingfurther licenses. Such licenses cost about 6% ofthe full CodeMeter Stick price and include theright to reprogram the CodeMeter Stick for asingle time. It is simply called a transaction.Examples for such transactions are:Adding a new Product ItemModification of the Expiration Time of anexisting Product ItemDeleting an Expiration TimeIncreasing the number of licensesYou don’t need a transaction for the followingoperations:Deleting a Product ItemReactivating a CmStick after freezing bydetecting an illegal debugging attemptChanging the item textWhen I Should Use which model?You decide between use of the Standard orthe Pay-Per-Change model. Usually the Standardmodel is cheaper after reprogramming theCodeMeter Stick more than 6 or 7 times. Thishappens if you plan to activate many more fea-