Accusoft’s products are available with Evaluation, Toolkit/Development/SDK, or Runtime/Deployment licenses. Accusoft requires customers to purchase licenses for both development and deployment.

Evaluation Licensing

During evaluation of Accusoft products, Evaluation licenses can be used to try out products. However, the product behavior is limited by trial dialog pop-ups, timeouts, or evaluation watermarks.

Toolkit Licensing

This is also known as Development or SDK licensing. When you determine the product is a good fit, you can purchase a Toolkit license to eliminate trial dialog pop-ups, timeouts, and evaluation watermarks while you develop your application.

Runtime Licensing

This is also known as Deployment licensing. Once you have an application that is ready for distribution, you have several options for deployment. Your own deployment scenario will dictate which option is the most appropriate.

You can choose to report your deployment licenses to Accusoft automatically or manually:

• Automatically Reported Runtime Licensing (Node-Locked)

Using the Server Licensing Utility (SLU) - In this model, you run a small GUI tool one time on each deployment target to configure licensing. This model will be the best choice for you if you handle the deployments yourself.  

• Manually Reported Runtime Licensing (Non-Node-Locked):
  
  In this model, you embed all of the licensing information directly into your application. You must manually provide royalty reporting to Accusoft for the actual licenses deployed. This model will be the best choice for you if you are not connected to the Internet at runtime, as might be the case in an defense or financial application.

Important Files and Directories for Linux

• If the SLU or License Manager successfully pulls down a license from our server and places it on your machine, it will be in one of the following directories ("~/.config/accusoft/licensing", by default).
  Accusoft License search paths:
  • current working directory ("./")
  • "~/.config/accusoft/licensing"
  • "/etc/accusoft/licensing"

• If Barcode Xpress is unable to find that file, an exception will be thrown.

Environment Variables

• ACCUSOFT_LICENSE_DIR - (Optional) Specifies the licensing directories. If not set, then the product license must be in one of the Accusoft License search paths.

There are also cost considerations for each licensing model; see the product's "pricing" page or speak with an Accusoft Sales Representative (sales@accusoft.com) for more information.