Task: Offer a trial version of a new software product or version to your customer base.

A software product or a new version of a software product should be made available to potential customers for a defined trial period. After the trial period is over, the product license has to expire securely. The potential customer should be encouraged to purchase a perpetual product license activation online and turn the trial version license into a perpetual product license.

Solution: Use the Syncrosoft eLicenser solution which protects software securely and adds flexible digital rights and license management to your software application.

The Syncrosoft eLicenser anti-piracy solution comes with a comprehensive set of product license types. One type is the trial license. Any number of days, product starts or amount of usage time can be specified as a possible license limitation. Furthermore, the different types of limitations can be combined freely. 

For example, a trial license grants access to a software application for 100 program starts within a time period of 30 days. After 30 days or 100 program starts, whichever occurs first, the product license expires. After expiration of the trial license, the user only needs to purchase a perpetual license for that product in order to turn the trial version into a fully functional, not limited version. A customer could purchase this license in a software vendor’s online store, and could use the Syncrosoft License Control Center Software for downloading the license to his Syncrosoft eLicenser protection device.