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Upcoming Webinars
Automatic subscription-based licensing with Instant PLUS and SOLO Server
(55 min)
- Date: May 14, 2013, 12pm Eastern Time
- Product: Protection PLUS, SOLO Server
- Intended for: New, existing, and potential customers
Many companies, large and small, are starting to introduce subscription-based licensing models for their software applications. This creates lower upfront costs for customers to acquire your software licenses with predictable monthly expenditures to keep the subscription active.
The SoftwareKey System has all of the tools you need to automate software subscription management, including a recurring billing engine - a feature of SOLO Server which will attempt to bill your customers via credit card at prescribed intervals. An approved transaction will provide your customer with unencumbered use of your software; an ultimately declined billing attempt, however, will cause access to your software to be revoked.
This Webinar is intended for all audiences (including new, existing, and potential SoftwareKey customers) and will demonstrate how to set up both the Instant PLUS Licensing Wizard and SOLO Server to automate subscription management. This presentation, to be supplemented with an interactive Q & A session immediately afterward, will focus on the following topics:
- Overview of subscription based licensing
- Credit processing requirements for recurring billing
- Configuring the transaction fee product for recurring billing transactions
- Configuring payment plans for monthly and quarterly billing
- Configuring a product for recurring billing by linking it to a payment plan
- Configuring Instant PLUS periodic expiration settings
- Placing your first test order
- Managing customer recurring billing information through the administration interface
- Customer service portal features allowing customers to manage their recurring billing information
Introduction to the SoftwareKey Licensing System (55 min)
- Date: May 29, 2013, 12pm Eastern Time
- Product: Protection PLUS, SOLO Server
- Intended for: New, existing, and potential customers
Be sure to join us a few days after the unofficial start of Summer 2013 for an introductory look at the cornerstone components of the SoftwareKey Licensing System - Protection PLUS and SOLO Server - which comprise a peerless turnkey solution for software license management that will provide you an opportunity for more fun in the sun and less time in the office as the summer season kicks into high gear.
You'll learn how powerful features of Protection PLUS and SOLO Server can be used independently or jointly to copy-protect your software, market your products in an online store, and automate post-purchase license management tasks. We’ll show you how this seamless and powerful client-server combination is perfectly suitable for use by a self-proprietor (check out the Instant PLUS wizard to apply essential copy-protection techniques within minutes) as well as a corporate team of seasoned developers (discover how Protection PLUS can be used to implement a thoroughly customized solution that will breathlessly confound and frustrate even the most intrepid of hackers!).
This Webinar is intended for all audiences (including new, existing, and potential SoftwareKey customers) and will go over all of the components of the SoftwareKey Licensing System for Independent Software Vendors. This presentation, to be supplemented with an interactive Q & A session immediately afterward, will focus on the following topics:
- Briefly discuss the company history and timeline
- Choosing the Instant PLUS Licensing Wizard or the Protection PLUS API
- Describing Protection PLUS 4 APIs versus Protection PLUS 5 APIs
- Differentiating the 4 different SOLO Server options
Recorded Webinars
Click any of the links below to register for access to our past Webinars.
Getting Started with the Instant PLUS wizard (59 min)
- Date: March 6, 2012
- Product: Protection PLUS
- Intended for: New, existing, and potential customers
Instant PLUS (part of the Protection PLUS toolkit) uses a wizard interface, allowing you to quickly add the most commonly-requested licensing business logic and user interface to a software application with little or no source code changes.
Our latest Webinar is intended for all audiences (including new, existing, and potential SoftwareKey customers) and will demonstrate how to get started with the Instant PLUS wizard. This presentation, to be supplemented with an interactive Q & A session immediately afterward, will set focus on the following topics:
- Discuss each of the wizard steps and options
- Show how to navigate the help system
- Protect a sample EXE file
- Using the Instant PLUS DLL interface
- Activating the software manually and online with SOLO Server
- Deactivating a workstation manually and online with SOLO Server
- Using the Instant PLUS API for advanced integrations
- Advanced features such as build automation and command line switches
Using Protection PLUS in Visual Studio.NET Applications (52 mins)
- Date: Jan 12, 2011
- Product: Protection PLUS
- Intended for: New, existing, and potential customers
Do you program in Visual Studio.NET (VB.NET or C#) and want to learn about the various options of using Protection PLUS™, Instant PLUS™ and PLUSManaged™ to add licensing to your applications? This webinar is intended for all audiences (including new, existing, and potential SoftwareKey customers) and will describe and demonstrate how to add client licensing into .NET applications. This presentation, to be supplemented with an interactive Q & A session immediately afterward, will set focus on the following topics:
- Using the Instant PLUS Wizard and DLL Interface
- Using the legacy .NET component - SKCLNET
- Using our new .NET component - PLUSManaged
- An update to new PLUSManaged features released recently
How to Get Started with SOLO Server™ (55 mins)
- Date: August 19, 2010
- Product: SOLO Server
- Intended for: New, existing, and potential customers
Have you signed up for a free SOLO Server trial account and want to learn how to get started? Want to see SOLO Server in action?
Our August Webinar, recorded Thursday, August 19th at 12PM (EDT) is intended for all audiences (including new, existing, and potential SoftwareKey customers) and demonstrates how to get started with SOLO Server. This presentation, supplemented with an interactive Q & A session immediately afterward, focuses on the following topics:
- Adding users (security)
- Product catalog hierarchy
- Adding a product
- Linking from a brochure Web site to the shopping cart
- Online manual and context-sensitive help
- Adding a single customer and granting a single license
- Adding a bulk number of license records
- Searching for customers
- Viewing activation history
- Customer Self-Service Portal
- Reporting and Exporting data
New SOLO Server™ Customer Service Portal (55 mins)
- Date: June 2, 2010
- Product: SOLO Server
- Intended for: New, existing, and potential customers
Our June Webinar, recorded for Wednesday, June 2 at 12 PM (EDT) is intended for all audiences (including new, existing, and potential SoftwareKey customers) and demonstrates the features of the all-new SOLO Server Customer Service Portal and how to configure it. The presentation is followed by a Q & A session.
Our new SOLO Server Customer Service portal is a smash hit! In fact, many customers have already started to take advantage of the new features. We have received great feedback and have begun compiling our list of even more features to add into future versions of the portal. The Customer Service portal is intended to enable users to:
- See order history, including reprinting of invoices
- Obtain License Keys
- Download software updates
- View and order software maintenance renewals & upgrades
- Manage / cancel recurring payments
- Register new License Keys
New Activation Features (55 mins)
- Date: March 31, 2010
- Product: Protection PLUS, SOLO Server
- Intended for: Existing customers
In early 2009, we released new SOLO Server activation features and web services. A PDF file that describes the new features in detail is available in our Support Center Downloads area. These new features are demonstrated in the latest releases of Protection PLUS and Instant PLUS. This Webinar, intended for existing SoftwareKey customers with prior Protection PLUS and SOLO Server activation experience, will begin with a brief high level overview of the problems the new web service interfaces solve, including secure workstation deactivation, better license transfer, and more information and control when you allow a customer to activate a license on multiple PCs. In addition, we give a demonstration of the new web services, and also have a Q&A session.
Metering System Instructional Webinar (51 mins)
- Date: 2010
- Product: Metering System
- Intended for: Existing customers
Hosted by VMware. Travis Sales, SE Specialist at VMware and Mike Wozniak, Founder and CTO of Concept Software present, instruct, and take questions from a virtual audience interested in using the SoftwareKey Metering System with VMware ThinApp. Suitable if you are new to ThinApp or a seasoned ThinApp user.
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News
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- Instant PLUS version 3.2.0.1 released! Tuesday, May 07, 2013
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