LicenseSpring

Vorteile

+ Uncomplicated integration (SDKs,..)
+ Flexible for modern licensing requirements
+ Great support
+ Some feature requests of ours made it into the product

Nachteile

- some limitations to offline floating servers (limiting number of end-user devices that can offline-activate and share a floating license)

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We still kept CodeMeter for fully on-prem customers and those who had it before, it's also working well. But we needed LicenseSpring for lightweight installations without admin rights, more easily managed licenses also after deployment at customers.

Zuvor genutzte Software

CodeMeter

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Integration seemed easier and more flexible. Don't fully remember it's been a few years.

Vorteile

For me, as an administrator/analyst, it is a good starting point to understand how many users we currently have.

Nachteile

The analytics could be improved, right now I have to download all the data via API and then work with it in another software.

Vorteile

Reliable, large portfolio, direct support and good documentation.

Nachteile

There are currently still a few specific requests for the statistical analysis that can be improved, but LicenseSpring is already working on this topic.

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Due to the pricing which was more interesting for our desired model.

Vorteile

LicenseSpring has a great product. We appreciate the platform running on a modern software stack. The website and REST APIs are very responsive. The libraries integrate seamlessly into our C++/Unreal Engine based application. The pricing terms are much less predatory than our previous solution. LicenseSpring is very customer focused.

Nachteile

I wish LicenseSpring had an off-the-shelf integration with Hubspot. Given what we've been doing internally to get that sorted out, I'm not surprised.

Vorteile

I love the fact that the system is very mature and does give a full solution to every possible scenario. Whether it is Online product activation, or tracking cloud per consumption, and even offline activation, they support all of the great features.
One thing we really love is the ability to assign a block of licenses to our reseller so the reseller can sell and control individual licenses to their end-users. This feature is gold because most of our business is through a distribution channel and letting the reseller control the end user licenses, reduces a lot of work from our end.

Nachteile

So far, we did not find anything we do not like.

Vorteile

We needed to interact with the team at LS to learn how to best use the flexibility of the service to best meet our business needs. They were supportive and responsive.

Nachteile

Using the support port is clumsy. I felt it was important to use the support page and not email directly to LS individuals. But when I did that, often the "case" would be idle for days until I directly emailed the individuals at LS.

Vorteile

It's quite well designed and easy to use. We have used the license api in our software and management api to do a custom connection to our CRM and that was not hard to do.

Nachteile

Their documentation is not always complete if you wanna go down to the details, its nice for doing initial setups but if you wanna go very deep there are some gaps. On the other hand they are quite fast answering questions via their support so it has not be a very big issue.

Vorteile

The C# integration was straight forward, and easy to implement checks and validations at a basic level. Making it easy to deploy an MVP quickly.

Nachteile

It was unfortunate that the Unity specific SDK was out of date and not recommended. Though, the C# SDK was easily integrated.

Vorteile

A very mature and stable product for the price range. Has most of the features you would expect to see in low end enterprise solutions. Great SDK, very well documented. Their development support is outstanding.

Nachteile

Cannot think of any serious cons. It would be good to be able to customize some of the views in the vendor portal but this is not critical.

Vorteile

License Spring was chosen as one of our most cost effective services for handling license-key creation and registration for our product. License Spring ultimate won out as it supports FastSpring's purchase infrastructure. We got into the service rather early, and had to go a more manual REST API method because of our usage of Unity and being both Windows and Mac based. In the near future we are going to revisit our License Spring implementation and catch up with their licensing SDK improvements.

Nachteile

The documentation took some time to really come to an understanding with, but was directly comparable to many service's documentation. I would like to be able to delete packages from the dashboard, I made a few in error as I was learning the system (although I recognize this may not be possible by nature of the underlying database structure).

Vorteile

The simplicity to set up and integrate with our existing software. The SDK is very clear, thorough and easy to use.

Nachteile

During the earlier days of our subscription, there were frequent updates which could create incompatibility issues. Also limited view on license usage history.
LicenseSpring has helped get around these issues though, so they are only minor concerns.

Vorteile

Great licenses management. Easy to use. Fast to implement.

Nachteile

Didn't notice. Maybe minor caveats, like Android SDK compatibility with outdated devices.

Vorteile

The team behind the tool is great. Requests for expansion and adaptation are taken up and implemented quickly if technically feasible. We chose LicenseSpring because, in my opinion, it is currently the solution with the best price-performance ratio on the market.

Nachteile

Actually there is nothing negative that I can mention.

Vorteile

The environment for issuing licenses is clean and easy to use, the support is amazing, and the system has plenty of features to allow it to scale with your business.

Nachteile

Implementation of the SDK was rather challenging, but due to the great support it all ended up working great.