Business licensing question

jbzimmerman
jbzimmerman
Community Member
in Mac

We're evaluating 1P for company use, and I have a couple of questions I couldn't determine the answer to on the Business licensing page. First of all, it seems we can't buy 'global' licenses to allow users to use Mac, Win, iOS or Android clients. Is this true? What's the best path if we don't know in advance what our platform distribution would be, but wanted employees to be able to pick 1 mobile platform? (presume we'd get the mac/win bundle license for desktop use).

Second question - how do we reclaim 'seats' as employees leave? If we have say 10 of 10 licenses in use, and an employee leaves the company, are there provisions for reclaiming those licenses? What's the mechanism?

Thanks!

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  • Ben
    Ben

    Hi @jbzimmerman,

    We're evaluating 1P for company use, and I have a couple of questions I couldn't determine the answer to on the Business licensing page. First of all, it seems we can't buy 'global' licenses to allow users to use Mac, Win, iOS or Android clients. Is this true? What's the best path if we don't know in advance what our platform distribution would be, but wanted employees to be able to pick 1 mobile platform? (presume we'd get the mac/win bundle license for desktop use).

    The way both iOS and Android work, where the app will need to be purchased from each platform's store, will likely mean the best way to go about this would be to have each employee purchase the app on their device and then reimburse them for that purchase.

    The Apple Volume Purchase Program may also be an option depending on how many employees you have:

    https://www.apple.com/business/vpp/

    I don't know of a similar program for Google Play/Android, though there may be one (a quick search didn't turn anything up). There are also 3rd party methods of app distribution that, again, depending on the size of your company, you may want to look into. I have no experience with this solution, but I'll provide the link simply as a reference/starting point:

    http://www.maas360.com/products/mobile-application-management/?A=Spiceworks_JH&O=Inbound

    Second question - how do we reclaim 'seats' as employees leave? If we have say 10 of 10 licenses in use, and an employee leaves the company, are there provisions for reclaiming those licenses? What's the mechanism?

    This is going to largely depend on your internal processes, but if the employee is using company owned equipment simply reclaiming the device(s) would be sufficient. If they are installing the software on personal devices then I'd suggest having IT or HR watch them uninstall the software. In cases where that is not possible (perhaps they have a personal desktop computer at home) the honor system will do, from our perspective.

    The mechanism is up to you, ultimately. We work on the honor system in this regard. We'd expect that if you have knowledge that an employee is using a license that you purchased that you not re-issue that seat. If you have what you feel is sufficient confidence that is not the case, then you can re-issue it. This all applies primarily to the Mac & Windows applications that we sell. Android and iOS are a whole different ball of wax where apps are tied to an email address/store ID.

    That said, there are other concerns when someone leaves. You'll want to change any passwords shared with them, after making sure they no longer have access to new changes made to the vault.

    I hope that gives you a good starting point, and if you have any further questions please feel free to write back. Thanks!

    Ben

  • jbzimmerman
    jbzimmerman
    Community Member

    Thanks much Ben!

  • littlebobbytables
    littlebobbytables
    1Password Alumni

    I'm glad to hear @bwoodruff was able to help you @jbzimmerman. If you have any further questions do let us know :smile:

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