All Business Licenses Now Include Expiration Grace

All KeyboardKit business licenses now include a license expiration grace period, to give you and your users time to upgrade the app when the license needs to be renewed.

Background

KeyboardKit 10 added support for binary license files, which can be validated on-device, without having to use a network call to contact a remote license validation server.

Since keyboard extensions need Full Access to make network calls, this means that keyboards that use a license file don’t need Full Access to validate licenses.

However, bundling a license file with your app means that the app must be updated with a new license file when you renew your license. KeyboardKit Pro will stop working in older app versions, when their license file expires.

To make this process smoother and give you and your users time to upgrade, our business licenses has offered expiration grace as an add-on service. Starting today, this is automatically included in all business plans.

How does it work?

Starting today, all standard Business licenses now include a 1 month expiration grace period, which means that the license file can be used for an additional month after your license expires, before it stops working.

Furthermore, all Business+ licenses include a 2 month period to allow for an even longer upgrade period, and all Enterprise licenses start with 3 month, with the possibility to extend it even more.

Note that the expiration grace period is NOT intended to delay invoice payments. You will still be contacted a month before your license expires, and will receive a renewal invoice as soon as you confirm that you want to renew your license. Your license will renew from the expiration date.

Rollout

We will start rolling out this change today, and will send our updated license files to business license customers throughout the upcoming week.

We trust this change will be a welcome addition to our business offering, and that it will remove some previous timing complexities when renewing your license. Don’t hesistate to contact us if you have any questions.

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