What exactly is the Subscription license for Visforms all about?
Duration of the Subscription license
The Visforms Subscription license has a term of one year and is not renewed automatically. It is purchased anew for each year and is then extended for another year. If an earlier Subscription is still active at the time of the new purchase (remaining term), the new year follows the end of the previous year. We are currently offering a 10 % discount for non-disruptive Subscription renewals.
Subscription Contents
An active Visforms Subscription license entitles and enables the following:
- Download the Visforms Subscription installation from our website
- Use of the Joomla Update Manager for automatic updates to the Visforms Subscription.
- Exclusive article access to the support forum. We provide and deliver our technical support through this forum.
The Visforms Subscription license types differ as follows:
- The only difference between the various Subscription license types is how many websites the Subscription can be used on.
More on this in: Visforms Subscription Types - The Subscription features are listed on our website at a glance.
More on this in: Visforms Subscription Features - All Subscription features are documented in detail in this documentation.
More on this in: Subscription.
From purchase to a functional and updatable product
The Purchase of the Visforms Subscription license entitles and enables the download of the Visforms Subscription installation from our website.
The Visforms Subscription Installation must then be manually downloaded from our website, at least for the first time, and manually installed on the Joomla instance.
After installation:
- Visforms has all Visforms Subscription features.
- Visforms has all Visforms Subscription plugins, some of which may need to be activated first.
- Visforms has the button Download ID for Updates in the Subscription Management section of the Visforms Dashboard.
After the first manual installation, all further updates also via the Joomla Update Manager are optionally possible.
The prerequisite is that the individual Download ID has been stored in the Visforms Dashboard in the Manage Subscription area after clicking on the button Download ID for Updates.
By purchasing the Visforms Subscription license, you will receive a unique Download ID.
The Download ID is not a license, but only enables automatic updates to the Visforms Subscription using the Joomla Update Manager.
Without a Download ID entered, an error message will appear when attempting to automatically update the Visforms Subscription using the Joomla Update Manager.
Further details and context are described in the documentation at the following locations:
Testing and development with a Subscription
The different Subscription license types only differ in how many websites the Subscription can be used on. For the pure development and testing of a website, additional test installations of the Subscription are permitted on additional test websites. These additional test websites do not count towards the maximum number of websites specified for the different Subscription license types.
Expired Subscription
With an expired Visforms Subscription, you can continue to use your Subscription indefinitely. In particular, you can continue to use your forms equipped with Subscription features indefinitely. Feature updates, security updates and forum support (write access to the support forum) are then unfortunately no longer possible.
Note: Please note that the free Visforms version and the Subscription version must always match each other (mutual minimal versions).
An isolated update of the free Visforms version is then not always possible without restrictions, as code changes for new features and bug fixes can affect both.
Note: The update of the free Visforms version is also canceled in these cases with a message.