License Types and Subscriptions

Don't let the subscription revolution pass you by...

Building a scalable subscription licensing platform is a daunting task. There are many subscription recurring billing options on the market to choose from including; Chargify, Recurly, Zuora, Braintree and many more. Charging a credit card on a monthly or annual basis might be easy, but automating the alignment of subscription billing with license management and copy protection is certainly not.

If you’re a desktop software publisher, these popular options provide only one of the building blocks in the stack. What’s missing are the ability to prevent unauthorized use of the software, and a flexible license management system. At the heart of our solution is the PACE industry-leading software security, which protects your product while providing an easy to use, scalable platform for maximizing revenue growth.

Why Anti-Piracy Protection is Important

The software economy is moving to the subscription model for many reasons. Publishers that have succeeded in this transition enjoy a closer relationship with their user base, favorable revenue recognition, predictable revenue streams and positive revenue growth as their products are now accessible to a wider audience.

The dirty secret of the subscription revolution is that the lower price points afforded by the subscription model also make your enterprise software more readily accessible to the hacking community, as the price point to acquire your binary is now quite low.

To counter the negative impact of the lower price point, as part of their subscription licensing migration, publishers that have to-date relied on simple homegrown license key solutions are moving to more robust commercial grade Anti-Piracy and licensing solutions that incorporate the latest code hardening, obfuscation and white box cryptography technologies.

PACE's Anti-Piracy and licensing solution protects billions of dollars of software licenses and supports Windows and Mac. It features nearly unlimited subscription licensing options and the technology underlying our cloud-based solution, iLok Cloud, leverages Google’s Cloud Platform.

Turnkey Subscription Services Solution

For publishers that would prefer a turnkey subscription services solution, PACE offers a white label solution that can have you up and running and generating subscription revenue in record time.