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Floating Licenses

OffShoot Beta 23.2.1 introduces a new floating licensing model. With floating licenses, you can easily move your activation(s) to where you want to use OffShoot.

Requirements

How to use

When using a license with one activation on multiple computers, OffShoot will ask if you want to move your activation to your current computer. If you move your activation, OffShoot will activate on your current computer and deactivate on your other computer.
When using a license with more than one activation on multiple computers and no more activations are available on your license, OffShoot will prompt you to use the License Manager.

Floating license with one activation

On Computer 1:
  1. 1.
    Go to OffShoot Beta > Settings > Activate.
  2. 2.
    Activate OffShoot Beta with your license key.
On Computer 2:
  1. 1.
    Go to OffShoot Beta > Settings > Activate.
  2. 2.
    Activate OffShoot Beta with your license key.
  3. 3.
    An alert will appear: Activation already in use.
  4. 4.
    Click Move Here to activate your OffShoot Beta license on Computer 2.
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Activating computer 2
  1. 5.
    Computer 1 will receive a Heads up! alert with a 5-minute warning.
​
  1. 6.
    After 5 minutes, OffShoot Beta cancels any running transfers and deactivates its license on Computer 1.
Want to use OffShoot Beta on Computer 1 again? Restart the app on Computer 1, then click Move Here in the Activation already in use alert.

Floating license with more than one activation

In this scenario, a license with 2 activations is used with 3 computers.
On Computers 1 and 2:
  1. 1.
    Go to OffShoot Beta > Settings > Activate.
  2. 2.
    Activate OffShoot Beta with your license key.
On Computer 3:
  1. 1.
    Go to OffShoot Beta > Settings > Activate .
  2. 2.
    Activate OffShoot Beta with your license key.
  3. 3.
    An alert will appear: Activation already in use.
  1. 4.
    Click Manage License to launch the License Manager in a web browser.
  2. 5.
    In the License Manager, click Manage next to OffShoot Beta, then click the license key.
  3. 6.
    ​Deactivate OffShoot Beta from Computers 1 or 2.
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  1. 7.
    Go back to Computer 3, then activate OffShoot Beta with your license key.
Want to use OffShoot Beta on the deactivated computer again? Activate OffShoot Beta on that computer, then click Manage License in the Activation already in use alert to start deactivating OffShoot Beta from Computer 3 in the License Manager.
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