Don't charge per-seat, increase your base-price instead. We found that the effort and costs we were putting into tracking licences / users, etc. for both us and our customers was too high. Having a no per-seat price allows us to compete with our rivals and get a foot in the door of large organisations (where per-seat costs are a major issue).

>Hello Chaps/Chapesses
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>An interesting thinking point, we are as an organisation, looking at new ways of licencing our Foxpro Applications.
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>At the moment we have a licence application that sits in with the main data on the server this app then locks records in a licence table as users go into the system. This "surprisingly" works very well. So why change it? Well on large sites locking take can a while ie 100 user +.
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>Anyone else go any interesting ideas? I think its an issue most application developers are interested in ie you cant keep track of all sites, and you dont want to make it to easy for users/it admin to increase their user base as their company grows without purchasing extra licences.
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>I would be interested to know how other people do it.
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>Chris