A user is anyone who uses Create to develop apps, AND anyone who uses an app built in Create within a business, as a client of a business or as a customer of a business. You will need seats for all of your users, if you build internal apps to use within your business. People who use a LiveCode app via a Server interface are also counted as users.

Please see our page to help explain the two different license types. We have added use cases here to help you understand where each one applies.

A user is anyone who uses Create to develop apps, AND anyone who uses an app built in Create within a business, as a client of a business or as a customer of a business. You will need seats for all of your users, if you build internal apps to use within your business. People who use a LiveCode app via a Server interface are also counted as users.

Yes, they do, if the users for the app are within an organization or can be named as individuals. If the app you built for your client is subsequently sold as an app store app or via a website as a generic app, then application payments will apply to the app.

No, in this case you need to make application payments on your app.

This is a percentage of all of the revenue earned by your LiveCode Create built app. The amount charged varies according to how much revenue your app earns, but is never more than 5% of the app earnings.

We will provide a portal where you upload your monthly sales figures. If you have an app store app, you will be requested to provide the monthly reports from the app store/s you are shipping through.

Yes, you will need a seat for every developer working on the app.

You must pick the model that corresponds to the way in which you are using LiveCode Create. If you have internal users of your apps within an organisation you must choose Internal Users, and if you are selling apps to the general public, you must choose Application Payments.

We will be running an Entrepreneurs program to help you get your app off the ground. While you are a member of the program your licensing will be free. Eligibility criteria will apply. Contact us to learn more.

You will have a portal where you can see and track your app usage. You will be able to assign and un-assign seats to named users.

For this situation you can purchase “user months”. This is a pack of 30 day licenses which can be used as needed. Any given user can access a license for one month. The license is activated and starts counting down from first login. Minimum purchases of user months will apply. This is intended for businesses which are highly seasonal, for example, if you hold a convention once a year where you have 500 users for just a few days, you would need a user months pack to cover this.

If you need to build an app that is permanently offline and not tracked in any way (for security reasons for example), please talk to us. We can at our discretion provide a case by case contract for this situation.

If you build and ship an app that is completely free, with no commercial benefit to you or to a client you build it for, then the end users of that app are free, you do not require a license for them. For example a free educational app used by students would fall into this category. You do still need to purchase a developer license for yourself. Free apps will display a LiveCode Create badge throughout the app, and will have “Made with LiveCode – Non Commercial Use Only” notices you are not permitted to disable. Educational apps will display an “Educational use only” badge in addition to these.

A free app is an app that you give away AND that brings you no commercial benefit. For example if you build an app that you give away free, but within the app there are upsells via in-app purchasing or advertising, that is not a free app within our definition and you must sign up for Application Payments to distribute it. If you build an app for a charity, you are not paid to build the app, and the users make no payments to anyone to use the app, that is a free app. Essentially, if you earn any money in any way from the app you need to sign up to make Application Payments.

There is no difference, unless your cloud deployed app is very resource heavy. We provide a reasonable amount of data and cloud resources with every license. If you exceed the limits you will need to buy additional cloud space which we will supply at or near cost.

You will not be charged for hosting costs, data storage or AI use within our Fair Use limits. For information on what the Fair Use limits are, please contact us. If you exceed these limits we will notify you and you will be able to buy more access at or near cost. Free apps will have lower limits on resource use.

Free apps will have a lower threshold of fair use limits for resource usage, and if these are exceeded charges will apply.

Please contact us, we will be happy to talk it through with you.

Please contact us, we’ll try and find a way forward.

If your account is over $7000/year, you will get an account manager, direct technical support from our team, priority bug fixes and a dedicated channel in our Slack where you can talk to us in real time.

Please download our examples document to see how much you might pay.