Licensing
The functions available in your license form the basis of the features which you provide to your shop types. These will be used by Web site/shop owner and his customers. These functions will either be available or limited to a certain value. The combination of type and scope of the individual features defines the individual shop types. See also
Shop details – Features and
Feature packages.
It is necessary for you to have an overview of the functions which have been made available and to what extent they are currently being used. This allows you to react and apply for an increase in functionality before the limit is reached.
In the table, you can see all the functions which are available to you with your license. If the feature has a maximum value, a status bar shows the current utilization. If the status bar is red, this means the utilization has reached the maximum value.
Functions which do not have a status bar display are functions which have been made available in the license. For these functions, there are no restrictions. They can either be activated or not.
Caution:
The maximum values are checked in the shops. The total value of a feature in all shops must not exceed the limit set in the license. The total maximum values for the individual shops are added, not the current utilization.
The following example demonstrates this:
The license permits up to 5000 products. You define shop types with different values for the maximum number of products: Type A maximum 3000 products, type B maximum 1000 products, and type C with maximum 500 products.
10 merchants wish to operate a type C shop. That means, that every merchant can offer a maximum of 500 products in his shop. This reaches the maximum total number of products at 5000. It is not important how many products the merchants are offering in their shops at the moment. To make more shops, you have to apply for a license which allows for more products.
Based on the maximum values, it would be impossible in this example to create two type A shops.
As soon as a maximum value is exceeded when creating a shop, an error message is displayed.
Note:
If you wish to increase the availability of a function or offer functions for which you do not have a license, consult your technical administrator. He will apply for a new license by ePages and install this in the system when he receives it.
Caution:
Make sure to check if features already present will be limited by a new license. If this is the case, there may be problems with shops which use these features.