At 08:02 2018-02-07, mbsoftwaresolutions@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote:

On 2018-02-06 22:25, Carl Lindner wrote:

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Mike, Not sure about Stephen's tip. Unless you are charging big bucks per user. You would have to track - on a daily basis logged in users. Then, would have to show those days where usage was exceeded. You would have variable billing. Seems like a lot of work - depending on the incremental charge. Then, billing could be questioned and you would have to answer. Might be easier to license for n and allow for n+2 users or something like that.

n <> n + 2....lol!

Seriously though...if you track license usage, then you already have something in place for daily basis in users as you said. You could give a kind warning, maybe giving them X warnings before a surcharge kicked in. All done programatically (until the limit is met, and then you'd manually bill them if they accepted some "WARNING: PROCEEDING WILL INCUR A FEE OF $5 FOR THIS EXTRA USER BEYOND YOUR LICENSE LIMIT." or something nicer and friendlier than that.

I don't think I would do that anyway, but it's an interesting discussion.

I do not think that that would be workable. If there are that many users, the end user who would "proceed" likely does not have authorisation to incur expenses on behalf of the client. The client might well repudiate the charge and could have good legal grounds to do so. (It is not reasonable to expect a clerk to have such authorisation.)

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko