How is Barcode Magician Licensed?

Versions 1.5 to 1.7:

BCM 1.5 and higher uses a true concurrent-license method, where licenses are added to a "pool", and as each workstation starts, an available license is grabbed from the "pool" and reserved.

A new feature of this license method is the ability to pre-reserve a license for a workstation. Using this feature, you can reserve a license and allocate it to a workstation that needs to be running and is not convenient to have shutdown due to a potential lack of licenses.

At any time, purchased licenses can be added to your system to enable more BCM workstations to operate concurrently without any client reconfiguration.

Starting with Barcode Magician 1.7, there is also a license manager that allows the system administrator to monitor the license usage. Through this tool, licenses can be released from use.

Versions 1.4 and earlier:

BCM versions 1.4 and earlier use a "psuedo-concurrent" licensing method, where licenses are added to a "pool", but individual client workstations are assigned one of the licenses in the pool. For example, if you purchase a license and register that license on two workstations, only one of those two workstations will operate at any one time.

For all versions:

Only the BCM "Run Time" application is licensed - the management applications such as the action code editor and users editor are not licensed and do not reserve licenses from the "pool" when operating.