Co-Term AuthPoint Licenses

Applies To: AuthPoint Multi-Factor Authentication, AuthPoint Total Identity Security

We recommend that you co-term your licenses to make renewals easier and to get a better price for each user at renewal.

When you co-terminate or co-term licenses, you consolidate or merge your licenses to synchronize renewal dates. This makes it easier to manage and renew your licenses.

Each time you activate an AuthPoint license key and choose to add users or extend a license, your new license is merged with the selected license and the two licenses are co-termed. Co-termed licenses are merged together and a new expiration date is calculated based on the updated user count and the term length of the license you activated.

When Service Providers activate a license, they have the option to co-term the new AuthPoint license with another active AuthPoint license for the same product or to activate it as a separate license. This allows Service Providers to keep their customer licenses separate.

Because Subscriber accounts can only have one AuthPoint license, when a Subscriber activates a new license key it is automatically co-termed with the current active license and either extends the expiration date or increases the user count based on the option chosen when the license is activated.

As a Service Provider, whether you choose to co-term your licenses or activate a new license, all users go to your inventory in WatchGuard Cloud and can be allocated to any account. Users from one license can be allocated to different managed accounts.

Renewal Date Calculation for Co-Termed Licenses

When you co-term licenses, they are merged together and a new expiration date is calculated based on the updated user count and the term length of the license you activated. The only exception to this is if you choose to extend the license and reduce the user count. In that case, the user count is reduced immediately.

AuthPoint licenses expire on the expiration date at 00:00 UTC. For more information on license expiration, go to AuthPoint License Expiration.

When you co-term two licenses, this calculation determines the expiration date:

New Expiration Date = Today's Date + (current user count x days until license expires) + (purchased user count x term days)
final user count

When you upgrade from AuthPoint Multi-Factor Authentication to AuthPoint Total Identity Security, the calculation used to determine the new expiration date accounts for the difference in cost between a Multi-Factor Authentication user and a Total Identity Security user.

For example, if the MSRP for an AuthPoint Multi-Factor Authentication user is $1 and the MSRP for an AuthPoint Total Identity Security user is $2, then each MFA user is worth 0.5 TIS users. When you upgrade from AuthPoint Multi-Factor Authentication to AuthPoint Total Identity Security, the calculation multiplies the value of the product with the lower MSRP by the price differential.

New Expiration Date = Today's Date + (current user count x days until license expires x price differential) + (purchased user count x term days)
final user count

The co-term calculation is the same whether you add users or extend your license. For information on license expiration, go to AuthPoint License Expiration.

All values in these examples are for illustrative purposes only.

Related Topics

About AuthPoint Licenses

AuthPoint License Expiration

Activate an AuthPoint License