Licensing

Keynote Manager licenses can be purchased in two modes, standalone licenses or floating licenses. If you have already purchased, see the appropriate section below to activate your license. If you have not purchased you may do so when you are ready by visiting the Revolution Design purchase page.

A description of the two licensing types is as follows:

1. Standalone License - This license is a traditional license scenario. Each license is tied to a specific computer and is activated once per machine. For example, if you purchase 3 standalone licenses you will receive an activation key good for 3 activations. This key can then be used to activate the software on 3 separate computers. Once activated, licenses can only be moved to another computer by contacting Revolution Design and uninstalling the software from the previous machine.
2. Floating License - This license allows the purchasing company to purchase a pool of licenses to be hosted on a network server. Floating licenses can be shared between any number of users but the total number of users may not exceed the total number of licenses available. For example, if you purchased 3 floating licenses you could install the program on 50 or more computers (no limit) but no more than 3 would be able to use the program at the same time.

To activate a standalone license you simply need to activate the license on the machine on which it will be used. The steps to activate a standalone license are as follows:

1. Open Keynote Manager or Revit (for Keynote Manager +). On the initial license dialog presented, select 'Activate my Standalone License'.
2. On the license wizard select 'Next' to show the activation key screen. Paste the activation key you received via email after purchase into the activation key field at the top of the screen.
3. Press the 'Activate' button - the dialog should now say 'Your license has now been activated'. If this is not the case please contact Revolution Design for assistance.
4. Exit the license dialog and your license will be activated. You can review your license information in the future by going to About->License Information.

To activate a floating license you must first activate the license on the machine that will host the license pool and then point each user machine to the license database. Detailed instructions for activating a floating license including video examples can be found here.