PaperCut Maintenance and Support
Last modified on 10 August 2020 07:34 PM
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Maintenance and Support allows sites to upgrade their PaperCut software at any time without having to worry about any extra upgrade costs. It also combines our Premium Support option ensuring requests for support are treated with higher priority over standard email support. PaperCut Software has a well established upgrade policy where minor point releases are free and a fee is charged for major upgrades. Although our upgrade costs and frequency have remained consistent over the years, most organizations prefer to deal with fixed annual budgets. Maintenance and Support provides this certainty and allows organizations to pay a set annual amount granting them access to all upgrades at any time. It allows them to stay on top of technological advances and participate in our ongoing customer-driven improvement process. Maintenance and Support includes:
Maintenance and Support does not includes:
Please contact us if you have requirements in these areas M&S (Maintenance and Support) is set at the higher of USD $250 or 20% of the purchased license price (including any optional modules). It is normally purchased annually but may be purchased for up to five years in advance. Why M&S (Maintenance and Support)?Having access to upgrades is an important requirement in ensuring smoother operation over time. CompatibilityYour printing environment is based on an infrastructure of printers, operating systems and networking equipment. Upgrade Assurance ensures that the functionality you are experiencing today keeps pace and is maintained in the face of often unavoidable changes to your infrastructure. Changes may include new printer models and updated printer drivers, new versions of web browsers and databases and the ever ongoing evolution of operating systems. Examples: Through 2008/9 we provided our users with...
TechnologyNew information technology products promise much, but require alert technology partners that adapt to and embrace these new opportunities. The PaperCut development team takes pride in being on the leading edge and is always looking towards providing updates to leverage new technology in new ways. Examples: New technologies introduced in 2008/9:
UsabilityImprovement is not just about new features. Doing what you already do better is just as important. Examples: Usability improvement made in just 2008/9 include:
FAQWill this cost less/more than if I purchase upgrades on an ad-hoc basis? Purchasing Maintenance and Support is always a more long term cost effective option than purchasing upgrades as they come out. Typically major releases are issued once a year. For the past three years releases have occurred in the December-January period. What do I receive when I purchase? Your digitally signed license file will be stamped with the upgrade assurance expiration date. Once installed, this date is visible on the application's About page. This license file will automatically work with all future versions released during the purchased period and you may upgrade any time with the standard install-over-the-top upgrade procedure. The About page will also list our priority support email address and your organization will be listed in our database for priority attention. What will be the cost of my Maintenance and Support subscription in subsequent years? The cost will always be 20% of the license price (including any optional modules) as listed on the website at the time of renewal. How do I tell if my Maintenance and Support is current? If valid, the expiration date is listed under the license details in the application's About page. Is upgrade assurance mandatory? No. You may opt not to renew your Maintenance and Support subscription any time. After this time, you may continue to run your current version and upgrade as per our standard upgrade policy. The most recent minor release of the version that you purchased or upgraded to will remain active indefinitely with your license. Many software companies are trying to push their customers across to mandatory support or service level agreements (SLA). We believe in choice and that the quality of our software, services and updates should be the driver to subscribe rather than a "contract". We have other software applications and their upgrade assurance is less? The "industry norm" for software maintenance varies between 15% and 20%. We understand that 20% is on the higher side. As an engineering driven company we understand that software must evolve to stay alive. What makes a good software application is not what it can do today, but instead what it will do tomorrow. We believe strongly in investing in the future and this is demonstrated by our rate of release. Why did you change the name from "Premium Support" to "Maintenance and Support"? Our previous support and upgrade assurance offering was called Premium Support. This name was changed in early 2009 because we thought "Premium Support" sent the wrong message to customers with standard support. The real value of the offering is in access to upgrades. In reality both levels of support are addressed by the same team and to the same quality level. We do however try and differentiate premium support in a few ways. First, premium support requests are always handled first as a priority. Second, we'll go the extra mile to keep you up and running, even if this means issuing a custom hotfix for your current version. | |
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