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 a Compliance Reporting 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 If you manage customer accounts, your WatchGuard Cloud account is a Service Provider account. activate a license, they have the option to co-term the new Compliance Reporting license with another active Compliance Reporting license or to activate it as a separate license. This enables Service Providers to keep their customer licenses separate.
Because Subscriber accounts If you use security services such as Compliance Reporting, but do not manage other accounts, your WatchGuard Cloud account is a Subscriber account. can have only one Compliance Reporting 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 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.
Compliance Reporting licenses expire on the expiration date at 00:00 UTC. For more information on license expiration, go to 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 |
All values in these examples are for illustrative purposes only.
Example 1 — Add Users to an Existing License
You have a license for 20
To calculate the new expiration date for your license, use the co-term calculation formula with these values:
- Current
user count = 20 - Days until license expires = 45
- Purchased
user count = 10 - Term days for purchased
users = 365 - Final
user count = 30users (20 + 10)
New Expiration Date= | Today's Date+ | (20 |
30 |
When we calculate the value in the formula above, we get 4,550 ÷ 30 = 151.67. We round this value up to 152. So, the new expiration date for 30
Example 2 — Add Users on a License with a Different Term Length
You have a 1 year license for 10
To calculate the new expiration date for your license, use the co-term calculation formula with these values:
- Current
user count = 10 - Days until license expires = 200
- Purchased
user count = 50 - Term days for purchased
users = 365 x 3 - Final
user count = 60 (10 + 50)
New Expiration Date= | Today's Date+ | (10 |
60 |
When we calculate the value in the formula above, we get 56,750 ÷ 60 = 945.83. We round this value up to 946. So, the new expiration date for 60
Example 3 — Renew a License with Additional Users
You have a license for 100
To calculate the new expiration date for your license, use the co-term calculation formula with these values:
- Current
user count = 100 - Days until license expires = 10
- Purchased
user count = 150 - Term days for purchased
users = 365 - Final
user count = 150users (100 renewed + 50 added)
New Expiration Date= | Today's Date+ | (100 |
150 |
When we calculate the value in the formula above, we get 55,750 ÷ 150 = 371.67. We round this value up to 372. So, the new expiration date for 150
Example 4 — Renew a License After Expiration (In Grace Period)
You have a license for 100
To calculate the new expiration date for your license, use the co-term calculation formula with these values:
- Current
user count = 100 - Days until license expires = −10
- Purchased
user count = 100 - Term days for purchased
users = 365 - Final
user count = 100users
New Expiration Date= | Today's Date+ | (100 |
100 |
When we calculate the value in the formula above, we get 35,500 ÷ 100 = 355. So, the new expiration date for your 100
Example 5 —Renew a License with Fewer Users
You have a license for 100
When you renew your license with fewer
To calculate the new expiration date for your license, use the co-term calculation formula with these values:
- Current
user count = 100 - Days until license expires = 10
- Purchased
user count = 80 - Term days for purchased
users = 365 - Final
user count = 80users
New Expiration Date= | Today's Date+ | (100 |
80 |
When we calculate the value in the formula above, we get 30,200 ÷ 80 = 377.5. We round this value up to 378. So, the new expiration date for your 80
Related Topics
About WatchGuard Compliance Reporting Licenses
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