think-cell is leased, not sold. The annual leasing fee is based on the number of users and covers usage, all updates and upgrades as well as technical support.
We license people, not machines. Therefore, every individual who wants to use think-cell needs a personal license, but can install it on any number of machines.
We ship our software electronically. Customers receive a link to download the software and a license key to activate it after installation. A license key can be used by several users, but of course only by the number of users for which you placed an order.
Below you can find the leasing fee for typical user numbers. For other user numbers simply type in the desired number.
To make your first license order you can either use our customer portal or contact one of our resellers:
Even if you have to pay by invoice you can use our customer portal. You will save money and receive your licenses in just a few minutes. For payments we accept wire transfer and Visa, MasterCard or American Express credit cards.
If your organization does not allow online ordering or has special invoicing requirements you can approach one of our resellers. You might see premiums on top of our online pricing and delivery of the software might take a few days.
The fees for adding a user to an existing license key are pro-rated with respect to the key's remaining validity. The quickest way to find out how much this is, is to log into our customer portal and use the "Add user(s) to license key" button on its home page.
Our licensing scheme is essentially an annual leasing agreement. Therefore, we do not offer special discounts for recurring customers.
Resellers are free to add any markup to our recommended online fee. We recommend a maximum markup of 5%, because this is the handling fee we charge to customers that approach us with an offline order.
We offer our software for free to academic and nonprofit organizations, given that they only use the software for education, public research or their direct nonprofit core operations. Administrative work with the software, e.g., at university hospitals, is not allowed under this program.
We ask academic and nonprofit organizations to link to our corporate homepage from the webpages of their organization to provide their users, e.g., students and research staff, with the most reliable information on how to work with our product and about the general availability of the software. Please be informed that this is a vital part of this licensing program and that we will only issue a free license key after such a link has been created.
If you want to apply for this program, please download our Software License Agreement for Academic/Nonprofit Use and review it. It has to be signed by a senior person that can bind your organization to the terms of the agreement, e.g., an IT director, dean or professor. Please email the signed agreement together with a short description of your organization to our academics team and we will contact you as soon as possible.