However, Bentley does not provide a method to restrict trust licensing usage and it
defines trust licensing as any its software used per customer computer within a calendar
hour period counts as a usage. A calendar hour being the period between and including
:00 past the hour to and through the :59 minute Therefore, even if a customer‘s real-time
usage is never more than what is owned, but their hourly usage exceeds what is owned,
the customer will be billed for the overage. For exact details refer to your Bentley
Account Representative.
As an example, if the customer owns one license of a Bentley product and is shared
between 4 users there can never be more than one computer that has used the Bentley
software per calendar hour. If the software is used on ComputerA from 8:10am until
8:20am and then used on ComputerB from 8:30am until 8:45am then the customer will
be charged for using an additional license despite the real-time usage never exceeded the
single license owned. SofTrack‘s Hour-By-Hour Licensing solves this situation by
providing the ability to restrict concurrent software usage on an hourly calendar basis
rather than a real-time basis as is used by SofTrack‘s Standard Licensing option.
To add further complexity, many if not all Bentley® products consume a minimum usage
default of 10 minutes. Use the ―10 minutes is minimum usage‖ checkbox to allow for
this license policy. Specifically, what this means is if usage starts between :50 minutes
and :59 minutes past the hour, the license, at a minimum, will be held until the end of the
next Calendar Hour.