ZModeler3 pricing tier

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ZModeler3 pricing tier

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It is ten years passed since ZModeler3 have been released to the market. Today I post the news my customers will dislike for sure, but this is the only option to keep the project running and evaluating. It is about a year since I have moved from Russia to Slovakia and now I have to finally adjust the financial setup of the project.

ZModeler3 is now served by Zanoza Software Ltd. incorporated in a country of Georgia and by me personally as a Slovak individual entrepreneur. Due to the difference of accounting rules and tax rates, this significantly changes a cost per transaction on every license I sale, so I have to increase the cost of ZModeler3 license. To reduce the effect on my customers, the raise for the long-term license is much lower than the raise on short-term licenses.

The advertised 3.50 per month can be reached by purchasing a 720-days license, while the single purchase of short term 30-days license is twice of this price.
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Well, this is just insulting. You label this as a trial, but it's a complete rip-off. It’s essentially a demo with no purpose other than to get people hooked and then slam the door shut in their face. You can’t import or export anything, which is literally the whole point of the software. So, how do I evaluate if it’s even worth the price? You want me to pay without being able to use any of the core features? That’s a scam, not a trial. I’ve tried to give this a shot, but you’re just locking down every useful tool like it’s some kind of cash grab. Fix this or don’t bother advertising it at all.
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Re: ZModeler3 pricing tier

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Hello.

When you install license key in ZModeler, you get all the features unlocked - especially import and export. It does not matter whether you install trial license key or the paid one, only term of your key is different. Trial license unlocks all the features for 15 days.

I guess you have not installed any key in ZModeler and got an error on attempt to import or export something. In order to unlock the product, you should 1. create a web account, 2. add your platform ID in web account, 3. activate trial license for your platform ID, 4. install license key in ZModeler.

P.S. Platform IDs are not absolutely unique, it is quite possible someone with the same Platform ID has used trial license already. In such a case, you will get a message on attempt to add this ID in web account. I advise to contact me on this regard and specify your account name and platform ID, so I can check the situation and add the platform with trial license manually. This is a rare case indeed, but it is well resolvable in most of cases.
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