Licensing Modes
Kryptos can be used in three ways: with a Commercial licence, with a Trial licence, or in Read only mode. A registered account is needed for all of them. To get an account, see Signing In & Projects.
| Mode | Can you change the project? | Uses a licence seat? | What the results look like |
|---|---|---|---|
| Commercial | Yes | Yes | Clean, ready to share with clients |
| Trial | Yes | Yes | Watermarked TRIAL MODE and NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE |
| Read only | No | No | Watermarked READ ONLY |
Commercial
A Commercial licence gives you the full software. You can create and change projects, run calculations and optimisations, and produce reports and exports without any watermark on them. Use it for client work.
Your company is given a fixed number of licence seats. Each project you open takes one seat, and the seat is given back when you close the project. See License Settings for how to see and release seats.
Trial
A Trial licence lets you try everything in Kryptos before you buy. It works like a Commercial licence, including the use of one seat for each open project.
The difference is in what you produce. Every result carries a TRIAL MODE watermark and the words NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE. The watermark appears on:
- Word reports
- Plots and the screenshots taken from them
- Excel exports
Results from a Trial licence are for evaluation only and should not be shared with clients as final work.
Read only
Read only mode lets you look at a project without changing it. Use Open read only on the Home screen, from the right-click menu of a recent project, or from the project menu. The title bar shows (Read only) while the project is open.
In Read only mode you can:
- View the project
- Generate plots, reports and exports
- Copy items from it, to paste into another project
You cannot change anything in the project. Everything you produce has a READ ONLY watermark.
Read only mode does not use a licence seat, so it is useful when all your company's seats are taken.
TIP
Kryptos opens a project in Read only mode by itself when all seats are in use, or when your company has no active licence. A message tells you this has happened. Close the project and open it again once a seat is free, to make changes.
WARNING
A project cannot be open for reading and for editing at the same time. If a colleague has the project open, you cannot open it until they close it.
Which mode do I have?
Your licence type is set by Kryptos when your company is registered. If you are not sure whether you have a Commercial or a Trial licence, ask your company administrator or contact Kryptos support.