License Management in Altium Designer
Catalog row in Vendor License Sources · Cited
- Kind
- Product documentation
- Format
- HTML
- Applies to
- On-Demand, Private Server and Standalone licence types, roaming, viewer licence and licensing terminology. Updated 2026-01-20.
- Evidence
- On-Demand seat is held only while signed in
- On-Demand clients need internet access to the Altium Portal
- Each instance on one machine holds its own seat
- Roaming ends with no grace period
- Seats can be released automatically on idle clients
- Group Administrators can force-release any user's seat
- Private Server licences serve offline sites from a local licence service
- Standalone licences are for a single workstation and solo designer
- Reusing an activated Standalone licence may conflict with another user
- Activation gathers information about the PC to check EULA compliance
- Subscriptions can no longer be renewed for perpetual licences
- A term-based licence ceases to operate when its subscription expires
- Each seat must have a valid licence
- Viewer licence has no expiry and cannot be used to update the software