Auto FE Updater

For the first eight or nine years I accepted donations. For 2010 I tried voluntary licensing while I added many ease of use features such as the wizard and updating the settings via forms. Then for a month I've tried the Enterprise Edition as a premium value that organizations would be convinced to license to help fund the continued work on the utility. However voluntary licensing and Enterprise Edition licensing were a lot lower than my lowest expectations. In addition the Auto FE Updater is now a fully featured easy to use utility with a wizard and screens to update the settings rather than using clumsy editing and debugging of INI files using Notepad. The ease of getting new users going with your application with the Create User Email so very convenient. This utility has taken at least a fifteen hundred hours over the last ten years to develop and test. There are 18,192 lines of code in version 3.14. I have no idea how many hours I've spent in responding to emails, newsgroup and forum questions other than, as of fall of 2010, there are at least a thousand emails in my Auto FE Updater email folder.

If you are a small organization or a non profit group email me with a few details and we'll work something out.

Send me an email at tony at autofeupdater.com and I'll be happy to send you a 15 or 30 day trial license. This will include the Enterprise Edition features.

Licensing by the number of Access applications using the Auto FE Updater, number of users, number of workstations or whatever s too much work for folks to administer.

I feel that 50% is a reasonable upgrade fee given the relatively low price and the many features of the utility. Feel free to email me with any questions or disagreements.

Usually within a day. If not email me again. I did have one person whose spam filters deleted my reply. If after several days you still haven't received it email me yet again with your phone number and I will phone you with the license number.

One of the reasons I added the reminder is I know what I'm like. I have the best of intentions and sometimes I need a nudge. This screen will only be displayed for the developer and only every thirty days.

Version 3.18 will display a reminder screen to both you and your users once you've exceeded the trial period.

You can continue to use version 3.14 and previous for free. (Although I'd prefer that you convince your employer to purchase a license.)

Yes, yes, ok, so I threw this question in.    See the bottom half of the licensing page.

No, it's all built into the same downloadable files. It's the license file which you download from my website which enables the Enterprise Edition features.