Sage 200 2023 R2 Developer Capabilities & Licencing

This communication was sent 21 August 2023.

Notice 23-JL | 21 Aug 2023

Sage 200

Developer Licence Changes

We wrote to you last month about the exciting new changes being introduced with Sage 200 2023 R2, allowing the ability to customise and build new Web Screens. We outlined changes were required to existing developer licences.

We wanted to provide further clarity on this – Sage 200 Developers will need 2 licences:

• One licence with a unique serial number for the SDK tools
• Another licence, also with a unique serial number for your development copy of Sage 200

Both licences are required for correct operation and are not interchangeable, they must be entered correctly into the right solution.

For those who have already contacted us to perform the licence migration, the licence we have provided to you is for use in the Sage 200 Professional developer copy – it will show on the emails we’ve sent you as: “Sage 200 Pro ISV Developer”.

We’ll shortly be sending you the second licence these should be inputted into the Sage 200 SDK for 2023 R2 when prompted. This will show on the email as "Sage 200 SDK".

We’ve included a reminder of the Sage 200 Developer licencing overview below:

Sage 200 Developer Licencing

With the introduction of licencing for the SDK from this release, developers will need to migrate to our subscription developer licences. You can choose when you wish to do this:

• As part of the pre-release for 2023 R2
• On request when 2023 R2 is available to the market
• At your next renewal

You can notify us by completing this short form.

When you choose to migrate, we will undertake the following:

• Your current ISV licence (where non-subscription) will be set to expire at its next renewal and a subscription ISV will be put in its place that overlaps your current licence. e.g. your current Developer bill renews annually on 26 August 2023. This will set this to expire, we will add a new ISV subscription licence with a start date of 26 August 2022, this way it overlaps your existing licence. No charges will be applied for this first year and billing will take over from 26 August 2023 - which was the original point of renewal.
• Where we don't have direct debit details from you, we will need these, and we’ll contact you to get this set up.
• Your current Sage 200 product developer licence will be set to expire 90 days from the date of this request. It will be replaced with a new subscription Sage 200 product ISV licence, the details will be emailed to you separately. Please ensure anyone in your organisation using the existing licence, changes it before it expires.
• We’ll supply new licence details for the Sage 200 SDK.

If you are already on an ISV subscription, whilst we don’t need to migrate you, we do still need to make changes to your licences to permit you access. We’ll provide links in our upcoming communication to do this at the right time for you:

• As part of the pre-release for 2023 R2
• On request when 2023 R2 is available to the market
• At your next renewal

In all cases as part of this activity your current Sage 200 product developer licence will be set to expire 90 days from the date of this request. It will be replaced with a new subscription Sage 200 ISV product licence, the licence details will be emailed to you separately. Please ensure anyone in your organisation using the existing licence, changes it before it expires.

You will also be sent a Sage 200 SDK licence, this is for use with the SDK tools only.

Important Note: Without activation of this licence, the developer tools for 2023 R2 will not work. These changes only apply to those on the ISV Developer or Universal Developer licences.