Longtime Postbox user here seemingly as shocked as everyone else and scrambling for a new solution.
I looked at the various license options and had a couple of questions / need for clarifications
The yearly subscription - got that. Seems pretty straightforward.
For the onetime payment, I assumed that’s a one time payment forever and there are x number of upgrades included - but it’s not clear. Do I get to use the latest version forever (or, however long it’ll work vis-a-vis OS’s), with no upgrades, or are there bug fixes and what not’s included for that version? Do you or don’t you get bug fixes or incremental upgrades?
When you choose the lifetime option, there is then a checkbox for lifetime upgrades. Is this just for major upgrades? How often does eM release new, better versions? I paid for “lifetime” with Postbox and, well, we know how that went.
If you purchase one-time fee license with Lifetime Upgrades, you will gain access to all present and future versions of eM Client. You can purchase Lifetime upgrades separately at any time.
Lifetime Upgrades is a bonus option that users can pay for when purchasing the eM Client Personal or Business license for a one-time price. This ensures that your application is always up to date with the newest major version of eM Client. License subscriptions do not need this option as they are always valid for the current major version.
One-time price license users without this feature can only upgrade their application based on version updates and not new version releases.
For example, Personal or Business license users who purchased eM Client while the latest was version 9.1 could upgrade to eM Client version 9.2 without Lifetime upgrades. However, when eM Client version 10 was released; users needed to purchase the major version upgrade to use it.
Users who have opted out of lifetime upgrades have the option to purchase a one-time upgrade for new major versions of eM Client. If you decide that you want to switch to lifetime upgrades; you can easily add lifetime upgrades to your existing Personal or Business license.
You don’t have to upgrade your application if you enjoy the version of eM Client that you’re currently using and don’t care about new features. Licenses that are purchased for a one-time price never expire, so you’ll continue to have access to your application in that version even if you choose not to update.