Subscription

Billing ships with release 1.8.0. Until then every feature is available without an account.

Plans#

The prices, from the plans the extension sells:

A seat is one person signed in on one machine at a time. A Team plan covers its seats; Pro is bought once per person. Plans are bought, changed and cancelled in the client portal.

The trial#

The first time the extension starts, a 1-hour trial of Pro begins. It needs no account and no key. When it ends, the Free features keep working and the Pro features ask you to sign in.

Getting a plan#

There are two ways to bring a plan to an installation:

1. Sign in with Soft Forge: from the status-bar menu, the “needs Pro” prompt in a panel, or the Command Palette. The browser opens on Soft Forge with a short code; sign in by email, pick a plan if you have none, and allow the device. VS Code then holds a grant for this installation and session keys bound to this machine, kept in the OS keychain. Sign Out frees the seat for another machine, and so does signing the device out in the client portal.
2. Paste a license key, for machines that cannot sign in (air-gapped, CI): copy the EDSNX.… key from the client portal and run Enter License Key. The key is kept in the OS keychain (or in the licenseKey setting) and is verified on the machine.

Manage Subscription shows the state of yours, and See Plans opens the client portal. The extension never handles a payment or a card number.

The order in which an installation finds its plan: a signed-in plan, then a pasted key, then the trial, then Free.

Offline#

Keys are verified on your machine, so a plan works without a connection:

• signed in, a session key works until it ends (the plan’s session length in the table above), and renewals arrive at the next refresh;
• a pasted key is checked with the server at most once a day and keeps working for 14 days without a connection.

The status bar#