[Mark FParticipant]

Firstly fantastic theme. Please could you clarify if I need a regular licence or extended licence (huge difference in price)

I am a business owner who runs two martial arts academies and am rebuilding both websites. We sell weekly and monthly classes and martial arts cloths.

Furthermore, I have also been asked by a local florist to build them a website advertising their shop and selling online flowers.

I have read the documentation under Envato but to be honest its quite confusing.

Furthermore every time I purchase a host, instal wordpress, do I need to purchase individual licences or can I purchase a licence that allows multiple uses?

Any assistance to the above would be greatly appreciated as should I need to purchase extended licences for the above $3000 is way to expense and ill look at other alternatives.

Kind regards.

Mark

[Mark FParticipant]

Any feedback appreciated

[ChristianModerator]

Hi Mark,

Regular license means you can use it to one (1) of your websites or your client’s website(s). So, one (1) license = one (1) website.

Extended license is when you use an Envato product (in this case the X theme) to be used as a package to a digital product that you will sell.

For your case, you need to buy 3 licenses. Two (2) licenses for your two martial arts academies websites and one (1) license for the local florist website.

Hope that removes the confusion. 🙂

[Mark FParticipant]

Thank you for clarifying.

Please could you give me an example of paragraph 2 (Extended license is when you use an Envato product (in this case the X theme) to be used as a package to a digital product that you will sell.)?

Thanks

Great theme

[ChristianModerator]

Thank you for your kind words.

For example, if part of your “product” includes actual theme functionality (think like a blog network that you setup for individual clients of yours), you’ll need an Extended License for it because it will be sold including theme functionality in it.

It is a different case when you buy a regular license to build a website for a client.

Hope that helps. 🙂

[Mark FParticipant]

Thanks. Excellent Stuff

[RubinKeymaster]

You’re welcome 🙂

[Yoav TalerParticipant]

Hello.

Just to be clear: I intend on selling online courses on my site.
I can do that with a regular X license?

Thanks.

[RupokMember]

Hi @yoavtaler

Thanks for writing in! Yes, of course you can sell anything on your website that built with X.

Cheers!

[Austin AbellParticipant]

Hi guys!

After reading this post, and following up with Envato to make sure I understood, there seems to be a contradiction, or a clarification that needs to be made.

My first email to them stated:
“I bought x theme for my project. It is a membership site, where companies will pay for access for their employees to use the site. Do I need to buy an extended license of x theme because people are paying to access the site?”

Their Response:
“Yes, In regards to selling items or requiring users to pay a fee to view, access, or use an item, you will need an extended license.”

My Second Response:
“So are you saying every single membership site that has premium content that buys a theme on themeforest has to spend 20X more and buy the extended license? Or any site that has a shop component and sells any online content on the site? Because I’m not selling the site, but the content on the site (which is a series of videos and tutorials). I was checking X theme’s support center waiting for your reply, and found this.
https://community.theme.co/forums/topic/regular-vs-extended-licence-confused/

At the bottom of the post you’ll find someone else asking my same question:
Customer: ‘Hello. Just to be clear: I intend on selling online courses on my site. I can do that with a regular X license? Thanks.’
X theme support staff: ‘Hi @yoavtaler. Thanks for writing in! Yes, of course you can sell anything on your website that built with X. Cheers!’
And a different response from X theme support staff: ‘For example, you will build and sell a digital product which will require the X theme as a bundle. You’ll need an Extended License for it because it will be sold including the X theme with it.’
So either X theme is confused or I might have asked the question in the wrong way. I am definitely not selling a digital product that requires X theme as a bundle.”

Their Second Response:
“The regular or extended license refer to the end product. Essentially, under the regular license, your end product (incorporating the item you’ve licensed) is distributed for free or is free to access, whereas under the extended license your end product may be sold, or require payment to access. So if your end product is a website, and that website is free to access, than a regular license will suffice! You’re more than welcome to sell goods or services through that website under a regular license, as long as the website itself is free to access. If your site/end product is a subscription based platform where users are required to pay to access and/or use, then an extended license will be necessary.”

My Third Response:
“So my end product is a website, with a blog that is free to access, put part of the website is structured as a workshop that is restricted and accessed by a subscription. Would that still fall under the extended license?

Based on what I understood you to say, X theme is wrong in how they answered those two questions. Right?”

Their Third Response”
“Yes, if the item is included in the paid to access section, you will require an extended license. If it isn’t incorporate in the subscription or paid to access section, a regular license would suffice.

It looks like their answer (your responses on this post) was fine but I can see how it may have been confusing. They may also have been confused by your question(s)!

‘Thanks for writing in! Yes, of course you can sell anything on your website that built with X. Cheers!’

They mean what I said below, but the way it was written makes it sound confusing.
“So if your end product is a website, and that website is free to access, than a regular license will suffice! You’re more than welcome to sell goods or services through that website under a regular license, as long as the website itself is free to access.””

Sorry for such a long post, but this is so important to understand, as it’s the different between a $67 theme and a $3,200 theme for a membership site that has premium content.

To put it simply, my question is:

If I have a membership plugin that provides premium content, and by using a membership plugin I restrict certain parts of the site for a paid member, and the section that is premium content uses X theme to organize the content, do I (and every other person who uses x theme for this type of business) have to but an extended version?

Thank you for any clarification you can add!

[ChristianModerator]

Hey there,

It is indeed a misunderstanding. You don’t have to buy extended license because what you’re selling is your content and not X, the theme, as part of what you’re selling.

Hope that clarifies.

[Austin AbellParticipant]

That clarifies perfectly, thank you so much! You or Kyle might want to send an email to Envato about membership sites that have premium content. I’ve been speaking to Ian (Envato Market Help) <help@market.envato.com>.

Thank you so much for your help!

[NicoModerator]

Glad to hear that it clears your mind.

I will forward this thread to Kyle so that he could check on it.

Thanks. Feel free to ask us again.

[Curtis RParticipant]

Question…I plan on including the X theme for all my clients who sign up for my service as part of a digital bundle so i understand that i will need the extended license package, though I was wondering if I take the extended license package they will be receiving prompts still to update their installed theme within wordpress correct?

Also if I understand correctly…Say i buy the extended license and then include it with in a digital package, I may then sell that package to for say $100 to any number of customers?…am I correct in that statement or no?

[RupokMember]

Hi there,

Thanks for updating. I think that’s already answered on previous reply. Also kindly follow this – http://themeforest.net/licenses/terms/extended

I am quoting a point from there :

You can’t re-distribute the Item as stock, in a tool or template, or with source files. You can’t do this with an Item either on its own or bundled with other items, and even if you modify the Item. You can’t re-distribute or make available the Item as-is or with superficial modifications.

Hope this helps.

Cheers!

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