Find the licensing approach that fits how you actually sell and deploy software
Start with whichever entry point matches how you already think about your situation — the problem you're solving, the kind of application you're licensing, or the industry you sell into.
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Every entry point leads to the same AuthGuru capabilities — pick whichever one matches how you already describe your business.
By Use Case
Organized around the problem you're solving.
- Software Licensing
- Software Protection
- Offline / On-Premise / Embedded
By Application Type
Organized around how your software actually runs.
- Desktop Applications
- Embedded Systems
- Virtual Machines
- SaaS / Web-Delivered
By Industry
Organized around your market.
- Industrial & Manufacturing
- Medical Devices
- Test & Measurement
- Government & Defense
Custom Licensing Solution
For requirements none of the above cover cleanly.
- Legacy or specialized infrastructure
- Internally hosted deployment required
- No packaged platform fits your case
The same product, seen through more than one lens at once
These four entry points aren't exclusive alternatives — most publishers actually sit at the intersection of two or three of them. Here's what that looks like for one real kind of product.
Take a CAD plug-in sold to engineering firms. It's a Software Licensing use case, because the publisher needs subscription terms enforced, not just stated. It's a Desktop Application, because it installs directly onto an engineer's workstation. And it's an Industrial & Manufacturing account, because that's who's buying it. All three descriptions are correct for the same product, and all three lead to the same underlying setup in AuthGuru.
Sometimes none of the four fit cleanly, either
When a requirement falls genuinely outside every standard entry point, Bastion has built for it directly.
Bastion has delivered a fully bespoke, internally hosted licensing system for a global security-technology provider, built for an embedded, Unix-based deployment — an environment a standard licensing platform would not have supported.
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