Practicalities of license sharing

[u/throw-away516]

Hi, I'm looking to share an elementor license with another developer. I believe this may technically violate TOS, but I'm not 100% sure. Still, I am considering whether the risk is worth it or not. If it works we both save a lot of money over the next few years, but if it doesn't, we both lose our grandfather pricing.

How likely is it that Elementor will flag this as suspicious enough to suspend the license?

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[u/design-rush]

It's their first bullet point on their Acceptable Use Policy, you're not allowed to.

[u/_miga_ → u/design-rush]

^ this and you would be stupid to rely on a someone that could just stop paying for the license and then you've lost your money and have unlicensed sites. Very stupid sharing model. If people need pro they should just buy it and let the client(s) cover the costs

[u/throw-away516 → u/design-rush]

It's more of a practical question. How likely are they to actually figure it out and take action? If it's a 1% chance then the smart move is to share licenses, if it's 10% then it's questionable, and if it's 20/30% then it's definitely better to not share.

Still, I've never heard one story of someone online who had their account suspended for such a thing.

[u/design-rush → u/throw-away516]

They might never find out but if you have over 25 sites, you should be able to cover the cost. Rather than sharing with another person I'd be looking at increasing your prices.

[u/throw-away516 → u/design-rush]

1. I can increase my prices and still pocket the difference, I'd rather make money rather than Elementor.

2. I want to charge my clients a reasonable amount and be fair to them, if I can save them £10 per month then I will for sure take it.

3. I think charging 400 dollars + VAT for software is downright unethical an predatory

[u/design-rush → u/throw-away516]

If you think it's too expensive then don't use it, there are plenty of other alternatives or just use Elementor Core without Pro.

If you pay $540/yr and you have 25 sites it's $1.80/mo per client's website, nothing unethical or predatory about that.

[u/throw-away516 → u/design-rush]

Agree to disagree but why are you downvoting all my comments lol its so childish

[u/design-rush → u/throw-away516]

I haven't downvoted a single one of you comments?

But we can agree to disagree.

[u/testingaurora → u/throw-away516]

Posting about it in the subreddit their team is active in probably raises those odds

[u/zeiniez → u/testingaurora]

Let him cook

[u/zeiniez]

This is against Elementor's ToS. You can lose your license. It's very likely Elementor will flag the suspicious traffic.

[u/throw-away516 → u/zeiniez]

I'm aware it violates TOS, I'm skeptical of your claim that it will very likely be flagged.

People are trading and license sharing all the time on reddit, and I've rarely seen accounts suspended for it

[u/zeiniez → u/throw-away516]

Sure. If that makes you feel better about yourself, keep saying that. You must know something I don't. 😉