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This page describes Kaspersky Subscription Licensing and its advantages, how to manage subscriptions, which billing plans are supported and the B2B products available.

The article is written for Distributors and Resellers/MSP Partners, who sell and/or use Kaspersky subscription licenses.

Definitions

• License Management Portal (LMP) — allows MSP Partners and Resellers to create and manage subscriptions, change quantities, view subscription usage and generate reports.
• Distributor — a direct first level Partner authorized by Kaspersky to sell products in the territory.
• Reseller — a second level Partner who purchases Kaspersky products from authorized distributors to sell them and/or to provide services based on Kaspersky products to their customers.
• MSP Partner — an Information Technology (IT) Service Provider, who provides managed IT services to customers and is duly authorized by Kaspersky, who has obtained MSP Specialization, who accepts the agreement with Kaspersky on the Partner Portal, who purchases subscription product(s) from a Distributor, who complies with the conditions of the Kaspersky MSP Specialization Guide and who holds active MSP Partner status.
• Subscription — a license with an activation code which enables B2B product usage for a monthly or annual billing period, with auto-renewal, until cancelled or expired.
• KORM B2B Subscription Service (KORM B2B) — a Kaspersky billing system that enables the creation and management of orders for Kaspersky B2B product licenses on a subscription basis.

Kaspersky provides MSP Partners and Resellers with a flexible, scalable and cost-efficient way to manage licenses, based on a subscription model. Subscription licenses are available on a monthly or an annual basis.

Advantages of monthly subscription licenses

1. Subscriptions can be started, managed and cancelled at any time
2. Licenses are automatically renewed
3. Free 30-day trial period (for pay-as-you-go billing)
4. The number of licenses for the subscription can be increased or reduced at any time, with billing calculated on a daily basis (for Pay-as-you-go billing)
5. The activation code remains the same, regardless of changes to quantity
6. MSP Partners benefit from cumulative pricing

Advantages of annual subscription licenses

1. Free 30-day trial period
2. Licenses are automatically renewed
3. Further nodes can be added at any time, and are charged for under the Cumulative Pricing Band
4. The activation code remains the same, regardless of changes to quantity

Subscription types

• Limited subscriptions are auto-renewed at the end of each billing period up until the defined expiration date
• Open-ended subscriptions are auto-renewed at the end of each billing period until cancelled

Subscription licenses can only be activated with activation codes. Internet access is required for correct activation and performance.

How to subscribe

• Via the Distributor's marketplace (the Distributor should be integrated with KORM B2B Subscription Service)
• Via the License Management Portal (LMP)

Subscription licenses are not compatible with non-subscription licenses.

Kaspersky supports several subscription billing plans for MSP Partners/Resellers:

• Pay-as-you-go (billing monthly)
• Annual (billing annually)
• Monthly (billing monthly – our legacy plan which ‘Pay-as-you-go’ is designed to supersede)

Our legacy monthly billing plan is still supported via the Distributors’ marketplace integrated with KORM B2B version 1.0.

Our pay-as-you-go and annual billing plans are supported either via the Kaspersky License Management Portal or through the Distributor’s marketplace integrated with KORM B2B version 2.0.

Billing plan descriptions

• Pay-as-you-go:
  • The billing period is one month with auto-renewal
  • Trial period is 30 days
  • The paid period starts immediately after the trial and runs until the end of that calendar month, when it will auto-renew
  • Payment is calculated on a daily basis, based on the quantity of subscription licenses used that day
  • The quantity can be increased at any time, effective immediately
  • The quantity can be reduced at any time, effective immediately
  • The activation code remains the same, regardless of changes in quantity
  • Cumulative pricing on a per-product basis is supported for all subscriptions
  • Pay-as-you-go subscriptions will be invoiced by Kaspersky in the month following the end of the trial period and then monthly (Distributors may operate a different invoicing period)
  • Subscriptions can be cancelled immediately, or by disabling auto-renewal

For daily usage calculations and billing purposes, a "day" is defined as beginning and ending in the UTC+0 timezone.

• Annual billing plan:
  • The billing period is one year, with auto-renewal
  • Free 30-day trial period
  • The paid period starts immediately after the trial and runs until the same date on the following year, if not canceled (exclusion: if the paid period starts on 29th February, the subscription will end on 28th February in the following year)
  • The quantity can be increased at any time, effective immediately
  • The quantity can be reduced at any time, but the reduction only becomes effective as from the start of the next billing period
  • The activation code remains the same, regardless of changes in quantity
  • Cumulative pricing is not supported
  • Annual subscriptions will be invoiced by Kaspersky initially for the whole year in the month following the end of the trial period, any quantity increase during the period will be invoiced as an additional order (Distributors may operate a different invoicing period)
  • Subscriptions can be cancelled immediately, or by disabling auto-renewal

• Monthly legacy billing plan:
  • The billing period is per calendar month, with auto-renewal
  • The trial period provided runs from the subscription start date to the last day of that calendar month
  • Payment is based on the peak number of subscription quantity during that calendar month
  • The quantity can be increased any time, effective immediately
  • The quantity can be reduced at any time, effective from the start of the next billing period
  • The activation code remains the same, regardless of changes in quantity
  • Cumulative pricing on a per-product basis is supported for all subscriptions
  • Monthly subscriptions will be invoiced by Kaspersky starting in the month following the end of the trial period and then monthly (Distributors may operate a different invoicing period)
  • You can cancel subscription at any time. However, it will remain active until the end date of the billing period (calendar month)

The month of cancellation is paid in full, even if  the subscription was cancelled on the 1st day of the calendar month.

Kaspersky reserves the right to sanction any MSP or Distributor found to be manipulating any billing scheme for fraudulent use, and may conduct audit activity on accounts without notice in order to investigate suspected abuse.