Metered Licensing FAQ
Templater license allows for deployments with application product which adds significant and primary functionality
and restricts exposing Templater API to customers.
In practice this means that its fine to expose APIs which enrich your application as long as they don't expose both of Templater primary features
- allow to combine user defined templates
- with user defined data structures
As this in practice replicates Templater functionality and it is considered to substantially duplicates capability of Templater.
Still, if you have such a use case, your company needs to sign Metered Licensing agreement with N.G.S.
in which case you will have to pay additional monthly (or yearly) fee to be able to use Templater in such a way.
Q: When do I need to sign the Metered agreement?
If you have a SaaS product which is exposing API to Templater in a way that users are able to create any kind of document.
In practice this means that all three relevant conditions are met:
- API is exposed over the Internet and its usage is charged
- Users can upload their own templates
- Users can upload data with their own data structures to match their own templates
Matching all three conditions should not be a common case.
Q: My software is deployed into customer environment but its available over the Internet. Do I need to sign this Metered agreement?
If documents can be generated via Templater only by the employees/contractors of your customers,
then this is considered expected usage since API usage is not considered to be charged.
If your customers are charging subscription or some other kind of regular payments for users of your software and are exposing API
access to Templater in a way which is substantially duplicating capability of Templater,
then they need to sign Metered agreement to continue exposing Templater API in such a way.
Q: We have low-code/no-code platform and are interested in exposing API which would replicate/delegate to Templater API. Do we need to sign this?
Yes
Q: We have cloud computing platform and are interested in exposing API which would replicate/delegate to Templater API. Do we need to sign this?
Yes
Q: We have a Fintech/Healthcare/ERP/other business SaaS and want our customers to be able to customize their documents. Do we need to sign this?
No. Your business application has predefined data structures even if allows for user defined fields.
This is considered expected API use and does not require additional monthly fees.
Q: Our Fintech/Healthcare/ERP/other business SaaS is advertised as low-code solution. Do we need to sign this?
No. Even if the most fields are user defined, your application has significant and primary functionality.
This is still considered fair API use and does not require additional monthly fees.
Q: We have document generation SaaS. Do we need to sign this?
Yes. Your primary functionality is the same as Templater, even if you have a different UI or additional services around it.
Q: We can't/will not share our API usage. How can we sign this?
If you can't track usage or don't want to share such information, you can pay the maximum fee which is 2000 € per month.
Q: We are using low-code/no-code platform to develop applications. Do we need to sign this?
No, unless you are building a web service which is exposing Templater API in a way which is described by three relevant conditions.
Building application on specialized development platforms requires the same licensing as development without those platforms.
Q: What are the price ranges?
| Number of documents created within 1 month | Monthly fee |
|---|---|
| less than 10.000 | 200 € |
| between 10.001 and 100.000 | 500 € |
| between 100.001 and 500.000 | 1.000 € |
| over 500.000 | 2.000 € |
