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Hi,

We are implementing D365 Operations for a Retail customer. The customer will have 15 retail stores. Each stores with 2 mPOS terminals.

My understanding is that each mPOS terminal will need a device license + each user logging in will need the Activity License (the new license introduced May 1st).

Is the above correct?

In addition, how are the device license requirements enforced? Our developer installed mPOS on his laptop and there was no prompt to add any 'device' license. So I curious how this works.

Thank you in advance for your help.

Warm Regards,

Anil

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Martin Dráb 239,057 Most Valuable Professional on at

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My understanding is that Activity is just another type of User CAL; it doesn't change principles of Device CAL. Users must either have a user CAL or be using a licensed device, not necessarily both.

A licence is a legal concept; the software doesn't have to maintain information about whether you assigned your device licenses to one device or another, whether you're not violating the license by having too many users or so. It's your own legal responsibility to make sure you follow legal agreements with software vendors.

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Thank you Martin. This is helpful.

Warm Regards

Anil

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In Ax 2012 POS users could either work with their own task user license on any pos, or work from a shared POS device license on a specific pos.

In Ax 2012 a store database license was also needed for each store. That's is no longer the case.

However if you compare Ax 2012 pricing with the DMFO365 licensing for local database (loosely known as 'on premise') then the cost of the POS device license has increased by the same amount as an Ax2012 store database license - so it now gets a lot more expensive if you have more than one pos in a store.

Each POS operator still either needs their own license, (now Activity, which is 3 x the former task user cost), or they share a device license as before.

Either way its a lot more expensive to license a multi pos retail store at DMFO365.

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