Personal or Commercial licence: which one for a client site?
One client site needs the Personal licence. More clients, or a product people pay to use, needs Commercial. The cases in between, answered plainly.
For one website for one client, the Personal licence is enough. You can build it, charge the client for your work and hand it over. If you will use the same theme for a second client, or inside a product people pay to use (a SaaS, an app, a paid tool), you need the Commercial licence.
That covers most cases. The rest of this page answers the ones in between, using the exact terms on our License Agreement.
The difference in one table
| Personal | Commercial | |
|---|---|---|
| End products | One, for you or for one client | As many as you like, for you and any number of clients |
| A product you sell to many users (SaaS, app, paid product) | No | Yes |
| Charge your client for your work | Yes | Yes |
| Resell or share the files | Never | Never |
An end product is the finished thing: one website or one app. Staging and production copies of that same site count as one.
Questions agencies ask us
I'm building one site for a client. They pay me, not you. Is Personal fine? Yes. Personal covers one site for one client, and you can charge them for your work. Buy one Personal licence per client site.
I'll probably use this theme for three clients this year. Then Commercial is the better buy. It covers every client project, now and later, and you can record each project in your account to get a licence certificate for that client.
My client wants the source code. They get the finished site you built for them. They may not take the theme's files out of it and reuse them on another site. That rule is the same for both licences.
We're a team of five. Does everyone need a licence? No. The licence belongs to the buyer: you, or your company if you bought for it. Everyone working for that company may use it.
I'm building a SaaS on top of a dashboard kit like AURORA. That needs Commercial. Your customers pay to use the product, which is exactly the case Personal excludes.
Can I make my own template from it and sell that? No, with either licence. You can't sell or share the files, change them and resell them, or make a product whose main value is the item itself (another theme, template or UI kit).
Do updates cost extra? No. Both licences get every update we publish, from your account.
How does my client know the licence is real? Every purchase has a licence key (PULSE-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX). Your client can check it on our site; the check shows the item and the licence type, never your personal details.
Before you buy
Sales are final once the files are delivered, so try first. Every theme has a live demo, for example Lunetta, and our pricing page shows both prices side by side. If the files don't work as described, we fix them or replace them.
Not sure which one fits your project? Write to us with a sentence about it. We'll tell you honestly, including when the cheaper one is enough.
