
The Retail Program is designed for partners who focus primarily on desktop product sales to consumers, small businesses, and individual end-user customers. Reseller Program and Retail Program Agreement (for review prior to enrollment).Platinum: Requires the highest revenue and business commitments in exchange for the highest level of benefits.Gold: Adds revenue and other business commitments in exchange for access to the Deal Registration Incentive.
Certified: Requires an additional application process for access to VIP, CLP, and Specializations. Simple online enrollment provides access to the TLP program. Obligations and benefits increase at higher levels. Four levels of membership allow you to engage with Adobe at a level representing your organization’s resources, areas of specialty, and commitment to the Adobe relationship. The Reseller Program is designed for resellers who focus primarily on software licensing sales to commercial, government, and education customers. However, if you choose the perpetual license, don't expect the benefits of the subscription.Īnd finally, feel free to make your own PDF editor! I don't think that you will find that particularly cost effective.Adobe offers two unique programs for reseller and retail partners in the US and Canada. You do have a choice of the perpetual license ( Acrobat 2020) or a subscription ( Acrobat Pro DC or Acrobat Standard DC). The software is also supported as long as you have a current subscription with new features and fixes. There are some major advantages to this for our many of our customers including the fact that the software continues to be updated to acccommodate new operating system versions (especially under MacOS), new hardware (like those very high resolution and large monitors), interoperability with other software (such as Microsoft Office). There is nothing “evil” or “disgusting” about a subscription model. Such software does not provide free upgrades to accommodate issues that occur due to Microsoft or Apple making incompatible changes to the operating system or adding options for incompatible hardware after the application version is no longer current.
Please understand that the “perpetual licenses” allow you to use the software on the computer platform (including operating system version and hardware) that was available at the time you purchase the perpetual license. To be very clear, you purchase a license to use the software you are not purchasing ownership of the software. That will take you to the appropriate screen for purchasing a license. and then click on the either the box that reads Acrobat Pro 2020 or the box that reads Acrobat Standard 2020 (Windows only for Standard). Are still able to buy a perpetual license to Acrobat 2020.