
Courier one-time licenses
There are circumstances where a user needs exclusive rights to view or approve a single or small set of documents in FileHold. In these cases it may be impractical and excessively costly to assign these users a FileHold registered user license. Instead, a FileHold feature called Courier, can be used to route documents for review and/or approval to people outside of the FileHold system.
A license type called Courier Licenses is needed when documents are sent out through Courier. Customers can purchase these Courier licenses in “packs”. These license packs contain the number of units purchased. Units are consumed when documents are sent out through a Courier transmission. The number of units consumed in a view or approve action depends on the action taken on a document. For example, viewing document consumes one unit and approving a document requires two units. Packs can be priced differently according to volume. Contact [email protected] for Courier license pricing.
One time usage is given to a specific user for a specific operation. Some examples of one-time license uses are:
- Five documents are transmitted to a construction sub-contractor (external user); 4 for viewing and 1 for approval. A total of 6 one-time units will be consumed for these license grants.
- One contract is transmitted to an outside property company and must be countersigned by the VP of operations (internal user). A total of 2 one-time units will be consumed.
- A corporate attestation document must be accepted by all 600 company employees. 50 employees are regular FileHold users. 1100 one-time units will be consumed.
Courier licenses observe the following rules:
- The license is perpetual as long as the main FileHold license is active and until explicitly cancelled or fully consumed.
- The license units are reserved for completing the viewing or approving action when a document is transmitted through Courier.
- The license for a view are fully consumed when the document is downloaded. A document can be viewed again even if the action is completed.
- The license units for approval are fully consumed when the document is approved or not approved.
- If changes are requested to the documents (approval postponed) units are not consumed.
- If a document is not approved, the actions for any other recipients are cancelled and units are returned if the action has not already completed.
- If the transmission expires before the user completed the activity, no usage units are consumed.
- One-time licenses have no inherent expiry, but the Courier template by impose an expiry. For example, if a user is asked to approve a document the one-time license will be fully consumed after the approval is complete. If the user is given a document to view, the document will remain viewable on the same license unless the right to view is explicitly removed. See Courier templates for more information.
Note: If a document is routed to a registered FileHold user, no one-time licenses are consumed. The Courier license is perpetual as long as the registered user is enabled. If a user is disabled their grants are suspended, but not cancelled. If the user is re-enabled the suspension is lifted.
Once the one-time license pack has been obtained, the license file will need to be installed in order to route documents. One-time licenses are managed from the Licensing page. Multiple packs can be installed in the system at one time. A license pack can be installed exactly once on exactly one FileHold server as identified by its unique id.
In the List of Courier licenses page, you can:
- Request a one-time license
- Add a one-time license
- Export the list to a CSV file. Click Export to CSV.
- Return to the licensing page. Click Back.
- View the one-time usage log
- Lock a one-time license pack
- Cancel a one-time license pack
Request a Courier license
- In the Web Client, go to Administration Panel > System Management > License Information. The System Information displays your current license information.
- From the FDA, go to Administration > License Information. You are directed to the Web Client login page.
- Click Request a Courier license.
- In the Request a Courier license page, enter the number of units that you want to purchase. This field is required.
- Enter the Organization name. This field is required.
- Enter the Contact name. This field is required.
- Select one of the following request methods:
- Send the request directly to FileHold —Sends the email directly to [email protected]. This is the preferred method if you have an internet connection available.
- Open email client to send request — Opens an email using the default email client with the license details and addressed to [email protected].
- Copy the request to the clipboard — The text for the body of the email displays below. Copy and paste the contents into an email and send to [email protected]. You can use this method if your server does not have internet access.
- Click Cancel to return to the License information page.
IMPORTANT: Make sure that filehold.com is on your email security white list or authorized list to ensure the license file does not get trapped by your SPAM filter.
Add a Courier license
To add Courier license packs
- In the Web Client, go to Administration Panel > System Management > License Information. The System Information displays your current license information.
- From the FDA, go to Administration > License Information. You are directed to the Web Client login page.
- Click Manage Courier licenses.
- In the List of one-time licenses screen, click Add a Courier license.
- In the Upload a one-time license file screen, click Choose file to select the otlic license file that was sent to you from [email protected].
- Click Upload and validate. The message “The uploaded Courier license file is valid” is displayed.
Note: If the one-time license was already uploaded, a message “The uploaded Courier license file has already been added” is displayed. thelicense file is not valid, a message “The uploaded Courier license file is not valid” is displayed.
- Click Add license. The license is added to the list of Courier licenses.

The following table describes the List of Courier licenses screen:
Column | Description |
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Courier license pack id |
The ID code for the license. This is a unique code for each pack. |
Status |
Open – the license pack is available for consumption. Closed – the license pack has been fully consumed. Locked – the license pack is locked and units cannot be consumed. Cancelled – the license pack was cancelled and cannot be consumed or reinstated. |
Purchased units |
The total number of units in the pack. |
Granted units |
The number of units consumed in the pack. |
Available units |
The number of remaining units in the pack. |
Issued date |
The date the license was issued. |
Installed date |
The date the license was uploaded to FileHold. |