Licensing
Select the Licenses menu item from the OmniFocus menu to see the Licenses dialog. From here you can review and edit your OmniFocus licenses, which verify that you’ve actually paid for the software. (Thanks!)
To buy a license:
Click the Buy Licenses button and you will find yourself magically transported to the Omni Group’s store on the web. Naturally, this only works if you have a live Internet connection.
If you’re considering buying a Family Pack license, note that a Family Pack licenses up to five members of a private household. If you’re buying for a company or some other organization that’s not a private household, you can’t use a Family Pack. Also, if you’re just planning on using OmniFocus on a couple of different machines by yourself, and you don’t intend to have more than one copy running at a time, you can just buy a single license.
To add a new license:
Click the Add License button.
If you have a license key in an e-mail message, copy and paste both the Owner name and the License Key into the appropriate fields. If you can’t copy and paste the information, you’ll have to type it in; make sure you copy everything exactly as it appears in your license message. Also, double-check that the license you’re entering really is a license for OmniFocus; licenses for other Omni Group products won’t work.
Use the drop-down menu to select the type of license you would like to use. (Keep reading to learn about license types.)
Click the Save button.
OmniFocus has three different types of licenses:
Personal: This license is for your personal use, and will only be available on this computer when you are logged on as the user who installed the license. You can install this license on more than one computer, but only for your personal use. If a personal license is available, the application will use it instead of other types of license.
Computer: You can use this license on this computer, and so can any other user of this computer. However, you should not install this license on more than one computer. If both a network license and a computer license are available, the application will prefer the computer license.
Network: This license sits on your network and is available to any user on the network. However, only a certain number of users (indicated by the number of “seats”) can use the license at one time. OmniFocus will only use a network license if neither a personal nor a computer license is available.
To remove a license:
Select the license you want to remove.
Click the Delete License button.