# Renew Licence ## Individual Licence Fourteen days before your licence expires, the `Upgrade now` button will appear in the top right-hand corner of the GeoDin user interface, which you can use to update or extend your licence.

Then select the options `Activate my license` and `I have a license key`.

Please re-enter your serial number.

## Professional Licence ### Starting the Licence Manager To update your GeoDin licence, either start the licence manager via the Windows Start menu and select the menu item GeoDin Licence Management or click on the desktop icon GeoDin Licence Management.

### Password Entry (Optional) You will only be asked for a password if it differs from the default password (geodin) that was set during the installation of the GeoDin Licence Service.

**Note:** Password and port settings are stored in the GeODinLicenceServer.ini file during the installation of the GeoDin Licence Service. ### Update Licence (Until Server Version 1.8) Below the menu item Licence Server, select the option Update Licence. After a successful licence update, the updated information (e.g. additional licence packages, new expiry date) for your licence will now be displayed, if applicable.

### Update Licence (Since Server Version 1.9) Click on the button below the menu item Licence Server. After a successful licence update, you will be redirected to the page with the licence information (if applicable, additional licence packages, a new expiry date or version are now shown here).

### Update Licence Server (Until Server Version 1.8) As the GeoDin Licence Service is continuously being developed, you can check whether an update of the GeoDin Licence Service is available when you update your licence. To do so, select the option Download server update below the menu item Licence Server.

**Note:** The current version of your GeoDin Licence Service is displayed at the bottom right of the licence manager interface. ### Update Licence Server (Since Server Version 1.9) As the GeoDin Licence Service is continuously being developed, you can check whether an update of the GeoDin Licence Service is available when you update your licence. To do so, click on the button below the menu item Licence Server.

**Note:** The current version of your GeoDin Licence Service is displayed at the bottom right of the licence manager interface as well as in the information box below the menu item Licence Server. ### Update Licence Server If a new version of the GeoDin Licence Service is available, a corresponding note appears. To install the new version, start the download of the current GeoDinLicenceServerRegistration.exe via the button.

Please note that the installation must be carried out locally on the machine running the GeoDin Licence Service. Start the GeoDin Licence Service update by double-clicking on the GeoDinLicenceServerRegistration.exe you have just downloaded and proceed with the setup via the button `Next`.

Select the option Update GeoDin Licence Service and confirm by clicking `Next`.

The installation settings you have made are summarized for you here. Click `Next` to continue.

The installer copies files to the selected installation directories. Please wait for it to complete.

The installation is now complete. Click `Finish` to exit the setup

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