Allegorithmic’s Substance Live rent-to-own licensing system, which has been met with wide acclaim from artists, is now available. Substance Live gives access to Substance Designer, Substance Painter and Bitmap2Material (as well as other exclusive content every month) for a low cost monthly fee that goes toward the payment of the full, permanent license of the software. Substance Live is available in Pro and Indie versions.
Allegorithmic’s new licensing model offers an alternative that takes artists into account and shows a healthy business model is possible without the restrictions imposed by a rental-only based model. Judging from artists’ reactions on this site, as well as on various forums around the web, Allegorithmic is bound to gain a lot of new customers. More on Allegorithmic’s website.
One thing that’s a bit strange is that it asks for a VAT number as mandatory when you try to place an order.
In the UK, you’re only required to be VAT registered if you earn over a certain amount (£81,000), considering the indie threshold is ($100,000) you’re likely to have a few users who aren’t VAT registered (at least in the UK, not sure how it plays out in other countries – there has been a bit of a hoo-ha over something called VATMOSS)
Have asked them why it’s the case.
Steve did you made contact to inquire them about this?
If you did, post here the answer please 🙂
Cheers.
Yep, will post when I get an answer – although I imagine they’ll be quite snowed under processing requests at the moment.
In Germany you get a VAT number (and a lot of paperwork) when you have more than 17.500€ turnover a year, so I guess they don’t check this in detail for all countries. UK sounds much more relaxed for indies in this aspect 😉
Yeah, there was a bit of a hoo-ha over an attempt to standardise this sort of thing, so basically people would have to charge VAT on digital sales – there wasn’t a threshold – which would bundle in someone making a little money on e-books with massive companies – or you had to do it through a third-party.
Anyway, I had a reply – just leave the company bit blank and it won’t ask for a VAT No.
Thank you for posting their answer, Steve. I’m sure it’ll help others.
You’re welcome – lovely bits of software as well.