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Standard and Extended Support Plans

Standard Support is included at no additional charge with all products.

Extended Support is a paid plan available on an annual basis, and includes Standard Support benefits plus private support via email or telephone (for multisystem licenses only), and electronic delivery of all major upgrades for one year.

Feature
Standard Support
Extended Support
Access to Public Support Forum
Yes
Yes
Email Support
No
Yes (multisystem licenses only)
Telephone Support
No
Yes (multisystem licenses only)
Private Support Incidents
None
5 per year (multisystem licenses only)
Upgrade Notification by Email
Yes
Yes
Maintenance Releases
Included
(download)
Included
(download)
Major Upgrades
Must be Purchased
Included
(download)
Single System Plans:
Annual Fee
None,
Included with Product Purchase
$39.95 for Take Command
$29.95 for TCC
Single System Plans:
Major Upgrade Price

$49.95 for Take Command

$34.95 for TCC

No Charge
Multi system Plans:
Annual Fee
None,
Included with Product Purchase
~Varies by volume,
$39.95 minimum
Multi system Plans:
Major Upgrade Price
~Varies by volume
No Charge

 

Terms and Conditions

The following terms and conditions apply to all support plans (see also disclaimers and limitations at the end of this document):

Response Time: Our goal is to respond to support questions within one business day, and in practice our responses are generally much faster than this. However, we cannot promise or guarantee any specific response time.

Problem Resolution: We will attempt to resolve your problem or answer your question using our normal support procedures. Our efforts are necessarily limited by the information you provide us and the wide range of possible environments in which our products are used. As a result we cannot guarantee that we will resolve your problem, only that we will review it and provide you with any information or suggestions we believe will be useful. While we always welcome your input, the final determination of whether a problem should be resolved by providing information to you about how to use the product to meet your needs, by modifying our product to address a problem, by suggesting a workaround, by adjusting the documentation, or by some other method, is solely up to us. We also reserve the right to close a support issue at our discretion if in our judgment we cannot provide any additional useful information despite repeated attempts.

Bug Fixes: If we find a bug or documentation error in one of our products in the course of resolving your problem we will address it as part of our normal maintenance procedures. We do not provide bug fixes to individual customers for specific problems. We will determine at our discretion whether a problem you report is a bug or program error, or is due to some other cause.

Problems in Operating Systems and Other Products: When you report a problem to us we will work with you to determine if, in our best judgment, the problem is related to our product or to another company's software or hardware, or to another computer. If we determine that the problem is not with our product then we will not be able to assist you further to resolve it, except to the extent that we may be able to suggest how to use our product's features to work around the other product's limitations. If the problem appears to be a conflict with another specific product and you have a support contact for that product, we will attempt to work with the other manufacturer to resolve the issue if in our judgment they are responsive to us.

Requests for Information and Testing: In order to understand your question or problem, we may need additional information from you. If this information is not provided responsively and in a timely fashion, we may not be able to assist you further. We may also ask you to perform tests or other experiments. While we will do our best to make these non-destructive, we cannot know the conditions on your system. It is up to you to review the instructions you receive, ask clarifying questions if necessary, keep backup copies of all programs and data, and verify that the tests or experiments we request or the solutions we offer will not cause problems in your environment.

Products: These plans apply only to products created and published by JP Software Inc. They do not apply to products of other companies which JP Software Inc. sells or resells. In addition, Extended Support is not available for "legacy" products to which we are no longer adding new features (4DOS, 4OS2, 4NT, Take Command for OS/2, and Take Command/16).

Upgrade Types: Our products are upgraded through maintenance releases designed to fix minor problems or improve compatibility, and major upgrades which contain enhancements and additional features. A release is designated as a maintenance release or major upgrade at our discretion. Maintenance releases are identified by a change in the hundredths digit of the version number, for example from 30.0 to 30.01 or 30.02. Major upgrades are identified by a change in the tenths or "ones" digit, for example from 30.0 to 30.10 or 31.0.

Forum and Email Access: The electronic resources you use to connect to our support staff (our forums, email boxes, etc.) are hosted by third parties and are not fully under our control. While we work with our third party providers to keep these resources available to you, their availability and our ability to access them in order to respond to you is not guaranteed.

The following terms and conditions apply to the Extended Support plan only:

Plan Term and Renewals: Extended Support is purchased on an annual basis. Service begins the day we charge your credit card or invoice you for the support plan, and terminates the previous day of the year, one year later. This period of time is called a "plan year". For example, if your order is processed on July 1, 2023 then your plan year ends on June 30, 2024, unless the plan is renewed prior to that date. Renewal rates may be changed from time to time by JP Software at our discretion.

Incidents: Each initial contact with our support department by private email or telephone on a new issue counts as one incident, except when the issue is determined to be non-technical and is forwarded to another department (e.g. Customer Service) for assistance. Follow-up contact on the same issue while it is in progress or within one month thereafter does not count as a new incident, and questions posted through our support forum do not count as Extended Support incidents. If you request Extended Support for multiple issues at the same time, and in our view the issues are unrelated and are complex enough to require significant effort, we may require that these be counted as multiple incidents.

Email and Telephone Support: You may request Extended Support via email or telephone. In most cases email is the preferred method and will give you the fastest response times. However we also offer telephone support on a callback basis to Extended Support customers in the US and Canada. If you request telephone support it is crucial that you provide us with telephone numbers where we can reliably reach you directly during our normal business hours at the time your request is made. If your issue requires us to review the content of files (batch files, configuration files, etc.) then we may request that you handle it by email, as it is usually very difficult to transfer such information by telephone.

Upgrade Shipments: Any registration codes or physical product shipments sent to you under this plan will be sent as part of our normal shipping process, via methods we select. While we will deliver the electronic and physical upgrade shipments, if any, which come with your plan in what we believe is a timely fashion, no specific delivery schedule is guaranteed.

Refunds and Termination: Extended Support is purchased on an annual basis and cannot be terminated or refunded after purchase. However, if we feel we are unable to service your needs we may choose to terminate your Extended Support plan at any time. If we do so we will notify you in writing, and will refund to you within 30 days an amount equal to your most recent support plan fee, less a pro-rated charge for any incidents already used.

The following disclaimers and limitations apply to all support plans:

DISCLAIMER: We disclaim any and all warranties for all support provided under any of our support plans, express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. You assume full responsibility for the implementation of any suggestions you receive from us, for the results thereof, for keeping backup copies of all programs and data, and for the safe conduct of any tests we request on your system. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY: In no event shall we be liable, in connection with any support, software, or other materials or services offered or provided to you under any support plan, for: (a) any incidental, consequential, or punitive damages whatsoever; or (b) for any amount in excess of the most recent annual fee you have paid us for your support plan, if any, over and above the purchase or upgrade price of your software. Support Plans Subject to Change: All terms of, rates for, and services provided under any support plan may be changed at any time by JP Software at our sole discretion, and are not guaranteed, and any plan may be eliminated or discontinued at any time at our discretion. However, we will not discontinue or change the terms or services for support plans for which you have paid an annual fee except at renewal time, or when, in our best judgment, the new terms and services are equal to or better than the old terms and services.