Merging/Combining Licenses

[AaMania]

Hey Folks,

Recently Sold one of our Clubs and removed all Aloha Hardware; 1BOH and 5TERMS (licensed for 5TERMS.) In our current Club we are running 3TERMS with 1BOH and are Licensed for 3 terminals, Finishing up an expansion that I will need an additional Terminal. As you may know my question, is there an easy way to merge or combine the Licenses to enable us to have 4 Terminals?

The hardware and Licenses are all ours and our Current "Support Company" no longer supports Aloha, Speaking with the new company that services Aloha are taking their time getting back to me and not giving me a clear answer, or are trying to get me to purchase an additional License and purchase a year of their support desk, where as that is no longer needed since I personally handle all the Hardware and software in the business, I am just unfamiliar with the licensing.

Additional I have both Hardware keys for each BOH computer.

Need any more info let me know,

Thanks Everyone!
-Aaron

 

[RogueTech]

Short answer No.

There is no way to manually somehow "combine" two seperate Aloha software keys into two. Nor is there a way to add more terminals onto a system set for a given amount of terminals. Those key numbers are controlled through corporate Aloha and issued to dealers for distribustion to end users such as yourself. They are encrypted and there really isn't a way to do it.

 

[eburks]

I don't know about the legal ramification but since you say you own both licenses

This assumes that both clubs use the same Aloha version and were licensed for the same modules

EDC, COM, Gift, Kitchen display etc

for instance
If the current club uses kitchen video and the other club did not and was not licensed for it... no go

All things being equal, you should be able to use the dongle licensed for 5 terminals in place of the one at the current club; you just have to put the licensing numbers for the 5 term store in place of the licensing numbers in the current store and swap out the dongle

The only thing that needs to be changed is the licensing numbers

By far the easiest method is to change it in in aloha.ini

You can do it in store settings but if you make a mistake and restart with the wrong info it may be very difficult to get aloha manager back up

At least up to 6.5 I have not seen anything that associates licensing to anything but the dongle and I have been able to setup virtual machine lab simulations for different stores using the dongle from 1 store and changing the licensing in aloha.ini to match that dongle

in aloha.ini your current licensing is on 6 SECx= lines that will NOT be preceeded by ;
You may find some preceeded by ; but these would be old unused keys

like this:

SEC1=b0200000d14b3
SEC2=ae3a00000391e88
SEC3=a8c00000bf6e
SEC4=90001
SEC5=62b6e000004
SEC6=91000000a21

Do this after hours and preferably after end of day has run

1)Make a backup copy of aloha.ini from newdata folder before you try this and if you have a problem just restore that backups to newdata and data folders, put the old dongle back in and restart ctlsvr (or reboot).

2)Close Aloha Manager and Stop the ctlsvr service

3)In the current stores aloha.ini either "comment out" your current license data by putting ; in front of each of the 6 lines or make sure those lines are deleted. The safest thing is to comment out those 6 lines and then copy and paste the 6 lines from the 5 term aloha.ini file into your current file right below them.

4)verify that the lines are exactly same as the file you copied them from (do that twice)
Before you restart ctlsvr make sure both newdata and data folder have that same aloha.ini file with the new license data

5)After you restart ctlsvr (or reboot) start aloha manager and refresh data


If there is a problem restore the backed up aloha.ini (both folders) put your old dongle back and reboot

 

[AaMania]

Eburks thanks I will give that a try either tomorrow or the next day.
Thanks