Software licenses and subscriptions

You can purchase Trimble Access software licenses as a perpetual license that is licensed to the controller or as a subscription license that is assigned to an individual user. Licenses are required for the General Survey app as well as for each Trimble Access app you want to use.

You can view the licenses installed to the controller and the subscription licenses assigned to the signed in user at any time in the About screen of the Trimble Access software. For more information, see Viewing current license information.

If you don't have a current license or subscription you can still try out the software. You can use Trimble Installation Manager to create a limited temporary license for Trimble Access and then install Trimble Access 2023.10 onto any Windows 10 computer or a supported Trimble controller running Android. For more information, see Installing a temporary license.

To install Trimble Access 2023.10 onto a supported controller that has a perpetual license, the controller must have a Trimble Access Software Maintenance Agreement valid up to 1 October 2024. To extend your Trimble Access Software Maintenance Agreement, contact your Trimble Distributor.

A valid Trimble Access Software Maintenance Agreement allows a user that has a perpetual license to install new versions of the software. It also provides access to features that use web services when connected to the internet, including:

  • Cloud data synchronization

  • Trimble Maps

  • IBSS

To upgrade from an older controller to a new controller, you can relinquish your Trimble Access software license from an older controller that has a current Software Maintenance Agreement. In Trimble Installation Manager, select Trimble Access in the product bar, and then select the Relinquish licenses tab and tap Relinquish. Once your distributor has reassigned the licenses to your new controller, you can install Trimble Access to the new controller using Trimble Installation Manager.

If you are using a Trimble Access subscription rather than a perpetual license, you can install Trimble Access 2023.10 onto any supported controller. A valid subscription provides access to features that use web services when connected to the internet.

To use the software subscription:

  1. The License Administrator in your organization must assign a subscription to you using the Trimble License Manager webapp. For more information, see the Trimble License Manager Help.

  2. The first time you start the Trimble Access software, you must sign in using your Trimble ID to download your Trimble Access subscription license to the controller. Otherwise you are prompted to sign in only if you have previously signed out.

    Subscriptions are locked to that controller until you sign out. Once signed out, you can run Trimble Access on a different controller and sign in to lock the subscription to that controller and use the software.

    Trimble Access provides options to help manage your subscription. For example, if you always use the same controller you can keep your subscription locked to the controller. Alternatively, you can choose to release the subscription if you typically do not always use the same controller and want to be able to sign in on another one. For more information, see Options for releasing your subscription in Signing in and signing out .

To use some features of the Trimble Access software, additional subscription licenses are required, whether you are using a Trimble Access subscription or perpetual license.

Additional subscription licenses are not shown in Trimble Installation Manager because they are user-based subscriptions and do not require installation of any components using Trimble Installation Manager.

Trimble Connect Business subscription licenses

To synchronize Trimble Access field data with the cloud, the signed in user must have a Trimble Connect license. If you are using a controller with a perpetual license, then the controller must have a current Trimble Access Software Maintenance Agreement.

To synchronize data, Trimble recommends that all users have a Trimble Connect Business subscription because it allows users to create more projects and synchronize data with more projects than a Trimble Connect Personal subscription. Trimble Access users can obtain a Trimble Connect Business subscription at no cost in the following ways:

  • Trimble Connect Business subscriptions are automatically included with Trimble Access subscriptions. For those users no further action is needed.

  • For Trimble Access perpetual license users, a Trimble Connect Business subscription is available with each current Software Maintenance Agreement. However, your organization's License Administrator must assign the Trimble Connect Business subscription to the specific user using the Trimble License Manager web app. Until the Trimble Connect Business subscription is assigned to the user, then that user will have a Trimble Connect Personal subscription and can create or synchronize data only to a limited number of projects.

    To assign Trimble Connect Business subscription licenses to users in your organization, sign in to the Trimble License Manager web app as a License Administrator. For more information, see the Trimble License Manager Help.

For more information about the different types of Trimble Connect licenses, see Understanding Connect Licensing in the Trimble Connect Knowledge Center.