Why should I choose Syncfusion?
At Syncfusion, our mission is to produce award-winning software components that enable developers to produce quality software for the most demanding environments. Our components and frameworks for user interface, business intelligence, and reporting help you save money and get your applications to market faster.
Each of our products has a unique and useful feature set that developers find to be an indispensable part of their programming arsenal. Working with Syncfusion’s Essential Studi you can quickly and easily add cutting-edge functionality and the very latest look and feel to your .NET applications, taking the grunt work out of the development cycle and freeing you to focus on the core business logic of your applications.
Built with the future in mind: Our products are geared toward long life-cycle applications and designed to meet high standards for flexibility and long-term maintainability.
Full source code: We believe in empowering developers with source code, and ours is written to be redistributed and shipped in a tightly integrated manner. You can switch to using our components in debug mode at the flick of a switch.
First-rate technical support: Our team is available online, by phone, and through our forum-based support system to ensure you’ll get the answer you need, when you need it.
Straightforward, flexible licensing: Syncfusion components are licensed on a per-developer basis with no royalty, run-time, or server-deployment fees. Each licensed developer may install our components on multiple personal machines at home and work.
A viable base for standardization: The wide range of solid products in our suites allows customers to reduce their dependence on multiple vendors and streamline their deployment of components.
What Essential Studio packages does Syncfusion offer?
What are the differences between the full source and binary versions?
What are the advantages of obtaining full source code?
When you buy from Syncfusion, you do not have to make the traditional, “buy vs. build” tradeoff, wherein you give up source-level transparency for the ease of being able to add a feature using a binary third-party control. With source code, our component becomes an integral and well-documented part of your application, and in some sense we become part of your development team. Benefits of source code include:
Well-commented and documented source code.
The ability to step into our source code within your application.
No bothersome .zip files with pages of instructions to configure debugging. We support one-click debugging.
We even support changes to our source code for Enterprise Support customers.
We do not stop with shipping full source code. We ensure that the source code can be used with minimal effort. We incorporate a unique debugging support system that allows switching between Debug and Release versions of our library with a single click.
Syncfusion’s Essential Studio includes a utility called the AssemblyManager that provides an easy way to change the version of the Syncfusion assemblies you link to. You can choose between Debug and Release on a per-product basis. When the version you wish to link to is changed in the AssemblyManager, the references in the current project are automatically updated so that the new assemblies will be used the next time you run the application.
When linking to the Debug version, you can step right into the component source code to debug a problem, should the need arise.
What is the language used to write your components?
I have a question that is not answered in this FAQ. Where can I ask it?
Does the current release of Syncfusion Essential Studio support my configuration of Visual Studio and .NET?
Our Windows Forms and reporting products are compatible with .NET 2.0 or later and can be used with Visual Studio 2005 or later.
Our WPF, ASP.NET, and ASP.NET MVC products are compatible with .NET 3.5 for use in Visual Studio 2008 or later.
Our Blazor product is compatible with .NET Core SDK 3.1.8 for use in Visual Studio 2019 or later.
Our ASP.NET Core product is compatible with .NET Core SDK 2.0 for use in Visual Studio 2017 or later.
Can I evaluate Essential Studio before buying?
I am having trouble downloading the evaluation.
What types of special pricing are offered?
Syncfusion offers the following types of special license pricing:
Site
Group, team, and global
Academic
Retail volume discount
Promotional discount
Competitive upgrade Please contact our sales team for more information about each type of special pricing option.
What is included in the Academic Pricing?
How does Syncfusion license software?
Does my license purchase entitle me to support and new releases?
What are the terms for licensing the source code of Syncfusion products?
Can one licensed copy be installed on more than one computer?
How can I obtain a copy of your latest software license agreement?
Does Syncfusion allow license transfers?
Who is eligible?
Can the products be used to build commercial applications?
How long are the licenses valid ?
Why are you doing this? What’s the catch?
How can we help market Syncfusion’s efforts?
Why do you require a LinkedIn or Xing login for the Community License?
What is Syncfusion’s Subscription service?
Do I have to renew my subscription service to keep working with the software license?
Why should I renew my active subscription?
How can I renew my subscription?
How do I renew my expired subscription?
What technical support options does Syncfusion offer?
What is Enterprise Support?
Here are just a few of the privileges you’ll enjoy with Enterprise Support:
Incident turnaround time of 24 hours or less (to confirm receipt and share the time required to address the issue).
Access to a dedicated support contact for regular support issues.
Priority escalation of defect fixes.
Priority consideration for feature requests.
Special e-mail support with guaranteed callback (when requested) on all days including weekends and holidays between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. Eastern time.
For more comprehensive information on this premium support option, please contact Syncfusion Sales at sales@syncfusion.com.
How can I place an order for Syncfusion products?
You can place an order for Syncfusion products using any of these methods: over the Web, by phone or by fax.
Online: You can order Syncfusion products through our Web site using our secure ordering system.
Phone: You can order Syncfusion products over the phone by calling our sales team at 888-936-8638 (+1-919-481-1974).
Fax: You can order Syncfusion products by faxing an official purchase order (PO) from your company or by printing our fax order form and faxing it to us. Purchase orders are accepted for orders over $2,000 US only and must specify a billing contact and billing address.
Please note that to fulfill your order, we require the names and e-mail addresses of each end user. This is to ensure quicker turnaround and access to software. After placing your order, you will be e-mailed download instructions for the product you purchased as well as the required key to unlock the product. If you need assistance placing your order, please contact sales.
How do I order through the Web site?
What is the turnaround time for orders to be fulfilled?
What are the delivery options for Syncfusion products?
What payment options are available?
Will I receive an invoice?
What is Syncfusion’s return policy?
Can I purchase Syncfusion products through resellers or distributors?
I am an international buyer, can I buy Syncfusion products?
I just purchased a license of Essential Studio and have a question about deploying, compiling, or upgrading. Where can I go for assistance and further information?
Please reference the documentation installed with the product or available online.
You can log in to Direct-Trac at www.syncfusion.com/support/directtrac using your e-mail address and password to contact technical support services.
If the above has not addressed your question, please contact salessupport@syncfusion.com.
After downloading the evaluation version of Essential Studio Enterprise, I purchased a full license. Do I have to uninstall the evaluation and then download and install the full version?
I just purchased a license and my unlock key is not working. What should I do?
Does the unlock key you received match the version you have installed?
Have you applied the full unlock key and not the evaluation unlock key?
Please note that you may generate your own unlock key by logging in to Direct-Trac at www.syncfusion.com/support using your e-mail address and password.
Still need further assistance? Please e-mail salessupport@syncfusion.com.
I just purchased the binary edition of Essential Studio Enterprise. Can I upgrade to the Source Edition in the future?
If I purchase an individual product, like Essential Grid Binary, can I upgrade later to Essential Studio Enterprise?
I just purchased a license; where can I access online documentation and further resources?
I just joined a project team that has standardized on an older release of Syncfusion Essential Studio Enterprise. Can I order an older release?
What is an unlimited license?
What are the benefits of an unlimited license?
Can I call someone if I need advice on my products?
Do we truly get unlimited support?
What size company qualifies for an unlimited license?
What happens if my development team doubles in size during the term of use?
Do we have to contact Syncfusion to add additional developers?
Can we purchase an unlimited license online?