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Personal Purchasing

Leverage the low prices of your volume license agreements to provide students, faculty and staff with software using ELMS Direct.

A Hands-Free Solution

ELMS Direct provides your institution with a custom branded online WebStore at no cost that will manage the licensing and distribution aspects of popular academic licensing programs from start to finish. We help you leverage the low prices of your volume license agreements to provide students, faculty and staff with their own personal use and work-at-home copies of popular software titles at savings of up to 90% off retail price.

A Flexible, Compliant Engine

Thousands of academic institutions and departments along with several resellers turn to us to implement a hassle-free solution for software licensing management. Our unparalleled platform provides:

  • An intuitive web-based storefront available 24/7
  • Multiple robust and necessary verification options
  • Compliance with licensing terms
  • Opportunities to generate revenue or recover costs with markups
  • A flexible payment collection and settlement process
    • Collect payment at point-of-sale
    • Settle with payment processors, resellers and software vendors
    • Distribute mark-ups as a way to off-set your own administrative costs

Access to Popular Programs

All academic users have access to personal, perpetual use licenses from these popular programs:

  • Microsoft Student Select/Student Option - Office, Windows and more at up to 80% off
  • Adobe CLP Student/Staff/Faculty Licensing - Design Premium, Acrobat Professional, Photoshop Extended and more at up to 90% off

Awareness and Support

The WebStore is branded to your institution, so students, faculty and staff know they're in the right place. In addition to having its own unique URL, your WebStore can also be found through the OnTheHub Search Portal. OnTheHub is also your marketing center, providing you with a range of tools, templates and web resources to assist in promotion of your WebStore.

Key Benefits

Our comprehensive solution provides a WebStore available 24/7 to students, faculty and staff regardless of their location, whether on campus, at home or throughout the country. Other benefits include:

  • School-branded WebStore
  • User verification
  • Centralized, online product catalogue
  • Multiple delivery methods
    • Secure downloads
    • Physical media fulfillment
  • E-commerce engine
  • Inventory management
  • EULA (End-User License Agreements) compliance
  • Secure distribution of activation codes or product keys
  • End-to-end supply chain management, including financial settlement, reporting and tracking
  • End-user purchase or download support