Understanding Postpaid License Limit & Number of Postpaid Licenses

Problem

The user reported seeing postpaid licenses even though they believed the postpaid option was disabled (set to 0). In short, it was a confusion between Postpaid License Limit = "0" vs Postpaid Licenses: 14.

Cause

The confusion arose due to the visibility of postpaid license options despite the user setting postpaid usage limits to zero and disabling unlimited access in the License Vault dashboard. The UI shows available postpaid product license types, which might have been misinterpreted as active usage.

Resolution

1. UI Clarification:

   • The numeric value displayed under "Postpaid licenses" in the dashboard indicates the number of different product license types available (e.g., CLion, DataGrip, IntelliJ IDEA, etc.), not the currently active or utilized postpaid licenses.
   • If the number of postpaid licenses and the number in use are set to zero, no postpaid licenses are being utilized.

2. Steps Verified by the User:

   • The user confirmed setting the number of postpaid licenses to 0 and disabling unlimited license usage via the License Vault interface. This ensures that no additional postpaid licenses can be provisioned, avoiding exceeding the set budget.

3. Final Confirmation:

   • JetBrains support clarified that as long as postpaid usage limits are set to zero, and both the postpaid license quantity and usage for all products show as zero, no postpaid licenses are being utilized.

For further details on license management and configuration, you may refer to the official JetBrains documentation:

• License usage statistics
• IDE licensing options
• IDE Services billing models