Porting licences to or from Apple App Store?

[Yre Myr]

I bought Affinity Designer and Photo through the Mac App Store but I bought Publisher directly from Affinity (yes I know – what a dumb thing to do). I don't intentionally do this, I simply followed the links I found and bingo here I am with three products by the same company but they're differently licensed.

I sometimes find the Designer and Photo personas don't work from Publisher, It doesn't happen often, usually just before I update to newer versions when they become available but I can't reproduce the problem consistently. I suspect it's because the MAS version's don't want to play with the directly bought ones, but I'm no software developer.

I'd like to licence the three the same way if possible. If it's through the MAS or directly through Affinity that's alright (I'd be happy with the latter so nobody gets a cut) but I'd just like some continuity: 

There must be a way to transfer a licence from MAS to run a direct bought version? I've done it with other products that I've bought through the App Store and I'd be very happy to hear if there's a way Affinity could do the same.

What do you think Affinity, Is there a path to transfer licences or can you make one like other software?

Thanks in advance.

Emyr

Edited March 23, 2020 by Yre Myr

[walt.farrell]

56 minutes ago, Yre Myr said:

There must be a way to transfer a licence from MAS to run a direct bought version? I've done it with other products that I've bought through the App Store and I'd be very happy to hear if there's a way Affinity could do the same.

What do you think Affinity, Is there a path to transfer licences or can you make one like other software?

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Sorry, but no, there's no way to do that.

However, StudioLink is supposed to work no matter where you purchased the applications.

Note that there's a great sale right now, if you wanted to repurchase any of the applications.