Activating the purchase of AffinityPhoto on a Mac after using the trial period

[sketcher11]

I'm considering purchasing AffinityPhoto for my Mac after using the AP 10 day trial period.

What are the procedures for activating my purchase from the trial app?

Do I have to buy AP from the Apple store before my 10 day trial runs out

or can I still activate it after my 10 day trial does expire?

 

Are there any other Affinity accounts I have to create to be able to activate my purchase?

 

If there is any other information about this that I may not have asked please provide all the info necessary too have a smooth download and activation process.

Thanks

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, @sketcher11.

 

You can’t activate your purchase from the trial app. The retail version is a completely separate download, sold via the Mac App Store (MAS). You sign in to the MAS and make your purchase from there, and if you want to install the app on another Mac that you own or control then you simply sign in to the MAS (using the Apple ID that you used for the original purchase) and download the app via the ‘Purchased’ tab. Once you’ve purchased the app, drag the trial version to the trash and empty the trash so that you can’t accidentally launch the trial version instead of the retail version.

 

If you qualify for any freebies at the time of purchase, or if you want to buy a copy of the Affinity Photo Workbook, you will need to create an Affinity Store account, but you will be guided through the account creation process when you make your first purchase there.

[sketcher11]

Thanks Alfred for the info and welcome to the forum.

 

What would I have to do if there are any updates to AffinityPhoto.

I assume that just ordinary updates would probably be downloaded thru the software program of AP on my Mac?

 

But what if there is a Major update that requires me to purchase it?

Do I have to go to the Mac App Store and purchase it thru them?

Would a major update cost the same as the original price I paid.... or do previous owners/users get a discount price.... and what is the procedure for that kind of update

thru the Mac App Store?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Alfred]

Updates and upgrades are all provided through the MAS (but see @R C-R’s post below).

 

1.x updates are free to owners of version 1. If we want the new features when version 2 arrives we will need to pay for it, but there will be no compulsion to upgrade (because version 1 will continue to work as before). 

[R C-R]

8 hours ago, sketcher11 said:

What would I have to do if there are any updates to AffinityPhoto.

In System Preferences > App Store there are several preferences for setting how updates are handled. If you enable the "Automatically check for updates" option, you can then also enable the "Install app updates" option indented below that.

 

Enable both options & you won't have to do anything else to install any updates to the Affinity or any other apps you bought through MAS. The updates will download in the background & be installed after you quit the currently installed version.

 

It doesn't get much easier than that! 

[sketcher11]

Thanks Alfred and R C-R for the info.

One last question about Upgrades... is there a time frame to when the upgrades between Newer versions are released?

Some companies provide upgrades once a year... is AffinityPhoto due for an upgrade to version 2 soon?

I don't want to buy the current latest version1 of AP and find out in a month or two that the release of a Newer version 2 is going to be released.

 

[R C-R]

The staff have said that there is no timeframe for v2 upgrades as yet, & there will not be any until everything on the 1.x roadmaps have been added. Basically, that means nothing soon.

[sketcher11]

Thanks R C-R... for the upgrade info....much appreciated!