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ABP Platform is a comprehensive infrastructure for application development based on .NET and ASP.NET Core platforms. It fills the gap between the plain ASP.NET Core platform and the complex requirements of modern business software development.
In the core, it provides an open source and free framework that consists of hundreds of NuGet and NPM packages, each offering different functionalities. The core framework is modular, themeable and microservice compatible, providing a complete architecture and a robust infrastructure. This allows you to focus on your business code rather than repeating yourself for every new project. It is based on the best practices of software development and integrates popular tools you're already familiar with. The framework is completely free, open source and community-driven.
The ABP Platform offers free and paid licensing options. Depending on your license type, you can access multiple production-ready startup templates, many pre-built application modules, UI themes, CLI and GUI tooling, support and more.
Free (open source) ABP license includes the core framework, basic startup templates, basic modules, basic themes and the community edition of ABP Studio.
Commercial licenses offer additional features, including more startup templates (such as the microservice startup template), professional application modules, a full-featured UI theme, professional editions of ABP Studio, ABP Suite for code generation, more options for mobile startup applications, premium support and some other benefits.
For more information about the differences between the license types, please see the pricing page.
ABP Framework extends the .NET platform, meaning anything you can do with a plain .NET solution is already possible with the ABP Framework. That makes it easy to get started with a low learning curve. See the How it works page to learn how to use the ABP Platform in practice.
See that page for a detailed explanation of why using ABP Platform has a significant advantage over doing everything yourself.
Yes, we have ABP Training Services to help you get your ABP project started fast. You will learn about ABP from an ABP core team member, and you will get the skills to begin your ABP project. In the onboarding training, we will explain how to set up your development environment, install the required tools, and create a fully functional CRUD page. The training will be live, and the Zoom application will be used, we are open to using other online meeting platforms. The language of the training will be English. You can also ask your questions about ABP during the sessions. A convenient time and date will be planned for both parties. For further information visit training page.
We provide two kinds of support: community support for users with a non-commercial license and premium support for commercial license holders. Community support is available on platforms like GitHub and Stackoverflow, where support is limited. On the other hand, premium support is provided on the official ABP Support website. Here, your questions are answered directly by the core ABP developers, ensuring higher quality support.
Premium support details: We support only the active and the previous major version. We do not guarantee patch releases for the 3rd and older major versions. For example, if the active version is 7.0.0, we will release patch releases for both 6.x.x and 7.x.x. Besides, we provide support only for ABP Platform related issues. This means no support is given for the 3rd party applications, cloud services and other peripheral libraries used by ABP products.
We commit to using commercially reasonable efforts to provide our customers with technical support during the official business hours of "Volosoft Bilisim A.S". However, we do not commit to a Service-Level Agreement (SLA) response time, but we will try to respond to the technical issues as quickly as possible within our official working hours. Unless a special agreement is made with the customer, support is provided exclusively at /support/questions. Furthermore, private email support is available only to Enterprise License holders.
Yes, you can. To buy extra question credits, send an e-mail to info@abp.io with your organization's name. Here's the price list for the extra question credits:
You can create as many projects as you want during your active license period; there is no limit! After your license expires, you cannot create new projects, but you can continue to develop the projects you have downloaded and deploy them to an unlimited count of servers.
ABP.IO licenses are issued per developer. Different license types come with varying developer limits. However, you can add more developers to any license type whenever you need. For information on license types, developer limits, and the costs for additional developers, please refer to the pricing page.
You can upgrade to a higher license by paying the difference during your active license period. When you upgrade to a higher license plan, you get the benefits of the new plan, however the license upgrade does not change the license expiry date. Besides, you can add new developer seats to your existing license. For details on how many developers can work on solutions using the ABP Platform, please see the 'How many developers can work on the solutions using the ABP Platform?' question.
You cannot downgrade your existing license plan. For further information, contact us at info@abp.io.
Renewal: By renewing your license, you will continue to receive premium support and updates, both major and minor, for modules, tools, and themes. Additionally, you will be able to create new projects and use ABP Suite and ABP Studio, which can significantly speed up your development process. When you renew your license, one year is added to your license's expiry date.
Upgrading: By upgrading your license, you will be promoted to a higher license plan, allowing you to receive additional benefits. Check out the pricing page to see the differences between the license plans. On the other hand, when you upgrade, your license expiry date will not change! To extend your license end date, you need to renew your license.
The renewal (extend) price of the standard Team License is $2,399, standard Business License is $3,599 and standard Enterprise License is $5,999. If you are already a customer, log into your account to review the current renewal pricing.
You can renew your license by navigating to the organization management page. In order to take advantage of our discounted Early Renewal rates, ensure you renew before your license expires. Don't worry about not knowing when your Early Renewal opportunity closes; you'll receive 3 reminder e-mails before your subscription expires. We'll send them 30 days, 7 days and 1 day before expiration.
When you renew your license before your license expiration date, 1 year will be added to your license expiration date. For example, if your license expires on 2024-06-06 and you renew it on 2024-01-01, your new license expiration date will be 2025-06-06.
Depends on the license type you've purchased:
Including the source code of a module to your solution gives you the maximum freedom to customize that module. However, it will then not be possible to automatically upgrade the module when a new version is released.
None of the licenses include the ABP Suite and ABP Studio source code, which is external tools that generates code for you and assists your development.
Check out the Plans & Pricing page for other differences between the license types.
In addition to adding new developers to your license, you can also change the existing developers (you can remove a developer and add a new one to the same seat) without any additional cost.
We specifically permit 2 computers per individual/licensed developer. Whenever there is a need for a developer to develop ABP based products on a third machine, an e-mail should be sent to license@abp.io explaining the situation, and we will then make the appropriate allocation in our system.
ABP licenses are perpetual licenses. After your license expires, you can continue developing your project without the obligation to renew. Your license comes with a one-year update and premium support plan out of the box. To receive new features, performance enhancements, bug fixes, and continued support, as well as to use ABP Suite and ABP Studio, you need to renew your license. When your license expires;
You can renew (extend) your license to continue receiving these benefits. If you renew your license within 30 days after it expires, the following discounts will be applied: Team License 20% discount for 1 year(s), 30% discount for 2 year(s), 40% discount for 3 year(s); Business License 40% discount for 1 year(s), 45% discount for 2 year(s), 50% discount for 3 year(s); Enterprise License 40% discount for 1 year(s), 45% discount for 2 year(s), 50% discount for 3 year(s).
If you renew your license within 30 days after it expires, the following discounts will be applied:
However, if you renew your license more than 30 days after the expiry date, the renewal price will be the same as the initial purchase price of the license, with no discounts applied to your renewal.
Yes, to start your free trial, please contact marketing@volosoft.com. We also offer a 30-day money-back guarantee for the Team license, with no questions asked! You can request a full refund within the first 30 days of purchasing the license. For Business and Enterprise licenses, we provide a 60% refund if requested within 30 days of purchase. This policy is due to the inclusion of the full source code for all modules and themes in the Business and Enterprise licenses.
We have an agreement between Volosoft and Megabit, according to which the Blazorise license is bundled with the ABP Platform’s commercial licenses. Therefore, our paid users do not need to purchase an additional Blazorise license.
Follow the steps below to get support from the Blazorise team and get your Blazorise license key:
A non-personal paid license is the standard licensing option for enterprises and commercial entities. Licenses are purchased by the company and can be used by anyone within the organization.
Personal License; on the other hand, is a type of license for private individuals/freelancers/independent developers who purchase licenses with their own funds and solely for their own use. The Personal License has some limitations. In this plan, there can only be 1 developer working on the ABP project and no additional developers are allowed to be added later to the project. Downloading the source-code of PRO modules is not allowed in the personal license plan. There is no microservice template in this plan. There is no tier architecture (Web and HTTP API layers are physically separated) in this plan. Personal License holders can only use the following modules: Account, Audit Logging UI, GDPR, Identity, Language Management, LeptonX PRO, OpenIddict UI and SaaS. Personal License holders cannot use the following modules: Chat, CMS-Kit PRO, File Management, Forms, Payment, Text Template Management, and Twilio SMS. You can access the full module list at abp.io/modules.
When you create a new application using the ABP startup templates, all the modules and themes are used as NuGet and NPM packages. This setup allows for easy upgrades to newer versions of the packages.
In addition to the standard NuGet/NPM upgrades, ABP CLI provides an update command that automatically finds and upgrades all ABP-related packages in your solution.
Beyond automatic package upgrades, we also publish a migration guide if the new version requires some manual steps to upgrade or it has some notes to be considered. Keep following the ABP blog for the news about new releases.
ABP is database agnostic and can work with any database provider by its nature. For a list of currently implemented providers, please check out the Data Access document.
Supported UI frameworks options;
ABP Framework itself is UI framework agnostic and can work with any UI framework. However, startup templates, module UIs and themes were not implemented for all UI frameworks. Check out the Getting Started document for the up-to-date list of UI options.
Yes, it supports microservice architectures.
One of the major goals of the ABP platform is to provide a convenient infrastructure to create microservice solutions. All the official ABP application modules are designed to support microservice deployment scenarios (with its own API and database) by following the Module Development Best Practices document.
ABP Platform commercial licenses also includes a microservice startup template which can be used to directly create a production ready base solution for your microservice system.
For the non-paid users, we are also providing an example e-commerce solution that you can check to understand how you can build your microservice solution based on the ABP Framework.
However, a microservice system is a solution, and every solution will have different requirements, including network topology, communication scenarios, authentication possibilities, database sharding/partitioning decisions, runtime configurations, 3rd party system integrations and many more aspects. The ABP platform provides infrastructure for microservice scenarios, microservice-compatible modules, samples, and documentation to assist in building your own solution. However, don't expect to directly download your ideal, custom solution pre-built for you. You will need to understand it and bring specific parts together based on your requirements.
You can download the source code of all the ABP modules, Angular packages and themes via ABP Suite, ABP Studio or ABP CLI. Check out the forum question: How to download the source-code? You can download the source code of all the ABP modules, Angular packages and themes via ABP Suite, ABP Studio or ABP CLI. Check out the forum question: How to download the source-code?
You can check out our documentation at Migrating from open source templates to upgrade your open-source projects to the paid PRO templates.
You can request a refund within 30 days of your license purchase. The Business and Enterprise license types have source-code download options; therefore, we provide a 60% refund within 30 days for Business and Enterprise licenses. In addition, no refunds are made for renewals and second license purchases.
If you made the payment using 2Checkout, you can refund VAT via your 2Checkout account:
There are 2 payment gateways for purchasing a license: Iyzico and 2Checkout. If you purchase your license through the 2Checkout gateway, it sends the PDF invoice to your email address; check out 2Checkout invoicing. If you purchase through the Iyzico gateway, with a custom purchase link or via a bank wire transfer, we will prepare and send your invoice. You can request or download your invoice from the organization management page. Before contacting us for the invoice, check your organization management page!
