Activation is a process that verifies you have a legal installation of your MYOB software. You can activate your company file online or over the
phone via an automated service.
You don’t need to activate a company file that you have created for testing purposes or any file you are no longer entering transactions into.
After creating a company file, you can use it for 30 days in trial mode, after which you must activate the file if you want to continue entering transactions into it.
If you don’t activate the file within 30 days, it will become read-only, which means you can open, view, print, and export information, but you will not be able to enter new information into the file until you activate it.
After activating a file, you must confirm the company file once or twice a year, that is, extend its activation throughout its working life. For more information, see
Confirming activated company files.
If you want, you can set a preference to automatically confirm an activated company file over the Internet when required.
You can initially activate up to ten company files. If you need to create more than ten company files (for example, yours is a bookkeeping business looking after many clients), you can obtain license extensions to activate as many additional company files as required. Contact MYOB Customer Service if you need a license extension.
Each additional license extension allows you to activate a further ten files.
When you purchase your MYOB software, the license allows one user to access a company file during the trial period. If you extend your license to support additional simultaneous users, you must activate your company file for these additional licences. See also
Managing user accounts and company files.
