The free trial
Section titled “The free trial”The trial key comes from your partner together with the server download, and costs nothing.
Every feature
Discovery, Migration, Metadata Mapping, Recurring Jobs, Run History and Reporting — nothing disabled or held back.
The first 250 items per source
Each job handles the first 250 files and folders, counted together, per SharePoint document library, per OneDrive or per file share.
7 days
Enough to try every feature on your own content. Ask your partner if you need longer to finish an evaluation.
Make the 7 days count: run Discovery on a few libraries, OneDrives or shares that are typical of the rest, run a Migration into a Team Folder, and open the Power BI report on the results — a Test Migration moves nothing, so its files show only as Test Migration. The 250 items are enough to see your own content in the report, and too few to run a production migration on.
The production licence
Section titled “The production licence”When the trial has done its job, your partner supplies the production licence key. It lifts the trial's limit of 250 items per source, and is rented for a fixed period. The app neither sells nor issues licences, and shows no prices: the price comes from your partner.
| Edition | Migration to Nextcloud | Migration speed | .url links in place of migrated files |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard | Not included | — | — |
| Enterprise | Included, with every feature | The standard speed | Included |
| Enterprise+ | Included, with every feature | Up to three times the Enterprise speed | Included |
The full comparison of the editions is in the License matrix
Which edition?
Enterprise covers a migration to Nextcloud in full. Enterprise+ is for a large volume or a tight timeline, where three times the speed shortens the waves — the estimate from Discovery shows whether you need it.
How the time is estimated: Estimate volume and duration
The rental period
Section titled “The rental period”A licence is rented for 1, 3, 6, 12, 24 or 36 months. Choose the period from the plan:
- A one-off migration needs the waves, the checks between them and the final synchronisation, with a margin for the unexpected.
- A resilience copy kept by recurring jobs needs a licence for as long as the copy is refreshed.
- Discovery only needs the time to discover everything in scope and refresh the report.
The licence types
Section titled “The licence types”| Type | For |
|---|---|
| Trial | 7 days of every feature, limited to the first 250 items per source |
| Commercial | The production licence rented for migrations — on one server, for any tenants and customers |
| Partner | A partner's own licence, for its demonstrations, training and test environments — on any number of servers, but only on the partner's own domains |
Where a licence can run
Section titled “Where a licence can run”A commercial licence is installed on the one SMART Migration server that runs your jobs, and is not tied to a customer: from that server the jobs can read any of the sources you connect. A partner licence works only with the partner's own domains. Moving a licence to another server, or activating it on a server without internet access: Licences and editions
See the licence in the app
Section titled “See the licence in the app”The licence key and its expiry date are shown on the Settings tab, under Remote SMART Migration Server, as the server last reported them.
When the licence expires
Section titled “When the licence expires”The SMART Migration server stops servicing the app, so no job is claimed. A notice at the top of the app and on the Support tab says so until the licence is renewed.
Nothing is lost. The jobs keep their definitions and statuses, Run History and the reports stay, and the files already migrated stay in Nextcloud. Once your partner has renewed the licence, the server picks up the Ready jobs again.
Renewing
Ask your partner for a renewal well before the expiry date, so a wave in progress is not interrupted. The new key goes into the SMART Migration server; nothing changes in the app.
Less SharePoint storage, and users led to Nextcloud
Section titled “Less SharePoint storage, and users led to Nextcloud”Enterprise and Enterprise+ can replace each migrated SharePoint Online or OneDrive file with a .url link to it in Nextcloud. The file's content leaves SharePoint, so the storage it took is freed — and SharePoint storage above what Microsoft 365 includes costs about USD 2,400 per TB per year. Users keep finding their files where they always did: a click on the link opens the file in Nextcloud, which makes the move to Nextcloud an everyday habit rather than a change to learn.
Switch it on with Replace SharePoint Online source Document Library item with a .url link to Nextcloud, on the Source step of a migration job. The costs, the savings and what the links do for adoption are explained in Why replace SharePoint files with .url links
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