Free to try, paid to deliver
The app, the SMART Migration server download and the 7-day trial key cost nothing. What you pay for is the production licence and the services your partner delivers around it.
From first contact to go-live
Section titled “From first contact to go-live”Each step names who does it. Where it says you or your partner, the partner's share is up to you: some organisations only buy the licence, others have the partner run the whole project.
Choose a partner — you
Pick a partner from All SMART Migration partners on the Support tab, read its profile and contact it. Get the app activation code from your partner, then choose Activate your partner on the Support tab, type the code and choose Select. The partner becomes your contact for the trial, the licence and the services.
Get the server and the trial key — your partner
The partner sends the download link for the SMART Migration server and the free 7-day trial key, and can install the server with you on a Windows machine in your network.
Try it on your own content — you or your partner
Run Discovery jobs on a few typical libraries, OneDrives or shares. The trial handles the first 250 files and folders of each source: enough to see your own content in the Power BI report.
Agree the scope — you or your partner
Discover everything in scope, then decide from the report what moves, what is cleaned up first and what stays behind.
Get an estimate and an offer — your partner
From the Discovery figures the partner estimates the waves and the time they take, and offers its service package and the production licence that fits: the edition and the rental period.
Production licence — your partner
The partner, as reseller, supplies the production licence key. It lifts the trial's limit for the period it is rented for.
Pilot, then the waves — you or your partner
A pilot wave proves the naming, the Team Folders, the metadata and the permissions and measures the speed; the remaining waves follow the plan.
Go live and hand over — you or your partner
Cut over, sign off each wave with its Run History and Power BI report, and agree the support you need afterwards.
The steps in more detail:
- The Support tab
- Set up SMART Migration for the app
- Trial and licences
- Estimate volume and duration
- Plan and run a migration, wave by wave
What is free, and what you pay for
Section titled “What is free, and what you pay for”The app and the trial are free, so you can see SMART Migration work on your own content before anything is bought.
| What | Cost | From |
|---|---|---|
| The SMART Migration app for Nextcloud | Free and open source | MigrateDMS |
| The SMART Migration server download | Free | Your partner |
| The trial key, 7 days | Free | Your partner |
| Power BI Desktop, to open the report | Free | Microsoft |
| The production licence | Rented for 1 to 36 months, priced by your partner | Your partner, as reseller |
| Migration services | The partner's own service packages and prices | Your partner, as service provider |
The app shows no prices: each partner sets its own. Ask the partner for an offer, or ask AI Help, with your partner chosen above the question box, for what its profile says.
What a partner can do for you
Section titled “What a partner can do for you”What a partner delivers depends on its roles, which the Support tab shows for each partner.
Service provider
Discovery and the report read with you, the wave plan, the job configuration, running the migration, the cutover and support after go-live.
Reseller
The production licence that follows the trial, in the edition and for the period that fits the plan.
More than files
Some partners also migrate mail and calendars, clean up file names, set up resilience copies for DORA, or run Nextcloud for their customers. Their profiles say so.
Questions to ask a partner
Section titled “Questions to ask a partner”Before you choose, or before you sign an offer, these questions make the offers comparable:
- Which services are in the package, and which are charged separately?
- Who runs the jobs — the partner, you, or both?
- How is the time estimated, and from which figures?
- Which edition and which rental period does the plan need, and why?
- What support is there after go-live, and for how long?
- Can the same partner move mail and calendars, so files, mail and calendar are one project?
- Which languages does the partner's team work in, and from which country?
Ask AI Help about the partners
Section titled “Ask AI Help about the partners”In the help panel, your partner chosen above the question box answers from your partner's profile instead of this manual — every certified partner's until you activate one. AI Help reads the profiles and the pages they link to.
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