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Using Swivle requires a license. The following licenses are available:
Content Manager license. Provides full access to Swivle. Aimed at power users and system adminstrators.
Content Consumer license. Gives access to search, download, and share files. Aimed at regular users.
Portal license. Similar to Content Consumer license, but accessing the files is done through a more basic application (the 'Portal'). Multiple portals can be set up, each with its own branding.
API license. Makes it possible to connect to Swivle from an external application through the Swivle API.
Each license is described in more detail in the sections below.
Content Manager license
This license gives access to all features and is aimed at the following types of users:
Power users who need to be able to upload files and manage folders, Collections, metadata, contents of portals, and so on.
System administrators who need to set up and manage the Swivle environment.*
The Content Manager license is a named license, meaning that every user needs a separate license and uses their own e-mail and password combination to log in.
* The person who signs up for a Swivle account is automatically assigned the role of system administrator. Only system administrators will have access to the Management Console for managing users, permissions and other settings. This means that when purchasing Swivle, at least one Content Manager license needs to be obtained.
Content Consumer license
This license allows users to search, download and share files. It is aimed at the following types of users:
Internal staff who need access to your archive for in-house production and reference.
External users such as resellers or press, to whom you want to provide a limited set of materials in a branded environment (the Brand portal).
The Content Consumer is a named license, meaning that every user needs a separate license and uses their own e-mail and password combination to log in. This has the advantage that you can determine the permissions and access rules on an individual level.
Portal license
The Portal license is similar to the Content Consumer license and allows Portal visitors to search, download and share files. It is aimed at the following types of users:
Internal staff who need access to your archive for in-house production and reference.
External users such as resellers or press, to whom you want to provide a limited set of materials in a branded environment (a public or password-protected Portal)
The goal and the interface of the Content Consumers and the Portal visitors are therefore very similar, but the Portals have the following advantages:
You can create multiple Portals, and each Portal can be accessed on a unique subdomain (xxxxx.swivle.cloud), has unique branding, and unique content.
We allow multiple people to access the Portal, a separate license for every visitor is therefore not needed.
The Portals can be made publicly available or can be password-protected.
Every Portal visitor sees the same content for each Portal (unlike the Content Consumers).
There are 2 scenarios for which Content Consumers and the single Brand Portal are better suited:
When you want to have individual accounts for every Brand Portal visitor.
When you want to have one Brand Portal and assign different access permissions for various groups of visitors in that portal. Each group can log in to the same Brand Portal, but will see only the content suited for them.
API license
The Swivle REST API allows you to customize and integrate external applications with Swivle.