How to Activate Free Edition

All that is required to activate CompleteFTP Free Edition is a valid e-mail address. Information related to CompleteFTP, including the announcements of updates, will be sent to this e-mail. You can opt out of these e-mails at any time. Your e-mail address will not be shared with any other organisation.

To activate CompleteFTP Free Edition, please complete the following steps:

  1. Open CompleteFTP Manager and connect to your server.
  2. Select the Activation tab.
  3. Click 'activate for free'.
  4. You will be asked whether or not you have an account with EnterpriseDT. If you do then click 'Yes' and go to Registering additional Free Edition servers below, otherwise click 'No' .
  5. Enter a valid e-mail address, your name and, optionally, the name of your company.
  6. Click the button labelled 'Request verification code'. This will tell the EnterpriseDT server to send a verification code to the e-mail address that you entered. It should arrive within a minute or so.
  7. Copy the verification code from the e-mail to the clipboard.
  8. Paste the code into the last field on the User Registration Form.
  9. Click 'Register'. After a few seconds your account will have been registered and your server activated.

Registering additional Free Edition servers

You can register an unlimited number of Free Edition servers using a single EnterpriseDT account. To do this, follow steps 1 to 3 (above) and then click 'Yes' when asked if you already have an account. You will then be prompted for your user-name and password. Use the same user-name that you received when you first registered your account. When you click the Activate button CompleteFTP Manager will automatically activate your server.

Registering Free Edition without a direct Internet connection

If the machine on which CompleteFTP Manager is running doesn't have an Internet connection then please follow the steps below:

  1. Open CompleteFTP Manager and connect to your server.
  2. Select the Activation tab.
  3. Click 'activate for free'.
  4. You will be asked whether or not you have an account with EnterpriseDT. Click 'Yes' or 'No'.
  5. If you've previously registered for a free license then use the License ID that was e-mailed to you. If you haven't previously registered then follow the 'register now' link in step 0 to register you account and receive your License ID (by e-mail).
  6. Enter the License ID in step 1.
  7. Click the link marked 'copy' in step 2 to copy it to the clipboard.
  8. Send the link a computer that does have Internet access and open it.
  9. On the web-page that opens enter your user-name and password.
  10. Copy the Activation Key shown on the web-page to the clipboard.
  11. Send the Activation Key to the computer that's running CompleteFTP.
  12. Paste the Activation Key into the field in step 4.
  13. Click OK to complete activation.

For instructions with pictures on how to activate the free edition, please refer to Step-by-step guide: Activate CompleteFTP free.