Content Licensing: How to Start Licensing, Continue Subscription, and Add Balance
Once you are satisfied with Essential Access and testing the platform and games, you can move to the next step, which is commercially licensing the games for your VR location. Before we add this, lets understand how SynthesisVR Pre-Paid balance work. The Pre-Paid Balance/Credit System Explained There Are 2 forms of pre-paid balance which can be found in your Billing Page: Software+ Software refers to the funds available in your account specifically designated for utilization towards SynthesisVR features and additional add-ons. Every new Essential Access account comes with $250.00 worth of free credits. This can be utilized to purchase any add-on except Content Add-On: Steam. SynthesisVR will initially charge your existing Free Balance for your add-ons before attempting to charge your other types of balance available. If there are not enough pre-paid balance to cover your subscription cost, SynthesisVR will charge your credit card on file. Game Licenses+ Game License refers to the funds available in your account specifically designated for utilization towards game content. A minimum of $100 is required to commence your commercial licensing process. This initial balance serves as an entry point to access the SynthesisVR content store, providing you with access to all games available under Essential Access. Throughout the month, your game usage is monitored. On the first day of each month, your total charge is calculated, taking into account the previous month’s game and content usage. This sum is then deducted from your Game Licenses balance. If your usage exceeds the balance, the remaining amount will be charged to your credit card. How to Start Licensing There are couple of steps Adding Your Credit Card Go to Administration – Billing – Click on Update Credit-Card On File Button under Actions Add your details and click Save Your CC. After saving, clicking the Update button again won’t display any details and might include random numbers. This measure is purely for security reasons; rest assured; your credit card information has been successfully added. Add Balance Once your credit card information is added, click the $ Add Balance button. As mentioned above there are two types of balance. Make sure to add the amount to the right balance. In order to licensing games, please add $100 under Game Licenses Balance as shown below and click Confirm your payment. Once the payment has gone through you will see your new balance under PRE-PAID BALANCE. You can now go to Administration – Games, Categories, Licenses and start licensing games. Frequently-Asked-Questions (FAQ) What will happens if my game licensing balance is empty? You will still be able to play and offer licensed games. Your usage will be automatically charged to your credit card on file on the first of each month. You will be unable to license new games from the content store. Add more balance to unlock the content store.
VR Session Manager – Session Tags
Real life usage case If you don’t yet have any employees, you definitely would have to hire some as your business grows. Then, you would create them “Operator” SynthesisVR accounts, as you wouldn’t want them to have full control over your setup. With this, certain functionalities would be limited. To name few: As we are all humans, your employees would do mistakes from time to time and you would be the one that would supervise and take care to “fix” their mistakes. In the regular case, your employees would let you a reservation comment, so you can take care for it. With the business growth, you may end up having 20, 30, 100+ reservations per day and it may become difficult and time consuming to check the comments one by one. However, if your staff add a comment and add a label to the reservation, you would be able to take care significantly faster. We are sure you would be able to think of more usage cases and we are eager to hear them. How to create Tags 3. Select your location, Give a Title that is relevant and select a color and Save Adding A Tag to an existing Reservation
Experience Types Add-On – Work Hours – By Game
The purpose of this Rule is to allow your arcade to act more like a traditional arcade where someone pays to play a game until a certain criteria is reached. For example, they play until they “die”, or play just a single round. Once the criteria is reached (set within the Game Categories section explained here), the session ends. Then click on the “Add/Edit Operation Settings” button under your experiences: To remove a line item in this section, click on the red “x” to the right of it.