Free for every bundle. Pro for your firm.

Yes. CourtMerge Pro is the new name for the same licence. The .cmlic file you received with your order also unlocks the Pro options in the web tool, at no extra cost.

Open the tool and click “Have a CourtMerge Pro licence? Load it here” at the bottom. Choose your .cmlic file or drop it there. The browser remembers the licence; on another computer, or after clearing your browser data, you load it again.

No. The page checks the file's signature in your own browser, against the same public key as the desktop app. There is no server that checks anything, and no account.

No. You pay €149 once. Your version keeps working, updates are included for as long as there are updates, and nothing expires.

In the browser it does: you get the bundle per party and the CourtMerge line goes away. The stamp, compression and saved case files are in the desktop app today, which runs on Windows 10 or later only.

The web tool is free, with no limit. In the desktop app your first three case files are free, with every feature and no registration.

Yes. Build one from one of the five templates: a round or rectangular stamp drawn from your office name, with the ring, the ink colour and the wear in your hands. Or bring in a scan of your real stamp, through the file picker, pasted from the clipboard, or dragged in from Explorer. CourtMerge straightens that scan, crops it to the ink and makes a white scan background transparent, so the stamp does not cover the text underneath.

You fill your stamp library once; every case file shares it. An office has one stamp, after all, not a separate one per case. CourtMerge copies the image when you bring it in, so the original may move or disappear afterwards without breaking anything.

The exhibit number goes inside the stamp, the way you would write it by hand: you drag one frame over the number already on the scan, and CourtMerge erases that number and centres the new one in the same place.

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Then the stamp moves. CourtMerge checks, page by page, whether the chosen corner already carries something, such as text, a signature or another firm's stamp, and then tries the remaining seven placements clockwise, if you allow it. The preview before generating says where the stamp ended up, and why.

That judgement is calibrated against 879 real filed exhibits. The corner holding the page label is blocked for the stamp, and the other way around.

Yes, and they are included. There is deliberately no period attached: I am not promising you twelve months of development that I then have to deliver, and I am not putting a clock on your licence. For as long as improvements appear, you can download them.

What may happen one day is a next major version that costs money. I would rather say that now than in two years. Your current version keeps working in that case. You lose nothing; at most you would buy something new, if it looks worth it to you.

The version you buy keeps working. There is no activation server that can be switched off and no expiry date that passes. Even if no update ever appears again, your bundle still builds tomorrow.

Yes. Besides the installer there is a portable version: one exe that runs without installation and without admin rights. You put it on your desktop or on a network drive and start it.

CourtMerge is a program for Windows. On a phone, tablet or Mac you can download the file, but you cannot open it. You need Windows 10 or later, 64-bit. You don't need to install anything else: .NET is inside the program itself.

That is expected, and there are two of them. CourtMerge does not carry a code signing certificate, so neither program can check the publisher. They are about how well known the file is, not about what is in it.

At the download, your browser warns that the file isn't commonly downloaded and that the publisher is Unknown. Choose Keep anyway there. In Edge that choice sits under the arrow next to Delete.

When you open it, Microsoft Defender SmartScreen shows Windows protected your PC. Click More info and then Run anyway. Windows remembers this for this file; a later version brings both messages back.

Yes, directly from Joachim Ally, trading as Ronagold, as soon as your order is complete. No VAT is charged, under Belgium's small-business exemption scheme. Order as a business and you get the invoice electronically via Peppol.

By email, in two ways at once: as a .cmlic file attached and as a block of text in the message itself. You paste that block into the app. Handy when your firm's mail filter strips attachments. The same file or block also turns on CourtMerge Pro in the web tool.