The Altium Account Manager site (https://myaccount.altium.com/) is now considered legacy. It is superseded by the more intuitive, more powerful AltiumLive Dashboard, part of the AltiumLive community.

To complement Altium Designer's licensing system, browser-based license management and reporting is provided, courtesy of the Altium Account Manager. The Account Manager allows you to firmly control how the licenses you purchase are assigned within your organization and lets you view license activity.
 

Accessing the Account Manager

Access the Account Manager – using your favorite web-browser – at myaccount.altium.com. The initial welcome page will load, as pictured below.

To view and manage your account, you will need to sign in to your Altium account through the secure Altium portal, using your Altium Account credentials.

Home Page

Once signed in, you will be taken to the Account Manager's Home page, which presents top-level information for the account itself, such as company details, billing address and shipping address. Summary details for the number of users, groups and licenses associated to the account are also presented on this page.
 

To edit top-level account information, simply hover the cursor over the area of information you wish to change and click the change link that appears. A popup form will appear in which to make the required changes.

Users

Main article: Managing Users (Altium Account Management)

Management of users for the account is performed from the Users in account page. A user is simply a person who it is intended will use a licensed seat of the software.

For each user, the page presents:

• Contact information (name, postal address, email address, phone number, cell phone number and fax number. The main language used by the user is also listed).

• How many groups the user belongs to (with a link to the corresponding group management page for that user).

• Whether or not the user can be contacted via email and, if so:
   
  • What type of material the user has elected to receive from Altium.
  • Which Altium solutions the user is interested in.

Groups

Main article: Managing Groups (Altium Account Management)

Management of groups for the account is performed from the Groups in account page. Groups allow you to further organize your users according to, for example, the particular section of the company in which they are involved, or the design team they are in. Groups make assignment of licenses more streamlined.

There are two system groups, defined by default for an account. These are:

• All Account Members – this group automatically includes every user in the account. So if a license is assigned to this group, then any user in the account can use that license.

• Group Administrators – this group gives administrative privileges to the members of the group. Anyone who is a member of this group can make changes in the myaccount site, but anyone who is not a member cannot.

Licenses

Main article: Managing Licenses (Altium Account Management)

Management of licenses for the account is performed from the Licenses for account page. From here, you can view all licenses that you have purchased from Altium.

For an On-Demand license, you can:

• Allocate the license to one or more defined groups of users

• Determine how many seats of the license are assigned to each group (for a multi-seat license)

• Determine, on a group basis, whether or not the licenses can be 'roamed', and for how long.

For a Standalone or Private Server license, you are able to activate the license directly from this page – to obtain the licensing file(s) (*.alf) required to use the license.

For each license in the account, you can also view license statistics – showing weekly or monthly usage graphs and on which day the maximum number of concurrent seats for the license were used. This is most useful for On-Demand licenses, and can give you an indication of whether a license could be put to better use by simple reassignment between the groups that use it.

NanoBoards

Main article: Registered NanoBoards (Altium Account Management)

Any NanoBoards that have been registered with the account can be viewed from the NanoBoards for account page.

For each NanoBoard registered to the account, you can also view usage statistics –- showing weekly or monthly usage history. This statistical analysis allows you to effectively track usage of each NanoBoard and can give you an indication of how often a particular NanoBoard is being used, by whom and, to some extent, the length of each "session of use".