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Participant
December 2, 2024
Question

non-profit licenses and Admin login

  • December 2, 2024
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I applied (for my organization) for the non-profit licenses ($15/yr) and was approved by the vetting org Goodstack. But I have not been designated the "Admin" so I cannot login to the Admin portal to adminster the licenses. ?

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Participant
December 6, 2024

I have this exact same situation. After 2 days of getting confused/unhelp answers from support (among other things I was told I would have to talk to Tech Soup, which does run other nonprofit discount programs for Adobe, but not this one), or I would get sales reps offer to convert my account over to a team account, and then quote a price that's like 12x higher. Eventually today I finally had a rep tell me that each person in the organization that needs a license under this program has to apply and pay separately, which makes deployment a pain even for a fairly small organization. 

 

Which also means that in a year, each person is going to have to correctly complete the nonprofit verification for renewal on time or their account will automatically start getting billed at whatever the standard commercial monthly rate is. And if one of those individually licensed staff members leaves the organization, better make sure you cancel the plan before they go.

Add to this: many nonprofits also qualify for a sales tax exemption. So we'll also have to also apply for that separately for each user.

It's nice to be offered such a significant discount on the licensing, but the overhead on applying and paying for each license separately has me wondering if it is actually worth the trouble. It also seems like a lot of extra adminstrative headache for Adobe, so I don't really understand why they set it up this way.

 

And I really don't understand why this page: https://www.adobe.com/nonprofits/acrobat.html makes it sound like you are applying on behalf of the organization if the program is only set up to provide individual licenses to individual staff members.

Community Manager
December 6, 2024

Hi @fearless_hope2521,

Thank you for sharing your concerns. We understand the challenges you’ve highlighted regarding the nonprofit licensing program and truly value your feedback. Our team is currently reviewing the details of this issue and will provide a resolution or further clarification shortly.

 

We appreciate your patience and understanding.

 

Regards,


^AN

Participant
May 27, 2025

Thank you Anshul for advising - I am not sure if Adobe have advanced this matter at all? Is there any update.  I also recently applied via Goodstack / Adobe for our organisation, and was presuming I would be able to deploy up to 10 licences based on the Terms and Conditions. However, after also going around in circles with Adobe Support, the situation is clarified in @fearless_hope2521 explanation of how to manage the 10 available licences with each employee who is authorised (up to the available 10) needing to complete the application.  It would be preferable if the 10 licences could be made available to the organisation adobe account and then deployed to users. I would be grateful if Adobe did continue to look into this matter as the NFP support through this offer is very valuable to us, and I am sure to many who have applied. Thank you and Adobe for your ongoing support in this matter. 

Community Manager
December 2, 2024

Hi @1DB!,

 

Thank you for reaching out.

I can confirm that there is an active Individual Acrobat Pro plan associated with the Adobe ID you used to post your query. Please note that the Adobe Admin Console is exclusively available to Enterprise and Teams customers for license management. Unfortunately, this feature is not accessible to Individual plan customers.

 

If you have any other active subscriptions linked to a different Adobe ID, please share the details with me via private message.

This guide provides instructions on how to send a private message to community members.

If you have further questions or need additional assistance, feel free to let me know.

 

Regards,
^AN

1DB!Author
Participant
December 2, 2024

This is terribly confusing. I applied via this progam: Adobe nonprofit pricing discounts & programs and was approved. Why is this not considered an "enterprise" or "team" that I can administer? Otherwise I have to enable each user and they each have to separately login to Adobe and charge the license fee individually??

Community Manager
December 2, 2024

Hi @1DB!,

I’ll look into this further and get back to you with the necessary details. Thank you for your patience.

 

Regards,


^AN