Upgrade offer Nov 7 2022

My installed version is Xara Designer Pro X 19.0.0.64291 DL x64 May 3 2022. I have just gotten a "Black Weeks" offer, for an "improved version" listing "advanced design tools, advanced text editing, and expanded ICC profile" for $49 USD. Fired up my copy, checked Help/About, and looked at Upgrades ... says none available. Am I to assume my version already incorporates these new features? Seem to recall in the past that we could get updates within a year on a current version. No problem paying for upgrade if it brings me something I don't already have. Thanks in advance for advice.

As far as I'm aware of, there's no newer version that the one you have. Did you get the offer through Magix? If so, can you give us some more specifics?

https://www.magix.com/int/sale/black...uOvzDf6bFT1j0n
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https://www.magix.com/int/photo-grap...-designer-pro/

I saw those but nowhere a deal for $49 and certainly not for an XDP upgrade.

The most current versions are the new Xara Plus editions currently at v22.3. Here are the release notes for Pro+
http://releasenotes.xara.hosting/designer-pro-plus/

and v22.4 is scheduled to be released this week (most subtle improvements and fixes).

Ah, a little counter advertising. Would be better if Xara and Magix would align their offerings. Same version but one offers the subscription option and the other the lifetime + yearly update service option.

The current version for Pro X: Xara Designer Pro X 19.0.0.64291 DL x64 May 3 2022.

There are however Black Friday offers for what looks like all Magix (and Xara marketed products) >> https://www.magix.com/gb/sale/black-...uOvzDf6bFT1j0n

Scroll to the end and you will see these offers:

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They are good Black Friday offers. I got the XDP 19 u/g for AU$68.99 Also good upgrade prices on Photostory Deluxe 2023 and Movie Studio Platinum 2023 :D It's best to click on the u/g link from within a product and then navigate to the other offers once you've logged in. Be careful how you select what you want too. Magix are pushing the '365' option, but there are still links to other options if you look carefully.

jaydear, what other options are you referring to? As far as I know, only the 365 option with the 1-year update service exists.

@Boy,

@jaydear is referring to offers for other software on the Magix.com site. The prices for most of Magix software, New, is very low. Upgrade prices are even lower.

I received the upgrade/extension offer as well.

Here is the XaraDPX Upgrade offer - extends the Update Service by 1 year (click on Upgrade):

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The price in Canada is 63.99CAD. I paid 163CAD in February for the same thing.

John, did you buy the upgrade and, if so, did it extend the update service with one year, starting in February 2023 (when your current update service ends)?

Boy,
Not yet, but will do so tomorrow. We have until the tenth. We shall see.

I went ahead and took the deal. The one year update service is added to the existing expiration date, so in my case that's till the Spring of 2024.

Boy, I was a bit indistinct but browj2 is correct. Note that if you want to cancel the automatic XDP upgrade next year, you need to do it 8 weeks before it is due!

@Boy,
Thanks for jumping in first. Did you receive an email with the coupon for M-Hosting?

@jaydear,
As far as I know, there is no automatic XDP upgrade. You actually have to purchase the upgrade yourself which is really just extending the Update Service. The perpetual version of XDPX is not a subscription, you just get access to the OCC and updates/upgrades for a year under the Update Service.

Are you referring to Xara+ which is a subscription?

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@Boy,
Thanks for jumping in first. Did you receive an email with the coupon for M-Hosting?

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Yes, the coupon for 12 months M-Hosting is included. However, the code is only valid until December 31st. But it's possible that once you enter the code the 1 year is added to the already existing period, similar to the update service period. I'm not using M-hosting so I can't check that for you. Perhaps contacting service might be useful.

This is what they emailed me:
COUPON - Website M

This is the coupon code for your free account upgrade & domain:
XX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX

Coupon for 12 month free usage of the "Website M"
web hosting package from Xara Online (value: €23.88).

Your benefits:
- 2000 MB of web space with direct access from
Xara Web Designer Premium / Xara Designer Pro X
- 1 domain of your choice (https://www.yourname.com/.co.uk)

Register the "Website M" web hosting package from
Xara Online now for free:
https://rdir.magix.net/?page=5AUBCJFWT33J

Code valid until: December 31st, 2022.

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@jaydear,
As far as I know, there is no automatic XDP upgrade. You actually have to purchase the upgrade yourself which is really just extending the Update Service. The perpetual version of XDPX is not a subscription, you just get access to the OCC and updates/upgrades for a year under the Update Service.

Are you referring to Xara+ which is a subscription?

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Either I read it in the voluminous info Magix have across their website/s or the docs they send when you make a purchase. Referring to Xara XDP19 365, not Xara+. It'll be interesting to see what transpires next year around this time :rolleyes:

Magix doesn't automatically renew the update service and charge you. If you don't renew it yourself, the service is stopped on the expiration day.

If you are open to trying the new Plus editions, which are subscription based, then you can try them for free (no credit card required).
https://www.xara.com/us/products/

You can try all the improvements, new features like tables, and more.

If you want to give it a try for a year, then there are special offers for existing product owners. Just drop us a note at https://www.xara.com/contact-us/

If you have an activate update service from Magix, then there is an opportunity to get time credit as well.

And if you don't want to continue after the initial year, then you can cancel and go back to your current version. Also we can set your Plus plan as non-renewing so it will not auto-renew after year 1.

We are happy to work with you.

Cheers,
Matt
Xara

Those are some interesting options. I prefer the permanent license, however, and hope that at one point Xara (and/or Magix) will offer both.

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I prefer the permanent license

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me too

veering off-topic, as they are not webdesign programs, Affinity version 2 is out at 40% discount: 89.99 GBP for publisher/photo/designer, or 35.99 GBP each... permanent licence until verion 3 [presumably]; certainly had version 1 since november 2016 with no extra cost for updates

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me too
veering off-topic, as they are not webdesign programs, Affinity version 2 is out at 40% discount: 89.99 GBP for publisher/photo/designer, or 35.99 GBP each... permanent licence until verion 3 [presumably]; certainly had version 1 since november 2016 with no extra cost for updates

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I bought the £90 all-product licence today. Also all v2 updates are free.

My XDA+ is still my first go-to application.

Acorn

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I bought the £90 all-product licence today.

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As did I.

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My XDA+ is still my first go-to application

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I don't have a first go-to application.. I have projects and a suite of applications that enaable... [ok in some cases that suite may only be one...]

Got in just under the wire. Good till Feb. 2024.

My wife has a Mac and Affinity but has never used it. We looked at it today for a minute, looks familiar. My preference is PaintShop Pro and it's the Bitmap Editor for Xara.

for me it's worth the affinity 2 upgrade just for the designer vector warp tool alone

now both affinity designer and affinity photo have mesh warp I can forget about xara's mould tool completely...

Blend tool is still missing in Affinity, though. Xara's is great!

true

and affinity have an interesting take on 'shape builder tool'; like xara's blend tool, it's really a shortcut to what you could do manually [and used to have to long ago]; in the case of the affinity shape builder it's boolean [intersect, subtract] speeded up; the knife tool similar for slice...

Yes, nice new tools.