All licensing in your Command organization typically co-terminates on a single expiration date. This limits your ability to distribute licenses across sites, budgets, or departments with different renewal dates and budget cycles.

License groups let you organize licenses and devices by site, region, or cost center, providing flexibility, improved visibility, and easier administration. Each group has its own renewal date and license capacity while remaining part of the same Command organization.

License groups enable you to organize licenses into separate groups based on your specific needs, providing enhanced visibility, simplified administration, and support for internal budgeting, particularly for larger organizations with multiple departments or independently managed buildings.

Each license group serves as a container for Org Admins to organize licenses by site, budget, or cost center. Rather than managing all licenses at the organization level, you can assign them to specific groups, each with its own renewal date, while keeping everything within a single organization.

All unassigned licenses and sites are managed in the Unassigned Licenses section of the License Group dashboard. This section lets you review and assign unassigned resources to specific license groups, improving license management.

Licenses in this section continue to burn individually and are not co-termed with other groups until assigned. Sites display their creation date and a countdown of days remaining before their licenses begin co-terming.

All licenses are added to the default license group called Group 1. You can move licenses once you create new groups. You can also rename the default group to reflect its purpose, such as a region or department.

You can assign new purchases to the appropriate license group when you claim your license key. You can find the license key in your Verkada order email.

You can manage license groups from the All License Groups tab, which shows an overview of each group and its upcoming renewal date. Each group handles the renewal of its assigned licenses.

You can assign existing sites to license groups to link their devices with the corresponding licenses, allowing you to track active device counts against each group’s license capacity. All devices in a site linked to a license group will have their licenses co-termed.

License key splitting lets you divide a single license key into multiple keys to allocate capacity across license groups more precisely. This is useful for aligning historical bulk orders with your organizational structure.

When a license group becomes non-compliant due to expiration or exceeding license capacity, the linked sites and their devices, including any sub-sites, become inaccessible to users.

This enforcement affects only the non-compliant license group and its associated sites and devices, not the entire organization. License groups operate independently for access and compliance, minimizing disruption across the broader organization.