About a year later, TeamViewer 12 came out and I started getting “special upgrade offers” in my inbox. And then there were updatesĪs promised, we got the TeamViewer 11 upgrade for free and all was well. So I jumped in and (somewhat unwillingly) paid TeamViewer about $1,300.00 CAD.

The cheapest license, which as I recall was in the neighbourhood of $650 or so, wouldn’t work for me because that only would have allowed me to install on just one of my computers because of the way I worked, and the fact that I worked at home part-time and in another office (book-keeping job) part time, I had to be able to support customers from any computer I happened to be in front of. So I bought a license for TeamViewer 10, with a free upgrade to the upcoming TeamViewer 11, which was to be released within about a month. This is to be expected, because the personal version is not to be used commercially and it was inevitable that we’d have to purchase a commercial license eventually. This arrangement worked for a time, but then the TeamViewer software on my computer figured out that I was spending considerable time controlling quite a number of unique client computers… and began throwing up warnings that I was using it for commercial use and would have to pay to keep using it. I chose TeamViewer simply because I was familiar with it (who isn’t?), and it works well. Our business budget was small, and I started out with the free version. When CareTech was just beginning and our office was a corner of our living room (yes, my dear wife patiently put up with that mess, bless her!), I started using TeamViewer for our remote support needs. Official TeamViewer pricing as of February, 2018.

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