Adobe Value Incentive Plan for Education - Subscription-Based Purchasing Program
The Adobe Value Incentive Plan, also known as Adobe VIP is a subscription-based purchasing program that allows organizations to buy and manage Adobe products like Creative Cloud All Apps and Acrobat Pro at a discounted price, gaining access to volume discounts based on the number of licenses purchased, simplifying deployment and license management through a centralized admin console, and ensuring they always have the latest versions of the software; essentially offering cost-effective access to Adobe's creative tools for businesses of all sizes.
Why choose the UofT Bookstore? - Adobe VIP Linked Group – University of Toronto, UHN and more
The University of Toronto Bookstore is an official Adobe reseller, and the Adobe Linked VIP Select Agreement is a framework that consolidates the purchases of all its members to achieve the highest levels of discount (Level 4) available under Adobe's Educational VIP discounting levels. Payment and Administration of your Adobe VIP team remains within your team.
Adobe has added Adobe VIP Linking groups, for organizations who prefer to keep their software teams separate but don’t want to lose out on their combined purchasing volume. This a great opportunity for the University of Toronto Adobe VIP teams, who prefer to remain separate for administration/payment and deployment, to gain the top level of Adobe VIP Select discount option, Level 4 Select.
Adobe Products Details – Acrobat Pro, Creative Cloud All Apps, and more
Adobe Creative Cloud for Education - Departments, Staff, Faculty, Researchers – via Adobe VIP Teams
Only Adobe brings together an essential and comprehensive set of integrated products and services to further collaboration and creativity in education. Adobe Creative Cloud for education gives your students, faculty, and staff access to the latest industry leading creative software for design, web, video, and photography—all right on the desktop plus seamless ways to share and collaborate through access to online services. Volume subscription licenses as either User-Named Based or Shared Device seats via Adobe VIP.
- Always up to date – Licenses include updates to Creative Cloud applications as soon as they're released, so your students and faculty will always have the latest creative tools and features.
- Flexible licensing options – You can purchase the complete set of Creative Cloud applications or single-app option (e.g. Acrobat Pro, Photoshop, etc.)
- A License seat is assigned to an individual user on their institutional computer(s)
Creative Cloud All Apps Shared Device License
Designed for your office, classrooms and labs, the new Adobe Creative Cloud for education Shared Device licensing option gives you access to the latest industry-leading creative software for design, web, video, and photography. This licensing option is for each computer rather than each user. Purchase Creative Cloud for education through the Adobe Value Incentive Plan (VIP) program.
- Licenses for each computer, rather than each user
- A complete set of Creative Cloud applications
- Online services now included via either Adobe ID or Federated ID.
Prices subject to change without notice.
*Level 4 Adobe VIP Linked Group pricing, HST will be added to invoice
*Please note that students are not eligible to request and join Adobe VIP on their own
How does an Adobe VIP team account work?
- Team Admins/Owner request license seats to the Adobe VIP Team online, the license seats are immediately ready to be assigned to users, processing is handled by the University of Toronto Bookstore, where we would act as your Adobe VIP account manager. You can ignore any payment due prompts on the Adobe VIP team page as it will be through the UofT Bookstore. Requested seats will have annual subscription fees associated.
- Users can be staff/students, or even outside contractors doing work for your group/lab/dept, the user decisions are made by the VIP team admin/owner.
- Receive order confirmation and invoice from the U of Toronto Bookstore, 1-2 weeks post request to your team, if faster processing needed, please email us.
- Annual renewal quote is sent out during the Adobe VIP team's pre-anniversary 30-day renewal window, anniversary date is set in relation to the initial Team order, by your Adobe Account Manager: University of Toronto Bookstores.
Requesting an Adobe VIP team to be established.
Interested in requesting for an Adobe VIP team or knowing the cost of the Adobe licenses?
Please email software@uoftbookstore.com or fill out the Department Software Request form on the page.