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Software Discounts for Students & Educators

That's right! We bring exclusive academic discount software to students, faculty and staff worldwide.
We'll explain.

There are several ways by which you as a student, faculty or staff member can leverage your academic status to get great discounts on software for school. Our WebStores make it easy to validate your academic status and allow you to get the discounted software you need for school, fast and easy!

How so? You may ask

Over the years, we have partnered with major software publishers and thousands of schools and their academic resellers to facilitate the distribution of discounted software. Our technology and WebStores reduce the distribution and verification costs allowing us to pass even more savings on to you.

Two main ways to get Academic Discount Software

The first one is through the OnTheHub eStore, which does not require school or reseller participation. This store is open to most countries worldwide and carries exclusive curriculum-based software. You need to create a free account and verify your status by either using your academic email address or by scanning and sending us proof of your status. 

The second option requires a few more steps, but the end result is still lots of money saved so bear with us!
In most cases your school does their best to make sure that you get the software you need for your classes at the lowest prices possible. To do this, they contact one or more academic resellers to get licensing agreements in place.

Due to the nature of these licensing agreements, the purchaser (you) must first be validated as an academic member before the software can be sold or distributed. This is where we come in!

  • We provide the secure technology and platform that allows thousands of schools worldwide to distribute academic discount software to their members in a secure and cost-effective manner
  • We facilitate the validation of users to make sure no one outside of your school can abuse this benefit
  • We make sure your school is compliant with the terms of the license agreement(s)
  • And finally do our best to reduce the cost of distribution so you can get an even better deal and save more money!

What Next?

If you need curriculum-based software such as Minitab, SPSS, JMP and more or essential software like Microsoft Office 365*, please visit our eStore and create your free account!

If you need to get software like Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013, Adobe CS5.5 Master Collection or more, you will need to do a quick search for your school using our search portal. If your organization/school has signed a special licensing agreement with an academic reseller (which we are not by the way), then it is most likely that we have created a WebStore just for your school and so you will find it in our list.

Your school WebStore would be the one that carries the software titles your school or department is allowed to distribute under their licensing agreement(s). The prices you will find in your school WebStore are unique or considered exclusive, as you will not find them anywhere else.

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