# License Start Date

When issuing a license, you can set a start date for it. Adding a start date to a license will prevent license activations until that date. This can be useful to fine-tune usage of a rented or time-limited license, or to make software available only for an academic term, for example.

### Issuing Licenses With a Start Date

Navigate to the product selection screen during the process of issuing licenses. Toggle the "Use custom license values". Under license usage, there is a field called "License Start Date" where you can specify the start date.

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### Add/Modify/Remove the Start Date of an Existing License

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If you set a start date on an existing license that had already been activated, it will not affect the license that has already activated it. Instead, it will simply prevent additional license activations until the start date.
{% endhint %}

Navigate to the license detail screen and press "Edit License". From there you can set or delete the "License Start Date".

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