# Wrong License purchased

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wrong-license-purchased/74529>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Tags:** vision, perspective\
**Created:** [June 3, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wrong-license-purchased/74529 "2023-06-03T13:25:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![eddie\_johnson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/57b2e6/32.png) [@eddie\_johnson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/eddie_johnson)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wrong-license-purchased/74529/1 "2023-06-03T13:25:24Z")

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I've been developing in Vision. "They" bought Perspective. Oops. Do I just have to suck it up and start over? What functionality will be lost, if any?

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**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wrong-license-purchased/74529/2 "2023-06-03T13:28:19Z")

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This sounds like a good question for your sales rep. Perspective is a significantly different technology, so you would be starting over from scratch.

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**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wrong-license-purchased/74529/3 "2023-06-03T13:34:53Z")

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Here is a recent conversation that discusses the functional differences between Perspective and Vision:

> [@How things work - can perspective be used instead of vision or only as addition to it?](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/how-things-work-can-perspective-be-used-instead-of-vision-or-only-as-addition-to-it/73688):
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> Hi All Fundamental question: can perspective be used instead of vision or only as addition to it in complex screens. My understanding is that in simple cases (like elective study - building in perspective in inductiveuniversity) it was sufficient. Perspective have flexi containers which display things nicely on mobile or tablet. However my understanding is that it cannot replace vision functionality in complex screen setups with many valve/motor instances etc. so both vision and perspective h…

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**Author:** ![ryanjmclaughlin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/ryanjmclaughlin/32/4318_2.png) [@ryanjmclaughlin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ryanjmclaughlin)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2023, 8:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wrong-license-purchased/74529/4 "2023-06-03T20:04:30Z")

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Depends on what your project is doing. I find Perspective much faster and easier to deploy, but still have projects running in both for specific reasons.

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**Author:** ![andrews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@andrews](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrews)\
**Post date:** [June 4, 2023, 2:59am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/wrong-license-purchased/74529/5 "2023-06-04T02:59:44Z")

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That would be a question for you sale rep. They may be able to switch it and discuss any related pricing issues. Or they might say they can't switch it. In which case you re develop.

But worth asking the sales rep for sure. Unless client wants in perspective.