With Harbinger as your escrow agent, you will leverage a team of experts who understand the value of your source code, are specialists in the administration of software and intellectual property escrow and are dedicated to looking after your property.
By offering you the latest in online lodgement management, technology and data security, we provide the most efficient method of implementing and administering escrow arrangements.
It reduces the risks of using software in your business.
Most commonly, software escrow (also called source code escrow) services are used to store a software developers’ intellectual property (source code). In the event that the software developer can no longer meet their obligations, the source code may be released to the end user. This ensures that the end-user can continue to operate their business as usual.
For end-users; Not having access to the source code for mission critical software is an unacceptable risk to your business. What guarantees do you have if the software vendor goes out of business, stops maintaining the software, or simply doesn’t meet service levels? Harbinger’s software escrow forms an is an essential part of modern technology services contracts. It not only delivers compliance with best procurement practices, but most importantly it also reduces the risk to your business.
For software developers; Escrowing your software improves the marketability of your products and demonstrates willingness to reduce your customer’s risk. It makes it easier for them to choose your software.
Using Harbinger Escrow, you can know that your precious property will be kept safe and secure.
The software developer provides working software (also called object code) to the End-User.
This is normally controlled by a software license agreement, or service agreement between the Developer and the End-User
The software developer provides the human readable code (known as source code) to the Escrow Agent.
This will often include build instructions, blueprints and other information that would be needed to modify the software or compile it into working software. These materials are securely held in safe custody by the escrow agent.
If certain conditions are met, the source code is released to the end-user.
In a carefully controlled process triggered by an explicit event (like the software developer going out of business), the materials held in safe custody by the escrow agent are released to the End-User allowing them to continue to do business normally.
- 1. ChooseUse our online tool to help you decide which escrow agreement is right for you
- 2. CompleteClick here to provide us with the information we need to prepare your escrow agreement
- 3. SignWe'll send you the completed agreement ready to sign
- 4. LodgeWe'll help you lodge your materials into escrow for safe keeping
What We Offer
Flexible Agreements
The choice of either Harbinger’s standard escrow agreement templates, tailored escrow agreements or the Australian government GITC pro-formaFast Setup
Fast escrow service establishment with our team of qualified technologists and lawyers available to advise and guide you each step of the way.Simple to Manage
Easy to use, secure online escrow management systems, redundant and geographically remote data storage vaults,7-day Support
Online and telephone support, our unique Active Alerts™ that monitor your agreements, Harbinger’s knowledgebase to answer your questions.Basic Escrow
$1250
per annum
- Harbinger’s Standard Two or Three Party Agreement
- Online lodgement of materials
- 4 lodgements per year
- 250mb storage
- Vendor only access to Escrow System
Standard Escrow
$1700
per annum
- Harbinger’s Standard Two or Three Party Agreement
- Online lodgement of materials
- 12 lodgements per year
- 500mb storage
- Vendor and End-user access to Escrow System
- Active Alerts
Premium Escrow
$3300
per annum
- Harbinger’s Standard Two or Three Party Agreement
- Online lodgement
- 12 lodgements per year
- 500mb storage
- Vendor and End-user access to Escrow System
- Active Alerts
- Annual verification (level 0)
- Annual report
Tailored Escrow
$Call
per annum
- Your escrow agreement or amendments to ours
- Choose online or physical lodgement
- Choose lodgements per year
- Choose storage quota
- Choose number of users to access the Escrow System
- Choose verification
- Choose escrow and Verification report
"As a major insurer, we expect all of our custom-built software to be placed into escrow. Harbinger meets all of our expectations and continues to provide excellent service......"
- Manager, finance and insurance -
"We needed to get an agreement in place with our investors quickly. You turned it around in less than a day and in doing that, it removed a major hiccup in our capital raising process..."
- Director, tech start-up, software development -
"Harbinger provided the environment and expertise that we needed to verify that our developer's source code was complete. We will definitely use them next year... "
- Metcash - ICT Manager, Retail, FMC -
In today’s technology dependent world, escrow agreements are almost always necessary...... it is a smart and effective component of a business continuity strategy that software licencees can use to protect their mission critical applications
- Securing Your Strategic ICT Investments - Gartner -
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