BSN.Cloud requires weekly server maintenance. More details 

How much does it cost? Is there a free trial?

BSN.Cloud consists of two tiers, the subscription-based bsn.Content and the free bsn.Control. bsn.Content comes with a free 30-day trial. When the trial is over, you can subscribe to bsn.Content or continue with free bsn.Control. Subscriptions are based on accounts (which can have multiple players) and not players. bsn.Content is $139 per player, per year.

 to purchase a bsn.Content subscription and provide the following info:

The name of your BSN.Cloud network/account (you can find it on the top right of BrightAuthor:connected).

The number of players on your network. Every player needs a subscription.

The orders team may request additional info from you. 

No, these are completely separate platforms and ecosystems. Existing 

Due to underlying architecture changes between the platforms, and the many elements that make up a BSN account (players, groups, users, permissions, content, scheduling), users must export their presentation from BSN using 

 and then upload the presentation to BSN.Cloud.

BrightSignNetwork and BSN.Cloud are independent platforms that require separate credentials.

BSN.Cloud is our newer platform that uses BrightAuthor:connected for authoring and player management.

 is our legacy platform that uses BrightAuthor Classic for authoring and player management.

Note that the same app that configured a player must also be used to publish to it, 

. If switching from BrightAuthor Classic to BrightAuthor:connected, players configured using BrightAuthor Classic must be reconfigured using BrightAuthor:connected.

Data usage limits for BSN.Cloud are available on the 

Maintenance Window

General

This is our legacy cloud platform. Our latest cloud platform is BSN.Cloud which consists of the free bsn.Control and the paid bsn.Content tiers. Development of BSN has largely ceased and will eventually be deprecated and replaced with BSN.Cloud.

BrightSign_Network_BSN

BrightSign’s *legacy* app for authoring and managing players. The app's actual name is BrightAuthor but is referred to as BrightAuthor Classic to lessen confusion with BrightAuthor:connected, our latest app.

BrightAuthor_Classic

BrightSign’s latest free, all-in-one app for player setup / management, authoring, and content management.

BrightAuthorconnected

The BSN.Cloud record of a player and its Setup. The Default Setup is assigned to the player unless another Setup has been explicitly set.

Provision_Record

The process where a Setup is delivered and applied to a player by BSN.Cloud.

Provision

A set of files containing player settings (player name, description, time zone, Publishing Mode, network settings, etc.) and an autorun.brs file which instructs the player what to do upon bootup.