If you’ve ever wondered “How to reactivate Tally license?” or needed guidance on “How to reactivate Tally from educational mode?” you’re in the right place. Every tally user has faced this situation at least once in his life time when his Tally turns into educational mode. The process to Reactivate Tally Prime license is very simple.
Join us as we break down the essential instructions to help you seamlessly reactivate your Tally license and unlock its full potential.
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Quick process
Detailed steps
Complete process
Some Precautions
Further help
Quick process of How to reactivate Tally licenseÂ
1. Go to Reactivate existing license button. Enter your Tally.Net id (email id on which your Tally is registered)
2. Enter Tally.Net password.
3. Accept the screen and it is done!
If you forget your Tally.Net password then you have to reset it. The steps involved are:
1. Click on reset button on the right side
2. Enter your Tally.Net id (email id on which your Tally is registered).
3. Open your mail and Open mail having subject How to reset your Tally.Net password. Click on the link
4. enter your new password two times
Now go back to the reactivation screen and complete the process with new password.
Detailed Steps on How to reactivate Tally License
The license of Tally gets corrupted due to many reasons and we have to reactivate Tally from educational mode. It has to be reactivated in order to work on it again. Here I am simply explaining you How to reactivate Tally license in simple steps but in great detail.
If your Tally Prime License file corrupts it would come in Educational mode. License activation and Reactivation screen would appear and we have to reactivate license from educational mode screen. This thing happens in all the versions of Tally be it Tally ERP 9 or Tally Prime. How to reactivate Tally Prime from educational mode has same steps as other tally version but with more simplified way. If license file which resides in Tally folder gets corrupted then when ever you would start Tally the below shown license screen would appear.
Tally License screen Options
Before going further let’s understand the different buttons which appear on license screen.
Activate New License :
If we move from Right to Left then the first Button would be of Activate New License. This button is used for First Time Activation. It is to be noted here that every Tally is activated once later on it is always reactivated. It would ask for Tally sr. No. The activation Key and the account id on which you want to register you Tally. So this is used only for First time only.
Try it for free :
This button is for those who want to just try Tally. they want to explore the features of Tally. So you can work in educational mode where you can try each and every feature. The only limitation is that you cannot change the date except First and Second of every month. For students and learners this mode is good. Later on when you want license then you can activate Tally Prime from this educational mode
Use License from Network:
 If you are using Multi user Tally then this button is pressed only on the Node computers. It is actually to guide the nodes that where is Tally server license is installed.
Reactivate Existing License :
This button is used when your license is gone and you are either on server (incase of multi user)Â or single machine and Tally license is not there. If activate or reactivate screen appears when ever you open your Tally prime, then simply select this reactivate existing license Button.
Complete Process of How to reactivate Tally License.
1. Enter your email id if this column is blank.
2. Enter the Tally.Net password. This is not your email id password. This is the password which is provided to you in your registered email when you first activated your license.
3. If you don’t know or remember the password, then don’t worry, simply look to your right side and click Reset Password button.
4. Enter your email id at which your Tally Prime license is registered.
5. Open your email, you would get an email having subject How to reset your Tally.Net password. If not then wait for some time or just double check if the email you entered is the correct one?Â
6. There would be a link in the mail, click on the link. You would be asked to put new password two times.Â
7. Enter your new password and click submit. Then click ok.
8. Come again to Tally and now enter that new password to reactivate your license.
Your license is reactivated.
Screen after successful reactivation |
Some precautions on How to Reactivate Tally License
1. If you are using multi user license i.e. Tally Prime Gold then you should activate or reactivate license on server machine only and not on nodes. Same is the case with Tally Prime auditor version.
2. Internet connection is prerequisite.
Further help
This document on Tally’s site provides you complete details about How to activate or reactivate or update your license.
Check out this video if you have just shifted from Tally.ERP 9 to Tally Prime.
If you want to shift license from one machine to another then this video would help you.
If for any reason you have not shifted to Tally Prime and still are on Tally.ERP 9 then you can read my article which would help you perform the same action in Tally.ERP 9.
How to reactivate your Tally.ERP 9 license or shift it to another machine.
This list of articles would help you in Your licensing issues in Tally.
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