If you are looking into Patch My PC for the first time, we recommend performing the followings steps.

We do, you can find an article the covers the ROI of our product at Patch My PC Cost Justification and Return on Investment (ROI)

Yes, we have two options you can use for evaluation purposes.

Option 1: 30-Day Full Access Trial

The most common evaluation option is a full-access 30-day trial that can be requested at Request a Free Trial: Patch My PC for Microsoft SCCM or Intune. The full trial is valid for 30-days and is not feature or product limited. A 30-day full trial can automatically convert into a paid subscription if you decide to purchase.

Option 2: Limited Trial Mode

The limited trial mode can be enabled using the checkbox in the General tab of the Publisher. The limited trial only contains a subset of supported products, including:

– Amazon Corretto 8 (x86)
– Amazon Corretto 8 (x64)
– Mozilla Firefox (x86 en-US)
– Mozilla Firefox (x64 en-US)
– Remote Desktop Manager
– Microsoft Power BI Desktop (x86)
– Microsoft Power BI Desktop (x64)
– VLC Media Player (EXE-x86)
– VLC Media Player (EXE-x64)
– VLC Media Player (MSI-x86)
– VLC Media Player (MSI-x64)
– Zoom Meetings (User-x64)
– Zoom Meetings (MSI-x64)
– Zoom Meetings (MSI-x86)

If you want to try the limited trial catalog using the ConfigMgr in-console publishing, enter this URL in the add custom catalog https://patchmypc.com/trial-catalog-download

Support is included in your catalog subscription cost. Please see the details below for support options and availability.

Support Options and Hours:

• Email and Live Chat Support:
  • Monday – Friday | 2:00 AM – 9:00 PM (Eastern Time / UTC -5)
  • Monday – Friday | 12:00 AM – 7:00 PM (Mountain Time / UTC -7)
  • Monday – Friday | 6:00 AM – 1:00 AM (GMT Standard Time / GMT)
• Phone Support Call Back (+1-800-250-2334, #2):
  • Monday – Friday | 3:00 AM – 9:00 PM (Eastern Time / UTC -5)
  • Monday – Friday | 1:00 AM – 7:00 PM (Mountain Time / UTC -7)
  • Monday – Friday | 7:00 AM – 1:00 AM (GMT Standard Time / GMT)

Options to Contact Support:

• Email / Open Support Case: Open support case
  •  Great place to start since the support form will guide you through attaching relevant logs
• Forum Post: Create a forum topic for support
• Live Chat: Click live chat at the bottom right of this page
• Support Screenshare: Scheduled via Email after opening a support case
• Support Case Callback: +1-800-250-2334, #2

We’re a small team, but we think that will benefit your support experience. Our support engineers are dedicated to one specific product. You won’t be transferred multiple times to get the answers you need. Don’t take my word for it. You can search the word “support” on our customer reviews page to see what our customers are saying. – Justin Chalfant, Founder

Please see the pricing chart below for a basic comparison of our subscriptions. If you want a detailed feature-by-feature comparison, please see the features-by-plan page.

If you have any questions not addressed in the pricing chart above or on the features by plan page, please get in touch with us, and we will be happy to help.

For details about our legacy subscriptions Basic and Intune Essentials, please see the following page: Basic and Intune Essentials Subscription.

The Account Management Portal is a way for our customers to view their account information such as license ID, telemetry data, expiration dates, billing information, and contact information. If you haven’t received a login link, please send an email to [email protected], and we will send you your unique link.

Education Discounts

We offer a standard 15% discount for education customers. Please let us know in the comments on the quote request form if you are an educational institution.

Non-Profit Discounts

We offer a standard 15% discount for non-profit organizations. Please let us know in the comments on the quote request form if your organization is non-profit.

Volume Discounts

For large purchases, volume discounts may be available based on the purchase price. Adding a multi-year subscription will generally allow you to receive a larger discount.

Yes, we offer the following subscription lengths.

• 1-year
• 2-year
• 3-year

We try to reduce friction for our customers wherever possible. We allow up to 10% client growth within a subscription term from the initially purchased device count. We determined 10% growth will cover normal device fluctuations within a subscription period.

If you are in a scenario where the growth has exceeded 10%, please use our contact form or email [email protected] to determine if a true-up for the current subscription period would be required.

Yes, you can exclude devices. If you have a scenario where you know you won’t deploy third-party updates to certain devices, departments, divisions, etc. those endpoints can be excluded from your licensed device count.

We ask that you calculate your device count based on the devices that will receive third party updates to the best of your ability.

A few examples of excluding devices could be:

• Excluding servers, if they will not receive third third-party software updates or application from our service.
• Mission-critical devices that can’t receive third-party updates or applications.
• Excluding departments that aren’t applicable 
• Mac devices
• Linux devices

Patch My PC Doesn’t Offer Competitor Comparison and Here’s Why

We don’t offer a direct comparison that we create. As a company, we don’t think spending time researching, comparing, or copying competitors makes sense when we have over 7,520 customers using our product and providing fantastic feedback daily on our UserVoice. We use this feedback directly when adding new features to our product Public Roadmap. We build our product based on customer feedback. This philosophy is how our customers differentiate us when they switch to our product from our competitors.

If you want a comparison, I would recommend starting with a live demo and full-access free trial and compare the experience. If you have any specific questions, feel free to book a 30-minute call with me! – Justin Chalfant, Founder/CEO

You can read Customer Reviews on Gartner, G2, and Capterra 

You can review our Gartner, G2 and Capterra customer reviews and competitor comparisons:

• Patch My PC Vs. Ivanti (Gartner)
• Patch My PC vs. ManageEngine (Gartner)
• Patch My PC Vs. Ivanti (G2)
• Patch My PC vs. ManageEngine (G2)

You can also Check Discussions on Reddit r/SCCM

• Reddit – Are You Using Patch My PC? Would You Recommend It?
• Reddit – Comparison matrix for third party patching tools
• Reddit – Thoughts and Experiences on Ivanti
• Reddit – Ivanti – 3rd Party Patch Management Thoughts?
• Reddit – Evaluation Update/Patchmanagement-Solutions

Yes, you can always upgrade your subscription to a higher subscription-level. The cost would be pro-rated based on the length remaining on your existing subscription.

We do not offer a refund if you ever wanted to downgrade for an existing subscription term.

For example, you could use the same catalog subscription in:

• Development environment
• Quality assurance environments
• Production environments
• Environments to separate servers and workstations
• Multiple subsidiaries under the same parent company
• Multiple environments, Azure tenants, or domains in the same company

If you are a consultant managing multiple different customer environments, you need to purchase a separate subscription for each customer environment.

We will send our renewal and expiration notifications out to the primary contact(s) on the subscription at the following intervals:

• 90 Days Before Expiration
• 75 Days Before Expiration
• 60 Days Before Expiration
• 45 Days Before Expiration
• 30 Days Before Expiration
• 15 Days Before Expiration
• 5 Days Before Expiration
• 1 Day Before Expiration
• 1 Day After Expiration – Expiration Notification

If you aren’t sure the contacts associated with your account or need to add additional employees for the renewal notifications, please use our Contact Us Form.

You know your environment better than us. We use the honor system for allowing you to determine your managed device count when requesting a quote.

If you plan to deploy third-party updates to all managed devices, using the All Desktop and Server Clients member count would be a good option for ConfigMgr customers. For Intune Customers, we recommend the Windows Intune enrolled devices table from the Devices Overview page.

You can exclude machines where third-party updates will not be deployed, such as Mac OS devices and other machines you want to exclude from your third-party update deployment collections. For more details about excluding please see Can I exclude devices?

Absolutely, if you don’t love the experience, we offer a full money-back guarantee for up to 180-days after purchasing.

Purchasing Directly Online:

• Bank Transfer (ACH transfer)
• American Express
• Discover
• MasterCard
• Visa

Purchasing Using Purchase Order:

• Bank Check
• Bank Transfer – (Wire/ACH transfer)
• American Express
• Discover
• MasterCard
• Visa

Payment Terms?

We use net-30 terms for any invoices unless otherwise agreed upon prior to receiving a purchase order.

All subscription levels have a yearly minimum price, as shown below:

• Minimum Yearly Price (Enterprise Premium) = $3,499
• Minimum Yearly Price (Enterprise Plus) = $2,499
• Minimum Yearly Price (Enterprise Patch) = $1,499
  

We price our software subscription per-device cost very competitively, and we believe our minimum starting price is priced appropriately for the value and time savings. Please see Why is There a Minimum Price for Companies with Low Device Counts? for a more detailed look.

Here is a quick breakdown of everything that comes with the minimum pricing:

Average Savings of More than 5000 Hours

Regardless of device count, an average customer publishes 1,329 updates and applications per year. It takes about 4.5 hours to package, test, and deploy an application manually (Twitter survey). The base pricing ensures both small and large companies get maximum time-saving.

Unlimited Support

No need to sign up for premium support upgrades. The minimum pricing includes unlimited, in-house support from our top-tier engineers worldwide, who provide complete time zone coverage. This helps us provide seamless experiences for all customers.

One-on-One Live Demo with an Engineer

Whether you want to see our product in action or you have questions about our process, an engineer will present a live demo for you. In this demo, you can learn about product installation, creating third-part applications, publishing and deploying updates, reviewing dashboards, and troubleshooting.

One-on-One Setup Calls with an Engineer

Our engineering team will help you with the initial setup. This includes product installation, publishing and deploying third-party updates, creating and deploying applications, Microsoft Intune integration, and install compliance reports

One-on-One Environment Review and Q&A Calls

For the existing setup, our team will review your setup and answer all your questions. This service includes a review of installation and customization. They will help you with Automatic Deployment Rule creation and install compliance reports.

We do not have an option for auto-renewal at this time. Once a subscription has been purchased, you will begin to receive renewal notifications 90 days prior to expiration providing you with an option to easily request a renewal quote.

If your organization is sales tax-exempt (USA) and you wish to purchase and not pay sales tax, we will need a copy of your organization’s sales tax-exempt document for your state.

We require all reseller organizations to provide a document stating that the organization is authorized to resale software in your state.

All resellers not providing these documents will be subject to sales tax where applicable.

When purchasing for a client as a reseller, you will need to enter primary end-users information when requesting a reseller quote.

The license details for the catalog subscription will be sent directly to the reseller, to send to their customer. Our licenses are assigned to the end user, but live under the reseller in our system for billing purposes.

Do You Have Reseller Discounts?

We offer reseller discounts adjusted based on the purchase price to help compensate for the time spent purchasing on behalf of your customer.

How Do I Become a Reseller?

All you need to do is request a quote and purchase on behalf of your client (a contract is not required).

On the quote request form, choose “Yes, I’m purchasing for another customer” on the following question:

You will be required to enter the end user’s company name, primary contact name, and primary contact email. We need the end-user contact details for subscription delivery, expiration notifications, and significant service updates.

You will need to ensure you know the number of devices in your client’s environment for the quote for the following question.

Payment Terms?

We use Net 30 terms for any invoices unless otherwise agreed upon before receiving a purchase order.

When a reseller purchases on behalf of another company (the end-user), we will require at least one direct contact for the end-users company before sending the reseller the license details.

The end-user contact(s) will be opted out of billing emails, but we require an end-user contact for the following reasons:

• For any important status updates related to service uptime or our service-level agreement
• Email notifications that may occur if the customer is experiencing any known service errors
• Expiration notices, the end-user will be included on any email expiration notices in addition to any reseller contacts
• A personalized welcome video that includes the setup process and is unique to the end-user company and contact(s)

Yes! We do support user-based installs but only for ConfigMgr Apps, and Intune Apps and Updates.

It is not possible to patch apps in the user’s context with WSUS/SCCM software updates as those processes (the Windows Update Agent) executes in the system context only. Whereas ConfigMgr Applications and Intune Win32 Apps can hook in to both user/system contexts.

We denote whether the user-based version of the app is in our catalogue by including “User” in the product name. See our complete list of Supported Products.

For example:

• 1Password (User)
• Obsidian (User-x64)
• Postman (User-x64)
• Zoom Meetings (User-x64)

No, because Dell, Fujitsu, HP, and Lenovo each already provide free catalogs for their drivers within Configuration Manager. Additionally, there is no driver support in Intune provided by Patch My PC. 

For Dell, Fujitsu, HP, and Lenovo, you can subscribe and publish the catalog directly in the SCCM 1806+ console under the Third-Party Software Update Catalogs node. Some of the catalogs are already shown in the console, others will need to be added with the ‘Add Custom Catalog’ option.

We also have a step-by-step video guide covering how to use the in-console publishing feature for drivers, or you can review the Microsoft Docs: Enable third-party updates.

Yes, we do offer free assistance for installing and configuring our product. To schedule a setup session for installations and configuration, please use the link below.

Schedule a Free Setup Session

Absolutely! We love adding new products that provide value to our customer base! A list of requested and approved products are available on our application request page. You can request a new application on our Customer UserVoice.

For an overview of how we evaluate new requests, please see What Criteria Does Patch My PC Use to Prioritize New Applications and Features?

Yes, our publisher has the capability in the advanced tab to make third-party software updates visible directly in the WSUS console so you can deploy third-party software updates without requiring Microsoft SCCM.

For more details about configuration WSUS Standalone mode, please see our KB Article Configuring Standalone WSUS Mode

Yes, our product can work in an offline or air-gapped environment. For the setup in a disconnected environment please see the following KB article: How to Use Patch My PC in a Disconnected Environment without Internet 

Creating ADRs for Patch My PC specific updates is simple. You can review the following knowledge base articles:

• How to Use Automatic Deployment Rules (ADRs) with Patch My PC Updates
• Excluding or Including Specific Products in Automatic Deployment Rules

• Windows XP (x86) – No longer tested as of 01/01/2018
• Windows 7 SP1 (x86)
• Windows 7 SP1 (x64)
• Windows 8.1 (x86)
• Windows 8.1 (x64)
• Windows 10 (x86)
• Windows 10 (x64)
• Windows 11 (x64)
• Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
• Windows Server 2012 R2 (x64)
• Windows Server 2016 R2 (x64)
• Windows Server 2019 (x64)

We have a dedicated knowledge base article that describes removing third-party updates from WSUS and SCCM. Please review the following article: How to Remove Third-Party Updates from WSUS and SCCM

No, our third-party software updates are supported on Windows Operating Systems only.

We make use of the existing Configuration Manager and Windows update agents, as well as Win32 packages in Intune, so no extra client agents or scanning is required.

Yes, we have a public roadmap available to show what features is are currently developing based on our UserVoice portal.

If you have any feedback or features you would like to see, please visit our customer UserVoice , and submit any feedback or new product request.

We have a variety of logs files that help you know what’s happening within our services. The log files also help our support team when working with you.

Please see the article Collecting Log Files to Send to Support for SCCM and Intune

There are a few scenarios where you may need to use the ‘Republish update(s)’ right-click option in our publishing service on product(s).

These are detailed in this KB article. It covers what republishing is, the alerts associated with it, why you would need to republish an update, and how to do it.

We will collect basic telemetry data when our Publisher software is used to improve our products and services.

To learn about the specific data that is collected, please see the KB article: Telemetry Data that Patch My PC Collects when Using the Publisher.

For a detailed process of our malware testing, please review Deep Dive Into Security Validation of Updates and Applications

We upload all vendor installers (.EXE, .MSI, .MSP Files) to VirusTotal to ensure installers for third-party products are free of malware. VirusTotal scans each installer through over 70 different anti-virus engines. 

Our goal is to release updates the same day the vendor releases the update. We generally release our catalog between 1:00 – 5:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time). You can review a full list of past catalog releases at catalog release history.

If a security update is released later in the afternoon, we often release two catalogs in a scenario where the update is a high-security risk. More minor non-security updates released later in the afternoon will be updated the following business day.

For us to release an update to production, it needs to pass our security validation and installation validation checks.

Our software usage is governed by our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

• Terms of Service
• Privacy Policy