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Yes, we offer discounts on some of our products for full-time students and teachers at non-profit educational institutions by using an educational Coupon Code.
You will need to prove your academic status and your order will not be processed until we receive valid proof.
View information on accepted academic proofs.
To send your proof, contact our Sales team and attach a relevant document.
X-Particles
We offer 50% discount on X-Particles products (excluding subscriptions) by adding the coupon code ACADEMIC in the shopping cart.
This can be used against the following products:
X-Particles Learning Edition
We offer 90% discount on X-Particles perpetual licenses by adding the coupon code STUDENT in the shopping cart.
This is for a Learning Edition of X-Particles and can only be used with the Maxon One Student license (available to students and faculty) or the educational license for teaching (available to educational institutions).
Cycles 4D
We offer 30% discount on Cycles 4D (excluding subscriptions) by adding the coupon code CYCEDU in the shopping cart.
This can be used against the following products:
Licenses bought using an educational coupon code should not be used for commercial work.
Please note: The X-Particles Learning Edition saves in its own file format and scene files created using this license type cannot be opened in the full version of X-Particles.
To discuss purchasing licenses in bulk, contact our Sales Team.
Make sure that you have sent proof of your academic status to our Sales team.
To do this contact Sales and attach one of the following:
After submitting your proof of academic status, please allow up to 3 working days for your order to complete.
Please note: Proof of academic status must be in the same name as the license is to be registered to and if purchasing as a teacher, the license must be registered to your academic email address.
If you have done this, allowed 3 working days and are still waiting to be given access to your license/product, contact Sales for an update on the status of your order.
We accept a number of different proofs and we advise you to purchase the license and send your proofs using your student or faculty email as this can speed up the processing of your order.
See below a list of accepted proofs for Academic and Student licenses. Please send your evidence to us in a form that we can easily translate in Google, e.g. Latin alphabet:
Academic licenses
Student licenses (Learning Edition)
Please note: Proof of academic status must be in the same name as the license is to be registered to and if purchasing as a teacher/faculty, the license MUST be registered to your academic email address.
*Only teachers and faculty at nonprofit organizations are entitled to the above discounts and proof of nonprofit status may be requested.