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Ryan Stone
Iron Contributor
May 23, 2017
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Licensing for Premium Connectors

I'm trying to make sense of this page and need help. If I want to use a "premium connector" in a specific flow (ex. Salesforce.com) - does only the author of the flow need to be on Flow Plan1/2 OR do...
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  • BrianTJackett's avatar
    BrianTJackett
    Jul 20, 2017

    Ryan,

     

       Both the app creator and consumer will need to have a P1 or P2 license.

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avsrot
Copper Contributor
May 25, 2020

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/community/powerplatformlicensingforcitizendeveloper#practical-application

Niclas Carlsson 

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Ingrid Schiele
Brass Contributor
Jan 15, 2021

 I have a look at the page avsrot is sharing

avsrot wrote:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/community/powerplatformlicensingforcitizendeveloper#practical-application

Niclas Carlsson 

In addition to this, I found this chapter very helpful

Flow Licensing guidance

  1. Use Standard connectors in Office 365 licenses when possible in all cases.

  2. For Automated Triggers - buy a full license for the Flow Owner (Flow Bundle or User) and watch number of runs in case additional API run capacity needs to be purchased. A goal here is to potentially limit the requires licenses to one or two at most.

  3. For Instant Triggers - buy a full license for each user that will invoke the specific flow if it requires a connector not included with the seeded applications (Office 365, Dynamics) or is premium. The choice point of per user versus Bundle flow will be the cost per flow. This can be the more complex decision as considerations must be made against the cost per user running up against the cost for Flow Bundles which start at 5 and increment by 1.

  4. In the case of the Power Apps Trigger (a type of Instant Trigger) - the most common Instant Trigger is the Power Apps trigger, but any Power App that calls a Power Apps Trigger must have premium license for the premium connector used in the Flow and the Power Apps premium license for the end user includes premium flows used as part of that Power App. In this particular case additional purchases of flow licensing are not necessary, since it must be included in the Power Apps premium license.

Therefore a premium licence is required for each user that triggers a "for selected item" or "Power Apps Trigger" Flow that uses a premium or custom connector.