# Licence a computer with no internet

> Carry two signed files between an offline computer and a connected one, so an air-gapped workstation can hold a seat.

Status: Available · Level: Everyday · About 5 minutes · Canonical: https://paracrux.com/docs/license-a-computer-without-internet

## You need

- The desktop app on the offline computer
- A second computer with internet, and your My account sign-in
- Removable media to carry two small files
- An active subscription with a free seat

## You'll come away with

- Create a request and import a licence
- Renew it before it ends
- Free the seat with a return file

## Step by step

1. **Know which offline you need.** Check out for offline use borrows an online seat for 1 to 30 days and needs a connection to start and end. Offline licence files are for a computer that is never online.
2. **Create the request.** On the offline computer, open Licensing and expand This computer has no internet. Choose Create request file and save paracrux-offline-request.json. Copy it to a computer with internet. A request is valid for 7 days and works once, and a new one replaces an unanswered one.
3. **Issue the licence.** On the connected computer, sign in at paracrux.com/offline. Under Issue an offline licence, upload the request, set Days and choose Issue licence and download. The licence ends after those days, or at the end of your billing period if that is sooner.
4. **Import it.** Copy the licence file back. In Licensing, choose Import licence file. The card shows a borrowed seat and the date it is valid until. A licence works only on the computer that made the request, and only once.
5. **Renew or return.** Before it ends, make a new request and repeat. To free the seat sooner, choose Return seat to a file, confirm, and upload paracrux-offline-return.json under Return an offline seat on paracrux.com/offline.

## Walkthrough

The labels, file names and messages are the app's and the website's own. The computer, dates and days are examples.

- **This computer has no internet:** Buttons = Create request file · Import licence file · Return seat to a file
- Provenance: real-code

- **Agent:** This computer is not enrolled. Saved E:\paracrux-offline-request.json. Upload it at paracrux.com/offline.
- *Saved to a USB drive here; you choose the folder.*
- Provenance: real-code

- **paracrux.com/offline · Issue an offline licence:** Offline request file = paracrux-offline-request.json; Days = 30; Button = Issue licence and download
- Provenance: real-code

- **Licensing:** Seat = Your company · borrowed seat valid until 31/10/2026, 09:00:00.
- *After Import licence file.*
- Provenance: real-code

- **Gate:** Return this computer's seat? Editing stops here until you import a new licence. Upload the return file at paracrux.com/offline to free the seat.
- Provenance: real-code

## What it won't do

- CueCrux Credits, the hosted design matrix, support requests and app updates need internet, so they don't work on an offline-licensed computer. A local model can run the Agent there.
- The seat stays in use for your company until the licence ends or its return file is uploaded.
- Each request and each return file works once.
- Days are capped at the maximum the page offers, 30 unless your licensing is set otherwise.

## Covers

- Offline licence files (Available): Licence a computer that is never online by carrying signed files to and from a connected computer. Where: Licensing, This computer has no internet; paracrux.com/offline

## Next

- [Run the Agent with a local model](https://paracrux.com/docs/use-a-local-model.md): Point the Agent at a model server on your own computer or network, so design context never leaves your site.