Multi-year Subscription SSL

What is the TLS/SSL Multi-year Plan?

To help your customers embrace the benefits of shorter certificate lifetimes and make certificate management even easier, GoGetSSL is offering Multi-year Plan TLS/SSL certificates. This new type of multi-year coverage is a time-efficient and cost-effective way to help your customers improve their security by further reducing certificate outages and the hassle of managing shorter certificate lifecycles.

As browsers are mandating one-year certificate lifetimes, the Multi-year Plan, coupled with automation tools, saves you time—and money. Your customers can lock in longer coverage terms, provided by the Multi-year Plan, while your cost goes down relative to the longer-term lengths you sell.

How does it work?

When your customer purchases a TLS/SSL certificate with the Multi-year Plan, they’ll receive the initial certificate, valid for up to one year, and entitlement to unlimited certificate reissues during the order period—up to five years. We will need to routinely revalidate customer organizations and domains annually throughout the lifetime of the Multi-year Plan.

We will start sending replacement notifications before 30-21-14-7 days. The SSL will be replaced automatically using the same CSR 3 days before expiration if users do not replace it themselves. The reissued SSL will be sent to your email.

Why should partners offer the TLS Multi-year Plan?

When the Multi-Year Plan is combined with automation, your customers can minimize the risk of human error when managing shorter certificate lifecycles. With automation, you can automatically provision and reinstall certificates and, in most environments, replace the CSR. Also, customers can easily adapt to any potential certificate lifetime reductions imposed by the industry in the future.

• Certificate renewals no longer require additional order periods added to the new certificate, because there is no more lost purchase period. The customer can request a new certificate at any time during the service period, and it will expire on the date they specify. Per the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, revalidation is required at certain certificate intervals to maintain compliance.
• Multi-year Plan helps your customers efficiently embrace the security benefits of shortened certificate lifecycles and ensures they remain loyal to your brand for many years. Although certificate validation must be renewed annually, certificates can be replaced daily to improve the security posture of any organization.

Benefits of the Multi-year Plan for you and your customers

• Minimized risk of compromised certificates;
• Minimizes the risk of using weak keys (example SHA1);
• Ensures yearly validation of identity to prevent potential fraud and spoofing;
• Easier management of certificates with automation;
• Using the Multi-year Plan provides more billing flexibility for you with your customers, and allows you to secure more revenue up front, while locking in your customers for longer terms;
• Improve your average selling price (ASP) on certificate deals by selling longer term lengths.

Talking points to promote the Multi-year Plan

• Streamlined: Remove the hassle of annual billing by taking advantage of the Multi-year Plan.
• Customizable: Secure your site with coverage for longer periods of time.
• Secure: The Multi-year Plan allows you to embrace the best practice of shorter TLS certificate lifecycles by minimizing the risk of compromised certificates and changing out weak keys regularly, thus improving the security posture of your web pages.
• Future-proof: By taking advantage of Multi-year Plan options you also protect yourself from further reduction to certificate lifecycles imposed by the industry.