Hello everyone,

I recently purchased MT from a vendor and they are not very helpful or informed about this software. When I start a blog, how many login accounts can I create for authors for each blog? Am I limited to the number of seats in the license - or does the seat number dictate how many blogs I can have under that license? Or, does the seat number dictate how many admin accounts I can have under that license? Thanks for the info.

I am going to take it that by seats you mean users, this have the information you are looking for I think. http://www.movabletype.com/download/faq.html

Would that mean that for my blog, if I have a 10 user license, I can only have 10 people who can log in to post [no matter if they are admin or authors]?

You have stumbled on the horrible secret of MT: They really don't exist except as a weird business model that offers very little support and mostly don't seem to know a whole lot about their program either. But somehow they have managed -- probably through much better support that you are ever going to get -- to hook several high profile names in the blogging and other media world. There are a thousand other blogging programs and they're all just as good and much simpler to setup and use. If it's not too late, run like hell to the vendor and beg for your money back. If you don't your troubles will just get worse and worse. This is not the place you want to be!

Correct, this is something that the reseller should have made clear to you and should have been able to explain, are they an official reseller?

If this is not what you want then you can look at the MTOS version which is the Open Source version of the bloging core (no pro-pack etc), that will allow unlimited number of users although you can't get support for it from the SixApart helpdesk. What is it that you want to able to do? How many users? Is this for a commercial site or a personal site.

This blog is a corporate site and we were wanting to have around 10 to 12 or so people with access as authors and also have a few administrators in a seperate work group to oversee the blog site.

I am not sure on the status of the reseller, but I would imagine that they are not official seeing as to how they didn't offer a formal training program for the software.

Since we already purchased the license, would we be able to use the open source version or will that require a new install and just make the purchase a waste of time and money? Or is open source used for personal sites only? We are hosting on a seperate domain that we purchased especially for this blog site.