Historically, Lucid offered allotments to manage license numbers for user groups on Enterprise accounts. 

With the migration to the organizational group experience, Lucid replaced the allotment functionality with license limits. These features function much the same way, but we will get into the specifics in this post. 

Note: If you are considering the switch to organizational groups, or already have, refer to the Lucid admin panel: Group management help center article for instructions to manage license limits.

Below is a side-by-side image of the previous view of allotments and new view of license limits in the Lucid admin panel:

The license caps remain the same across these experiences, though they look a little different. The short version is that with allotments, limits are hierarchical and divided among subgroups. With license limits, each license limit is independent. 

Let’s get into a brief example from the screenshots above. In the previous allotment experience example, there are 100 total licenses listed for IT.
Those 100 licenses are divided in the following ways:

• 20 allotments for an IT cloud engineering subgroup
• 10 allotments for an IT network operations subgroup
• 30 allotments for an IT support subgroup
• 40 remaining licenses that can be allocated across the IT org (not defined to a specific subgroup)

In order to simplify and streamline licensing, license limits on the enhanced organizational groups experience are now handled independently of one another. For that same breakdown, there is no hierarchical operation to keep track of but rather each group has the following license limits on its own:

• IT: 40 licenses
• IT cloud engineering: 20 licenses
• IT network operations: 10 licenses
• IT support: 30 licenses

You’ll notice that the sum of the IT organizational groups all together still adds up to 100 licenses, so the license count and associated limit have not changed. 

Note: With license limits on the new organizational group experience, if SCIM or CSV upload adds an unlicensed user, it either licenses the user or creates a license request, depending on your group set up. If SCIM or CSV upload moves an already licensed user into a new group and puts the license count over the cap, you will see a message in the admin panel flagging the violation to be fixed by managing the license limits.