If you are live on Kanopy's Patron-Driven Acquisition (PDA) program, Kanopy can turn off your PDA program at any time upon request. This will keep any users on your your platform from triggering licenses on any additional films, which will ensure that you do not exceed the budget you have set. We are also happy to reactivate your program, which will resurface the titles on your platform for triggering via PDA.
To request that your platform's PDA program be deactivated (or reactivated), please reach out to your account manager.
Key Considerations
There are some important things to consider about turning on and off the PDA program.
1) How will I know the status of my budget?
You can monitor the status of your PDA budget live from your Kanopy Administrative Dashboard. From within the dashboard you can find live information on triggered films, usage statistics, and the status of your budget.
Kanopy tracks your budget as well, and we will provide email alerts you if you hit 70%, 80%, 90%, and 100% of budgeted spend.
When you hit your budget cap, you can choose to top up your budget to maintain your PDA program or you can opt to keep your existing budget and switch off the PDA program.
2) How will the program be turned off?
If you decide to turn off your PDA program and not top up your budget, Kanopy will deactivate all unlicensed films from your website, leaving only those films that have already triggered from usage.
3) What will happen to the user experience?
Films that have triggered for your platform prior to PDA deactivation are typically the most important to your library, and you will continue to maintain access to those films until their licenses expire.
Films that are untriggered at the time of PDA deactivation do not "vanish" from your platform; they are still surfaced in search results, links to those films in your library catalog will still work, and, by default, your users can request them. You will be notified of these requests for purchase via email and you can handle them as you wish.
If you prefer, you can adjust this request feature such that users cannot find the deactivated films on your website.