For IT, Finance & Software Asset Management

See what your
software is doing

Access lists tell you who could use a tool. Nicklpass tells you who actually does — then turns that into keep, optimize, or cancel.

Adoption by team and department
Active users and last activity
Idle and underused seats
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Applications table showing users, usage level, and monthly spend per tool
The Problem

Assigned is not the same as used

Most software decisions are made from a seat count and an invoice. Neither one tells you whether anybody opened the tool last month.

The gap you are paying for
47%

average license utilization across the stack

53%

of seats sit idle, renewed by default

Source: Zylo 2024 SaaS Management Index

You renew for a full year based on a number nobody has checked since procurement.

Least used applications ranked in the Nicklpass dashboard
What You Get

Usage, licenses, and spend in one view

Nicklpass connects the signals you already have — identity, activity, licenses, and payments — and reads them together.

Seats tell you what you bought. Activity tells you who opened it. The gap between them is the renewal you should not sign.

01

Usage visibility

Who is using each application, how often, and when they last signed in.

Track active users and last activity by application
Measure usage frequency and adoption over time
See adoption by user, team, and department
Detect shadow SaaS running outside your approved stack
Application usage broken down by user and team
02

License utilization

What you bought against what is actually being touched.

Compare assigned licenses with actively used licenses
Identify inactive and underutilized seats
Calculate cost per active user
Surface reclaim, downgrade, and consolidation opportunities
Idle and underused licenses flagged for reclamation
03

Renewal decisions

Usage evidence, ready before the contract conversation starts.

Find applications with low adoption before they renew
Compare usage across overlapping SaaS tools
Review usage ahead of renewals and contract negotiations
Turn usage into a keep, optimize, or cancel decision per tool
Renewal view with adoption and spend per application
How It Works

Live in minutes, on top of the stack you already run

No migration, no change to how your team works. Connect, measure, then act.

01

Connect your workspace

Sync users, groups, and sign-in activity from Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 to see who is authorized for what.

Google WorkspaceMicrosoft 365
02

Deploy the browser extension

The extension measures which approved tools are actually opened. It reads domain-level metadata only, and installs from the admin console.

Browser Extension
03

Read usage against licenses and spend

Nicklpass matches activity to assigned seats and to what you pay, then ranks the tools worth acting on first.

PlaidQuickBooks
Usage visibility
Google Workspace Connected
Sync users and discover third-party apps authorized with Google accounts.
Import
Microsoft 365
Sync users and discover apps authorized through Microsoft Entra.
Connect
Enhanced usage visibility
Browser extension Connected
Force-install on managed Chrome browsers via Google Workspace Admin.
Force install
Cost per active user
Plaid Connected
Bank and card transactions, so usage can be read against real spend.
Manage
QuickBooks
Import expenses and vendors to match subscriptions to the tools they paid for.
Connect

The review nobody has time to run

Nicklpass agents watch adoption between renewals, flag the seats that have gone quiet, and tell you what reclaiming them is worth. Every action is logged with the dollars it returned.

The Result

Know what your employees use, and what sits idle

The point is not a report. It is a shorter renewal list and a smaller invoice.

Seeevery application in use, including the ones nobody registered
Measureadoption by user, team, and department over time
Compareassigned seats against seats that are actually opened
Priceeach tool by cost per active user, not cost per seat
Cutduplicate tools that cover the same job
Decidekeep, optimize, or cancel with evidence attached
A note on what unused means

Low usage is a question, not a verdict. A tool used by four people once a quarter may still be doing something important, and a compliance tool nobody opens may be exactly as busy as it should be. Nicklpass surfaces the gap and gives you the usage detail behind it. The decision stays with the owner.

Questions

Straight answers

Is the browser extension invasive?

No. It reads domain-level metadata only. Never page content, keystrokes, or personal credentials. It measures which approved tools are opened and surfaces non-SSO shadow SaaS, and nothing else.

What can you see without the extension?

Sign-in activity from Google Workspace or Microsoft 365, plus the applications authorized with those accounts. That gives you access and last sign-in. The extension is what turns sign-in into usage frequency.

How long before the usage data is meaningful?

You get access and license gaps immediately. Adoption trends need a few weeks of activity to be worth acting on, which is why most teams connect well before a renewal window rather than during one.

Does this replace our SSO or MDM?

No. Nicklpass sits on top of them. It reads the signals they already produce and adds license and spend context that neither one holds.

Can we reclaim seats directly from here?

Yes. Idle seats can be reclaimed, and access removed, through the lifecycle service. Usage is what tells you which ones are safe to touch.

Rolling this out across a large organization?

Talk to sales about deploying Nicklpass with your SSO or MDM system, and about department-level reporting for software asset management teams.

Up to
30%

average savings on subscription spend

Connecting usage to licenses and spend is what turns a renewal into a decision. Teams typically clear the cost of Nicklpass in reclaimed seats inside the first month.