New Zealand’s software and digital escrow agency.
We’re here to give you peace of mind.
As New Zealand's leading independent software and digital Escrow Agent for over two decades, we pride ourselves on being the foremost experts in escrow solutions for all forms of digital data - from software source code to database information, documentation and research material.
With our highly secure, controlled access vault, EscrowNZ protects your investments by maintaining the security and integrity of any business or project.
We offer escrow services for:
Software Source Code
Protecting your software assets by securely holding source code and data for if things go wrong.
Research Material & Documentation
Assuring funders of Research & Development projects that their investment is protected.
Intellectual Property & Trade Secrets
Building a strategy to safely store, protect and identify your Intellectual Property.
Software Sale & Purchase
Protecting both parties during the purchase or sale of a business or stand-alone software system.
So how does escrow actually
work?
When one company (the ‘owner’) provides software or other digital intellectual property to another company (the ‘licensee’), they can engage EscrowNZ as a trusted, independent third party to hold a physical copy of the digital data.
EscrowNZ keeps the escrow material secure and only releases it under specific circumstances (or ‘release triggers’) agreed upon by all parties in advance.
If something goes wrong - such as the owner goes out of business - the source code is released to the licensee to ensure they can continue to maintain it and the risk to their business is reduced.
Store your material with total confidence.
Total Anonymity.
EscrowNZ ensures absolute security for all of our clients. For this reason, we never disclose our client list.
Our unmatched level of security is why we are the trusted Escrow Agent to many of New Zealand’s largest companies - including banks, software vendors, manufacturers, telecom and lawyers.
100% New Zealand Owned.
EscrowNZ is a 100% New Zealand-owned subsidiary of IT Professionals NZ, the independent professional body of the IT sector committed to upholding professional standards.
Because of this, we hold your data under NZ law - mitigating the risk of your code or data being subject to international jurisdiction.
Independent Protection.
EscrowNZ is an entirely independent third party to every escrow agreement. Our only interest is the security of your assets and the guardianship of your intellectual property.
This provides you utmost protection while mitigating the risks associated with escrowing software directly with lawyers, vendors or accountants.
Disaster Protection.
EscrowNZ assists with Disaster Recovery (DR) planning by ensuring your intellectual property is safe and secure. Should a disaster strike, your code is secure and can be dispatched if a DR plan needs to be implemented.
Offline.
For the purpose of upholding our promise of absolute security, EscrowNZ purposely does not provide online storage of software escrow - due to the inherent security issues it entails.
Absolute Security.
EscrowNZ stores your code and data using multiple levels of physical security. With EscrowNZ, escrow is stored in a fully secure underground vault, complete with three levels of controlled access security - restricted to authorised staff only. We believe this is the most secure option available in New Zealand.
“We have partnered with EscrowNZ for 13 years.
The team have provided professional, effective services with regular deposits and safe keeping of our customers’ software assets.”
—Head of Sales, Global Financial Software Solutions Company.
Pricing of our escrow services.
Base Options.
One-off Setup fee: $300 + GST
Annual Escrow fee: $1995 + GST
Research Document Escrow fixed term fee : $7000 + GST (for 7 years)
Software Sale and Purchase: cost provided on application.
Other Costs.
Additional fees may apply. See services pages for more information.
Get in touch.
info@escrow.nz 0508 ESCROW
EscrowNZ Ltd
PO Box 10044
Wellington 6011