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When creating new order either through admin or customer check-out, the licensing information is being created for each product and saved as WooCommerce order item meta field. The licensing details are used later when interacting with API or displaying detailed information about licence, like customer account.

Licence Keys is a reliable tool to maintain control over code install, maintenance and update. As default, on key activation, a unique client id ( usually the domain name) is assigned to the key. This is being used further to allow API interaction like updates.

Licensing expiration can apply to any licence, the set-up is very easy complete, and it’s been described at Create expiration for license product. A time range availability is set for an expiring licence, meaning after predefined end date the keys will go offline.

A list of Predefined Keys can be used to assign existing keys to customers orders. These keys are pre filled and not being generated on the fly. In specific scenarios, such keys are required to be used more that once, so they are not intended to be used as unique id’s. This can be achieved easily […]

As default the WP Software License plugin output a ‘X domains per key’ within the order page, client and admin e-mails, my account areas etc. This is because is presumed the purchasable is being linked to a domain (e.g. a downloadable software). But this is not necessarily to say that way, arbitrary texts can be […]

Since version 1.2.4, the WP Software License plugin got a new unique functionality, a licence group can be assigned to variation/variable products. The process is simple, start by creating some licensing groups: Within the variations Tab, on each item option, there’s a new setting called Licence Group Chose from the list the required licence group to […]

Name woo_sl/generate_license_key Type Filter Arguments (text) $license_key (int) $order_id (int) $order_item_id (int) $license_group_id Description To create a custom licence key. Example of usage A simple example to create keys in a form of XXXX-XXXX-XXXX :     Create a license in format PREFIX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX all uppercase. The used PREFIX is what defined within the product licensing […]