Easy Digital Downloads Software Licensing

Software Licensing for Easy Digital Downloads features a comprehensive system for the generation of licence keys, as well as authentication and verification. It grants you the ability to include licence keys with your digital products, which can subsequently be utilised by the consumer of the software to appropriately licence and activate their copy of the programme. If you sell WordPress plugins, themes, or any other kind of software, including video games and desktop applications, the Software Licensing add-on will become an enormous asset for you, and it will also help take your business to the next level. This is true regardless of whether you are selling desktop applications or video games.

License key management

By means of user interfaces that are easy to understand and use Site administrators are able to view and handle customer licence keys with ease thanks to Software Licensing.

Each individual licence key comes with its own dedicated details screen, which makes it simple to view and access any and all pertinent transaction and customer information.

You have the ability to enable licence key generation on each product in your store independently, and each product has its own settings. This gives you the flexibility to easily offer a wide variety of product variations as well as non-software products at the same time.

Licensing API

License keys can be activated, checked, and validated with the help of Software Licensing’s comprehensive and user-friendly JSON API, which is included with the software. This makes it possible for developers of software applications to directly activate and validate licence keys within their programmes.

The API includes methods for the following requests:

license activation
license deactivation
license validation
latest version / update details

License renewals

Customers will be able to refresh their licence keys when they are getting close to the end of their validity period thanks to the comprehensive renewal system that is included with Software Licensing. The renewal system includes automated email reminders that can be sent to customers when a licence is about to expire. Customers can go straight to your store and renew their licence key from within the email by clicking on a link within the email that takes them to your store.

In order to encourage consumers to keep their licence keys current and active, site administrators have the ability to set up discounts for licence key renewals.

Site administrators also have the ability to manually renew customers’ licence keys on their account at any time, as well as manually send renewal notices to customers via email.

Software Licensing also offers a comprehensive reporting view, which presents a graph of licence renewals and earnings from those renewals over time. This graph allows you to gain a better understanding of the percentage of customers who continue to extend their licences.

You are also able to set up automatic renewals with recurring subscriptions thanks to the renewal system’s complete integration with our Recurring Payments plugin. This plugin enables you to receive payments on a recurring basis.

License upgrade paths

It is essential for websites that sell numerous editions of their software to provide customers with the option to upgrade from one level to the next. Customers who wish to improve between licence levels can take advantage of Software Licensing’s comprehensive system, which allows for the creation of upgrade paths.

Upgrade purchases can be discounted further or adjusted based on the customer’s previous purchase, depending on what the customer has already purchased. Customers are granted the ability to upgrade between different licence levels of a single product or even to completely different products if upgrade routes are configured appropriately.

Add one-click updates to your WordPress plugins and themes

This add-on will not only make your life as a distributor of products easier, but it will also thrill your customers by allowing them to update their WordPress themes and plugins to the most recent version with a single click. The complete API for providing automatic updates for WordPress plugins and themes to valid licence key holders is included in this add-on.

Users won’t even be aware of the distinction because the automatic update system that comes bundled with the add-on for both themes and plugins adheres to all of the fundamental standards for the WordPress user interface.

To incorporate the automatic upgrades into your theme or plugin, all you need to do is add a few lines of code, which will be supplied to you, into the appropriate files in your theme or plugin.

Software Licensing comes with complete support for parsing the readme.txt files that are associated with WordPress plugins. This gives you the ability to include the same information in plugin update dialogues as plugins that are hosted on WordPress.org.

Version releases can be distributed through git with the help of our Git Download Updater extension. If you handle the development of your plugins and/or themes in GitHub or BitBucket, this is possible.

For WordPress and non-WordPress Products

The developers of WordPress themes and plugins were taken into consideration during the construction of Software Licensing; however, the included API makes it possible to use the tool for licencing any kind of software. The add-on comes with fully functional examples that demonstrate how to implement licence activation and checking in your theme or plugin, as well as how to configure your theme or plugin to receive automated updates when they are made available through the licencing system. These examples are included with the add-on.

Beta versions

Testing is necessary for successful software launches, and in order for developers to test new versions thoroughly, beta versions must be made available. Support for publishing beta versions of your software is included in Software Licensing. This allows you to conduct more thorough testing of your releases before making them accessible to the general public.