About this plugin
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Licenzo is a powerful license and subscription management plugin for WordPress. For digital product sellers (such as plugin or theme developers) license management is a hassle. Licenzo will automate license key generation, validation, and recurring payments.
With Licenzo you can automatically assign license keys on purchase, set expiration dates, and send renewal reminders—all within your WordPress dashboard. Simple, WooCommerce-based, clean UI, you couldn’t expect more!
Whether you’re a solo developer or a small business owner, Licenzo makes selling and managing software licenses easy and secure.
Features
- Self-hosted solution: Keep all license data and processes on your own WordPress site (no third-party licensing servers needed).
- Automated licensing: Generate unique license keys automatically when customers purchase your product. Licenses can have activation limits and expiration dates that Licenzo tracks and enforces.
- WooCommerce integration: Easily tie licenses to your WooCommerce products. When a customer buys a licensed product, Licenzo creates and assigns the license key automatically. Works with simple and variable products.
- Subscription support: Licenzo has its own subscription engine — you do not need WooCommerce Subscriptions or any other paid subscriptions plugin. Licenzo stores the subscription, schedules the renewal, charges it, records the transaction, and renews or expires the licence to match. Automatic renewal billing runs through the free WooCommerce Stripe Payment Gateway for WooCommerce stores, and through EDD’s Stripe gateway for Easy Digital Downloads. You can also manually renew or extend licenses at any time from the admin.
- Expiration management: Licenses can be set to expire after a defined period. Expired licenses are automatically revoked, ensuring expired customers lose access. Licenzo can also send reminders before expiration to prompt renewals.
- Email notifications: Send automated email alerts to customers and admins for important events (license activation, upcoming expiration, renewal confirmations, etc.). All notification templates are customizable.
- Custom license keys: Define your own key format, length, or prefix to match your branding or security needs. Licenzo’s key generator can create pretty or complex keys as desired.
- Dashboard & analytics: View a clear overview of your business inside WordPress. The Licenzo dashboard shows total customers, active licenses, activations, and revenue from subscriptions. Charts and metrics help you spot trends at a glance.
- Customer portal: Use the built-in shortcode ( [licenzo_customer_portal] ) to give customers a frontend dashboard. Customers can log in to view their licenses, activation counts, and download links, all in one place.
- Developer-friendly: For advanced users, Licenzo includes REST API endpoints and action/filter hooks. You can integrate license checks into your code or connect with other tools programmatically (optional).
- Easy product setup: Quickly add licensing to existing products. Licenzo adds a Licenzo tab to your WooCommerce products so you can enable licenses and set activation limits with a click while adding a new product.
- Easy Digital Downloads integration: Selling through EDD instead of WooCommerce? Licenzo handles EDD purchases, subscriptions, renewals, cancellations and the customer portal too. See the note in the changelog for the two ways EDD differs from WooCommerce.
- Export and import license keys: Move licenses in and out of Licenzo as data — useful for migrating from another licensing plugin, for backups, or for bulk edits. Licenses, their product links, and their activation records all travel together.
- Upcoming features and integrations: We’re planning even more features! Future updates will include FluentCRM, Mailchimp, marketplace imports (e.g. ThemeForest/CodeCanyon), split payment, and a lot more.
Usage
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Assign licenses to products: Edit any WooCommerce product (or create a new one). Locate the Licenzo tab or section in the product editor. Check Sync to Licenzo (or similar) to add licensing options to this product.
), and how many activations each license allows. Publish the product. Now, whenever this product is purchased, Licenzo will generate a license key for the customer automatically.
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Automatic license generation: When a customer completes a purchase of a licensed product, Licenzo generates the license key, assigns it to the customer, and emails the key to them. The key’s status (active, inactive, expired) is recorded in your Licenzo dashboard.
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Manage licenses: Go to the Licenzo → Licenses from your WordPress dashboard. Here you’ll see a list of all license keys, their status, expiration dates, and associated orders. You can search for licenses, view details, and perform actions like activating, deactivating, or deleting keys.
You can also manually create new licenses if needed — for example, to issue a free license, or to reassign a purchase to a different customer. Note that a license key’s owner is permanent by design: Licenzo never moves an existing key between customers, because a key that changes hands makes every past activation record ambiguous. To move a purchase, revoke the original license and issue a new one to the new customer; the new customer receives a new key.
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Subscription renewals: Licenzo runs renewals itself — no subscriptions plugin required. When a renewal falls due, Licenzo charges it through your store’s Stripe gateway, records the transaction, and extends the customer’s license expiration date. If a payment fails, Licenzo retries on your configured dunning schedule; if a subscription is cancelled or finally fails, Licenzo revokes or expires the related license.
You can view and manage these events in the Licenzo dashboard.
Two things to know before you rely on it. Automatic renewal billing for WooCommerce is opt-in and off by default — enable it in Licenzo → Settings → Subscriptions once you are ready, and note that existing subscriptions are not back-filled with renewal schedules when you do. For Easy Digital Downloads, automatic renewals require EDD’s Stripe gateway; on other EDD gateways (PayPal, Amazon, manual, 2Checkout) a purchase issues a single-cycle licence with no renewal schedule.
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Customer management: Licenzo automatically links customers to licenses. Each license is assigned to the user who bought it (you can sync or manually adjust these connections). In the Customers view, you can see each customer’s profile, total purchases, and active licenses.
This makes it easy to track customer lifetime value and support requests.
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Frontend portal: For a user-friendly experience, place the shortcode [licenzo_customer_portal] on any page. This creates a front-end portal where logged-in customers can view their own licenses, check activation counts, and download associated files. It’s a simple way to give customers self-service access without coding.
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Dashboard insights: Licenzo adds analytics to your WordPress admin area. Check the Licenzo Dashboard to see charts and stats like total revenue, MRR, subscriptions, licenses, sites, top products and more. These insights help you make informed business decisions at a glance.
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Extending Licenzo: Developers can use Licenzo’s REST API and hooks to add custom license validation in their own code or integrate with other systems. ) This is optional – Licenzo works out of the box without any coding, but provides advanced tools if you need them.
Support
For the latest updates, you can visit the Licenzo website. If you have questions or run into any issues, you can:
- WordPress Support Forum: Search or post on the Licenzo support forum at WordPress.org for help from the community and developers.
- Contact the Team: Use the contact form on our website (https://solvixstudio.com/support/) to reach out directly for support or business inquiries.
We’re committed to helping you succeed with Licenzo. Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you need assistance or have feedback!
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