Description

Digital License Manager is licensing plugin for WordPress that can be used sell your license keys form your site. Supported and maintained by friendly team behind. 😎

The plugin is compatible with WooCommerce, although it can be used as standalone License Manager without WooCommerce.

✨ Free Features

Manage your Licenses (status, license key, activations, etc)
Manage License Activations. Keeps separate records of Activations identified by unique token instead of single activations count variable.
Manage License Generators. Makes it possible to generate Licenses by specific rules (separator, chunks, length, allowed characters, prefix, suffix etc)
Assign Generators to one or more WooCommerce products to generate Licenses based on the rules of the Generator when the product is purchased on certain Order status
Automatically generate, sell and deliver keys through WooCommerce. Supports both Simple and Variable products.
Manual License Activations in MyAccount order page when using with WooCommerce
Separate page for Licenses in MyAccount when using with WooCommerce
Separate page for each License in My Account when using with WooCommerce
License Certificates in PDF format downloadable from the single License page in My Account page when using with WooCommerce
The purchased Licenses are included in the WooCommerce Emails (completed order, etc)
License delivery Order statuses can be selected from the plugin Settings
Create, update, activate, deactivate and validate licenses through the REST API
Create and update generators through the REST API
Import licenses form file
Export licenses to PDF or CSV format. Allows column selection
Migration tool for migrating from other plugins
WooCommerce High-Performance Order Storage Support

The plugin works fine even without WooCommerce. If you want to use the plugin as standalone license manager or if you have another solution for selling the keys, you can use the REST API to create licenses.

✨ PRO Version Features

The PRO version focuses on making it possible to generate consistent cash flow through the integration with WooCommerce Subscriptions and provide updates through the Digital License Manager REST API to the users that purchased and activated their license. List of the additional features as follows:

WooCommerce Subscriptions support. It extends existing license or generates new one upon subscription renewal based on your product settings.
Subscriptions for WooCommerce support. This is free alternative to WooCommerce Subscriptions. Similarly as WooCommerce Subscriptions, it extends existing license or generates new one upon subscription renewal based on your product settings.
Software management. If you sell software, you will be able to add your software, setup a gallery, support information, FAQs that appear on the product page.
Software release management. Downloadable software can be distributed as a releases. For each version you create a release in the Software editor.
Software details REST Endpoint to get information about specific software. This is useful if you want to perform update check from your premium software.
Software download REST Endpoint to download the latest release for specific software. This is useful if you want to provide updates for your software.
Separate Battle-tested and well-documented WordPress package to create License Activation form and provide updates through your Digital License Manager Software API. Start your WordPress theme/plugin shop today!
Ready to use theme/plugin updater library with integration guide. Useful if you want to integrate license activations to your plugins/themes.
Additional Options to enable or disable features like the “Licenses” access in My Account.
Software download statistics (Coming soon)
PDF certificates of the licenses (Coming soon)

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📃 REST API Documentation

The REST API is one of the crucial features that this plugin provides.

It allows developers to create/update/activate/deactivate/validate licenses through the API.

The REST API documentation can be found on the link below:

See Documentation

📃 All Documentation

The complete documentation can be found on the link below:

See Documentation

📃 Client Libraries

The following client libraries and integrations are available:

➕ Issues / Feature Requests

The development can be tracked on our Github Repository.

Any contributions are welcome! Feel free to submit pull requests or report issues.

Digital License Manager on Github

✔ Important Note

The plugin will create wp-content/uploads/dlm-files directory which stores the cryptographic secrets that are required to decrypt the licenses. If you lose this file, you will lose your license keys as well. Make sure you backup those files!

Screenshots

Licenses - Overview page
Licenses - Add/Edit form
Licenses - CSV Export form
Generators - Overview page
Generators - Add/Edit form
Generators - "Generate" page for generating license keys.
Activations - Overview page
Settings - General
Settings - WooCommerce (if WooCommerce is activated)
Settings - API Keys - Overview
Settings - API Keys - Add/Edit form
My Account - Licenses overview
My Account - Single order page - Shows the licenses
Order Email - Shows the licenses
Re-send licenses via Order page

Installation

Manual installation

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/digital-license-manager directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress Plugins page directly.
Activate the plugin through the Plugins page in WordPress.
Use the License Manager → Settings page to configure the plugin.

Installation through WordPress

Open up your WordPress Dashboard and navigate to the Plugins page.
Click on Add new
In the search bar type “Digital License Manager”
Select this plugin and click on Install now

Important

FAQ

Does it work without WooCommerce?: Yes it does.
How License Activations work?: The License activations are stored as a separate database entries and not using a counter. This allows easier management of License Activation per device/installation/etc.
How to create a license through the REST API?: To create a license through the REST API, please follow this guide.
How to activate a license through the REST API?: To activate a license through the REST API, please follow this guide.
How to deactivate a license through the REST API?: To deactivate a license through the REST API, please follow this guide.
How to validate a license through the REST API?: To validate a license through the REST API, please follow this guide.
I am using “License Manager for WooCommerce”, how to migrate to Digital License Manager?: To migrate to Digital License Manager, please navigate to “License Manager” > “Settings” > “Tools” and here you can find the migration tool. This will copy your data to Digital License Manager supported format. If you used the REST API, we will be providing a fallback REST API for license activation/deactivation/validation endpoints that will be the same url structure as the “License Manager for WooCommerce” but utilize our backend APIs for backwards compatibility. Stay tuned!
Can i assign license keys to past WooCommerce orders that were placed before i installed Digital Licnese Manager?: Yes, you can do this by going to Settings > Tools > “Generate Licneses For Past Orders”. You must select a Generator that will be used to generate keys for the orders.

Reviews

pssplmaulik May 15, 2023

We are making one licensing integration between one web app and WooCommerce. I was impressed with amount of features this plugin provides compared to other licensing manager paid plugins are providing. I was looking for something simple and this plugin made my day. What i liked was they provide REST API in Free version as well along with Validate license option which is not there in other plugins. I would love to use their Paid Plugin with WooCommerce Subscription as they are taking care of renewal as well with existing license key.

imberdev April 21, 2023

I would like to recommend the Digital License Manager plugin for anyone who needs to manage software licenses on their website. This plugin is an absolute game-changer and I cannot recommend it enough! Firstly, the free version of this plugin offers options that are unlike any other license manager plugin out there. You can easily create and manage license keys, set expiration dates, and even limit the number of activations per key. These features alone make this plugin a must-have for anyone looking to manage software licenses on their website. Additionally, the API that comes with the plugin is simply fantastic. As a developer, I have found that the API is incredibly well-documented and easy to use. I have been able to integrate the license manager into my own software without any issues and it has saved me a ton of time and effort. Overall, I am extremely impressed with the Digital License Manager plugin. The free version alone offers so many features that other plugins charge for, and the API is truly top-notch. I would highly recommend this plugin to anyone who needs to manage software licenses on their website!

yoelcortez March 23, 2023 4 replies

me gustaría que haya una opción que permita elegir que la licencia no sea visible en la pagina de gracias de woocommerce porque la pagina de gracias es una pagina publica por lo tanto cualquiera puede ver la licencia si alguien consigue el enlace de la pagina de gracias. o talvez seria mejor que solo sean visibles pocos dígitos de la licencia así (12345******) y lo demás este oculto por un asterisco (*).

jdh1178 March 17, 2023

Worked nicely to do some custom license management (non-woo) work. Very deep and well programmed app (extendable and open) with a simple and easy to use admin. No bloat, no ads...solid. Tried several others and this was def the best of the bunch.

theotheo November 15, 2022

The plugin does everything it says. Really good. Recommended.

berqq October 20, 2022

Thank you so much. I would like to express my thanks to you by translating it into Turkish.

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Contributors & Developers

“Digital License Manager” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.4.3

Release Date – 03 May 2023

Do not enforce expired license validation when deactivting token through the REST API
Add option in Settings > WooCommerce to enable masking the license keys on the public facing pages like Order Received” page
Show My Account licenses status as Expired when license is expired
Fix issue when clearing Generator valeus in edit page
Move “Max Activations” at the bottom before expiresIn in Generator edit
Add support on the dropdown search endpoint for generators
Add “Past Orders License Generator” tool in Settings > Tools that allows users to generate licenses for past orders by selectting Generator.
Add UI improvements to the styling of the Tools page
Add unit tests for orders/products

1.4.2

Release Date – 22 Mar 2023

Fix for PHP wranings caused by the new activations table revamp reported here
Various improvements to the source code for flexibility
Minor improvements for the License Service

1.4.1

Release Date – 13 Feb 2023

Hotfix for Product Edit page issue in the License Manager tab, conditionals were not working

1.4.0

Release Date – 13 Feb 2023

Add support for WooCommerce High Performance Order Storage
Add support to filter /licenses and /generators GET REST API endpoints with query parameters
Add Manual License Activations to allow customers enter manual activations, feature enabled from Settings
Refactored My Account’s single license activations table actions, allow developers to add custom actions here
Add Delete button on the Activations that were added manually in My Account’s single license activations table
Removed jQuery relience, refactored all the javascript to get rid of jQuery completely
Replaced Select2 (jQuery) with Tom-Select, a native JS library for select dropdowns with ajax support
Replaced jQuery UI’s datepicker with flatpicker, a native JS library for date/time picker input
Refactored and simplified license reveal functionality in WooCommerce single order page in admin
Add a filter dlm_woocommerce_order_item_actions for managing the order item actions in the WooCommerce single order page in admin
Fixed issue introduced in v1.3.9 that thrown error when updating a license from admin
Tested compatibility with WordPress 6.2
Tested compatibility with WooCommerce 7.3
A lot of other small code quality improvements

1.3.9

Release Date – 08 Jan 2023

Add Generators Abstraction layer/hook and Abstract class. Read more
Add “Max Activations Behavior” option to “Product Edit” > “License Manager” to make the purchased quantity of the product to be used as max activations limit, by default the old behavior will be preserved and the limit will depend on the Generator/Stock
Add $orderItem parameter to the dlm_skip_licenses_generation_for_order_product filter
Add services layer, move business logic code form Utils\Data to Core\Services, mark the old ones as deprecated and keep it backwards compatible
Fix PHP warnings on certain actions
Update i18n .pot template

1.3.8

Release Date – 16 Dec 2022

Fix possible fatal error when using kadence woocommerce email customizer
Test compatibility with WooCommerce 7.2

1.3.7

Release Date – 12 Dec 2022

Fix logic error that made the order note when no licenses in stock found incorrect
Add action hook dlm_stock_delivery_assigned_licenses($assignedLicenses, $neededAmount, $availableStock, $order, $product) that is triggered once licenses from stock assignment finished. Useful to notify third party something based on the delivered licenses or if no licenses were delivered due to empty stock
Add duplicate check to Licenses import based on plugin settings for allowing duplicates
Add duplicate check warnings into admin notices when importing licenses
Fix issue in Licenses import that allowed empty lines to be imported as empty licenses from clipboard or file
Refactor file import process, moved temporary import file path from plugin folder to uploads
Refactor order licenses resend email/action, the resend was not working on some environments
Make use of ‘paginate’ property for wc_get_products in dropdown search fields
Code quality and formatting improvements

1.3.6

Release Date – 24 Nov 2022

Add code and status to error when license key is not found via rest api.
Refactor Migrator class for better flexibility and reusability, fixes issues related to migrations.

1.3.5

Release Date – 14 Nov 2022

Add support for assinging product variations to Licenses when selling from stock
Rewrite stock syncrhonization functionality
Test with the latest WooCommerce version
Test with the latest WordPress version

1.3.4

Release Date – 04 Oct 2022

Fix conflict with WooCommerce subscriptions in the product editor
Add valid_for that tells how many days the license will be valid after purchased from stock
Improve license create/edit screen field labels wording
Fix invalid markup on the generator create/edit pages in admin
Fix generator title badges in the generators list table in admin
Fix license import functionality, do not set expiry date immediately and make use of the valid_for property
Fix potential issue with stock decreasing and set validFor=null in save license procedure in admin
Fix issue warning thrown when deleting licenses in the admin side, props @pondermatic
Replaced WordPress meta function calls with WooCommerce product/order meta functions calls to comply with upcoming WooCommerce custom tables database implementation

1.3.3

Release Date – 20 Aug 2022

Added option to specify license expiration date/time format in Settings. Props @pondermatic
Fixed issues related to license expiration date/time output consistency. Props @pondermatic
Fixed issues with PHP warnings. Props @pondermatic
Fixed issues in “License Manager for WooCommerce” data migration tool, related to unhandled PHP exceptions.
Fixed several typos in “License Manager for WooCommerce” data migration tool.

1.3.2

Release Date – 26 Jul 2022

Fix typo in the migration file

1.3.1

Release Date – 26 Jun 2022

Fix PHP warning on Admin > Activations page

1.3.0

Release Date – 25 May 2022

Added Support for WordPress 6.0 and WooCommerce 6.5
Added License Certifications feature in PDF format (integrates in WooCommerce and Licenses table admin screens)
Added RestAPI optional ‘token’ parameter to the /activate endpoint to reactivate existing license token and not create new one if needed
Added Single License page in My Account
Added License Activation log in My Account single License page
Added Migration tool for migrating from “License Manager for Woocommerce”
Added permalinks flush mechanism to flush permalinks after plugin activation. Fixes issues with 404 pages in WooCommerce “My Account”
Added “Help” page in “Settings”
Removed redundant valid_for column in the licenses table in favor of expires_at
Fixed issue with the pagination and filters on the License Activations page
Fixed a problem that caused admins not able to clear activation limit on a license (set unlimited activations)
Refreshed admin edit/create screens style
Refreshed admin settings screens style
Simplified the Licenses list table in admin screen
Simplified the WooCommerce templates directory tree
Improved the css/js resource queuing
Improved PHP 8.1 compatibility
Refactor the Abstracts/Interfaces naming to support PSR standard
Upgraded jQuery UI css version to v1.13.1

1.2.2

Release Date – 23 Mar 2022

Fix various notices found
Fix license/validate endpoint. It was returning error response when activation token is deactivated. It should return the activation object with the populated deactivated_at prperty.
Re-write the license generation in WooCommerce
Improve code, add various hooks for better extendibility.

1.2.1

Release Date – 03 Mar 2022

Fix Multisite database/fileystem initial setup. Run the database/filesystem setup on each blog once the plugin is activated network wide.

1.2.0

Release Date – 15 Dec 2021

Complete rewrite of product edit data DLM fields
Added error display when validation fails upon product save
Added welcome notice
Fix admin dropdowns product search
Fix admin dropdowns order search
Fix license update process that removed expiration date
Fix purchased licenses display in the order page
Fix Generator REST API problems related to the delete endpoint
Fix API key last access date/time display
Fix a problem that skipped the creation of the product_downloads table
Fix activations limit calculations
Imrpoved REST API validation and handling
Improved the license expiration display in license table
Updated the product fields. Instead of use stock and use generator this is now a single dropdown.
Code style improvements

1.1.1

Release Date – 10 Oct 2021

Add PRO version references
Minor bug fixes

1.1.0

Release Date – 24 Sep 2021

Add delete rest endpoint for Licenses and Generators
Fix license activation validate endpoint
Fix dlm_rest_api_pre_response filter
Fix Generators update endpoint
Improve “Re-send licenses” button in order screen
Improve Customer delivery email
Code style improvements

1.0.0

Release Date – 19 Jul 2021

Everything is new