License Utilization
The number of licenses purchased equals the number of sites where you can use them. However, you can also use one free license for development site additionally to every purchased one. This free license is automatically available after the purchase. Practically, it means that localhost, staging and development environments will not get counted toward the license’s maximum allowed sites if its domain name is clearly a dev or staging site.
TLDs that are considered as dev or staging:
*.dev
*.test
*.local
*.staging
*.example
*.invalid
*.myftpupload.com
(GoDaddy)*.cloudwaysapps.com
(Cloudways)*.wpsandbox.pro
(WPSandbox)*.ngrok.io
(tunneling)
Subdomains that are considered as dev or staging:
local.*
dev.*
test.*
stage.*
staging.*
stagingN.*
(SiteGround;N
is an unsigned int)*.staging.wpengine.com
(WP Engine)dev-*.pantheonsite.io
(Pantheon)test-*.pantheonsite.io
(Pantheon)staging-*.kinsta.com
(Kinsta)staging-*.kinsta.cloud
(Kinsta)*.mystagingwebsite.com'
(Pressable)
Additionally, if your domain is localhost
(with any port), it will also be treated as a localhost domain.
If you want to utilize a license on a dev site that doesn’t fit the criteria listed above you can deactivate the license from within the Accout page in their WP Admin dashboard, and then reuse the license.
Prorations and upgrades
For lifetime license holders
In case you want to upgrade your lifetime license from 1 site to 3 sites or 25 sites, there is a special period of one week after the initial purchase when you can do such upgrade as upgrade. It means you will just have to pay the difference between the prices of the license. After that you cannot upgrade with proration, but only buying a new license for the full price.
For annual license holders:
Similar to the terms described for lifetime license holders, there is a special period of one week after the initial purchase when you can do upgrade just by paying the difference. So, plan your purchase in advance ;)
For all:
As a reminder, we use Freemius.com service as our payment processing provider and license management system. All our customers has access to Freemius User's Dashboard where they can manage the data related to their orders.
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