Description
With Enwikuna License Manager you have a great and simple plugin to sell and manage licenses for your digital products (optimized for selling WordPress themes & plugins). With its user-friendly interface, Enwikuna License Manager makes it easy to get started and offers basic functionality to help you manage your licenses.
Whether you are selling software, themes, or any other type of digital products, Enwikuna License Manager is a great solution for managing your business. ??
If you are missing something important, feel free to add a new topic to the support forum or write us an e-mail at [email protected], and we will consider adding your idea as a feature in the following releases. ??
Here, you can find our documentation which helps you setting up and using Enwikuna License Manager & Enwikuna License Manager Pro.
Enwikuna License Manager comes with some basic features which can be extended by Enwikuna License Manager Pro. This way you have a great base to use. If you need more, just go pro! ??
?? Basic features
- License overview table including filtering, sorting & bulk actions
- License activations table including filtering, sorting & bulk actions
- Add internal notes to licenses
- Automatic configurable license creation within the order process
- Manual license creation inside orders
- Customer email to inform about new licenses
- Customer email to inform about expiring license
- Customer email to inform about expired license
- Protect pages & products for customers without a valid license for a product
- License deletion during order deletion
- License status model (In Stock > Trial approved | Sold > Delivered > Active | Inactive > Locked)
- Lock license to prevent any interaction
- Generators overview table including filtering, sorting & bulk actions
- Generate licenses to add them to your license stock by using your custom generators
- WooCommerce product import / export support
- Product stock management controlled by license stock
- Configure products to generate licenses based on a generator or assign licenses directly from stock
- Intuitive configurable customer account integration including license activation, deactivation & manual renewal by redirecting the customer directly to the checkout by skipping any complex order process
- Automatically set the expiration date of downloadable files from orders to the expiration date of licenses
- Migration tool to easily migrate from other license managers (License Manager for WooCommerce, Digital License Manager)
- Setup Wizard for a fast & easy configuration
- Intuitive & simple settings page
- Settings import & export (CSV & TXT) to easily copy your settings from one to another page
- Logging system to monitor your automatic license process
- Statuses page including system overview, logs & scheduled actions
- Supports product translation for WPML
- License certificates including license validation check
- Licenses table shortcode [elm_licenses_table]
?? Enwikuna License Manager Pro
Enwikuna License Manager Pro extends Enwikuna License Manager with features like REST API, WooCommerce Subscriptions support, License hosts, Release management e.g. changelog or version and even more.
- Advanced REST API interface for external applications incl. extended auth via JWT (JSON Web Tokens) and development license activation on URL-based hosts
- REST API configuration & keys management to control your REST API access
- Postman collection for a fast REST API integration
- Check which system runs your software by storing received ping calls including different information
- License import & export (CSV & TXT)
- Generator import & export (CSV & TXT)
- Distributor import & export (CSV & TXT)
- Release import & export (CSV & TXT)
- Hosts support – bind your licenses to host like https://www.google.de for later use inside the REST API incl. host binding during initial activation
- License & distributor code encryption / decryption for a better security
- Distributors
- Lock distributor to prevent any interaction
- Release management
- Signed product downloads
- Trial licenses incl. trial license request & approval process
- Admin email to inform about new trial license request
- Admin email to inform about new trial license approval
- Admin email to inform about distributor code redemption
- Customer email to inform about new trial license approval
- Customer email to inform about trial license request unapproval
- Offline license activations
- WooCommerce Subscriptions integration including automatic license renewal
- Request trial license button shortcode [elmp_request_trial_license_btn]
- Redeem distributor code shortcode [elmp_redeem_distributor_code]
Interested? Read more about Enwikuna License Manager & Enwikuna License Manager Pro.
????? Enwikuna License Manager Client
You want to sell WordPress themes & plugins within minutes? Then you should check out our Enwikuna License Manager Client.
Enwikuna License Manager Client is a WordPress plugin which you can provide to your customers or automatically install it on their WordPress website as a plugin.
It will automatically connect to your Enwikuna License Manager REST API and provide your customers with updates. This way, you don’t have to worry about the license activation process anymore!
You can find more details about the Enwikuna License Manager Client on GitHub. We recommend that you fork the repository so that you can configure it according to your needs.
?? Support & development
Our customers have always been our greatest assets. Because it’s no use building a great software but neglecting the customers. Our goal is to become the best license management plugin for WordPress & WooCommerce. For this, we will include every request in our development and implement it as soon as possible. Our customers have always appreciated this approach.
Please read this documentation to see how to make a good support request.
Also, we’re currently developing an app for IOS & Android which will help you manage your licenses on the go!
?? What we offer you as a developer
As a software agency, our focus is naturally also on the developers of this world. Therefore, we have created a dedicated section for developers in our documentation, where we explain in great detail how to customize Enwikuna License Manager & Enwikuna License Manager Pro. If you need any assistance with integrating our plugin into your process, feel free to contact us!
Screenshots
Licenses table 
License activations table 
License trial requests table (Pro) 
Add new license 
View or edit existing license 
Add new license activation 
View or edit existing license activation 
Generate new licenses 
Import licenses (Pro) 
Export licenses (Pro) 
Generators table 
Add new generator 
View or edit existing generator 
Import generators (Pro) 
Export generators (Pro) 
Distributors table (Pro) 
Distributor codes table (Pro) 
Add new distributor (Pro) 
View or edit existing distributor (Pro) 
Add new distributor code (Pro) 
View or edit existing distributor code (Pro) 
Generate new distributor codes (Pro) 
Import distributors (Pro) 
Export distributors (Pro) 
Releases table (Pro) 
Add new release (Pro) 
View or edit existing release (Pro) 
Import releases (Pro) 
Export releases (Pro) 
Products installed on table (Pro) 
REST API keys table (Pro) 
Add new REST API key (Pro) 
WooCommerce product setup 
WooCommerce customer account license detail view 
License certificate 
WooCommerce customer account license validation (when scanning the QR code on the license certificate) 
WooCommerce license product inside store 
Hide page by setting required licenses 
Licenses table shortcode [elm_licenses_table] 
Redeem distributor code shortcode [elmp_redeem_distributor_code] (Pro) 
Migration tool
Installation
Minimum Requirements
- PHP 7.4 or greater is recommended
- MySQL 5.6 or greater is recommended
- WC 4.5.2 or greater is recommended
Read our detailed documentation to understand how you can install Enwikuna License Manager. Instructions about how to install Enwikuna License Manager Pro can be found here.
Below you can find a short description how to install Enwikuna License Manager. Anyway, we recommend reading our documentation!
Automatic installation
The automatic installation is the easiest option. WordPress will handle the file transfer, and you won’t need to leave your web browser. To do an automatic installation of Enwikuna License Manager, log in to your WordPress dashboard, navigate to the Plugins menu, and click ‘Add New’.
In the search field type ‘Enwikuna License Manager’ then click ‘Search Plugins’. Once you’ve found us, you can view details about it such as the point release, rating, and description. Most importantly of course, you can install it by! Click ‘Install Now’, and WordPress will take it from there.
Manual installation
There are 2 ways to perform the manual installation:
WordPress admin dashboard file upload
1. Download Enwikuna License Manager
2. Upload the ZIP file through the ‘Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin’ screen inside your WordPress dashboard
3. Activate the plugin when asked after upload
FTP file upload
This installation method requires downloading the Enwikuna License Manager plugin and uploading it to your web server via your favorite FTP application. The WordPress codex contains instructions on how to do this here.
Updating
Automatic updates should work smoothly, but we still recommend you back up your site. You can find our plugin updates directly within your WordPress admin update page.
Sample data
Enwikuna License Manager comes with some sample data you can use to see how they look and use them for implementation of external scripts. You can find them inside the sample-data folder within the plugin.
Setting export
Within the sample-setting-export.csv you can find an example of the exported settings.
FAQ
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Where can I find the Enwikuna License Manager documentation?
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For help setting up and configuring Enwikuna License Manager, please refer to the documentation.
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Is there a client plugin for the Enwikuna License Manager?
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Yes, there is a client plugin for Enwikuna License Manager. You can find it on GitHub!
It will help you to sell WordPress themes & plugins within minutes. Feel free to share your thoughts with us! -
Which product types are supported?
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We currently support simple & variable products. If you are using WooCommerce Subscriptions, you can also use simple & variable subscriptions as well.
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Why is there a paid extension?
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Maintaining and developing a business software is very time consuming. About 4 people work on such a software in the background. In order to be able to realize a further development according to the wishes of the customers in the long run, it is indispensable to outsource the particularly complex part. This is the only way to ensure further development.
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Can I connect an external database for storing my licenses?
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We’re currently working a feature that will support external storing of your licenses by giving you the option to connect to an external database.
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Is it possible to perform an offline activation of licenses?
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Yes, you can finally do offline activations with Enwikuna License Manager Pro 1.2.0!
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How can I switch from other license managers to Enwikuna License Manager?
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We’ve included a migration tool which can be used to easily migrate to Enwikuna License Manager. After the migration, you’re ready to go! You can find the migration tool under Tools > Enwikuna License Manager > Migrator.
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My question is not listed here. Where can I find more answers?
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Check out Frequently Asked Questions for more.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
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Contributors
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Changelog
1.3.11
- Feature: Ensure WordPress 6.7.0 compatibility
- Feature: Ensure WooCommerce 9.4.2 compatibility
- Bugfix: General bugfixes and improvements
1.3.10
- Feature: Add icon guide to help tab to inform about the different icons used in the plugin
- Feature: Ensure WooCommerce 9.0.1 compatibility
- Feature: Improve lock icon styling
- Feature: Improve account styling
- Feature: Improve error messages for admin and customer
- Bugfix: Fix theme builder overriding license settings
- Bugfix: Fix licenses title visible inside orders when there is a licenses to assign
- Bugfix: General bugfixes and improvements
1.3.9
- Feature: Ensure WordPress 6.6.0 compatibility
- Feature: Ensure WooCommerce 9.1.2 compatibility
- Bugfix: General bugfixes and improvements
1.3.8
- Feature: Add icon guide to help tab to inform about the different icons used in the plugin
- Feature: Ensure WooCommerce 9.0.1 compatibility
- Feature: Improve lock icon styling
- Feature: Improve account styling
- Feature: Improve error messages for admin and customer
- Bugfix: Fix theme builder overriding license settings
- Bugfix: Fix licenses title visible inside orders when there is a licenses to assign
- Bugfix: General bugfixes and improvements
1.3.7
- Feature: Add lock icon to locked licenses
- Feature: Improve settings page
- Feature: Add option to increase allowed license activations instead of creating multiple licenses
- Feature: Display “Never expires” instead of “-” for licenses
- Feature: Add distributor settings
- Feature: Extend internal generators API
- Feature: Improve license overview table activations column styling
- Feature: Add shortcode to display a table of licenses for the current user
- Feature: Ensure WooCommerce 8.9.3 compatibility
- Feature: Ensure WordPress 6.5.4 compatibility
- Bugfix: Fix last name not being used inside email templates
- Bugfix: Fix button positioning inside pro notice
- Bugfix: Fix license activation locked check
- Bugfix: General bugfixes and improvements
1.3.6
- Feature: Ensure WordPress 6.5.3 compatibility
- Feature: Ensure WooCommerce 8.8.3 compatibility
- Bugfix: Add check if the current user is allowed to modify a post object when for example a manager uses the license manager
- Bugfix: Do not show sync stock button on the main stock tab inside WooCommerce products if its a variable product
- Bugfix: General bugfixes and improvements