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As default, when order completed (or pending) the plugin generate a licence key or extract one from the pre-defined list of keys. This is a common set-up for majority of sites which is very easy to achieve through the WooCommerce Software License plugin.

WooCommerce Software Licence can work with WooCommerce Subscription to sell products and services with recurring payments. This provides a powerful tool to provide licensing for recurring products.

The dashboard licence interface display all licence keys available for all customers on the site. This is the place where the admin can easily manage keys. As default the interface include the following columns: Order ID Key / Licence Status Product Customer Licence Group Licence Key Expire Key Date Active Domain Actions

When creating new order either through admin or customer check-out, the licensing information is being created for each product and saved as WooCommerce order item meta field. The licensing details are used later when interacting with API or displaying detailed information about licence, like customer account.

Licence Keys is a reliable tool to maintain control over code install, maintenance and update. As default, on key activation, a unique client id ( usually the domain name) is assigned to the key. This is being used further to allow API interaction like updates.

Licensing expiration can apply to any licence, the set-up is very easy complete, and it’s been described at Create expiration for license product. A time range availability is set for an expiring licence, meaning after predefined end date the keys will go offline.