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License keys your app can actually trust
Attach a license benefit to a product and every paid order issues a key. With your prefix, your expiry rules, and your activation limits. Your software verifies it with one call, server to server.
the license api
Three endpoints. That's the whole integration.
Authenticate with a server-side API key from your admin panel. Keys are hashed at rest, compared in constant time, and rate-limited — the boring security you'd otherwise build yourself.
POST/api/v1/licenses/validate
Check a key on app launch — valid, expired, disabled, or revoked?
POST/api/v1/licenses/activate
Register a named instance — a machine, a site, a seat — against the key's activation limit.
POST/api/v1/licenses/deactivate
Free a seat when the user retires a device, so the limit stays honest.
Send a key to see the response.
Sample keys only — nothing leaves your browser.
A license here always resolves to its order, product, and customer in one response. When a "my key stopped working" email arrives, the answer is in the payload — not in a cross-referencing session across three dashboards.
license.issued
Keys with rules, not just strings
Each license benefit defines how its keys behave. The rules are stamped onto the key at purchase time, so editing a product never breaks keys already in the wild.
- Prefix
- Brand your keys — ACME-XXXX-XXXX reads better than a bare UUID in a support email.
- Activation limit
- Cap how many machines, sites, or seats one key can activate. Or leave it unlimited.
- Expiry
- Keys can expire after a period you choose — days, months, or years from purchase — or last forever.
- Status
- Active, expired, disabled, or revoked. Refunds revoke automatically; you can disable manually any time.
Deactivating frees the seat immediately — the next validate call sees it.
license.revoked
The lifecycle handles itself
- 01
Purchase
Key issued instantly, shown on the order page and in the buyer's portal.
- 02
Activation
Your app registers instances against the limit; buyers see their seats in the portal.
- 03
Refund or cancel
Keys are revoked automatically when the order is refunded or the subscription ends.
- 04
Support
Disable, re-enable, or free seats from the admin panel — effective on the next validate call.
Selling desktop software or a SaaS? See the SaaS license keys and desktop app licensing use cases.
order.paid → delivered
Issue your first key today.
Attach a license benefit to a product and every future checkout ships with a key.
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