# ZealDen Sell Your Plugins

> Sell software from WooCommerce with a license key on every order, a site limit that holds, and updates only for licenses that are paid up.

ZealDen Sell Your Plugins issues a license key with each WooCommerce order, limits how many sites a key can run on, and delivers updates to the sites that hold a working license. No revenue share: it runs on your own store.

![WooCommerce › Licenses: summary tiles, filters and the license list with keys, products, customers, sites, expiry and status. Customer names, emails and keys are masked.](../../../../assets/docs/elm-licenses.png)

**1** Create licenses, for keys you hand out without an order. Customer names, emails and keys are masked in this screenshot.

## Requirements

- WordPress 6.6 or later
- WooCommerce 8.0 or later
- PHP 8.1 or later, with OpenSSL

## What it does

- **Keys on every order**, generated per sale or taken from keys you import. Customers get them in the order email, on the thank-you page and under **My Account › Licenses**.
- **A site limit that holds**, even when two sites activate at the same moment. Customers free a seat themselves.
- **Expiry and updates periods**: a license can work for a set time or forever, and get updates for a set time or forever.
- **Updates** your plugins download through a signed link that expires within the hour, with a beta channel and staged rollouts.
- **Renewals** that keep the same key on the same sites, reminder emails, and automatic renewal with Payments via Polar subscriptions.
- **Keys encrypted at rest** with AES-256-GCM, under a key you keep in `wp-config.php`.
- **Refunds revoke keys**, fully or per returned unit.
- **Dokan vendors** can license their own products.

## Where to go next

- [Set it up](/docs/license-manager/setup/)
- [Licensed products](/docs/license-manager/licensed-products/)
- [The update API for your plugin](/docs/license-manager/update-api/)
- [Renewals and reminders](/docs/license-manager/renewals-and-reminders/)
- [Beta channel and staged rollouts](/docs/license-manager/beta-and-rollouts/)
- [Dokan vendors](/docs/license-manager/dokan-vendors/)
- [What it doesn't do, and FAQ](/docs/license-manager/limits-and-faq/)

Checked against ZealDen Sell Your Plugins 1.1.4 on main, 19 October 2026.