# ZealDen

> WordPress and WooCommerce plugins for payments, license keys, conversion tracking and media storage. Each checks the step that usually fails quietly.

Plans cover 1, 5 or 25 sites per key and are billed yearly, from $29 a year. Every plan has every feature. Prices exclude sales tax and VAT. Polar (polar.sh) is the merchant of record: it sells the plan, adds any sales tax or VAT for the buyer's location at checkout, charges the card and sends the invoice. Every plan, including the bundle, renews every year at the same price until cancelled from the customer account. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the paid year; the key works until then. Several plugins can be bought in one checkout: they are billed together as one yearly subscription, one key per plugin. To change the plugins in it, cancel and choose again at renewal, or contact support. Polar emails the customer a week before each renewal. Every plugin and the bundle also come as a lifetime plan, at about three times the yearly price, paid once: the key never expires and gets updates and support for as long as ZealDen sells the plugin. A lifetime plan is checked out separately from yearly plans. The bundle (the four WooCommerce plugins, four keys, one order; Payments via Polar for EDD is sold separately) has its own price, and like each plugin it comes as a yearly plan or a lifetime plan paid once. Full refund within 14 days. Refunding the first order deactivates its key; refunding a renewal takes back that year. A refund does not cancel the plan. Local copies of a site (localhost, .test, .local, private addresses) do not use one of the key's sites. Staging subdomains do. The code is GPL. After a plan ends the plugin keeps working; updates and support stop. Checkout runs at https://store.zealden.com.

## Plugins
- [Track Them All](https://zealden.com/plugins/track-them-all/): Browser pixel and server-side conversion tracking for nine ad platforms. Each purchase goes to nine ad platforms from the browser and your server, with one ID, so it's counted once.
- [Payments via Polar for WooCommerce](https://zealden.com/plugins/payments-via-polar/): Merchant-of-record payment gateway for WooCommerce. A WooCommerce payment gateway for Polar, the merchant of record that works out, collects and remits sales tax and VAT for you.
- [ZealDen Safe Media Offload](https://zealden.com/plugins/offload-media/): WordPress media offload to Cloudflare R2, Amazon S3 and more. Moves the WordPress media library to Cloudflare R2, Amazon S3 or any S3-compatible storage and serves it from your own domain.
- [ZealDen Sell Your Plugins](https://zealden.com/plugins/license-manager/): License keys and updates for plugins you sell on WooCommerce. License keys, site limits and plugin updates for the software you sell from your own WooCommerce store, with no revenue share.
- [Payments via Polar for Easy Digital Downloads](https://zealden.com/plugins/payments-via-polar-edd/): Merchant-of-record payment gateway for Easy Digital Downloads. An Easy Digital Downloads payment gateway for Polar, the merchant of record that handles sales tax and VAT worldwide. One-time payments.

## Pricing
- [Pricing](https://zealden.com/pricing/): plans, the bundle, renewals, refunds

## Tools
- [Cloudflare R2 pricing calculator](https://zealden.com/tools/r2-cost-calculator/): a WordPress media library's monthly cost on R2, S3, CloudFront, B2 or host disk

## Docs
- [ZealDen docs](https://zealden.com/docs.md): Setup guides and reference for Track Them All, Safe Media Offload, Sell Your Plugins, Payments via Polar and Payments via Polar for Easy Digital Downloads, and help with your license.
- [ZealDen Sell Your Plugins](https://zealden.com/docs/license-manager.md): 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.
- [Beta channel and staged rollouts](https://zealden.com/docs/license-manager/beta-and-rollouts.md): Offer a beta to sites that ask for it, and release a new version to a share of sites first.
- [Dokan vendors](https://zealden.com/docs/license-manager/dokan-vendors.md): Let Dokan vendors sell licensed software, and see their licenses in their dashboard.
- [Licensed products](https://zealden.com/docs/license-manager/licensed-products.md): Turn a WooCommerce product into licensed software, set its site limit, terms and release.
- [Sell Your Plugins: what it doesn't do, and FAQ](https://zealden.com/docs/license-manager/limits-and-faq.md): The limits of Sell Your Plugins, and answers to common questions.
- [Renewals and reminders](https://zealden.com/docs/license-manager/renewals-and-reminders.md): How customers renew, which emails remind them, how Payments via Polar subscriptions renew licenses automatically, and what refunds do.
- [Set up Sell Your Plugins](https://zealden.com/docs/license-manager/setup.md): Install it, add the encryption key, and license your first product.
- [The update API for your plugin](https://zealden.com/docs/license-manager/update-api.md): The four endpoints your plugin calls to activate, validate, update and deactivate, and the drop-in updater that calls them for you.
- [ZealDen Safe Media Offload](https://zealden.com/docs/offload-media.md): Copy your WordPress media library to Cloudflare R2, Amazon S3 or another S3-compatible bucket, and serve it from your own domain.
- [Connect Cloudflare R2](https://zealden.com/docs/offload-media/connect-cloudflare-r2.md): Point Safe Media Offload at an R2 bucket and your own delivery domain. Nothing is offloaded until the connection test passes.
- [Safe Media Offload: what it doesn't do, and FAQ](https://zealden.com/docs/offload-media/limits-and-faq.md): The limits of Safe Media Offload, and answers to common questions.
- [Offload existing media](https://zealden.com/docs/offload-media/migrate-existing-media.md): Move the rest of your media library to the bucket in the background, watch it, and bring it back.
- [Amazon S3 and other providers](https://zealden.com/docs/offload-media/other-providers.md): What each S3-compatible storage provider needs, and how its files are made public.
- [Paid downloads](https://zealden.com/docs/offload-media/paid-downloads.md): How WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads files are kept private, and how to move WooCommerce downloads to a private bucket.
- [Set up Safe Media Offload](https://zealden.com/docs/offload-media/setup.md): The four steps from a new bucket to serving your media from it.
- [WP-CLI](https://zealden.com/docs/offload-media/wp-cli.md): Safe Media Offload's wp zdom commands for status, offloading, verifying and restoring.
- [Payments via Polar for WooCommerce](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar.md): A WooCommerce payment gateway for Polar, the merchant of record that works out, collects and remits sales tax and VAT for you.
- [Payments via Polar for Easy Digital Downloads](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar-edd.md): An Easy Digital Downloads payment gateway for Polar, the merchant of record that handles sales tax and VAT worldwide. One-time payments.
- [Embedded checkout](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar-edd/embedded-checkout.md): Open Polar's checkout in a window over your EDD checkout page instead of sending shoppers to Polar's page.
- [Payments via Polar for EDD: what it doesn't do, and FAQ](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar-edd/limits-and-faq.md): The limits of Payments via Polar for Easy Digital Downloads, and answers to common questions.
- [Set up Payments via Polar for EDD](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar-edd/setup.md): Create the Polar token, add the webhook, enter both organizations, turn the gateway on and take a test purchase.
- [EDD Software Licensing](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar-edd/software-licensing.md): How Payments via Polar for EDD works with EDD Software Licensing, and what hasn't been tested yet.
- [Tax and refunds](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar-edd/tax-and-refunds.md): How Polar handles tax on EDD orders, and how refunds flow between EDD and Polar.
- [Test mode](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar-edd/test-mode.md): EDD's test mode uses your Polar sandbox organization, with its own token and webhook secret.
- [Troubleshooting](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar-edd/troubleshooting.md): Where Payments via Polar for EDD says what's wrong: the Status line, the Webhook line and EDD's debug log.
- [Webhooks](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar-edd/webhooks.md): The webhook Payments via Polar for EDD needs, how Set up in Polar adds it, and how to check it's arriving.
- [Embedded payment form](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar/embedded-checkout.md): Open Polar's checkout in a window over your checkout page instead of sending shoppers to Polar's page.
- [Payments via Polar: what it doesn't do, and FAQ](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar/limits-and-faq.md): The limits of Payments via Polar, and answers to common questions.
- [Set up Payments via Polar](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar/setup.md): Create the Polar token, add the webhook, enter both environments and sync your products.
- [Subscriptions](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar/subscriptions.md): Sell products that renew monthly or yearly, billed by Polar, on their own or with WooCommerce Subscriptions.
- [Tax and refunds](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar/tax-and-refunds.md): How Polar handles tax on your orders, and how refunds flow between WooCommerce and Polar.
- [Test mode](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar/test-mode.md): Take sandbox payments in Polar's separate test organization before you go live. Only store managers and the testers you name can pay.
- [Webhooks](https://zealden.com/docs/payments-via-polar/webhooks.md): The webhook endpoint and events Payments via Polar needs, and how to check them.
- [Track Them All](https://zealden.com/docs/track-them-all.md): Browser pixels and server-side conversion APIs for nine ad platforms, deduplicated, with consent read in each visitor's browser.
- [Connect a platform](https://zealden.com/docs/track-them-all/connect-a-platform.md): The IDs and tokens each ad platform needs, where to find them, and how to test them.
- [Consent and caching](https://zealden.com/docs/track-them-all/consent-and-caching.md): How Track Them All follows your consent plugin, works with page caching, and sets Google Consent Mode.
- [Custom events](https://zealden.com/docs/track-them-all/custom-events.md): Send your own events from PHP or JavaScript, rename platform events, and add a platform of your own.
- [What it sends to each platform](https://zealden.com/docs/track-them-all/data-sent.md): The data Track Them All sends, where it goes, and what it keeps on your site.
- [Events and where they come from](https://zealden.com/docs/track-them-all/events-and-sources.md): The events Track Them All sends, the plugins it listens to, and how purchases are counted.
- [Track Them All: what it doesn't do, and FAQ](https://zealden.com/docs/track-them-all/limits-and-faq.md): The limits of Track Them All, and answers to common questions.
- [Set up Track Them All](https://zealden.com/docs/track-them-all/setup.md): Install the plugin, turn on a platform, test its connection and watch the activity log.
- [Your license](https://zealden.com/docs/your-license.md): What a ZealDen license key gives you, where to find it, and how to activate, move, renew, cancel and refund it.
- [Activate a key](https://zealden.com/docs/your-license/activate-a-key.md): Where each ZealDen plugin keeps its License card, what activating a key does, and how updates arrive.
- [Local copies](https://zealden.com/docs/your-license/local-copies.md): Which copies of your site, such as localhost and .test addresses, don't use one of your plan's seats.
- [Move a key to another site](https://zealden.com/docs/your-license/move-a-key.md): Free a seat on one site and use the key on another.
- [Refunds](https://zealden.com/docs/your-license/refunds.md): How to ask for a refund, and what a refund does to your key and subscription.
- [Renew, cancel or change plan](https://zealden.com/docs/your-license/renew-and-cancel.md): How ZealDen plans renew, how lifetime plans differ, how to cancel or change plan, and what happens to your key when a plan ends.

## Blog
- [Merchant of record, explained: what it takes off you, and which ones work with WooCommerce](https://zealden.com/blog/merchant-of-record-woocommerce/): What a merchant of record does and doesn't do for a software seller, what Polar, Paddle, Lemon Squeezy, Stripe Managed Payments and Freemius really cost at $1k, $10k and $50k a month, and which of them you can use from a WooCommerce store.
- [Payments via Polar now works with Easy Digital Downloads](https://zealden.com/blog/polar-for-easy-digital-downloads/): A new Easy Digital Downloads payment gateway for Polar, the merchant of record that handles sales tax and VAT worldwide: what it does, what it checks, what it doesn't do yet, and how it was tested.
- [What Cloudflare R2 really costs for a WordPress site](https://zealden.com/blog/cloudflare-r2-cost-wordpress/): Cloudflare R2 pricing worked out for a real WordPress media library: what one upload stores, the monthly cost against S3, CloudFront, Backblaze B2 and your host's disk at three store sizes, the one-off cost of moving, and a calculator for your own numbers.
- [Stripe isn't available in your country? How to sell software to the world anyway](https://zealden.com/blog/sell-software-without-stripe/): From Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Vietnam and other countries Stripe doesn't support: which payment routes work, what a $79 sale leaves you on each, when the money arrives, and the mistakes that freeze accounts.

## Optional
- [Full text for LLMs](https://zealden.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Terms and refunds](https://zealden.com/legal/terms-and-refunds/): Who sells ZealDen plugins, what a license key gives you, how plans renew and how to cancel, and how refunds work.
- [Privacy](https://zealden.com/legal/privacy/): What personal data ZealDen processes on zealden.com, on the store and through license checks, why, for how long, and your rights.
- [Licensing and GPL](https://zealden.com/legal/licensing-and-gpl/): The software license our plugins use, what a ZealDen license key does and doesn't gate, and the third-party code we bundle.