KestrelWP labs · hatched
Licensing hatched. Meet API Manager.
The licensing plugin we were building is here as API Manager for WooCommerce: license keys, activations, and update delivery for software you sell with WooCommerce.
30-day money back
works with subscriptions and Constellation
What shipped
Turn your store into a licensing server.
Sell WordPress plugins and themes, SaaS access, apps, and downloads, and answer activation and update requests from your customers’ software.
License keys
A paid order creates a license with an activation limit and an optional expiry. Use one key per customer or one per product.
Activation limits
Limit sites or devices per license, or allow unlimited activations. Staging and local activations don’t use a slot.
Update delivery
Serve plugin and theme updates from a local zip, Amazon S3, or a remote URL, with expiring download links.
Renewals and subscriptions
Licenses follow WooCommerce Subscriptions or Constellation status, or use their own renewal windows.
PHP client library
Drop the client library into a WordPress plugin or theme to handle activation and update checks.
Customer account
Customers see keys, activations, renewals, and downloads in My Account.
Is it for you?
Built for software sellers.
API Manager fits stores that sell software: WordPress plugins and themes, WooCommerce extensions, desktop or web apps, and other licensed downloads. Your customers activate with a key, and your store answers from its own API.
Plugin and theme shops
SaaS and app developers
Agencies selling their own products
Anyone moving off WooCommerce Software Add-On
Selling software on WooCommerce?
Your licensing server, inside your store.
Try API Manager for 30 days. If it isn’t right, we’ll refund 100 percent.
30-day money back
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