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License Manager for WooCommerce

by Saad Iqbal · eCommerce

Also makes 49 other plugins · 1.3M+ installs across the portfolio →

Easily sell and manage software license keys through your WooCommerce shop

How scoring works →
89 Health · A
Maintenance 100/100
Rating quality 89/100
Support 70/100

89 health vs 68 average across 5,563 eCommerce plugins

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

98 / 100

Excellent listing optimization

Well tuned across the board

Update recency 100/100
WP compatibility 100/100
Rating quality 89/100
Listing tuning 100/100
Support resolution 100/100

Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,425 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

+48% vs prior 30d
0Downloads · Aug 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

6.6K

now · peak 10.7K

6.6K30d downloads · Aug 26

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

License Manager for · #2916 you Google for WooCommer · #74 WooCommerce PayPal P · #81 WooCommerce Stripe P · #85

Rating trend

Star average over time · dips mark rough releases

4.6Stars · Aug 26

Update activity

How busy the existing users are, measured as downloads in the last 30 days for every 1,000 active sites. A spike means a new release everyone's pulling; a long, slow decline means an aging user base that updates less.

1.1Kper 1k installs · Aug 26

Release cadence

Actively maintained
from wp.org release tags

How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

7

releases in the last 12 months

2mo ago

latest release · v3.0.18

37

tagged releases on record

Recent releases

3.0.18 · 2mo ago3.0.17 · 3mo ago3.0.16 · 4mo ago3.0.15 · 6mo ago3.0.14 · 9mo ago3.0.13 · 11mo ago3.0.12 · 12mo ago3.0.11 · 1.5y ago3.0.10 · 1.5y ago3.0.9 · 1.7y ago3.0.8 · 2.0y ago3.0.7 · 2.3y ago3.0.6 · 2.5y ago3.0.5 · 2.7y ago

What its installed base runs

via wordpress.org

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 92% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

v3.0 92%
v2.2 7.7%

Estimated active installs

The public count shows “6K+”. Our estimate pins where the real number sits.

tracked estimate
6K–7K ≈6.7K

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2019-10-22 · 1,428 observations

6KInstalls · Aug 26

Estimated value

What this plugin might earn a year, and what it might sell for. Modeled from public signals; we don't see anyone's books.

Est. annual revenue

N/A

Est. acquisition value

N/A

No paid tier is visible, so we don't put a figure on revenue or sale value: that would be guessing. The install base is a real asset to an acquirer, just not one public data lets us price. A small install base leaves thin data to model from.

Details

Version
3.0.20
Last updated
22d ago
Added
2019-02-19 · 7 yrs old
Requires WP
4.7
Tested up to
7.0.4
Requires PHP
7.0

Recent reviews

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  1. tracyandersonmd
    7mo ago

    I am admittedly accustomed to a faster response time to a problem, but once we got things going they stayed on top of it until it was fixed. The plugin itself has worked great.

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  2. neoset
    8mo ago

    Excellent internal logic and an API system that works flawlessly. Great work, thank you for everything.

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  3. jlc1964
    10mo ago

    It took me a while to get everything working correctly. Unfortunately, I started by watching a point and click setup video, which only confused me. That approach just doesn’t work for how my brain operates and I knew better! I should have gone straight to the developer documentation and GitHub files from the start. Overall, this plugin does exactly what it claims to do. Once I wrapped my head around the process and properly configured my own plugin to call the API correctly, it works great.Once I read through the Developer API documentation and got my own plugin to activate successfully, everything’s been fairly smooth!The only issue I am having is that: The documentation doesn’t show a true reactivation endpoint that reuses existing tokens. The /activate/ endpoint always creates new activation records. I do not like the clutter in the activation page everytime I deactivate and activate. I am trying to figure out how to activate on the same token so I don’t get all the clutter. This is not clear to me or maybe it is not a function? This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by jlc1964. This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by jlc1964. This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by jlc1964. This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by jlc1964.

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  4. Grafiman
    1.0y ago

    I have not access to plugin after installation. This topic was modified 10 months, 3 weeks ago by Grafiman.

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  5. lazy4
    1.5y ago

    First of all: we have not tested this plugin with themes or plugins for WordPress. So it may well be that it works well with wordpress-stuff. We wanted to use this plug-in to validate the licenses of our software.The way this plug-in was programmed is really miserable. The programmer obviously didn’t want to over-implement a single line of code and decided for the most trivial of implementations.For example: there is a value for ‘expires_at’ and a value for ‘valid for days’. But both fields exclude each other instead of the plugin is calculating the other value. So on the client side you first have to check which value comes back and then of course you have to implement two checks, one for each possible value.The plugin obviously does not perform any calculations, but only transmits static data from the database. A well-made plugin, where the programmer also thinks about the implementation, would return a calculated value for ‘days_remining’, regardless of which value was entered in WordPress. We purchased the pro-version but will give this plug-in up now. The example I described is just one trap you fall into when you have to query the API response yourself. This topic was modified 1 year, 4 months ago by lazy4.

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  6. 92prisma92
    1.6y ago

    I am using this plugin on a site that sells software, and it works flawlessly.I was experiencing a problem with duplicate keys but thanks to the support I was able to trace the problem (which was not caused by this plugin but by another one) and resolved the issue.

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  7. d3arts
    1.6y ago

    Very good plugin!

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  8. Digital Challenge
    1.7y ago

    This is a great plugin for managing licenses. It works with no problems, and it has many filters to apply my own customizations. Great work!

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Latest updates

via wp.org changelog

Recent releases and news for this plugin

  1. 2026-08-07 Version 3.0.20 Tweak – Freemius SDK update 3.0.20
  2. 2026-08-06 Version 3.0.19 Improved – Enhanced plugin security and stability. 3.0.19
  3. 2026-06-30 Version 3.0.18 Tweak – Code improvement 3.0.18
  4. 2026-05-21 Version 3.0.17 – Tweak – Compatible with WordPress Version 7.0 3.0.17
  5. 2026-05-14 Version 3.0.16 Improved – Enhanced plugin security and stability. 3.0.16
  6. 2025-12-08 Version 3.0.15 Tweak – Update UI/UX improvement 3.0.15

Known vulnerabilities

via Wordfence Intelligence

9 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

  1. 2026-08-18 CVE-2026-73345 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects <= 3.0.18 Patched in 3.0.19
  2. 2026-07-21 CVE-2026-61958 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.0.17 Patched in 3.0.18
  3. 2026-06-19 CVE-2026-56013 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key Affects <= 3.0.15 Patched in 3.0.16
  4. 2025-09-05 CVE-2025-58788 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects <= 3.0.12 Patched in 3.0.13
  5. 2025-04-10 CVE-2025-32522 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects <= 3.0.9 Patched in 3.0.10
  6. 2024-06-20 CVE-2024-1639 Missing Authorization Affects <= 3.0.6 Patched in 3.0.7
  7. 2023-11-23 CVE-2023-48742 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command ('SQL Injection') Affects <= 2.2.10 Patched in 2.2.11
  8. 2023-07-18 CVE-2023-33999 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') Affects 2.2.5 - 2.2.9 Patched in 2.3-beta.1
  9. 2022-03-04 CVE-2022-4974 Missing Authorization Affects < 2.2.6 Patched in 2.2.6

Vulnerability records provided by Wordfence Intelligence. Copyright 2012-2026 Defiant Inc. License and terms.

CVE records: Copyright 1999-2026 The MITRE Corporation. CVE terms of use.

Behavioral tests

via WP Hive

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0

Low memory footprint
Low page-speed impact
Runs on latest PHP + WP
No PHP errors
No JS errors
Activates cleanly
No resource errors
No external HTTP errors
Optimized database use
Frequently updated

Languages

via translate.wordpress.org

Translated into 27 languages, 1 at 90% or more

Russian 100%
Dutch 86%
Dutch (Formal) 85%
Turkish 83%
Swedish 77%
Czech 71%
German 69%
Persian 65%
Spanish (Colombia) 65%
Spanish (Mexico) 65%
Spanish (Spain) 65%
Spanish (Venezuela) 65%
Chinese (China) 64%
French (France) 64%
German (Formal) 64%
Spanish (Ecuador) 64%
Croatian 61%
Finnish 60%
Italian 58%
Norwegian (Bokmål) 54%
English (UK) 31%
Japanese 26%
Ukrainian 14%
Slovak 12%

Plus 3 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

  1. 2026-02-17 7K+ → 6K+ down after 329 days in tier
  2. 2025-03-25 6K+ → 7K+ up after 1 days in tier
  3. 2025-03-24 7K+ → 6K+ down after 1 days in tier
  4. 2025-03-23 6K+ → 7K+ up after 649 days in tier
  5. 2023-06-13 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
  6. 2023-06-12 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1 days in tier
  7. 2023-06-11 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
  8. 2023-06-10 6K+ → 5K+ down after 79 days in tier

Competes with

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