Trial Licenses

All licenses have a Boolean field denoting whether it is a trial or not. This can be seen on the license summary as well as the license detail page:

Particularities of a Trial License

• Trial licenses are the only type of license that can be issued through the License API. In other words, your application can request and activate a trial license without the software vendor's involvement.
• By changing the Boolean value of the is_trial field from True to False , you can upgrade a license.
• Since any license type can also be a trial license, you might notice that a perpetual or a consumption license can also have an expiry date.

Setting a Trial Expiration Date Through the Vendor Platform

You can either set a fixed end date, or a set number of days from the first use of the trial license:

“Upgrading” a Trial License

Any trial license can be edited to modify the license so that it is no longer a trial license, but a full license for your product. To do so:

1. Open the license detail page for that given trial license and Click "Edit License"
2. Uncheck the "Is Trial" box, and click "Save"

Issuing New Trial Licenses

There are a few ways that a trial license can be issued:

• Through the vendor platform on Issuing New Licenses view
• Through the License API using Trial Key endpoint
• Through the Management API using Create Order endpoint