Setting Up User Based Licensing
User-based licensing allows software or service assigned to license users. Unlike traditional licensing protected with a license key, this approach focuses on the users themselves, making it ideal for tracking, activation limits, and management.
This guide walks you through creating a user-based product, issuing licenses, and assigning users in LicenseSpring.
User-Based Licenses can still be node-locked, since LicenseSpring still supports
Create a User-Based Product
Navigate to the Products tab in the dashboard.
Click Add New Product (top-right corner).
Complete the required fields:
Product Name
Product Code
Optional configurations:
Floating Timeout (minutes): for floating licenses, determines how often the end-user app checks the license to remain registered.
Product has trial period (You can set the trial period)
Product has file
Click Next to confirm.
Set the Authorization Method to User: This ensures that licenses for this product will be managed on a per-user basis, which is required for user-based licensing.
Your product will now appear in the list with Authorization Method: USER, indicating it’s a user-based product.
Add Products to the License
In this step you add the product to the license.
Select the user-based product you created earlier.
Optional settings:
License Policy
Air-Gapped Option
Custom License Values
Click Confirm (top-right) to finalize.
The newly created product will appear in the product list:
Click Next to review all order information, then select Confirm to complete the steps.
At this point, the license exists but no user is assigned yet. Under License Key / User, it will show Not Assigned as illustrated in the screenshot above.
Assign a User to the License
Navigate to the Licenses section.
Select the user-based license you want to assign.
Click Assign License User.
Either:
Select an existing user, or
Create a new user
Once completed, the license will show the assigned user (e.g. [email protected]). Please note that only users with License Manager permissions can assign licenses to other users.
Users with License Manager permissions can refer to the License Manager Guide for instructions on assigning users and managing the User Portal.
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