Issuing New Licenses

there are a few ways you can issue licenses manually through the vendor platform through the management api with one of our integrations our data model before issuing a license, it might help to know how our data model is organized licensespring platform layout a license can belong to an order you can have 0 to many licenses for an order an order can belong to a customer you can have 0 to many orders for a customer a customer can belong to an account you can have 0 to many customers for an account a license will belong to an order if you do not specify an orderid, a random orderid will be generated orders do not need to belong to customers however, it can be useful to have this association for analytics, or for customer support, for example issuing new licenses manually through the vendor platform we are assuming you have already created a product within your vendor account to issue a new license for your product, click on the "licenses" tab on the left, and then click on "create new order on the right of the screen license list on platform the next screen allows you to add order identifiers and customer information, if you want to, but it's optional click next adding customer to license the next screen allows you to configure the licenses you wish to issue click "add product", and a configuration screen allows you to configure the entitlements that you will be adding to the license adding product to license select the product you want to issue licenses for, and then configure the licenses you wish to issue you can select a license policy if you have created any when configuring the product otherwise, select "use custom values" and it will allow you to fully customize the license entitlements that will go on it you can specify many different options such as the license type perpetual, time limited, subscription, or consumption based which features should be added to a license how many devices can node lock to a license with the "max activations" field unique values for the license custom fields etc when you are done configuring the license entitlements, click "confirm" configuring license review your license configuration on the "confirm order" screen, and press "create order" when you are done the order detail page will appear on the next screen where you can retrieve your new licenses creating order list of licenses associated with order