create our own license numbers

We want to use our system to sell and create the licenses but we want to use your system for our software to contact and check the licenses. Is there a way to use the licenses we generate and send them to you as a new license vs requesting a new license from you?

Also we have legacy licenses that we need to support. We do not want to make our customers create new licenses.

ThanksBrian

Hey Brian,

Is there a way to use the licenses we generate and send them to you as a new license vs requesting a new license from you?

Yes, you can do that, but it's circuitous, and not recommended (because it adds another point of failure to the process). But if you're determined to do that, then it would go something like this:

  1. A customer orders your software and you generate one of your product keys. At the same time you also generate a product key in LimeLM and set one of the custom license fields like "old_pkey".
  2. When a user goes to use your product key in your app, then you first have to query LimeLM, through an intermediate script somewhere on your website, to get the LimeLM product key that matches the "old_pkey" you generated. You'd use the limelm.pkey.advancedSearch function and the feature_name[], feature_value[], and feature_match[] parameters.

So, short answer: yes this is possible, but you're adding a lot of extra steps. It'd just be easier to switch to LimeLM's product key system entirely.

And that brings up old customers. How do you switch them over without giving them a hassle? First import your product keys into LimeLM (click "Import product keys" in the sidebar in LimeLM), then see this article: How to switch your licensing to LimeLM and TurboActivate.

Tell me if that helps.

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