Addons and Custom Licenses

Hey guys....

I love the feature to add features to existing serial numbers using the custom license field. It's very similar to the In-App purchase of Apple. The only downfall with this method is that it has to be connected to your shopping cart to be able to automate activation. A user purchases an addon or plugin and the only way to activate this is that after purchase, your shopping cart has to send a message to activate it on that serial.

It would be good to have sub-license serial numbers for each feature. That way the user enters a separate serial number for the feature the purchased feature. This would eliminate the need for extra programming on the shopping cart side. The other option is doing this manually, which is a headach.

With all this being said, is it possible to add a new product license that activates a feature of another product? Would that conflict with the Turbo.Activate versions?

Anyone using extra features to up-sell Add-ons to an existing product with Main serial?

Well, you could do separate product versions in LimeLM, and use separate TurboActivate instances within your app (or handles if you're using C/C++), and that would accomplish what you're looking for.

Of course, that makes things much more complicated on the client-side.

The better method is to use custom license fields: https://wyday.com/limelm/help/license-features/

Of course that means you have to do a bit more work on the "shopping cart" side.

It's a tradeoff either way.

Let me know if that helps.

Ok I'll go the Extra Features route. The only issue I see is that when a user purchases, even though the cart sends the activation to the serial, the user won't receive the addon until Turbo Activate does it's check. Is that correct?

How can we get this to happen upon a user successfully purchasing?

>> "How can we get this to happen upon a user successfully purchasing?"

Whether you use custom license fields for new features in your app, or if you use separate product keys, the customer will have to take an action in your app. In the case of the product keys, the action is entering the product key and pressing activate. In the case of custom license fields, it amount to clicking a button:

https://wyday.com/limelm/help/license-features/#change-field-read-new

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