Name: SoftActivate Licensing
Brand: SoftActivate

How It Works

From signup to a licensed application in four steps

Create your account

Sign yourself up. Your account is ready right away, with a seeded sandbox already loaded to explore.

Define products & templates

Set up your products and license templates in the console. Decide validity, activation limits, device limits, and subscription terms.

Issue licenses

Generate license keys directly, or let orders from your payment provider create them for you.

Activate in your app

Add the native SDK to your application. It handles online activation, offline validation, and deactivation when someone moves to a new machine.

Everything Your Licensing Needs

One service covering the full license lifecycle

License keys & templates

Every license key comes from a reusable template. Set the validity period, activation and device limits, and any custom metadata once, then reuse it.

Online activation with device limits

Activations are tied to a hardware fingerprint, so device limits are enforced automatically. When a customer gets a new machine, a deactivation call frees up the old seat - no support ticket needed.

Offline validation, proven cryptographic standards

Licenses are signed documents, anchored to a real certificate chain. Your app checks them locally, so it doesn't need to phone home every time it starts.

Subscriptions & renewals

Recurring licenses renew automatically when payment succeeds. Grace periods cover late payments, and your app can react to a clear payment-required status.

Real-time analytics & reports

See sales summaries, reports by country and product, and your top sellers. Activation analytics are counted from real activations, not estimated.

Sandbox mode

Every account comes with a sandbox: seeded with realistic sample data, resettable any time. Try every feature, including SDK activation, without touching your live data.

Team management

Invite your team, assign roles, and check the event log any time to see what happened in your account.

REST API & payment webhooks

Everything you can do in the console, you can also do through the REST API. Payment webhooks turn a completed order into a license automatically.

Your Licensing at a Glance

Real-time KPIs, sales reports, licenses and activations - this is the console, shown here with seeded sandbox data

SoftActivate Licensing console dashboard with orders, revenue and activations charts

Dashboard - orders, revenue and activations

Sales summary report

Built Like Infrastructure, Because It Is

Your licensing service sits on your product’s critical path. Ours is built to handle that.

Grows With Your Business

A big launch, a seasonal sale, a sudden spike in demand - the service scales to meet it automatically. Capacity isn't something you have to plan for or think about.

Security You Can Trust

Every license key and signing certificate is protected by industry-standard cryptography and a PKI trust chain - the same foundations the rest of the industry relies on to keep sensitive data safe.

An On-Premise Option for Enterprise

Enterprise customers can run SoftActivate Licensing Server instead: the same licensing service, console and client SDK, installed on your own infrastructure, with every certificate and key in your custody. Read the self-hosted docs, or talk to us.

Frequently Asked Questions

No. The entire licensing backend - key issuance, activation, subscriptions, analytics - runs as a managed cloud service. Your application talks to it through the client SDK or the REST API. There is nothing to install, patch or scale on your side.

Native C++ for Windows, Linux and macOS (Apple Silicon), plus a fully managed .NET SDK - written from the ground up in .NET, with no native dependencies - distributed as a NuGet package. See the SDK page for downloads and details.

A device that currently holds an active license activation. The SDK’s hardware fingerprinting keeps each device counted once, and a deactivation call lets your customers move a license to a new machine themselves. Pricing tiers are based on how many active devices you have - see pricing.

Yes. Every issued license is a cryptographically signed document, anchored to a public-PKI trust chain. The SDK validates it locally, so your application can check its license with no network connection at all - and you can still configure lease-based re-checks if you want them.

The Licensing SDK (Legacy) is our on-premises product: you buy it once and run the licensing server yourself. SoftActivate Licensing is the same expertise delivered as a subscription, with no infrastructure to manage and a few things the on-prem product doesn’t have, like real-time activation analytics and a full subscription lifecycle. See the comparison page for the details.

Plans are available today, and every plan starts with a 14-day free trial at the pricing shown on the pricing page. Right now, tier limits are soft: nothing stops working while we keep an eye on usage. Hard enforcement will arrive later, and we’ll announce it well in advance.

License signing keys are kept in a dedicated, hardened key store and never leave it. All traffic is encrypted with TLS, and every tenant’s data is isolated by design. Details are in the privacy policy and terms of service.

Have more questions?

Ship licensing this week, not this quarter.

Create a free account, explore the seeded sandbox, and activate your first license - all before your coffee gets cold.

Software licensing as a service. No self-hosting required.