Regarding License Ownership and Staging URLs

Hello. I need to know two things:

1) Does my client actually have to fill out the form and make the purchase himself for the licence to work for their website? There is a note to developers on the purchase page that makes this really confusing.

2) One instance for the 69.99 price. Does this mean that having a Staging URL and a Production URL means we need to purchase the $129 license? Again, very confusing on the sales page. Production is dumped into staging so I can;’t always run the free on staging and the pro on production. But it’s the same site. Staging is just used for testing.

I need to purchase this soon.

Thank you!

Hello Matt,

Your client needs to buy his own license of s2Member pro, yes, the developer shouldn’t provide the pro version, the client should.

And the license only counts for live websites, it doesn’t count for Staging websites in other words, you can buy a single-site license and have several test websites. The Primary Domain field should contain the URL of the Production URL.

– Eduan

Hi Matt.

1) Does my client actually have to fill out the form and make the purchase himself for the licence to work for their website? There is a note to developers on the purchase page that makes this really confusing.

It doesn’t have to be the client personally who fills out the purchase form, you can do it for him, but the user account the license is tied to should be his. You can register the account and pay in his name, that’s fine, and he should have the login details for future access even after you don’t work together anymore.

We put this policy in place after having several problems with some site owners who didn’t have the license to their name, or access to the account that did, and had to purchase a new one to get updates of the plugin. And this new way of doing it makes sense and solved that problem.

Think of it as registering the domain name. You can do it for him, but you’d register it under his name and he’d have control over it after you deliver the site and not work with him later.

Does this mean that having a Staging URL and a Production URL means we need to purchase the $129 license?

No, the license is for live WP instances. The staging/testing/development installations don’t count.

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I hope that helps. :)