Licenses and updates
How the Folioline license works, how updates arrive, moving a license to another site, and what happens when it expires.
Your Folioline license key comes with your purchase from extendiment.com. It's what lets your site download Folioline updates.
Activating
Under Folioline on the Plugins screen, paste the key from your purchase email and click Activate. See Installation for the full steps.
An All Access key works too: it covers every Extendiment plugin. Enter it under each plugin you use; on one site they all share a single activation, so a 1-site key covers every plugin on that site.
The box under the plugin shows where things stand:
| The box says | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Enter your Folioline license key… | No key yet. The plugin works; updates can't be installed. |
| License ••••••••ABCD is active on this site, with updates until (date). | All good. |
| Your license has expired, so updates have stopped… | Renew, then activate again. |
| This license has been disabled… | Contact us. |
| This license is no longer active on this site… | The activation was removed. Activate the key again. |
If activating fails, the reason is shown next to the button, such as an unknown key or a key that has reached its number of sites.
Updates
Updates work like those from WordPress.org. WordPress checks for a new version of Folioline along with your other plugins, shows it on the Plugins and Dashboard → Updates screens, and installs it when you click Update now. View details shows what changed. You can also turn on Enable auto-updates for Folioline on the Plugins screen.
Updates come from extendiment.com, and only download while your license is active on the site. Without an active license, WordPress can still tell you there's a new version, but the update fails with a message that the package isn't available.
When the license expires
Folioline keeps working: every feature stays, and invoices go on being issued.
What stops is updates: WordPress can still tell you about a new version, but can't install it. Renew the license from the link in your purchase email. The site checks the license once a week, so the box shows the renewal within a week; to see it straight away, enter the key and click Activate again.
Moving to another site
A license key can be active on as many sites as your purchase allows. To move it:
- On the old site, click Deactivate license under Folioline. This frees the activation. (With an All Access key, deactivate it under every Extendiment plugin there: the activation is freed with the last one.)
- On the new site, enter the key and click Activate.
If the old site is already gone, contact us and we will free its activation.
Deleting Folioline and choosing Delete it permanently in its deactivation prompt also frees the activation.
Staging and development sites
Staging and local sites don't count toward the sites your key allows. Activate the key there as on any site; the Plugins screen then says it's a staging site. Each key gets three of these. Extendiment tells them apart by the site's address: a staging, dev or test subdomain or folder, a .local or .test address, a local address, or your host's staging domain. Beyond three, a staging site counts like any other.
You can also leave the license inactive on a staging copy: the features work without it, only updates don't download there.
Notices from Extendiment
Now and then Folioline shows a short notice from Extendiment at the top of the dashboard, to admins who can manage plugins: a security update to install, or a sale on All Access. Close one with its × and it stays closed, for every Extendiment plugin on the site. A security notice has no ×: it goes once the update is installed. These notices come with the update check, so nothing extra is sent.
What's sent, and when
The license check sends only your license key, the plugin's name and your site's address, and only to extendiment.com. It happens at three moments: when you activate the license, when you deactivate it, and once a week to check it's still valid.
To find updates, WordPress asks extendiment.com for the latest Folioline version, with the answer kept for 12 hours. That request includes the installed version, your site's domain, and the WordPress, WooCommerce and PHP versions, plus the license key in a request header while the license is active. Nothing about your orders, invoices or files is ever sent.