Title: Selling Plugins
Last modified: November 27, 2023

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# Selling Plugins

 *  Resolved [paul.kelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulkelly/)
 * (@paulkelly)
 * [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selling-plugins/)
 * Are there any other methods of selling plugins, with this plugin managing licencing/
   updates, than WooCommerce?

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 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selling-plugins/#post-17232885)
 * Hi Paul,
 * Thank you for your interest in this plugin!
 * You can sell your licences by whatever method you please. If you are asking “
   has anyone coded an integration to automatically create the licences upon a sale(
   rather than having to create the licences manually)” then I’ve only coded one
   for WooCommerce (and am not aware of someone else doing otherwise). Basically
   you just hook into whatever e-commerce’s solution’s “payment complete” method,
   look at the order to find out the product and number of licences and who the 
   user is, and then call the methods in this base plugin to add the licence entitlements.(
   I suppose that if someone were doing that for a new ecommerce plugin they’d still
   save themselves a lot of time and hence money by getting the WooCommerce integration
   and adapting the code from that).
 * David
 *  Thread Starter [paul.kelly](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulkelly/)
 * (@paulkelly)
 * [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selling-plugins/#post-17232952)
 * David,
 * thanks for the quick and concise response!
 * You describe the hook process so simply….!
   I suppose that I was also wondering
   if there was a payment process built into the plugin. Using WooCommerce is not
   an issue – I just wanted to keep things light on the server.
 * Once my plugin is ready, a new customer is on their way!
   Paul
 *  Plugin Author [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * (@davidanderson)
 * [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selling-plugins/#post-17260865)
 * Hi,
 * Sorry to be slow in replying – I overlooked that there was a question still in
   there.
 * > You describe the hook process so simply….!
 * Ha, yes, I’m quite familiar with the fact that describing something, and doing
   it, can be quite different…. (you hear from customers from time to time who think
   that because their great idea can be described in 3 sentences, therefore it must
   be similarly easy to implement in code…..).
 * > I suppose that I was also wondering if there was a payment process built into
   > the plugin.
 * Nope. The free (base) plugin has methods for adding/editing/removing licences
   and the wp-admin pages on which you can do that manually (i.e. links to call 
   those methods from the admin area); the WooCommerce add-on has the code that 
   calls those methods upon WooCommerce payment events automatically. Integrating
   with any other payment mechanism automatically would be new code for whoever 
   does that integration (but the WooCommerce code can serve as an example and provide
   some of the “boilerplate”).

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 * Last reply from: [David Anderson / Team Updraft](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidanderson/)
 * Last activity: [2 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selling-plugins/#post-17260865)
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