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An increasingly common complaint among users who own lots of copies of ExpressionEngine is how hard it is to manage their renewals.  The problem stems from the fact that when you buy EE, it’s licensed to you, not to a particular domain.  You can install it anywhere you want as long as you only run one installation with that license.

So when we send out a renewal notice to someone stating that license number XYZ is going to expire, often, if they run lots of EE sites, they’ll have no idea which one of their installations we’re referring to. To make matters worse, our download area wasn’t very good at helping users figure that out, especially since we don’t track where a license gets installed. 

It finally became clear that we needed to do something about this, so I spent the past couple days going through our entire store/download/renewal process and improving it. 

The biggest change is to our download area.  I reorganized that page so that it displays better information and is sortable. I also and added a “notes” field that lets users store their own information about each license.

Hopefully, especially if you are among our multi-license crowd, you’ll find the new changes helpful.

Thank you - I’ve only got a few licenses, but this will be very very helpful. I’m sure those with dozens of licenses will be even more grateful.

Thank you soooooo much Rick. We noticed the change this morning. Love the changes. This is a huge improvement.

If you’re not already too tired after coding in the store for 2 days, is there a way to push the domain info we entered when we purchased the licenses into the new “notes” field? You know, populate that with the existing domain info we entered when buying licenses?

And will there be pagination at some bench mark?

Thanks to how cool EE is, NetRaising is growing a pretty good pace and we anticipate purchasing a lot more licenses from you in the years ahead.

You don’t have to respond, I just wanted to toss out the ideas.

Thanks again for this improvement.

Huge improvement. I have taken the time to develop a weblog to store all of this info for me in a protected area of my own site, but it would be nice not to have to maintain that, if the info I need is all right here anyway. Thanks!

Bravo, Rick & Co. Thanks so much!

We currently have 17 licenses and I had previously built a quick FileMaker DB to keep track of everything. It will be so much easier with each new license to just drop in a note with the domain, contact person’s info, which server the site is installed on, etc.  Then bookkeeping can manage the renewals and not have to bother me.  😊

If you’re not already too tired after coding in the store for 2 days, is there a way to push the domain info we entered when we purchased the licenses into the new “notes” field? You know, populate that with the existing domain info we entered when buying licenses?

I’m with Kurt here. It would be awesome if the domain info was visible or at least in the “notes” field…

Great work!

That’s not a bad idea, Kurt… Ironically, though I ended up killing the “website” field since it seemed to cause some confusion as to whether the license is for that particular domain.  A lot of people were making that mistake.  Let me give this some thought…

This is seriously almost as exciting as EE 2.0. Great update.

This rocks. Goodbye (well not really) weblog I have that does the same thing.

Good work guys.

Great update. Thanks!

Thank you, definitely helpful.

Thank God.

I mean Rick.  Thank Rick.

I’ll still maintain my ‘CP as a website cos I’m too damn lazy to build a full website’ for storing User Licences as well as relationships to hosting expiry dates and other stuff.

But this is great so thank you!

Thanks for that Rick. Very much appreciated although now I have to remember to keep on updating it every time a client stops using their install, I delete it and then use it on a new clients site 😉

Thanks for the great work though, definitely welcomed.

Best wishes,

Mark

Just realized I have one feature request here - ability to choose a license for upgrading from personal to commercial - currently there’s no option to select which license gets upgraded.