Add real licensing to your software.Keep selling through Stripe.
Stripe collects the money but ships no way to activate, validate or revoke a license. To your code, a paying customer and a cracked copy look identical, and one seat quietly gets shared across a whole team. The usual fix is to build and babysit your own license server. Skip it. Keep selling through Stripe and switch on a License Server that issues signed tokens, validates them, and ties every license to a live subscription.
Keep Stripe. Bolt licensing on top
You already take payments through Stripe. The missing piece is licensing, and Stripe does not ship one. So teams build it themselves: an auth server, signed tokens, key rotation, an endpoint to check against, and a maintenance job that never ends.
The License Server is that layer, ready to run. Customers keep buying through your Stripe, and every active subscription becomes a valid license behind the scenes.
No payment migration, no second checkout, no home-grown licensing backend to own.
You distribute the build. The license unlocks it
You already have a way to get your software to customers, your own installer, your site, a package repo. The License Server does not replace that, and it does not need to host your file to protect it. It adds the license that decides whether an installed copy is allowed to run.
Every active subscription issues a token your software checks on its own. Installed anywhere, a copy without a valid token will not run, and the token only stays valid while the customer keeps paying.
So you ship the software however you like, and the licensing follows the subscription instead of the file.
Real license tokens you can actually enforce
The License Server is a subscription subtype built for licensing software, plugins and APIs. Every active subscription issues a signed JWT token with a configurable TTL, so a license only lives while the customer keeps paying.
Your software validates each token against a public JWKS endpoint, the standard way to verify a signature without calling home on every check. Bind a token to a device so one seat can't be shared across a whole team, renew it as billing continues, and use the heartbeat endpoint to catch a copy that has gone quiet.
Stop paying and the token expires. Renew and a fresh one is issued. No cracked-copy guesswork, no chasing down keys by hand.
A licensing stack without the build
Everything you would otherwise write and babysit on top of Stripe.
Self-expiring licenses
Every subscription issues a signed JWT with a TTL, so a license only lives while the customer keeps paying.
Validate without phoning home
Check each token against a public JWKS endpoint, the standard way to verify a signature offline.
Bind, renew, heartbeat
Endpoints and API keys to tie a license to a device, renew it with billing, and cut off seats gone quiet.
Stays on your Stripe
Recurring billing through your own Stripe account. No payment migration, no second processor.
Distribute it your way
Ship your plugin, binary or installer through your own channel. The license token, not a file host, controls whether it runs.
Your brand, no platform cut
Run the whole licensing portal on your own domain and colors, keeping every euro minus Stripe's rate.
What delivers this: the product types and features behind this setup.
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Licensing questions
What developers ask before adding a licensing layer.
Stop the piracy without rebuilding your billing
Keep your Stripe, add a License Server that issues, binds and validates tokens, and control activation under your own brand. See the plans, or book a call and we will walk through the setup.