Sell WordPress Plugins From Your Own Site
You built a great WordPress plugin or theme. Selling it should be simple, and the money you earn should be yours. Bodholdt Licensing turns your own WordPress site into a complete store for licensed software: payments, license keys, automatic updates, and a customer portal, all in one plugin you run yourself.
Nobody takes a cut of your sales
Bodholdt Licensing runs on your own site and connects to your own Stripe account. You pay one annual price for the plugin, chosen from the published plans, and there is no per-sale cut on top of it. Nobody takes a cut of your sales except your payment processor. Your customers, your store, and your sales data all stay on infrastructure you control.
What Bodholdt Licensing does
- Stripe checkout. Sell subscriptions, one-time purchases, and lifetime licenses. Free trials, mixed carts, and automatic handling of renewals, cancellations, and failed payments are all built in.
- License keys with domain activation. Each key activates on the number of sites its tier allows, with secure validation.
- Automatic updates. Your customers get updates in their WordPress dashboard, delivered from your own server, the same way updates arrive for any plugin they know.
- An SDK generator. Generate a ready-to-drop-in licensing client for your own plugins, so activation, updates, and feature gating work without you writing the plumbing.
- A customer portal. Buyers look up their keys, see their active domains, and manage their own subscriptions.
- Reports. Revenue, MRR, license health, and seat utilization, so you can see how the business is doing. Studio and Foundry.
Set it up in about ten minutes
- Install and activate the plugin on your site.
- Connect your Stripe account.
- Add your products and tiers.
- Follow the guided setup wizard, and start selling.
A seven-day evaluation, inside the plugin you buy
There is no separate free or trial download of Bodholdt Licensing. The commercial ZIP includes a local seven-day evaluation that runs with every feature unlocked, no license key and no card, so you can wire it into your store and try the full checkout, licensing and update flow before you commit to it. Every plan is also backed by a 14-day money-back guarantee, and the price you pay is the price you renew at.
Ready to sell from your own site?
Your store, your Stripe account, your customer list. No revenue share, and no third party between you and the people who buy from you.
Get Bodholdt Licensing
Keep 100% of your revenue. No per-sale cut or platform tax from us, though normal payment-processor fees still apply. Choose monthly, annual, or lifetime billing.
Hobby
Paying annually saves 32% against twelve monthly payments.
Self-hosted plugin licensing.
- 1 product, 1 site
- License keys + auto-updater
- Stripe-powered checkout
- Customer portal + Stripe billing portal
- SDK generator for your customers
- Email support from the developer, for as long as your license is active
Studio
Paying annually saves 31% against twelve monthly payments.
Everything in Hobby, plus:
- Unlimited products (Hobby covers 1)
- Up to 5 sites
- Reports & analytics for revenue, MRR, license health, and seat utilization
Foundry
Paying annually saves 17% against twelve monthly payments.
Everything in Studio, plus:
- Up to 127 sites
- Keep 100% of every sale, with transparent plan pricing and no per-sale cut; normal payment-processor fees still apply
See full feature comparison →
| Feature | Hobby | Studio | Foundry |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites | 1 | 5 | 127 |
| Products you can sell | 1 | ∞ | ∞ |
| License keys + auto-updater | Included | Included | Included |
| Stripe checkout + customer portal | Included | Included | Included |
| SDK generator | Included | Included | Included |
| Reports & analytics | Not included | Included | Included |
| Lifetime license option | Included | Included | Included |
| Support | Email while active | Email while active | Email while active |
Every paid license includes email support from the developer while the license is active. A one-time (Lifetime) license has no renewal date, so its support does not stop at one. Bug reports, pre-sales and billing questions are always free.