Selling Plugins

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

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

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”).