Licensing

Umbraco Forms is a commercial product. You have a 14-day free trial to try out the product. After your trial expires, you'll need to have a valid license to keep using the product on your site.

How does it work?

Licenses are sold per domain and will also work on all subdomains. With every license, you will be able to configure two development/testing domains.

The licenses are not bound to a specific product version. They will work for all versions of the related product.

Example

Let's say that you have a license configured for your domain, mysite.com, and you've configured two development domains, devdomain.com and devdomain2.com.

The license will cover the following domains:

• localhost

• *.mysite.com

• www.mysite.com

• mysite.com.local

• devdomain.com

• www.devdomain.com

• devdomain2.com

• www.devdomain2.com

You can have only 1 license per Umbraco installation.

What does a license cover?

There are a few differences as to what the licenses cover:

• A single license covers the installation of Umbraco Forms in 1 production domain, as well as in 2 development domains.

• The production domain includes all subdomains (e.g. *.mysite.com), as well as the .local extension (e.g. mysite.com.local).

• The development domains work with or without the www subdomain.

• The license allows for an unlimited number of forms.

• The license also includes localhost as a valid domain.

If you have multiple domains pointing at the same installation, you have the option to purchase and add additional domains to your license.

Additional domains can be purchased from your account on Umbraco.com. Each additional domain includes 1 live domain and 2 development/testing domains.

This is an add-on domain for existing licenses. Refunds will not be given for this product.

Configuring your license

You can look at the pricing, features, and purchase the license on the Umbraco Forms page.

When you've bought a license you need to configure it with your domains. You can either configure your license right away or you can do it later by visiting your account on Umbraco.com.

Reconfiguration of domains

Once a license has been configured with the domains, it is not possible to reconfigure them. An exception is when there is a mistake in the domain URL. As reconfiguration is not possible, you will either need to purchase an additional domain or a new license.

Installing your license

Once you've configured your license with the correct domains, you are ready to install the license on your Umbraco installation.

1. Download your license from your Umbraco.com account - this will give you a .lic file

2. Place the file in the /umbraco/Licenses directory in your Umbraco installation

The .lic file must be placed in the /umbraco/Licenses directory to be registered by Umbraco Forms. If the file isn't placed correctly, the application will automatically switch to trial mode.

Alternative license location

If you can't include the license file in the /umbraco/Licenses directory for any reason, it is possible to configure an alternative location for the file.

It can be configured in the Umbraco installation's appSettings.json file by adding the following appSetting. The value contains the path of your custom license directory relative to the root of your Umbraco installation.

This will also change the location for other Umbraco-related licenses in this project.

{
  "Umbraco": {
    "Licensing": {
        "Directory": "~/custom-licenses-folder/"
    }
  }
}