Guides

In-depth guides for common LicenseSeat use cases.

Shipping a Licensed App

The Agentic Integration Playbook — How a coding agent takes a desktop app from unlicensed to licensed and distributable, end to end: the tier funnel, the wire contracts, the client engine, distribution, email capture, and the verification gate

Shipping Desktop Updates — Take a desktop app from a build on your laptop to users' apps updating themselves: the publish pipeline, packaging traps that produce uninstallable releases, updater wiring for Tauri/Sparkle/Electron, signing-key rules, and how to verify the chain with tools that are not ours

Offline Licensing — Let users work without internet using machine files or, on older SDKs, legacy signed offline tokens
Air-Gapped Licensing — Operator-assisted fingerprint → activate → machine-file workflows for devices that never connect

Selling software licenses on Shopify — Connect a Shopify store: mapped paid orders issue licenses, eligible email delivery sends keys, and refunds revoke order access: the two webhooks to create, where the signing secret lives, how to link products or variants, and how to test it
Selling software licenses with Stripe Payment Links — The webhook endpoint to create in Workbench, the six events, the whsec_ secret, Payment Link IDs versus buy.stripe.com links, subscriptions and renewals, refunds and chargebacks, and how to test in a sandbox
Selling software licenses with Paddle — The notification destination, its secret key, price IDs, passing the buyer email as custom data, refunds and their approval, and testing with Paddle's simulator
Selling software licenses on Gumroad — The account-wide Ping URL in Settings, Advanced, the product URL to link, what Send test ping does, and manual refunds versus optional API refund notifications
Selling software licenses on Lemon Squeezy — The webhook with LicenseSeat's generated secret, Test Mode versus live, order and subscription events, Copy ID for variants, and simulating events
Selling software licenses on Polar.sh — The endpoint to add under Settings → Webhooks with the Raw format, the whsec_ secret (both signing generations work), Copy Product ID, subscriptions and renewals, refunds, and testing in Polar's sandbox

License Tiers & Upgrades
Team & Organization Licenses
White-Label Email Templates
Operating sales connections — Email prerequisites, finite subscription plans, testing isolation and recovery of missing or failed events