Universal entitlements
Model access by user, device, site, feature, quantity, time, usage, environment, geography, capacity or your own business rule.
Software licensing by PluginPip
Licence anything. Your way.
PipKey is a production-ready licensing and entitlement platform with an API-first core designed for software, SaaS, APIs, digital products and the next generation of connected products. One secure core. Virtually any commercial model.
Production core liveAPI-firstSecurity-conscious by design
PipKey entitlement Active
Enterprise entitlement
Acme Product Suite
250 users100 concurrent
20 serversProduction + staging
10M callsMonthly API quota
30 daysOffline allowance
12Features enabled
3Release channels
1Entitlement policy
Production licensing core designed to grow acrossSoftwareSaaSAPIsAIDigital productsConnected hardware
Built beyond licence keys
A commercial entitlement engine, not a key generator.
PipKey is designed around the question that actually matters: who or what is entitled to use what, where, for how long, to what extent, and under which conditions?
Software and services
Designed for desktop software, WordPress products, SaaS, APIs, developer tools, server applications and digital services.
Hardware-ready
An architecture intended to extend into connected devices, appliances, embedded products and hardware-backed identity.
Online and offline
Support connected activation while preserving deliberately bounded offline operation for secure and disconnected environments.
Usage and metering
Represent credits, API calls, transactions, compute, storage, seats, devices or vendor-defined consumption metrics.
Commercial flexibility
Build subscriptions, lifetime licences, trials, bundles, add-ons, upgrades, reseller programmes and enterprise agreements from one engine.
Licensing without artificial limits
Use a familiar model. Combine several. Or define your own.
The PipKey architecture is designed to represent licensing models as composable rules instead of forcing every customer into a fixed list of licence classes.
PerpetualSubscriptionTrialUsage-basedFeature-basedNamed userConcurrentFloatingDeviceHardware-boundServerCPU & coreSite & domainOfflineAir-gappedSaaSAPIAI usageOEMResellerWhite-labelEducationEnterpriseCustom
Time and lifecycle
Monthly, annual, perpetual, lifetime, trial, evaluation, grace, renewal, temporary and contract-bound rights.
Quantity and capacity
Seats, users, devices, sites, servers, cores, storage, transactions, credits, channels, sensors or any measurable capacity.
Custom business rules
Vendor-defined metrics allow a product to model its own commercial language without waiting for a new PipKey licence type.
Composable by design
One entitlement can express the whole deal.
A complex enterprise agreement should not become a collection of brittle licensing hacks. PipKey is designed so commercial terms can be represented together as one auditable entitlement policy.
SubjectAcme Manufacturing Ltd
ProductIndustrial Control Suite
Users250 named · 100 concurrent
Infrastructure20 servers · 50 virtual machines
FeaturesAnalytics · AI Optimisation · API
Usage10,000,000 API calls / month
OfflineUp to 30 days
TermAnnual · renewable
How PipKey works
Keep commercial logic central. Keep product integration clean.
Products integrate with PipKey rather than each inventing a separate licensing database and lifecycle.
Define the product
Create the product, plan and entitlement rules that represent how you sell it.
Issue the entitlement
Associate a customer with the rights, limits, term and features they purchased or were granted.
Activate securely
The integrated product presents its licence and installation context to PipKey over an authenticated connection.
Enforce locally and online
Applications can evaluate current entitlements while bounded signed assertions support appropriate offline scenarios.
Change without rebuilding
Upgrades, renewals, feature changes, revocation and usage policies can evolve centrally as the customer relationship changes.
For developers and product teams
One licensing service across your product portfolio.
The production API-first core supports clean product integration today, with broader native SDK support forming part of the PipKey roadmap.
API-first
A clear HTTPS API keeps licensing separate from website availability and lets different products share the same source of truth.
Cross-platform direction
Planned integration support spans WordPress/PHP, JavaScript and TypeScript, .NET, Python, Java/Kotlin, Swift, Go, Rust and C/C++.
Safe lifecycle
Activation, validation, deactivation, expiry, suspension and revocation belong to a consistent lifecycle instead of custom application code.
Security-conscious architecture
Licensing infrastructure has to be trusted infrastructure.
PipKey is engineered around secure secret handling, cryptographic assertions, privacy-minimised activation data, auditable decisions, retry-safe operations and resilient recovery. Production readiness includes controlled deployment, database migration validation, backup and isolated restore testing.
Signed assertions
Cryptographically signed licence assertions allow integrated products to verify entitlement decisions.
Privacy minimisation
Collect only installation and customer information needed for licensing, security and support.
Auditability
Licence-affecting and privileged actions are designed to leave a clear operational history.
Resilience
Backups, recovery testing, monitored deployment and safe failure behaviour form part of production readiness.
The PipKey platform
A live licensing core becoming a complete commercial platform.
PipKey Server is already running in production. The next commercial release is building the customer, administration, commerce and developer layers around that proven core, with each component released only after its own security and acceptance gates pass.
PipKey Server
ProductionThe live licensing authority for licence creation, activation, validation, lifecycle management, signed entitlements and secure product delivery.
PipKey Admin
In developmentCommercial operations for organisations, products, plans, licences, usage meters, commerce mappings, reconciliation and auditable support actions.
PipKey Portal
In developmentCustomer self-service for licences, activations, entitlements, usage, downloads, renewals and account management.
PipKey Connect
In developmentCommerce and business-system integrations for WooCommerce, Stripe, Square, PluginPip services and signed generic webhooks.
PipKey SDK
PlannedSupported integration libraries beginning with JavaScript/TypeScript, PHP/WordPress and .NET, backed by a versioned API contract.
PipKey Verify
PlannedClient-side verification tooling for signed offline entitlements, release manifests and package signatures.
PipKey 1.1 commercial platform
Built for the complete customer lifecycle, not just licence validation.
The commercial platform work extends the live 1.0 licensing engine into the operational product businesses need to sell, manage and support licensed software at scale.
Organisations & teams
Organisation accounts, memberships and roles for real business customers rather than single-record licensing only.
Plan versioning
Effective-dated commercial plan definitions so existing licences are not silently reinterpreted when products evolve.
Usage & credits
Named usage meters, allowances, hard or soft limits, reset periods and operator adjustments for usage-based products.
Commerce automation
Provider mappings and reconciliation primitives for reliable purchase, renewal, refund and subscription-to-licence workflows.
Customer self-service
A controlled path for customers to manage licences, activations, entitlements, downloads and account-level licensing tasks.
Commercial operations
Scoped administration, auditability and recoverable workflows designed for support, finance and licensing operations.
From indie developers to OEMs
Start simple. Grow without replacing your licensing system.
PipKey is intended to remain approachable for smaller software makers while having a path to serious enterprise, reseller, hardware and embedded licensing.
Independent developers
Trials, subscriptions, lifetime licences, updates and straightforward activation without building an entire licensing backend.
Growing software companies
Multiple products, organisations, seats, usage, feature tiers, reseller channels and richer customer entitlements.
Enterprise and OEM
Complex contracts, offline environments, hardware identity, delegated licensing and integration with existing commercial systems.
Commercial access
Put PipKey behind your next product.
Whether you sell a WordPress plugin, a desktop application, an API or another digital product, talk to PluginPip Ltd about onboarding PipKey for your product.
Access is currently provided through controlled onboarding while the wider commercial platform completes its 1.1 release gates.