Create professional and secure license keys to protect your software against piracy.
Quick License Manager (QLM) is a manager that creates professional and secure license keys to protect your software against piracy. QLM creates trial keys, machine bound keys and software activation keys. QLM can protect applications developed in .NET, ASP.NET, C++, COM, VB6, VBA, Delphi, Excel, MS-Access,Word, Outlook add-ins, Android, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Windows Phone, Mac OS X, Linux. QLM provides a complete license management console. You can track and manage all your license keys and your customer information. You can also send customized email messages to your customers to notify them of specials and/or upcoming releases. QLM integrates seamlessly with the ordering process of leading eCommerce providers and can automatically issue license keys when a purchase is made online. QLM is currently integrated with Plimus, FastSpring, ShareIt, Regnow, SWREG, Paypal, Google Checkout, Avangate and UltraCart. For subscription based software, QLM can issue keys that expire after a period of time. Renewing a subscription can easily be automated from your eCommerce provider. Add a Check for Updates feature to your software so that your customers are always current with your latest release. Track installs and uninstalls of your software to assist you in understanding customer behavior and improve download trends. If you use Affiliates or resellers to sell your software, associate license keys to an affiliate and track the sales of each affiliate. The QLM Affiliates web portal allows your affiliates to generate license keys for their customers while providing you total control over the number and type of license keys they can create or see.
You can activate licenses online and offline for systems that do not have internet access
If your application has multiple optional add-ons, you can embed 32 features in a license key and then check at runtime if a feature is enabled or not.
API is fairly complete
Most license tools provide the ability to reset licenses when a customer's computer crashes. Quick License Manager goes a step beyond and attempts to detect fraudulent attempts to use a license that was claimed dead.
Remote database backup - what a nice feature! QLM can remotely backup the license database to my local computer and restore it to any other system. I can even have a remote server ready in case my primary server goes offline. This is Enterprise level software!
Affiliates support - I sell my software via affiliates. With QLM, I can provide my affiliates with a web site from where they can generate license keys (I can control how many keys they are allowed to create).
Support was very responsive
Cons
The Installation of the web service was not straight forward (turned out my IIS was not properly configured for ASP.NET but it should have detected it).
Supported databases are limited to MS-Access and SQL Server.
Summary
Great experience, free trial
mikethompson2
Pros
Good feature set and API
Easy to use GUI, clear flow
Nice integration with e-commerce providers
Nice tracking of licenses and customers in a very friendly UI
Works with .NET and unmanaged code
Cons
Help could use some work
Samples are a bit weak
No ability to wrap an executable