Pro: activating and renewing your license

Gift Cards Pro is licensed through your MyArtbees account. Each license covers a number of sites. You activate it once on each site.

Install Pro

Make sure WooCommerce and the free Artbees Gift Cards for WooCommerce plugin are installed and active. Pro 1.0.0 needs the free plugin at 1.0.0 or later.
Download the Gift Cards Pro ZIP from the downloads area of your MyArtbees account.
Go to Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, upload the ZIP and activate it.

Pro adds two settings tabs, Delivery and License, after the existing tabs. Its tools stay locked until you connect a license. Until then, settings pages show "Pro is ready when you are." with a Review license button.

Connect your license

Sign in to MyArtbees and copy your Gift Cards Pro license key. The Open MyArtbees button on the License tab takes you there.
In WordPress, go to Artbees → Gift Cards → License.
Paste the key into License key and click Connect license.

When it works, Connection shows Active and Pro tools shows Available. The panel also shows:

Updates & downloads and Premium support: what your license includes right now.
Last verified: when the site last checked with MyArtbees.
Entitlement term ends and Premium support term ends.

Only a site administrator can manage the license. You don't need to edit wp-config.php or upload any license file.

How the license is checked

Pro rechecks the license with MyArtbees about every 12 hours. Click Refresh status to check now, for example straight after renewing.

If MyArtbees can't be reached, nothing changes while your license term is current. Pro tools keep working and the site tries again later.

When a yearly license expires

When a yearly license ends, Pro tools switch off until you renew. Settings pages show "Your Pro license has expired." with a Review license button.

What switches off:

the Delivery tab and scheduling choices on the product page
design and photo choices on the product page
Bulk Issue and Reports under WooCommerce → Gift Cards
purchaser corrections and resends
updates, downloads and premium support from MyArtbees

What keeps working while Pro stays installed:

every issued gift card and its balance (cards don't expire because a license does)
gifts already issued keep their schedule, design, photo and PDF, so scheduled emails still go out on time and PDFs stay downloadable
saved cards, expiry and reminder emails, which are part of the free plugin

If you remove Pro instead, the free plugin still keeps every card, balance, saved card and expiry term, sends scheduled emails on time, and keeps each card's design colors. Customer photos, PDF downloads and purchaser corrections need Pro installed.

To renew: renew in MyArtbees, then click Refresh status on the License tab. If MyArtbees revoked the old site connection, enter the key again and click Reconnect after renewal.

Lifetime licenses don't expire.

Moving, cloning or retiring a site

Retiring a site or freeing an activation: click Disconnect license. This releases the site's activation in MyArtbees so you can use it on another site. Existing gift cards keep working.
Changing the site address or copying a site: a copied or moved site shows Site or contract changed and Pro tools switch off. Disconnect the old site, or release it in MyArtbees, then connect the license on the new address. A copied database never activates a new site by itself.
Staging sites: a staging or development copy doesn't inherit the live site's activation. Contact Artbees support to check how to license it.

Updates

Pro updates come as replacement ZIP files from your MyArtbees account. Automatic updates from the WordPress dashboard aren't available yet. To update, upload the new ZIP through Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin and choose to replace the current version. Your cards, settings and license connection stay in place.

Messages you might see

Message	What to do
Enter a valid license key.	Copy the key again from MyArtbees without spaces.
MyArtbees returned a different product. This site was not connected.	The key is for another Artbees product. Use your Gift Cards Pro key.
MyArtbees is temporarily unavailable. Retry later.	Try again in a few minutes. Active sites keep working.
The license term has ended…	Renew in MyArtbees, then click Refresh status.
MyArtbees reports this license inactive…	The license was suspended or revoked. Contact Artbees support.
The site address or MyArtbees contract changed…	Reconnect with a license for this site.
The stored connection cannot be read…	The site's WordPress salts changed, for example after a migration. Reconnect the license.