4. Licenses

A Tangible Cloud license is the key that connects your purchased plugins to the WordPress sites where you use them. Everything in this section (viewing, activating, deactivating, upgrading) is about working with those keys. To restrict which hosts a license may activate on, see Domain Rules in the Websites section. Those controls are account-level.

Each page in this section covers one piece of the topic:

1. Understanding Licenses, Grants, and Activations: the three things you need to keep straight before the rest of the section makes sense.
2. Viewing Your Licenses: where licenses live in the app, what the columns mean, and how to filter the list.
3. Activating a License on a Site: the Cloud-side steps for linking a license to a site. If you're activating a plugin for the first time, start with Activating a Plugin on Your Site in Getting Started. It also covers installing the plugin.
4. Deactivating a Site: freeing up an activation slot when you no longer use a license on a particular site.
5. Upgrading a License Tier: moving a license from one tier (for example, Starter) to a higher tier (for example, Creator) on a product that offers tiers.

Locking a license to specific hosts, allowing development subdomains, and blocking specific domains is handled at the account level. See Domain Rules (Allowlist and Blocklist).