# Licensing

## Trial

You can try out Ucommerce without a license. If you run your application without a license, it will shut down after 10 minutes. You can restart your application as many times as you want, giving you ample time to play around with the product.

## Developer license

When you have played around with Ucommerce and decided to use it for your project, you will want to get a free perpetual developer license.

To get your Ucommerce developer license, please contact us at <license@ucommerce.net>, with your company name and contact email address, and we will create a license for you or your company.

### Test environments

Ucommerce uses two ways to detect if the environment is test or production:

* The host environment
* The domain name of requests

#### Marking the host environment as a development environment

To make sure that the test environment is recognized as a development environment, it can be necessary to mark it as such. See [Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/environments?view=aspnetcore-8.0#set-the-environment-by-setting-an-environment-variable) for details.

#### Using test domain names

When using a developer license, make sure to access your test environment(s) through a domain name that includes one of the following:

* *localhost*
* *dev*
* *test*
* *uat*

Otherwise, Ucommerce will consider your instance as a **production environment**. Other (partial) domain names can be whitelisted. Please [contact us](mailto:license@ucommerce.net) with the values you would like to have whitelisted.

{% hint style="info" %}
An example of an allowed domain name is **test.mysite.com**
{% endhint %}

## Using your license

To add your license key to the application, simply add it to the configuration.

{% hint style="info" %}
It is recommended that you use [user secrets](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/fundamentals/configuration/?view=aspnetcore-8.0#security-and-user-secrets) and/or a key vault, e.g. [Azure Key Vault](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/security/key-vault-configuration?view=aspnetcore-8.0), to store your license key(s).
{% endhint %}

The `LicenseKey` property can be found under the `Ucommerce` object. It should look like this in your user secrets file:

```json
{
    "Ucommerce:LicenseKey": "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"
}
```

## Production license

When your project is ready for production, please [reach out to us](mailto:license@ucommerce.net) to get a new license key.


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