What should you do with a license after migrating?

[andrewfairlie]

Where Craft Cloud comes with a Craft License, what do you do with the previous self-hosted licence once the migration is complete, and what do you do with the licenses attached to that old CMS licence?

[jamesmacwhite]

You have a spare licence basically, unless you cancel the renewal or have a grandfathered licence pre-renewal costs.

At the moment plugins linked to a Craft Cloud licence aren't ideally represented in Craft Console: #77 and the Craft Cloud Craft CMS licence itself isn't directly visible in Craft Console either, but plugins can be bound to the Craft Cloud licence, which is displayed eventually, just no clickable licence link for any plugin associated with a Craft Cloud licence currently.

[timkelty]

Surrogate employee @jamesmacwhite said it well 😆 .

Some clarification:

but plugins can be bound to the Craft Cloud licence

On Cloud, there technically just is no Craft CMS license - it is implied. Your project acts as your license (which is what plugins end up being bound to).

If you have plugins linked to a license, they remain linked, but the Cloud license takes precedence while active. This means if you cancel your project, the plugins will go back being owned by the CMS license.

what do you do with the licenses attached to that old CMS licence

If you just purchased recently and decided to go with Craft Cloud instead, message us at [email protected] and we can work something out. Otherwise, donate to a friend, or save for a rainy day?

[andrewfairlie]

This is excellent stuff, thanks. This is an older license, but this just confirms we can leave it expired. Thank you both.