Checkout Improvements for Renewals & Upgrades

This week we’re rolling out several improvements and bug fixes across the Checkout, especially around license renewals, upgrades, and payment-method updates. These updates aim to reduce friction for makers who generate Checkout links programmatically or rely on dynamic license flows.

plan_id no longer required for payment-method updates

Previously, updating a payment method required passing a plan_id. While this worked fine when using our API or the Developer Dashboard, generating these links directly in code often created confusion because it wasn’t clear where the plan_id should come from.

To simplify the process, the Checkout can now infer the correct plan automatically. All you need is the license key, making the payment-method update flow far easier to integrate.

https://checkout.freemius.com/product/<productID>/?license_key=<licenseKey>&is_payment_method_update=true

Respecting the licenses parameter in License Update flows

The Checkout supports pre-loading a quota using the licenses parameter. For example, if your pricing includes tiers for 1000, 5000, and 10,000 units, you can preselect one like:

https://checkout.freemius.com/product/<productID>/plan/<planID>/licenses/5000/

However, this didn’t previously work during license-upgrade flows, where makers often rely on preselected quantities to guide users toward the correct tier. This has now been fixed so the parameter is consistently honored.

Additional Fixes

• We identified an edge case where altering a license’s quota in the Developer Dashboard could cause the Checkout’s quota dropdown to display incorrect values. The UI glitch has been resolved.
• The legacy Checkout has now been fully removed from our platform. Passing checkout_style=legacy will no longer have any effect and the new design will load by default.