Welcome to your first steps selling through Freemius! This guide will help you set up and test your checkout/buy button to ensure everything is working perfectly before going live. Freemius offers multiple ways for users to purchase your product: Hosted Checkout Checkout Overlay In-Dashboard Upgrading in WP Admin Hosted Checkout Freemius provides direct checkout links …
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Before we get to making your first sale, it’s important to know what it will cost to use Freemius. Even if you’ve already reviewed our Pricing page, we want to ensure everything is crystal clear. No upfront fees You only start paying when you start earning. With Freemius’ revenue-sharing model, you won’t pay a dime …
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The Developer Dashboard is your main portal to the Freemius platform. In it, you can track important statistics, such as product sales and user opt-ins, manage products, licenses, customers, and much more! Because you’ll be managing many aspects of your software business in the Developer Dashboard, we recommend taking some time to familiarize yourself with …
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With the integration process completed, you’re ready to Deploy your plugin or theme to the Freemius Developer Dashboard. First, compress (Zip) the root folder of your product that will be uploaded to the Freemius Developer Dashboard. Begin the deployment process by: 1. Going to Deployment page 2. Click the Add New Version button. 3. Then …
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The Freemius WordPress SDK contains an impressive set of features to help you sell your plugins and themes, and it’s regularly updated with new features and improvements. After setting up your product’s plans and pricing, go to the SDK Integration page to add the latest WordPress SDK into your Product. This part of the integration …
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Configure pricing plans for your users, each with distinct feature sets, billing cycles, prices, and number of licenses. Go to the Plans page in the Developer Dashboard to create your first plan. It is recommended to add features to all of your plans, including the Free plan, if you offer one, so that they show …
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It’s surprisingly easy to integrate Freemius into a WordPress plugin or theme, with a typical integration taking just a few minutes to complete. Once you’ve repeated the process a few times, it will become almost second nature. Let’s walk through the initial integration steps together to get a better understanding of the workflow. Add a …
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The first step to selling your software product with Freemius is to create an account through the Developer Dashboard. It’s completely free to get started! After creating an account, the next step is to integrate your product into Freemius.
You can always write any custom CSS to modify the style of the checkout in any way you want. But the checkout has two layers of abstraction with CSS variables to help you do some easy modifications. Please use the devTool and inspect the :root (html) element to discover the variables. Below, we give you …
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Freemius Developer Dashboard supports Two-Factor Authentication (2FA) to protect your account against unauthorized access. How to activate 2FA? We recommend the Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator app from the Google Play Store or App Store. Go to your Profile (top-right menu). Under the Security section, turn on the Activate the two-step authentication. Follow the on-screen …
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