Sell any digital product on your own Joomla site, from software and plugins to templates, ebooks, and audio, with license keys, subscriptions, and checkout built in.
Install it, connect a payment gateway, and add your products – that’s the setup. From there, checkout, license keys, renewals, failed-payment retries, receipts and reminder emails, and software updates all happen automatically, so you ship product instead of managing orders.
Stripe, PayPal & Mollie – built in
Everything below ships in the box – no add-ons to stitch together.
One-page checkout with Stripe, PayPal & Mollie. One-time or subscription, plus coupons and bundles.
Files and auto-generated license keys, with activation limits and a built-in update server.
Recurring billing, renewals with proration, trials, and automatic dunning on failed payments.
Receipts, license delivery, reminders, and recovery emails – 36 templates, sent on their own.
Want a storefront demo? You’re already in it.
This whole site runs on LicenseDock, so the store, checkout, and customer account you’re browsing are exactly what your buyers get.
LicenseDock ships the engine: an update server, a WordPress SDK, a PHP SDK for Laravel and Symfony, and a REST API for any language. License and distribute more than just Joomla extensions – all from the one self-hosted backend you already run.
LicenseDock
Hosted platforms
Charge the right tax without handing a platform a cut of every sale to do it.
LicenseDock is not a merchant of record: you stay registered and you file your own returns. What it does is charge, evidence and report the tax for you.
Built for selling licensed software on your own site.
| LicenseDock | Paddle | Gumroad | Lemon Squeezy | Joomla cart | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted – own your data & storefront | |||||
| No per-sale platform fee | |||||
| Paid direct by your gateway, no platform hold | |||||
| Switch payment provider without moving your store | |||||
| Subscriptions & recurring billing | |||||
| Tax rates for any country, EU VAT & VIES | |||||
| Merchant of record (takes on your VAT liability) | |||||
| License keys & activation limits | |||||
| Built-in update server | |||||
| Email & download logs | |||||
| Add or edit any language yourself | |||||
| Joomla-native |
“Joomla cart” means other Joomla e-commerce extensions in general, not any one product.
Multilingual all the way through. Your storefront, the checkout, all 36 emails and the invoice PDF follow the language the buyer chose – and their renewals keep speaking it.
In the box
Planned
Everything uses standard Joomla language files, so you can add a language yourself at any time without touching code. And with Joomla’s multilingual mode on, your catalogue follows too – products, plans and tags carry their own translations.
Every plan includes every feature. Renewals are 40% off, forever.
Grouped by the job it does for you.
Sixteen years of selling Joomla extensions, turned into the system that now runs the store.
We have been selling Joomla extensions since 2010, and handling the licensing, renewals and support every day of it.
Dunning, proration, VIES proof, a download log that records every refusal.
This checkout, this account, this invoice. And customers in Germany, Austria, France, the US and India.
Same lists, filters and toolbars you already use. Three steps to set up, then it runs itself.
Roadmap
Designed and queued.
Yes. LicenseDock is a Joomla extension, so it installs on your own Joomla site and runs entirely self-hosted. There is no separate hosted service to sign up for.
Any digital product: software and plugins, plus templates, ebooks, fonts, audio, and design files. You can sell one-time or as a subscription, bundle products together, and add license keys only on the products that need them.
No. Checkout is a single page, and buyers can either sign in or check out as a guest. After a guest purchase, LicenseDock creates their account in the background and emails a link to set a password, so they can sign in to their downloads, license keys, and invoices whenever they need them.
Stripe, PayPal, and Mollie are built in, all at full feature parity, each with test and live modes.
No. LicenseDock charges 0% per sale. Because it is self-hosted, you keep the full amount minus only your payment gateway’s standard processing fees. There are no marketplace or platform fees.
Every plan includes one year of updates and support. After that, your installed copy keeps working; renew at 40% off to keep getting new versions and support. Need help? Email [email protected] for a fast, personal reply.
Quite possibly. LicenseDock is actively developed. If it’s missing something you need, email [email protected]. When a request is a good fit, we build it quickly, and your feedback shapes the roadmap.
Each plan is licensed for a set number of production sites, shown in the plans above, and you can upgrade anytime as you grow.
No. You set up products, plans, and checkout from the Joomla administrator, with no code. If you sell software, drop-in SDKs and a REST API are there when you want license checks and automatic updates.
Yes. LicenseDock imports customers, orders, subscriptions and licenses from a CSV or XLSX file, in that order, since each step depends on the one before. You get a validation preview before anything is written, three modes (create, update, or both), and a failed import rolls back rather than leaving half your data in.
Yes. Set a home rate or a country-by-country table, choose tax-inclusive or tax-exclusive pricing, and LicenseDock applies it through checkout, renewals, upgrades, coupons and refunds. In EU VAT mode it checks the buyer’s VAT number against VIES at checkout: a valid cross-border business number removes the VAT and the VIES consultation number is stored on the order as your evidence. LicenseDock is not a merchant of record, so you stay registered and file your own returns.
Yes. English and German ship in the box, covering the storefront, the checkout, the Joomla administrator and all 36 customer emails. Buyers are emailed in the language they bought in. Everything uses standard Joomla language files, so you can add your own translation without touching code – and with Joomla’s multilingual mode on, your products, plans and tags translate too.
Start on the 14-day trial and try it on your own site before committing. If you then buy and something doesn’t work as described, tell us within 14 days of your first full charge – the trial fee doesn’t start that clock. We will try to fix it, and if we can’t, you get a full refund. Full terms are in our Refund Policy.
