ChargeForms
Tools & Administration

License & Pro

What a ChargeForms license actually unlocks — four specific features, and how many sites one key activates on.

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Activating a license

Go to ChargeForms → Global Settings → License, paste your key, and click Activate. That's the entire flow — no separate account dashboard to visit first.

What a license actually does

Exactly two things:

  1. Unlocks four specific features — see below. Nothing else on the License screen's own "What Pro adds" card, which is kept deliberately short and in sync with what's actually gated in the plugin's code.
  2. Raises how many sites one key can be active on — Single Site (1), Agency (5), or Unlimited, depending on which plan you bought.

Everything else — core form-building, conditional logic, multi-step forms, Stripe/PayPal payments and subscriptions, entry management, one SMTP connection, all 7 direct integrations plus Webhook, and every spam- protection tool — is unconditionally free, with no time limit and no submission cap, on every site, with or without a license.

The 4 gated features

  • CSV Entry Import — bulk-add submissions to a form from a CSV file. (Exporting entries to CSV or JSON stays free.)
  • Industry Pack templates — curated template sets for Real Estate, Healthcare, Education, Legal, Restaurant, Events, and Non-profit. Every general-purpose template (16 of 27) stays free.
  • Save & Resume button field — the front-end field a visitor clicks to save partial progress and finish later from an emailed link. The underlying engine — draft storage, resume tokens, automatic cleanup — already runs free for everyone; only the button field itself is Pro.
  • Multiple SMTP connections — connect more than one email service at once (for example, one for notifications and a separate one for payment receipts). A single, fully-functional SMTP connection is always free.

If a license lapses

A form already using one of the four gated features — Save & Resume, for example — keeps working even after a license lapses. Only adding one of them to a form that doesn't already have it requires an active license.

Plans

Single Site, Agency, and Unlimited differ only in how many sites the license activates on — every paid plan includes the exact same feature set described above. See the pricing page for current plan pricing.