---
title: "License and sites - GeneratePerf"
description: "How your license key, your plan's sites, staging environments, expiry and key changes work."
url: "https://generateperf.com/docs/license-and-sites/"
lang: "en-US"
published: "2026-09-24T11:48:50+02:00"
modified: "2026-10-01T09:05:06+02:00"
---

[Docs](https://generateperf.com/docs/) / Getting started

# License and sites

How your license key, your plan's sites, staging environments, expiry and key changes work.

## One key for your account

Your account has one license key. Enter it on every site: each production site uses one place of your plan (1, 5 or 50 sites). A site with and without « www. » is one site and uses one place. You can see your sites, their GeneratePerf version and their last check in the **License** tab of [your account](https://generateperf.com/account/).

Customers with an older per-site license keep their existing keys and renewal dates; they can switch to a yearly plan from the **Billing** tab of their account.

## Staging and development sites

Staging, development and local copies are recognised automatically and **never use a place** in your plan, as long as they use your license key. GeneratePerf 3.1.3 and later send the WordPress environment type (`WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE`), and the update server also recognises:

- local and test extensions such as `.local`, `.test` or `.localhost`;
- sub-domains such as `staging.`, `preprod.`, `dev.` or `recette.`;
- IP addresses and the temporary domains of hosting companies.

## Adding and removing sites

- **Add a site**: enter your key on it. It is attached to your account at its first update check if a place is free.
- **Remove a site** (yearly plans): in the **License** tab of your account, choose **Remove** next to the site. Its place is freed at once. If the site checks for updates again with your key, it comes back as soon as a place is free.

## Beta channel

With the 5-site pack, the 50-site bundle or a custom plan of at least 5 sites, you can put sites on the beta channel yourself, one by one, in the **License** tab of [your account](https://generateperf.com/account/) (**Join** / **Leave**). A site on the beta channel receives pre-releases as updates, before everyone else: choose a staging or test site, and back up before updating. If you move to a plan without the beta channel, your sites go back to stable versions at the next release.

## When your license ends

GeneratePerf **keeps working** with all your settings; your sites simply stop receiving new versions, and support stops, until you renew. Renew or change your plan from the **Billing** tab of your account.

A notice in the WordPress admin tells you when the license is about to end or has ended; its **Learn more** button opens the **License** screen of GeneratePerf, with the status of the license and the renewal link. Just after renewing, click **Check the license again** on that screen: GeneratePerf asks our server right away instead of waiting for its next check (the answer is otherwise kept for up to an hour).

## If your key changes

If a key is revoked (for example after a key change requested from your account team), sites that still use the old key show a notice in their admin with a link to enter the new one. The **License** screen of GeneratePerf also shows the status of the key: valid, revoked, or not matching this site. Saving a new key checks it at once; **Check the license again** repeats the check at any time.