Using One Paid License for Live / Production, Staging, Dev and Localhost Sites

One paid license should keep your customers covered. Localhost, staging and development environments won’t get counted toward the license’s maximum allowed sites if its domain name is clearly a dev or staging site.

TLDs that are considered as dev or staging:

*.dev

*.dev.cc (DesktopServer)

*.test

*.local

*.staging

*.example

*.invalid

*.myftpupload.com (GoDaddy)

*.cloudwaysapps.com (Cloudways)

*.wpsandbox.pro (WPSandbox)

*.ngrok.io (tunneling)

Subdomains that are considered as dev or staging:

local.*

dev.*

test.*

stage.*

staging.*

stagingN.* (SiteGround; N is an unsigned int)

*.wpengine.com (WP Engine)

dev-*.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)

test-*.pantheonsite.io (Pantheon)

staging-*.kinsta.com (Kinsta)

staging-*.kinsta.cloud (Kinsta)

*.mystagingwebsite.com' (Pressable)

Additionally, if your domain is localhost (with any port), it will also be treated as a localhost domain.

If your customer want to utilize a license on a dev site that doesn’t fit the criteria listed above they can deactivate the license from within the Account page in their WP Admin dashboard, and then reuse the license.