Creating a Test License

When you are ready to test the product activation functionality of your software, there are two fast and easy methods to create a test license.

To create a test license on a new, unregistered customer record, follow these steps:

  1. From the Author Home page menu, select Customers / Add a Test License.
  2. Choose the applicable product and product option.
  3. Click the Add New Test License button.
  4. You will be displayed a page with several settings for the new license pre-set with values based on the product option configuration. Make any adjustments as needed, and click Submit.
  5. You will be redirected to the Customer Details screen for the newly created test customer and you can view the License ID in the Licenses & Other Items section.

To create a test license on an existing customer record or on a new, registered customer record, follow these steps:

  1. Click Customers / Search... and find an existing customer record; or, if you prefer, add a new customer.
  2. Scroll down and click Add License.
  3. Leave the Quantity set to 1.
  4. Choose the product and product option for which you wish to generate a test license.
  5. Click the Add New Test License button.
  6. You will be displayed a page with several settings for the new license pre-set with values based on the product option configuration. Make any adjustments as needed, and click Submit.
  7. You will be redirected to the Customer Details screen and you can view the License ID in the Licenses & Other Items section.
Important

Test licenses are available for your development and testing needs as you may deem necessary, but test licenses should not be distributed to customers. At the end of each calendar month, all test licenses are purged from SOLO Server. In addition, any customer records which contain only test licenses will also be deleted. You will not be charged for creating test licenses.

All other non-test (or "live") licenses created in SOLO Server (regardless of how the licenses are created) will not be purged, however, and will result in account charges/fees being assessed to your SOLO Server account. There are various ways of creating non-test licenses, including, but certainly not limited to the following examples: Manually adding a license, processing an order without using the test credit card number, or performing web service calls.

For information on how to test the full ordering process, please view the Testing Order Process topic.