What a licence buys, what happens when one lapses, and how to move one between sites.
Plans
| 1 site | $49 per year |
|---|---|
| 5 sites | $99 per year |
| Unlimited sites | $199 per year |
Renewals are at the same price, not a discounted first year followed by a jump. A licence covers updates and support for as long as it is active.
Checkout, licences and updates are handled by Freemius, which is also the merchant of record and deals with VAT. The free plugin contains none of that code.
Activating
After installing Pro, open any JMGallery screen and follow the activation prompt, or paste your key at Plugins › JMGallery Pro › Account. Once activated, updates arrive through the normal WordPress updates screen.
Until a licence is activated, Pro stays out of the way entirely and the site behaves as though only the free plugin were installed.
When a licence lapses
Nothing you have already built stops working.
- Pro field types stay registered and editable, with their data intact.
- Saved displays keep their caption styling, backgrounds and hover effects.
- Watermarking keeps applying.
- Downloads, zip downloads, prices and Buy buttons keep working.
- Video keeps playing.
What pauses is the tooling for building more: the Pro editors in the display builder and in Settings revert to previews, CSV import stops, and the Elementor widget is unregistered. Renewing brings all of it back exactly as it was.
Deactivating or deleting Pro deletes nothing either. Fields, display styling and settings it added stay stored and return when it is reactivated.
Moving a licence
Deactivate the licence on the old site first, from Plugins › JMGallery Pro › Account, then activate it on the new one. A licence deactivated this way frees its slot immediately.
Staging and development copies count as sites. If you run a staging environment permanently, the 5-site plan is the cheaper answer.
The free plugin
JMarzTech Gallery is GPL and free, with no quota, no trial period and no feature that stops working after a count is reached. Unlimited photos, unlimited fields, unlimited saved displays. The paid features live in a separate plugin because that is the honest way to split them.