Hi everyone, I have some specific questions about Cloud zoo and licensing a grasshopper plugin. The background of my question is that I would like to sell a GH plugin and thus want to have a basic license system. my question: Are these assumptions correct? Cloud Zoo is meant for Rhino plugins an…

Probably check the Karamba plugin. They have a component to activate a license separately purchased at beginning. (Purchase from them, and then manually activate it.) But recent versions somehow switched to Rhino’s license system?

hey, thank you for the karamba reference, I looked through their documentation and it looks indeed like they are using a combination of a rhino plugin that handles cloud zoo and a grasshopper plugin that gets then the lease handed over. Of course they do not share any details on how to implement it…

did you see this topic: [image] How to monetise a plug-in with external licensing and shop solution Rhino Developer Dear Plug-in-Developers what external services / packages / API do you use to generate, sell, validate and manage the licenses of your customers…

thanks, yes I did and I posted in a new thread because I am unsure if my understanding of the current cloud zoo system is correct (1./2.) and also the linked thread is now 4 years old and I thought the system might have changed.

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Tom_P October 14, 2025, 3:47pm 4

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