<ul class="wccom-tick-list-primary">
<li>Password protecting your whole website, whole store, or selected items</li>
<li>View password usage analytics and track orders placed using passwords</li>
<li>Customize password input form and background</li>
</ul>
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<p>Password Protect for WooCommerce enables you to add a security layer to conceal your VIP content by adding access passwords. You can add multiple passwords and restrict access to your entire website, store-section, or specific products, categories, and pages. By sharing the passwords with relevant users, you can limit access to desired individuals only.</p>
<p>Furthermore, this extension provides you the ability to track password usage and sales generated using the access password. With these advanced features, you can analyze the performance of each password and prevent misuse.</p>
<h2>Use Cases:</h2>
<p><strong>VIP content:<br />
</strong>Conceal VIP section of your store and allow only specific individuals to access using the access password.</p>
<p><strong>Live testing:<br />
</strong>Instead of sharing the admin credentials, you can add password protection to your store or multiple pages at once and allow only desired individuals to view the concealed content..</p>
<p><strong>Personalized offerings:<br />
</strong>The extension enables you to add multiple passwords to different pages, which you can then share with your VIP customers to create a sense of exclusivity.</p>
<h2>Features list:</h2>
<ul>
<li>Password protect your whole website, whole store, or selected items</li>
<li>Create multiple rules to protect desired pages, products, and sections</li>
<li>Add multiple comma separate passwords list or import using a CSV file</li>
<li>Explore detailed password analytics to analyze password usage</li>
<li>Logs IP address, location, and other information when password is used</li>
<li>Tracks orders placed while using the access password</li>
<li>Customize the password form title, logo, background image, and color</li>
<li>Personalize background opacity of password input form</li>
<li>Choose to enable/disable Google from indexing protected pages</li>
<li>Hide products completely or show a Password Protected message in listing pages</li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004473403" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Password-Protect-Input-form.png" alt="" width="980" height="616" /></p>
<h2>Add passwords to the entire website or specific items:</h2>
<p>You can create multiple rules to hide your entire website, WooCommerce store section, or specific products, categories, and pages.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004473404" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Hide-Specific-pages-or-entire-website.png" alt="" width="980" height="770" /></p>
<h2>Add multiple access passwords:</h2>
<p>While creating a new global password protection rule, you can choose to add multiple passwords separated by commas or import using a <strong>CSV file</strong>.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004473402" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Add-multiple-passwords.png" alt="" width="980" height="853" /></p>
<h2>Password usage analytics:</h2>
<p>The extension tracks password usage by logging the date, time, IP address, city, region, country, browser, and other details whenever someone uses a password. These analytics can help merchants identify password misuse and take primitive actions if needed.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004473397" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Password-Usage-Analytics.png" alt="" width="980" height="461" /></p>
<h2>Sales using passwords:</h2>
<p>Password Protect for WooCommerce enables you to track the sales generated by using passwords. If linked with promotional campaigns, these stats can help merchants identify their best-performing passwords.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004473395" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Order-Analytics.png" alt="" width="980" height="306" /></p>
<h2>Customization & Visibility Options:</h2>
<h3><strong>Password form customization</strong></h3>
<p>You can personalize the details of the password input form, such as title, background, logo, text, and opacity, according to your business needs.</p>
<h3><strong>Control Google indexing:</strong></h3>
<p>If you don’t want password-protected pages to appear in search result pages, you can disable Google crawling from extension settings. Not allowing Google to crawl password-protected pages will ensure the pages are hidden from unwanted traffic, and only customers with the links and passwords will be able to access them.</p>
<h3><strong>Hide completely or keep in listings:</strong></h3>
<p>For protected items, you can choose to either completely hide password-protected pages or show them in archive pages with a ‘Password Protected’ button. You can add allowed IP addresses to bypass the password protection and directly access the page.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-18734004473396" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Manage-password-protected-visibility.png" alt="" width="980" height="942" /></p>

Password Protect

<p>Password protect your entire website, store section or specific products, categories, and pages. Add multiple passwords to share with relevant customers. Track sales and view usage analytics to prevent misuse of passwords.</p>

<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Sell license keys for software</h2>
<p><strong>WooCommerce Software Add‑on</strong> gives you end‑to‑end licensing inside WooCommerce. Generate keys on purchase, manage activations and upgrades, and keep support simple by managing everything where you already fulfill orders.</p>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Sell licenses and upgrades</h2>
<p>Mark any product as software, set licensing rules, and let the add‑on handle the rest. Customers buy like any other product, and when the order is <strong>completed</strong> they automatically receive their license key, activation email, and activation limits in the order‑complete message.</p>
<figure id="attachment_17590" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17590" style="width: 558px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-17590" title="screen-capture-2" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture-21-620x371.png" alt="The software settings" width="558" height="334" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17590" class="wp-caption-text">The software settings</figcaption></figure>
<figure id="attachment_17588" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17588" style="width: 261px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img class="wp-image-17588" title="screen-capture" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture1.png" alt="If enabled, users can upgrade old keys for a reduced price" width="261" height="230" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17588" class="wp-caption-text">If enabled, users can upgrade old keys for a reduced price</figcaption></figure>
<p>If you introduce a paid upgrade, define eligible past keys and an upgrade price. During checkout, customers enter their existing license and receive upgrade pricing automatically.</p>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">View purchased keys</h2>
<p>See exactly which key belongs to which order, including remaining activations, right on the WooCommerce Edit Order screen. Need to resend the license email? Use the built‑in “Send” action without leaving WooCommerce.</p>
<figure id="attachment_17591" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17591" style="width: 558px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-17591" title="screen-capture-5" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture-51-620x183.png" alt="Licenses and activations on the orders page" width="558" height="165" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17591" class="wp-caption-text"><br />Licenses and activations on the orders page</figcaption></figure>
<p>For a global view, go to <strong>WooCommerce → License Keys</strong> to search, filter, and bulk‑revoke keys when necessary.</p>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Track activations and view reports</h2>
<p>Understand usage at a glance. The <strong>WooCommerce → Reports → Software</strong> dashboard summarizes sales and activation activity so you can spot trends, enforce limits, and plan upgrades.</p>
<figure id="attachment_17592" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-17592" style="width: 558px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img class="wp-image-17592" title="screen-capture-6" src="https://woocommerce.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/screen-capture-61-620x138.png" alt="Activations report" width="558" height="124" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-17592" class="wp-caption-text"><br />Activations report</figcaption></figure>
<h2 style="color: #f5247d">Integrate with your app via API</h2>
<p>Validate licenses from your desktop app, plugin, or SaaS. The API supports generating keys, activating, de‑activating, resetting, and checking validity so you can enforce licensing where it matters: inside your software. See the documentation for endpoints and examples.</p>
<p><strong>Not sure if you need Software Add-on or <a href="https://woocommerce.com/products/woocommerce-api-manager/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">API Manager for WooCommerce</a>?</strong> In most cases, API Manager will be the better fit. If you’re unsure, <a href="https://kestrelwp.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contact Kestrel support</a> and we’ll help you choose the right extension for your store.</p>
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<h2 style="color: #f5247d">More information</h2>
<ul style="line-height: 1.8em">
<li style="list-style-type: none">
<ul style="line-height: 1.8em">
<li>Read the Software Add‑on documentation for setup, API details, and upgrade workflows.</li>
<li>Need help getting started? <a href="https://kestrelwp.com/support" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Contact our support team</a>.</li>
</ul>
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Software Add-on

<p>Sell and manage license keys directly in WooCommerce. Generate keys on purchase, handle activations and upgrades, and keep everything in one place your team already uses.</p>

Password Protect vs Software Add-on