Introduction
You must know exactly how many licenses you need when you plan to purchase Prime Mover or subscribe to a free trial to test it first.
This quick guide will show you how.
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Please refer to this guide for legal instructions on purchasing PRO licenses from us.
It’s the number of sites that matters
Prime Mover license keys come in two flavors:
- Single-site license (one site only)
- Multisite site license ( starts at 10-site licenses and unlimited site licenses)
A single-site license will only work on one site. However, since Prime Mover version 1.2.9, this license type has supported single-site and WordPress multisite.
If you use a single-site license in a multisite, you can activate a license in only one site you choose. And that PRO features can only be activated for this site.
Multisite licenses allow you to use the license on multiple sites. Currently, Prime Mover supports 10-site and unlimited-site licenses.
Do localhost / dev.* / *.dev or any development domains also require a license?
PRO license is not required for the local host or any qualified development domains. If you have a single-site license activated on your remote host, you can use the same license on localhost without purchasing another license! Please read this specification (from Freemius Inc.) for details on how this is implemented, or whether it covers your dev domain.
How to use multisite licenses?
If you have 10-site licenses, you can activate this license on 10 different WordPress single-site installations, or on one multisite with the license activated on the main site and 9 subsites.
Or, if you have two different multisite installations with these license key activation plans:
First multisite: Main site + 4 subsites. (5 sites activated on first multisite)
Second multisite: Main site + four subsites. (5 sites activated on the second multisite)
So, ten sites (5 sites + 5 sites) were activated for two multisites.
If you purchase unlimited site licenses, you can activate them on any single site or multisite—there are no restrictions.
This is the most flexible and worry-free license plan. If you have the budget, we would recommend getting the unlimited license.
It’s also the most cost-effective because you can use it on any number of sites, and it obviously has the lowest per-site cost. (in terms of licenses).
What sites should I activate if I have a WordPress Multisite network?
It depends on your usage. If you want to migrate or back up the main site, you should activate the license on that site.
It could be any of your subsites. PRO features are available only on subsites with an active PRO license.
Please check out this tutorial for details on activating licenses on any multisite site (e.g., whether subsites or the main site).
How do you deactivate a license and reuse it elsewhere?
Yes, this is possible. If you have a valid license, log in to your WordPress site, go to Prime Mover > Account, and deactivate the license. This will deactivate the license for that site only. Your subscription and account will still be active. Please check out this guide for details on deactivating licenses so you can reuse them on other sites.
Then, download a Prime Mover Pro copy and activate it on another single-site installation to which you wish to migrate the license. Then, activate the license key on that site. It will work since you already deactivated the license on the first site.
If you are on a Free Trial, you might not see the deactivated license in the WordPress admin (Prime Mover > Account). Log in to your Freemius account (using the login credentials sent via email when you subscribed to the Free trial), then deactivate the license there.
The same thing will work with multisite. You can deactivate licenses on some subsites and reuse them for different multisite or single-site installations.
I’m having licensing activation issues. Is there a way to reset and re-activate the license in a clean state?
Yes, of course! Please read this detailed guide.
An important note on using the Remote URL restore feature
One of the key features of the Pro version is remote URL restoration. This saves a lot of time since you can migrate directly from one site to another without downloading it to your Desktop (as in the Free version). See this YouTube video for details on this feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHU2_rusZ_A
If you want to implement a remote URL restore feature with a single site license:
- Activate the license in the source site.
- Generate an export at the source site.
- Deactivate the license at the source site.
- Transfer the license to your target site.
- Copy the restored URL from the source site to the target site.
Note: If you encounter unauthorized restore errors, please check out this tutorial.
Last updated: February 10, 2026