Woocommerce Activation confusion

What a Great product. As with all great products the learning curve can be a bear. For all the problems XLS solves, the learning curve is reasonable. I have all functions working except for one, & I’m missing something.

My goal is “one button online activation” after purchase. My understanding is that if I do NOT use “hardware lock” the customer only clicks activate, XLS & Woo do the rest. Do I understand that correctly?

Please help by helping with my questions below and comment.
I don’t plan to use hardware lock since I’m protected by activation count.

1.) in Config.ini am I supposed to use user ID or activation key
2.) XLS guide 7.4.1 should I check the “end users must enter an activation key” checkbox?
(if unchecked the activation window doesn’t appear ).
3.) I don’t fully understand the token. Does online activation avoid the need for a token? If I must use the token is the “as delivered token” [email + ItemID]

Kind Regards,

Dan L

dan-LL said:

My goal is “one button online activation” after purchase. My understanding is that if I do NOT use “hardware lock” the customer only clicks activate, XLS & Woo do the rest. Do I understand that correctly?

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Actually, it doesn’t count. Hardware-locked apps are also automated as you can see with our demo here:
https://demo.xlspadlock.com
The workbook is hardware-locked (meaning you can only activate on two different computers) and we don’t ask for any system ID.

dan-LL said:

I don’t plan to use hardware lock since I’m protected by activation count.

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Note that then nothing prevents some advanced user from copying activation data (and then your activated workbook) to other machines.

dan-LL said:

1.) in Config.ini am I supposed to use user ID or activation key

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It’s your user ID as shown on the account page at Log In - XLS Padlock

dan-LL said:

2.) XLS guide 7.4.1 should I check the “end users must enter an activation key” checkbox?

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Yes it’s mandatory

dan-LL said:

3.) I don’t fully understand the token. Does online activation avoid the need for a token? If I must use the token is the “as delivered token” [email + ItemID]

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Token is what identifies a record in the woocomerce’s database. By default, it’s email-order ID.