Real talk: for a long time, T3Planet’s TYPO3 license management system was a Gmail search for 'license key' and hoping for the best.
If you've worked with premium TYPO3 extensions, you know the drill. You buy an extension, get a license key by email, paste it somewhere - maybe a text file, maybe a shared spreadsheet if you're feeling organised - and then promptly forget about it until something breaks.
Domain migration? Now you need to find that email from eight months ago. Client hands off the project? Extension stopped working on staging? You need to add an extension to the local domain.
It's not a crisis. It's just friction. Low-grade, persistent friction that compounds every time you add another extension to the stack.
The Change: License Management Inside TYPO3 CMS
T3Planet's License Manager (EXT:ns_license) puts all of that inside your TYPO3 backend. No external dashboard. No support ticket to transfer a domain. No hunting for credentials.
Here's what you can actually do from the backend module:
- Start a 30-day free trial on any T3Planet extension — directly from TYPO3, no account needed upfront
- Activate your license key after purchase (or upgrade a trial to paid without reinstalling anything)
- Deactivate and reassign the license to a new domain when you migrate
- Check for updates and apply them with one click
- View a full log of activations, deactivations, and domain history
For the Composer People
If you're running a Composer-based TYPO3 setup (which you probably should be at this point), the install flow is clean:
composer require nitsan/ns-license
Then configure a private T3Planet repository using your license key as the Composer credential, and pull in your extension like any other package. Updates slot into your standard Composer workflow, which means they can also live in your CI/CD pipeline.
Final Words
If you use T3Planet extensions and you're still managing licenses via inbox archaeology, EXT:ns_license is worth installing. It takes maybe 10 minutes to set up and saves that time back on every migration, renewal, or audit you'd otherwise do manually.
The full step-by-step guide covering both Extension Manager and Composer installs, domain transfers, the migration path from older setups, and more is here: T3Planet License Manager: A Complete Step-by-Step Guide TYPO3
Drop a comment if you've got questions about multi-extension Composer setups happy to help.
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