How to Create a License System for FiveM Scripts

Producing a unique key per customer is trivial. The moment that matters is when your resource starts on a customer's server: something has to check whether that key is valid, active, and allowed to run here — and refuse to load your code if not.

Without runtime enforcement, a 'license' is just a label. Anyone who copies the resource ignores it. So the first design decision is that authorization must gate execution, not merely be validated for show.

• A customer identity (name and optionally email) so you know who it belongs to.
• Allowed server IPs or CIDR ranges, so a key can't quietly run on another machine.
• An expiry date for time-limited deals, with renewal instead of reshipping.
• An active/suspended/revoked state you can change at any time.
• A link to the script, or to a collection of scripts sold together.

IP binding is the simplest, strongest lever against casual sharing: a key tied to one server won't authorize another. For customers who legitimately move servers, you update the allowed IPs rather than issuing a new product.

Expiry supports subscriptions and trials. A time-limited license stops authorizing when the term ends; renewing extends it without touching the customer's install.

Once licenses are enforced, you gain visibility: which servers are active, when they last checked in, and whether anything looks off. That turns licensing into operational insight, not just gatekeeping.

Revocation is the payoff. After a chargeback or a confirmed leak, you disable the key and the resource stops loading your protected code on its next restart — no takedown requests, no waiting.

A safe system never needs to keep your customers' plaintext keys lying around. Storing only a hash means a database leak doesn't hand out working keys. If a customer loses their key, you re-issue it or send a one-time download link rather than looking up the original.

Trust Secure gives every license a full lifecycle — issue, activate, bind, monitor, renew, suspend, revoke — with IP binding and expiry built in, and Discord alerts for key events. Because your protected resource checks a signed authorization at runtime, the license genuinely controls whether the code runs.

You can bundle several resources under one license using collections, manage the full lifecycle from one dashboard — activate, suspend, renew, revoke — and get activity pushed to Discord in real time. It's a license manager designed around selling scripts, not a key generator bolted onto one.