Can externally paid plugins integrate with the IDE’s built-in license management UI?

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I have a question regarding license management for plugins.
Is it possible for externally paid plugins to integrate with the IDE’s built-in license management UI? Specifically, can such plugins hook into JetBrains’ native license dialogs or flows?
Thanks in advance !

2

I don’t think so and we have no plans to add it, it does not help us anyhow unfortunately

3

Thanks @yuriy.artamonov .
How can we set up an externally paid plugin on the Marketplace?
Also, is it possible to show a “Free Trial” label on the plugin card (bottom-right corner) when using external licensing?

4

You can set your plugin as externally paid, but in this case Marketplace does not provide any means for you to show information in IDE . You have to do everything on your own

5

But how can I setup that? I noticed that the Marketplace provides options to apply for a plugin as either Paid or Freemium. In the plugin code, I can also configure the productDescriptor with an optional boolean value to indicate whether the plugin is Freemium (true) or Paid (false), like so:

productDescriptor {
    optional = true // Determines whether the plugin is Freemium (true) or Paid (false)
}

However, I couldn’t find any official JetBrains documentation explaining how this works for externally paid plugins. The only related reference I found is the Plugin Monetization – Business Models page.

Is there any documentation available on this? How can I set up an externally paid plugin?

6

Hello,

Unfortunately, it is not possible to add a “Free Trial” label to externally paid plugins. On our end, we can only mark your plugin with “Externally Paid” tag (like this plugin).

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Thanks @natalia.melnikova
Could you please clarify the process for enabling this tag?

  • Is this something we can configure ourselves through the Marketplace interface? I checked the Tags section here – https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/add#intellij – but couldn’t find any option for an “externally paid” tag.
  • Or do we need to submit a request to JetBrains to enable the “externally paid” label?
  • If a request is required, where and how should we submit it?
    Thanks in advance.
8

Please send an email to marketplace@jetbrains.com with the plugin name (or a link to it), and we will add the tag to your plugin.

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Thanks @natalia.melnikova