Hello! 

1: I will be installing WP Amelia on many client sites. In the settings, the licence code is visible in plain sight. This means my customers can give my licence code to whoever they want. Please hide this. If this remains plain text, I will have to request a refund.

2: Also, as I have seen, you have received many requests for whitelabel/removal of branding. Again, lack of a custom branding option makes this plugin more risky for me to sell as a service. I have circumvented your branding on a test server in CSS, but it's a pain. Are there any plans to introduce custom branding? If so, I can recommend at least 3 agencies I work with to buy the lifetime agency licence from you. Otherwise, they will not buy.

Kind regards,

Mike

Hi Dan,

Thank you for your reply. 

This manual method of protecting the licence code I have paid for is like something out of the 1990s.

I have bought a lifetime developer licence, and expect to add this to many, many client sites. To have to hide the code in this way is bizarre. This should be addressed with priority. Currently you have 100s, maybe 1000s of agencies with active developer licences on 1000s, possibly 10,000s of client sites. Each of those sites is providing £400+ worth of licence code for free. I wonder how many licence sales you have missed out on, because a nulled site is offering lifetime licences. Do you have plans to add some form of obfuscation, like almost every other premium plugin out there?

This and the white-labelling issues are the only issues making me consider requesting a refund. While they are circumventable, they are a drag on any agency looking to seriously consider your software. As I mentioned, I am in contact with at least three other agencies who would be interested in buying developer lifetime licences, but would be discouraged by these issues.

Regarding the white labelling issue, you can do this in CSS, negating the need to repeat the process every time the plugin updates.

1. Install; https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/add-admin-css/
2. Add the following CSS:

div.am-logo::before {
  display: block;
  content: "";
  background-image: url(https://YourCustomURL.com/Logo.png);
  height: 150px;
  width:150px;
  background-size: cover;
}
img.logo-big{
  display: none !important;
}

3: replace the URL with any logo image.

This will swap the logo and changes will persist throughout plugin updates.

Is there an ETA on either of these issues?

Kind regards,

Mike

Has there been any update on this?

Every one of my customers has access to a lifetime developer licence worth over £500 because you don't bother hiding it.

This is NOT a difficult task for your developers. Obscuring a field is a few lines of code, at worst.

Literally ALL you have to do is add this to your plugin: 

var myLicence = document.querySelector(".am-purchase-code > div > div > div > input");
if (myLicence.disabled) {
    myLicence.type="password";
}

One of my clients could be selling lifetime licences on Fiverr and you'd be missing out on 1000s of sales.

I'm just shocked that this is still a thing.

Yes I understand that the database method is superior, but I have just given you the code that would make a HUGE improvement RIGHT NOW. It is 100% better than what you currently have, and I have written it for you. Copy/paste, walk away. No?

Your approach to this is bewildering; It's like saying "I'm not going to replace my flat tyre with this free silver tyre, because in a years time I might buy a gold one!"

Replace your flat tyre so you can get to the garage, and then aim for perfection.
There is NO downside to you implementing this now, and replacing it later.

Thanks for your candid reply, Aleksandar, it's appreciated.
Apologies if I came across as impatient, I've just been getting rather frustrated with Amelia recently I'm afraid.

In May of last year, you (specifically you - https://imgur.com/aqsepsL) told the folks over at AppSumo that a white label option for developers was on the cards soon. But since then I've seen multiple comments form you and staff that this either isn't happening at all, or isn't planned any time soon. It's also not on your roadmap.

Again; here is a silver tyre

div.am-logo::before {
  display: block;
  content: "";
  background-image: url(https://YourCustomURL.com/Logo.png);
  height: 150px;
  width:150px;
  background-size: cover;
}
img.logo-big{
  display: none !important;
}

All this requires is implementation on the dashboard, and an upload field linked to it.
Yes, I'm sure it's far from perfect. But it would satisfy the commitment you gave to the AppSumo crowd (and others) in very little time. I'd then be able to recommend my 3 associates to buy developer licences, too. £1500 in your pocket and a whole chunk of happy developers for likely less than a couple of hours work.
Copy/Paste/tweak-a-bit/win. 

Hi Aleksander,

Having worked in web design+development for over 6 years I can assure you that I understand what a developer licence is for, and how it works. I am of course not selling licence keys on, or installing Amelia on websites separate to me. My meaning was, of course, selling Amelia as part of websites that I build or significantly upgrade. I offer full website design with booking included, please let me know if this falls outside the licence terms. My associates are web designers, but do not work in development very much (calling me in when needed), and would therefore be beholden to me to change the branding for every project they produce. They are keen on positioning themselves as specialists in creating booking websites.  As companies solely offering booking websites, my fees for simply changing a logo are an ongoing cost that they're unwilling to pay.

That said, I find it rather difficult to believe that your team is particularly interested in how these licences are used, given that it has taken so long for you to hide licence codes, but hey-ho.

Your response on the other thread was, again, yet another example of waiting for the gold tyre, to the detriment of your customers.

You say that complete white labelling is not planned, but then immediately discount the silver tyre solution I have given you. If I can achieve it on my client installs, (albeit via laborious CSS and plugin messing around) then you can as part of your plugin.

I can't speak for the other developers here, but in my case specifically, being able to change the logo easily (achieved via the silver tyre supplied) would satisfy (in my mind, at least) your commitment to the AppSumo folks. Many people on Appsumo would have stacked many codes, based on your promise that they could change the branding easily, soon. One of the reasons I felt so comfortable buying a developer licence (at full price) was that I'd read many comments saying it was planned, and a few (from yourself, too) that it was coming soon. 

An upload field for a logo is not difficult, Aleksandar. It really isn't.
Sure; perhaps it doesn't satisfy every condition to be a complete white label solution (gold tyre), but it's enough of a silver tyre to satisfy your commitment, at least in the short to mid-term.

https://wpamelia.com/changelog/

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I was expecting and questioning this concern in a few of my ticket.