I am almost in the final stage of offering fully managed WordPress website services wherein I will not only build websites for my clients but I will also manage it for them. I will charge them an aggregate of all the fees (including domain name, web hosting, web design, a small percentage of the cost of all the premium plugins/themes, maintenance etc).

However, the service will not entitle the client with any kind of right of ownership of these premium plugins or themes.

To be fair enough, I would like to offer an exit package. If for some reason, the client decides that they want to move away or manage everything on their own, then I will ask them to either purchase their own license for each premium plugin/theme or simply provide them with a copy of the raw data (excluding theme/plugin data).

So far, all the premium plugins I own (for eg., WP Rocket) allow the people to purchase a single site license.

But I will have a major problem with Beaver Builder & Beaver Themer as the client will not be able to make a huge investment.

I personally feel that there is a need to offer a single and at least three site licenses for Beaver Themer and Beaver Builder respectively.

As regards to people copying, distributing or selling the code, I would like to conclude that the piracy is something that is never going to stop, and perhaps one of the biggest concerns even for the biggest giants like Microsoft, while not even sparing the Hollywood, film & music industry as well.

Just my thoughts.

Glad it was helpful for you! 🙂

And thankfully, thanks to this article that I have understood. Thanks very much.

Thanks, Gerard! It’s great to hear that Beaver Builder is helping you be successful in your business. We love that!

After a loooooong while away from doing client work with WP, I found myself picking up more and more work. Apart from the fact that I wanted a really good option for fast development, the license options with what I was using (WP-Bakery) was nuts! A new license for every site is just not manageable – clients pay you only once and I’d be stuck paying for the plugin for each and every site every year!

BB has it right for developers and I’ll be moving from my Pro license to the next level this month – it just gets better and better the more I use it!

That would be great! You have already done more than any I can think of in the space.

There’s many reasons why I am such a supporter of BB, but this is definitely an important one.

Also I think the thoughtful minority who find high levels transparency important are unlikely to report this as a reason for their lack of interest.

Thanks, David! Appreciate the feedback. I am hoping to write more of these “behind the scenes” post where we explain some of the reasoning behind our decisions. 🙂

Another aspect is what is defined as a “site”. You’d have to consider staging sites, local sites, etc which could be another headache that we just don’t have to worry about 🙂