By G.D.G. Software
Three Free Kits, One Mission: Get Your Protected Workbooks Out the Door
Right then, gather round. Building a watertight, compiled Excel workbook is one thing. Getting it sold, activated and licensed in the wild without losing a weekend to plumbing is quite another. That is exactly what our integration kits are for, and we are delighted to announce that all three are now available, completely free, to every registered XLS Padlock user with an active maintenance. No add-on fee, no catch. Grab them from your registered-user portal and you are off to the races.
Even better: the guides and the online documentation for every kit are now fully multilingual. More on that lovely development further down.
So, what is in the toolbox? Let’s take them one at a time.
The WooCommerce Integration Kit: Sell Straight From Your Own Store
If you already run a WooCommerce shop, this is the kit that ties everything together. It connects your compiled workbooks to your WooCommerce orders and subscriptions, so every purchase can hand the customer a working, activated application. Expiration dates are validated server-side for centralised, tamper-proof control, and the kit handles activation, validation, deactivation and customer blocking out of the box.
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Dedicated page: Sell Excel workbooks with WooCommerce
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Online guide: WooCommerce Integration Kit documentation
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PDF guide: WooCommerce Integration Kit (PDF)
The Basic Activation Kit: Your Own Stand-Alone Activation Server
Not on WooCommerce? No problem at all. The Basic Activation Kit gives you a lightweight, stand-alone online activation server for XLS Padlock that you host yourself. It is the no-frills route to proper online activation: customise your activation keys, build a registration form, validate existing activations and handle deactivations, all backed by the modern Ed25519 signed activation protocol. Drop the files on your server, edit a single config file, and you have full control over who runs your workbooks.
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Dedicated page: Excel workbook online activation
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Online guide: Basic Activation Kit documentation
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PDF guide: Basic Activation Kit (PDF)
The FastSpring Subscription Kit: Recurring Revenue, Done Properly
Want to offer your customers a recurring plan for your workbooks and let a trusted reseller handle the billing? The FastSpring Subscription Kit connects XLS Padlock to FastSpring subscriptions, with FastSpring itself generating the activation tokens. It rides on our 2026 Ed25519 signed activation protocol, so every activation and validation is cryptographically verifiable end to end. Set it up once and your subscribers are activated, validated and renewed automatically.
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Dedicated page: Sell Excel workbook subscriptions
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Online guide: FastSpring Subscription Kit documentation
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PDF guide: FastSpring Subscription Kit (PDF)
Now in Seven Languages: Read the Docs in Yours
Here is the part we are genuinely chuffed about. Every one of these kits now ships with documentation in seven languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese. That goes for both formats:
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The online help center is fully localised. Open any kit guide and use the language switcher to read it in your language, with the sidebar, navigation and chapter titles all translated.
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The downloadable PDF guides are produced per language too, so you can keep a copy in the language your team actually works in.
No more squinting at a guide in a language that is not your own. Whether you are deploying in Lyon, Lisbon or Leipzig, the instructions now speak your language.
Ready to Get Started?
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Head over to your registered-user portal and download the kit (or kits) you need.
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Open the matching guide, online or in PDF, and read the setup steps for your scenario.
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Test everything in a staging environment before going live. Measure twice, cut once, as they say.
These kits represent a serious step forward in helping you protect, sell and license your valuable Excel workbooks, and we cannot wait to see what you build with them.
Happy licensing!