What happens if the licence lapses

This is the part most plugins are vague about, so here it is flatly. If you cancel, or the card fails, or you simply decide not to renew:

  1. All your feeds keep syncing. The feature does not stop.
  2. No data disappears. Not one event, not one feed, not one setting.
  3. The free plugin runs completely unchanged.
  4. There are no more updates. That is what you bought, and that is what stops.
  5. You get one admin notice. Not on every page, not in a modal, and never a fatal error.
  6. Your site does not stop. No white screen. Ever.

What you lose by not renewing is the maintenance: the timezone database updates, the changes Google and Microsoft make to their calendar formats, and the PHP and WordPress releases the code has to keep up with. The calendar you already have keeps working. It just stops being kept up to date — and in this category, “stops being kept up to date” is exactly how a calendar ends up frozen on a date in the future.

Why the code being free does not make the subscription pointless

Every line of this plugin is GPL, including Pro. Anyone may legally take it, rename it and sell it — and in the WordPress world, people do. We are not going to pretend otherwise or build a lock that would only annoy you.

What a copy cannot include is the four clocks that keep ticking after the copy was made. Countries change their daylight-saving rules by law, sometimes at a few months' notice. Google and Microsoft revise their calendar exports. PHP deprecates functions; WordPress deprecates APIs. A copied plugin watches none of that, which is why the abandoned calendars in this category all fail the same way — they keep showing something, and what they show quietly stops being true.

So the honest sales pitch is: you are buying maintenance, updates and a person to write to, and the code comes along for free. That is the same thing every serious WordPress business sells, whether or not they say so.

Questions

Do I need an account? No. Subscribing generates a licence key. You paste it into the plugin's Licence tab in your own WordPress admin, and that is it — there is no separate login here.

Where does the key go, and what does it phone home about? Into your own site's options table. Two things then talk to us on their own, and both happen only during an admin request or a scheduled task — never from a page a visitor is looking at. A licence check, at most once a week, sending the key and the activation id. And an update check, at most twice a day, sending the product name, the installed version and the key. Every one of those requests also carries your site's address and the plugin's version number in the standard User-Agent header, which is how a licence is tied to the site using it; we write that down rather than leave it to be discovered. Two more only ever fire because you pressed something: activating a key sends it once, with a label naming this installation, and the lost-key form sends the email address you type into it. Nothing else reaches us — not your events, not your feed URLs, not your visitors, and no analytics or telemetry of any kind. Something else does leave your server, though, and none of it comes to us: each feed you add is fetched by your own server, hourly, directly from the provider you chose, and that request carries your site's address in the same header — so Google, Microsoft, Apple or whoever hosts the feed can see it. That is the feature doing its job, and it is set out in full in our privacy policy. The free plugin makes no outbound calls at all.

What if your licence server is down? Nothing happens. The last known state is kept, a thirty-day grace period runs quietly, and your site is not one millisecond slower. A licence check that can break somebody's website is a worse problem than an unpaid licence.

Can I cancel? Yes, any time, through the payment provider's customer portal — the link is in your receipt email — or by emailing us and we will do it for you. You keep access for the period you have already paid for. See refunds and cancellation.

I have lost my key. Have it emailed to you again.

Can I use it on a staging site as well as production? Yes — a licence covers your production site together with its staging, development and local copies. Each installation identifies itself distinctly, so the two are never mistaken for one another; what they are then counted as is a policy rather than a side effect, and ours is written out in section 4 of the terms. If a copy is ever counted wrongly, we fix it on our side, and your site is not locked out while we do.