Hi Pat,
Thanks for reaching out to us!
You should be able to use your license both on your live site and on your development site. It won’t count toward your license’s maximum allowed sites as long as your domain name is clearly a dev or staging site.
For now, our license system will not count domains with the following TLDs toward your license seats:
- .dev
- .test
- .local
- .tribe
- .staging
Please note those TLDs tend to mean we’re talking about local websites. So a development site at the address staging.example.com isn’t covered by the exclusion, because ‘staging’ in that case would be a subdomain rather than a TLD.
That being said, you can always add our plugins to a staging site without a license: they still function (they just won’t receive automated updates).
For more information about using one license for live and dev sites, please have a look at this article in our Knowledgebase.
I hope this helps,
Cheers,
Jeremy