Hi Steven!
I’m sorry to hear that it doesn’t work with your current staging setup.
I know it would be a good improvement to also include sub-domains for cases like yours. The team has already gone through them so there is a chance for this to be possible in the future.
Rest assured our plugins do not reduce functionality if you don’t have an active license in them. Having the active license in your site only gives you the automated updates.
When new updates are available you can always download a copy of them from your account downloads page.
Let us know if you have other questions and we’ll be happy to help.
Best!
Victor