Emporium: sell add-ons, licences and downloads from inside your forum 1.0.3

The store that sells your add-ons, running inside your forum.

You are reading this on a forum that runs Emporium. The store you are browsing, the licence you would hold, the update you would download next: that is all this add-on, in production, right now. Nothing here is a mock-up.

Try it in two minutes, before you buy​

Open the live demo board and log in as demo, password demo2026. Everything is prepared for that account.

Your mission: Claim a free product from the demo shop and download it: order, license key and download in under a minute.

Start the mission on demo.xen-support.com. The board resets every night, so break whatever you like.

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The tour​

Store home


Product page


Your licenses

What it does​

• Sells four kinds of thing. Downloads, access passes, services and bundles, each with its own page, gallery and version history.
• Price plans, not just prices. One-off or recurring, per-site install limits, trial days, early renewal, and a different plan for the same product when you need one.
• Licences that manage themselves. Issued on payment, tied to the buyer, with an install count and an expiry you control, plus grace days so nobody is cut off mid-week.
• A signed licence API. Your customer's board asks yours whether its licence is valid and what it may download. Replay-protected, and you decide what each licence is entitled to.
• The client add-on is in the box. Emporium Client ships inside your download, yours to hand to buyers: they check their licence and install the updates they are entitled to from their own Admin CP, in one click.
• Releases with a real changelog. Typed entries, the archive attached, its hash and size recorded, and the customer downloading the file under the name you gave it.
• The money side. Orders, sequential invoice numbering, refunds, partial refunds and chargebacks, with Stripe for payment.
• An Admin CP that covers it. Dashboard, products, plans, orders, licences, coupons, payment profiles and data health.

New in 1.0.3​

• Sharp covers. The store keeps its own resized copies of each cover and shows the whole image at one ratio on cards, product pages, the home shelf and the Store menu.
• A calmer store home. A shorter hero with the same title, search, figures and covers, and sections that no longer wait for a scroll to appear.
• One main button per panel. Plan buttons step back, and a free product with a single plan shows one button, Get it free.
• The security fixes of 1.0.2. A transferred license gets a new key, limited coupons are checked again when the payment lands, a board pairing closes when the member changes password, and the license API is stricter about what it accepts.

Why it exists​

Selling add-ons from a forum usually means bolting a shop onto a platform that knows nothing about your members, then emailing licence keys by hand and hoping customers notice an update. Emporium keeps all of it in XenForo: the buyer is a member, the licence hangs off their account, and the update reaches their board without either of you doing anything.

Good to know​

Requires XenForo 2.3 and PHP 8.0 or later. Payments go through Stripe, which you connect with your own keys. This board is the reference installation: every product page, order and licence you can see here is Emporium doing its job.

What you get​

• One payment, from €59 for a single site. No subscription. An unlimited sites license is available on the product page.
• Twelve months of updates. Every release in that year is yours, and the add-on keeps working after it.
• A 14-day guarantee. If it does not work as described on a compatible board and support cannot fix it, you are refunded in full.
• Support from the developer. The person who wrote the code answers.
• Theme-safe. Built from XenForo's own building blocks, so it follows your style, light and dark.

From the same workshop​

• Plans: Pricing and membership pages, built from the admin panel.
• Classifieds: The buy / sell / trade section your community has been missing.
• Drafts: A premium drafts add-on for XenForo 2.3.