What is this?
Self-hosted licensing for your products: issue and validate license keys, manage products and customers, and run an optional web dashboard.
Kora is a self‑hosted licensing system by Zero Development. You run it on your own server to issue and validate license keys for your products, manage your products, customers, add‑ons, and access rules, and (with the add‑on) run a full web dashboard to control it all.
This section gets you from a fresh copy of Kora to a running instance.
Guides
Setup Guide
Pick a host, install Kora, and fill in the essential settings to get it online.
Dashboard Setup
Enable the optional web dashboard add-on and sign in with Discord.
Configuration
A full reference for every setting in your config file.
Integration
Validate license keys from your product, with a live playground and code samples for every language.
Extensions
What each official extension adds, from sessions and rules to downloads and webhooks.
What you'll need
- A server or computer to run it on (see Hosting Options).
- Node.js v22 or newer (or Bun).
- A SQL database: PostgreSQL, MySQL, or MariaDB.
- A Kora license key (open a ticket in the Zero Development Discord).
Ready? Start with the Setup Guide.