Authentication and Licensing for Founders Who Want to Ship Fast
Skip auth, roles, billing, and license infrastructure. Authlance gives you a complete, self-hosted foundation so you can build your product—not your auth system.
Developer-founders get the speed of a hosted platform with the control of running everything on their own stack: predictable, extensible, production-ready from day one.
The problem
Auth plumbing steals founder momentum.
Early-stage teams use Authlance when they don’t want to spend 3–6 months on identity, billing, and permission infrastructure.
You didn’t start this company to wire login screens, RBAC, billing pages, or licensing portals — yet those are the projects that quietly swallow quarters.
Months of plumbing
Auth, RBAC, billing, and customer portals slowly expand until they consume entire roadmaps.
Hosted tools hit limits
Cloud identity or billing providers cascade hidden costs and rigid flows the moment you need control.
DIY stacks are brittle
Mixing libraries for auth, email, licensing, and billing breaks unless everything is pre-integrated.
Without a unified foundation, every workflow becomes a custom build — delaying the features customers actually pay for.
The solution
Authlance ships the entire foundation.
Fully self-hosted, production-ready, and wired for identity, billing, and licensing from the start. Deploy Authlance via Helm, keep everything under your control, and extend it like any other React + Node workspace.
Provides authentication, user management, billing, and role-based access control — the backbone of any SaaS.
Adds license generation, validation, and Stripe-powered sales for downloadable or on-prem software.
Combines Core and License Operator into a complete business layer: users, payments, and licenses under your control with a unified customer journey across SaaS and downloadable apps.
A pre-integrated control layer
Identity, billing, email, and licensing stay in sync so entitlements, invoices, and access rules update without human intervention.
- Helm-ready deployment packages for your clusters or on-prem installs.
- Tenant-aware RBAC, email, and billing services already wired together.
- React extension points to add dashboards, automations, or customer workflows.
Why founders pick Authlance
Control and velocity in the same stack.
Keep everything self-hosted while giving your team extension points to move fast.
Operational control
- Fully self-hosted — run inside your Kubernetes cluster or any Docker target.
- Predictable Helm deploys with secrets, scaling, and monitoring hooks baked in.
- No vendor lock-in: your infrastructure, observability, and compliance posture.
Developer velocity
- Extension SDKs so teams add dashboards, workflows, and APIs without forking core code.
- Identity, billing, and licensing stay in sync so entitlements update themselves.
- Pre-wired OIDC, Stripe, email, and RBAC guardrails keep launches predictable.
Licensing
How Authlance licensing works
Licenses unlock Authlance on your infrastructure — whether you sell SaaS access, downloadable software, or self-hosted installs.
Stay current with yearly renewals that refresh your license artifact automatically, keeping every deployment authorized without manual updates.
Secure a signed artifact with a single payment when you prefer predictable, one-time annual purchases over subscriptions.
Download the license JSON and mount it into your Authlance deployment. The backend reads it on boot and applies limits immediately.
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Choose your plan
Pick a yearly subscription for renewals or a lifetime license for one-off deployments.
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Purchase and download
Checkout creates a signed license artifact tied to your organization and environment limits.
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Apply it to Authlance
Mount the artifact into your Authlance backend (or secrets store) and reload to activate changes.
- Run SaaS subscriptions and one-off software licenses from the same Stripe catalog.
- Refresh artifacts instantly when customers upgrade, downgrade, or renew.
- Keep entitlements in sync across environments with audit-ready history.
Core features framed as founder benefits
Authlance Core keeps the business layer solid so you can focus on shipping product.
You get authentication, user management, billing, and tenant-aware access control with production defaults — without stitching together half a dozen services.
Every piece is wired together: RBAC drives UI visibility, billing feeds entitlements, and the dashboard stays extensible so teams can drop in their own analytics or workflows.
Self-hosted speed, enterprise-grade guardrails.
Login, signup, and email verification flow straight out of the box so you never rebuild basics.
Fine-grained, tenant-aware authorization you can apply to APIs and pages without rethinking security.
Subscriptions, usage, coupons, and proration handled for you so you can focus on packaging.
Extend the dashboard with your own modules without rewriting the scaffolding or auth gates.
NATS-driven delivery, retries, and templating keep transactional emails reliable anywhere you deploy.
Helm charts and Docker images run on your cloud, your cluster, or your laptop with zero vendor lock-in.
Ready to run the core identity + billing stack yourself?
Sell downloadable or licensed software without writing licensing code.
The License Operator turns your software into a product you can sell — with automated license issuance, entitlement management, and tiered pricing built in.
Define your products and metadata once, and Authlance keeps them synced with Stripe. Each purchase generates a signed license payload your software can validate to unlock features, enforce limits, or manage seats.
Whether seats mean users, tokens, or devices, License Operator adapts to your model — giving you full control over how your software is packaged, activated, and upgraded.
Launch seat- or usage-based plans with graduated pricing, free trials, and localized currency display synced to your Stripe catalog.
Layer coupons, partner discounts, and tailored upgrade offers while the operator keeps entitlements aligned with every purchase.
When customers need more, issue a new purchase and deliver refreshed licenses without touching backend code.
- • Map plans to feature flags, usage limits, or environment counts without custom code.
- • Offer trials or grace periods, end users install licenses on conversion.
- • Generate refreshed artifacts instantly after every upgrade, downgrade, or renewal.
Pricing
Simple, predictable pricing. No per-user surprises.
Subscriptions for SaaS. One-off licenses for software.
Feature comparison
Choose the Authlance package that fits your product strategy. Every option keeps you in control while scaling users, payments, and licenses on your infrastructure.
| Feature | Authlance Core Identity, RBAC, billing, and admin UI for SaaS. | License Operator Stripe-connected license sales for downloadable software. | Full Suite Everything above unified under one control plane. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 🔐 Authentication & User Management | Included | Not included | Included |
| 🧩 Role-based Access Control (RBAC) | Included | Not included | Included |
| 💳 Stripe Billing Integration | Included | Included | Included |
| 🧾 Subscriptions | Included | Included | Included |
| 🎟️ Coupons & Discounts | Not included | Included | Included |
| 🔑 License Issuance & Validation | Not included | Included | Included |
| 📦 License Retrieval / Re-issue Portal | Not included | Included | Included |
| 🚀 Docker Compose / Helm Deployment | Included | Included | Included |
| 💰 Pricing (indicative) | $199 / yr subscription$219 one-off annual | + $99 / yr add-on$120 stand-alone | $279 / yr bundle |
| 👥 Ideal For | SaaS teams, agencies | Indie devs, plugin vendors | Teams selling SaaS + software |
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