Activate licenses online

This topic explains how to activate licenses on online license servers. After you activate a license, we add them to your License Server.

For information on how to activate licenses on offline license servers, check out Activate licenses offline.

Before you start

Before you start activating your licenses, make sure you have these things in place:

You have installed Tosca (opens in new tab) on the machine where you perform the activation process.
You have your Activation IDs.

If you already activated licenses and connected to a license server, and now want to activate licenses on a different server, you need to connect to this second server first. Otherwise you'll activate your licenses on the existing server.

Activate licenses

How you activate licenses depends on your version of Tosca:

You use Tosca 2025.1.2 or later

To activate licenses, follow these steps:

Open Tosca and go to Project->License.
In the Setup tab, select Activate licenses.
Select the License Server checkbox, then select OK.
Enter the Activation ID and the number of licenses you want to activate. To activate all licenses of a specific package, enter the total number.

Please note that whatever number you enter here is the total number of licenses you're activating for this particular package. It's not additive. If you activate five licenses from a specific package and later decide to activate two licenses from the same package, you have two licenses in total, not seven.
To activate licenses from an additional license package, select the Plus icon and repeat the process with the other Activation ID.
Select Activate licenses.

Click to enlarge. Enter your activation IDs and number of licenses you want to activate.

Enter your license server address and port. By default, Tricentis License Server uses port 7070.
Enter your License Server administrator credentials.

If you use a proxy server, this screen also displays the Use default proxy checkbox. Make sure to select it.
Select OK to complete the activation.

You use Tosca 2023.2, 2024.1 or 2024.2

To activate licenses, follow these steps:

Open Tosca and go to Project->License.
In the Setup tab, select Activate licenses.
Select the License Server checkbox, then select OK.
Enter the Activation ID and the number of licenses you want to activate. To activate all licenses of a specific package, enter the total number.

Please note that whatever number you enter here is the total number of licenses you're activating for this particular package. It's not additive. If you activate five licenses from a specific package and later decide to activate two licenses from the same package, you have two licenses in total, not seven.
To activate licenses from an additional license package, select the Plus icon and repeat the process with the other Activation ID.
Select Activate licenses.

Click to enlarge. Enter your activation IDs and number of licenses you want to activate.

Enter your license server address and port. By default, Tricentis License Server uses port 7070.

If you use a proxy server, this screen also displays the Use default proxy checkbox. Make sure to activate it.

You use Tosca 2023.1 or older

To activate your licenses with the response file, follow these steps:

To activate licenses, follow these steps:

Open Tosca and go to Project->License.
In the Activate tab, select Activate.
Select the License Server checkbox, then select OK.
Enter the Activation ID and the number of licenses you want to activate. To activate all licenses of a specific package, enter the total number.

Please note that whatever number you enter here is the total number of licenses you're activating for this particular package. It's not additive. If you activate five licenses from a specific package and later decide to activate two licenses from the same package, you have two licenses in total, not seven.
To activate licenses from an additional license package, select the Plus icon and repeat the process with the other Activation ID.
Select Activate licenses.

Click to enlarge. Enter your activation IDs and number of licenses you want to activate.

Enter your license server address and port. By default, Tricentis License Server uses port 7070.

If you use a proxy server, this screen also displays the Use default proxy checkbox. Make sure to activate it.