Koapanel account
The panel can be connected to your Koapanel account, the customer area at console.koapanel.app/account (sign-in with Prime Software ID). Connecting gives you the Free plan licence, and the customer area holds the panel's licences, orders, invoices and support requests.
Connecting the panel
In Plan and license press Connect to the account. The panel shows:
- a short code (for example
BCDF-GHJK); - the Open the connection page button and a QR code with the same link, handy from a phone.
Open the link, sign in or create the free account and confirm the code. The panel notices by itself within a few seconds, activates the Free plan licence and shows "Connected to the account a••••@…". The panel never asks for your password: the connection is approved only in the customer area.
- The code expires after 15 minutes: if it does, get a new one.
- If you press It's not me in the customer area, the connection is refused.
- If the console does not answer, the panel retries by itself while the code is valid.
- Only the panel administrators can connect it.
Each account has one Free plan, and each server one account. To use the Free plan on another server, move it from the customer area ("Move to another server"). Paid licences are still activated by pasting the code, as before.
New and existing installs
- Panels installed before 0.20: nothing changes. The Free plan keeps working as before; connecting the account is optional.
- Panels installed from 0.20 on, without a licence: the Free plan needs an account. Until the panel is connected you can set it up and create one site; a notice stays at the top of the pages and the Overview shows the box to connect it. Once connected, the Free plan limits apply (up to 3 sites). No existing site is ever stopped.
A panel counts as "new" if, at the first start of 0.20, it had neither sites nor a licence.