Envato now keeps half of what you earn. Keep ~90% instead.
Fixed-scope CodeCanyon exit — onto Freemius or your own store in 7 business days. The point is your next sale: every new sale stops paying Envato's 50% cut the day you go live, and every month you stay listed the cut keeps taking. We build a purchase-code redemption bridge and run an in-plugin campaign so the reachable slice of your active buyers can self-migrate — paste their Envato code, activate a fresh key — and you walk away owning a consented email list Envato never gave you. Migration emails are written for you and sent under your name, plus 30 days of post-move support. €790 flat ($840) — founding price, first 10 migrations, then €990. No revenue share, ever. Every patch and email is reviewed by a named EU human before it touches your buyers.
What does the 50% split cost you? Run your numbers
The "~90%" figure is an estimate of what authors typically keep net of fees on Freemius, whose all-in cost runs about 10.5% (4.7% platform + 2.3% WordPress-distribution fee + roughly 3.5% payment gateway). An own store with direct Stripe runs about 3–5% in payment fees, so you can keep more — your exact number depends on your price point and channel.
Capacity, honestly
Checking current slot availability from the live slot calendar (slots.json)…
This board renders the actual slot calendar — the same file the delivery queue runs on. No synthetic scarcity, ever: a number here is real, or it is absent.
Founding price ledger
Founding price €790 applies to the first 10 migrations, then €990 — pre-announced here from day 1.
The taken-counter (ledger.json) counts completed kickoffs, verified by payment events — never edited by hand. Until the first kickoff completes, this section shows capacity only.
Should you DIY this?
Honest answer: quite possibly. Here is the whole decision in one table.
| DIY — free checklist | Full Exit — €790 ($840) |
|---|---|
| Free. The full 27-step migration checklist, full text, no signup. | €790 ($840) — founding price, first 10 migrations, then €990. €200 deposit, €590 balance invoiced only after your written acceptance. |
| You do everything yourself. Freemius imports your license data for free, and their converter tool is genuinely good. | Done for you: store setup, the purchase-code redemption bridge, and the in-plugin campaign that gets the reachable slice of your active buyers to self-migrate — buyer-comms sequenced under your name, final CodeCanyon update, support handover, every artifact reviewed by a named EU human. Freemius ships the bridge form free; nobody operates the campaign — that is the part you are buying. |
| Choose this if: single plugin, under roughly $300/mo, and you are comfortable writing the redemption bridge yourself. | Choose this if: you want the bridge engineered, the emails sequenced, and one accountable human on the hook for a 7-business-day deadline. |
| Does not cover: the redemption bridge, buyer comms, store strategy, or anyone to call when an update breaks. | Does not cover: work outside the audited scope — a bigger scope routes to a Pro quote first, in writing, before anything starts. |
Whichever column you pick: Freemius imports your license data for free. Nobody should charge you for that step, including us.
Frequently asked questions
Will my customers' license keys still work?
For the ones who come across, yes: a buyer redeems their Envato purchase code on your new store and gets a working replacement license. But be clear-eyed about reach — redemption is pull-only (the buyer acts) and only lands with people whose install is still live and who take one more update. That reachable slice self-migrates; the rest were never addresses you could email in the first place. The real, un-caveated win is that your new sales stop paying the 50% cut and you finally own a consented list. The full mechanics, and the honest "will you move all my customers?" answer, are on the hard-questions page.
What exactly do you need access to?
Five things, each with a stated scope, storage location and a day-37 revocation date — published in full on the credential and access charter. We never ask for your Envato password.
Who is behind this?
Lauri Kesonen, 10 years building and hosting WordPress, operating as LK Web (toiminimi) in Finland. Check the third-party registries yourself on the verify page.
Is this AI-generated work?
Automated tooling does the heavy lifting; a named human reviews every artifact and is the only one who can deploy to production. The full answer is under hard questions.