---
id: licensing-payments.what-do-the-licence-statuses-mean
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/licensing-payments/what-do-the-licence-statuses-mean
category: "Licensing & payments"
subcategory: "Licence status and offline use"
question: "What do the licence statuses in Storage Studio mean?"
alt_questions:
  - "Licensed, Trial, Past due meaning"
  - "licence status colours"
  - "What does grace mean on my licence?"
  - "licence card states popover"
  - "status: invalid"
  - "What does Payment processing mean on my licence?"
  - "red payment notice meaning"
short_answer: "Licensed means active; Trial shows days left; Payment didn't go through needs Fix Payment; Payment processing needs nothing; Payment needed means the subscription stopped; Working offline uses your saved licence."
tags: ["status", "license pane"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/licensing-payments/where-is-the-license-pane", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/licensing-payments/why-is-my-licence-inactive"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# What do the licence statuses in Storage Studio mean?

Each status tells you where your plan stands and what, if anything, to do next.

- **Licensed** (green): your plan is active.
- **Trial**: days left in your free trial and its end date.
- **Trial ended / Unlicensed**: activate a licence or choose a plan to continue.
- **Payment didn't go through** (red notice, orange banner): a renewal failed but your licence is still active — use **Fix Payment**.
- **Payment processing** (blue): a payment is clearing; there's nothing to do.
- **Payment needed / Subscription ended**: the subscription stopped — **Fix Payment** or **Subscribe again**.
- **Working offline**: your saved licence is in use because the licence server couldn't be reached recently.

The status in **Settings → License** tells you which applies. Nothing on your drives changes because of a status.