# Installing Gridline Pro - Gridline 1.x documentation

> Upload the Gridline Pro zip, activate it next to Gridline, and enter your license key.

> [!NOTE]
> This is part of **Gridline Pro**.

Gridline Pro is an add-on: it adds bulk changes, undo, variation rows, export and more columns to Gridline, which stays installed and keeps doing everything else. You need both.

## Before you start

- **WooCommerce** and **Gridline** 1.0.0 or later, installed and active. If you don't have Gridline yet, install it from **Plugins → Add New Plugin** (search for "Gridline"); see **Installation**.
- The **gridline-pro.zip** file and the **license key** from your purchase email. Both are in the email Lemon Squeezy sent after you bought Gridline Pro.

## Install and activate

1. Go to **Plugins → Add New Plugin** and click **Upload Plugin** at the top.
2. Choose `gridline-pro.zip` and click **Install Now**.
3. Click **Activate Plugin**.

WordPress won't activate Gridline Pro while Gridline or WooCommerce is inactive; it lists what's missing instead. Activate those first.

## Enter your license key

Back on the **Plugins** screen, there's a box under Gridline Pro:

![The license box under Gridline Pro on the Plugins screen](https://storage.extendiment.com/media/298/screenshot-6-8d79fd1c.png)

1. Paste the license key from your purchase email.
2. Click **Activate**.

The box turns green and shows the end of your key and, for a yearly license, the date your updates run until. The key activates Gridline Pro on this site only; see **Licenses and updates** for moving it to another site.

> [!NOTE]
> The features work as soon as the plugin is active, with or without a license. The license is what lets WordPress download updates.

## Check it works

Go to **Products → Bulk Editor**. With Gridline Pro active you'll see:

- **Add product** and **History** buttons next to the title,
- a checkbox at the start of each row, with **Bulk edit**, **Duplicate** and **Export CSV** above the grid,
- a **Show variations** box next to the filters,
- more columns in **Screen Options**: featured, catalog visibility, descriptions, image, gallery, sale dates, tax class, backorders, weight, shipping class and your attributes.

The sentence about Gridline Pro under the grid is gone.

## While Gridline Pro isn't active

Your history of saves stays saved. Gridline doesn't show it, and as soon as Gridline Pro is active again it's back in **History**, ready to undo, with nothing to re-enter.

Source: https://www.extendiment.com/plugins/gridline/docs/1.x/installing-gridline-pro