Step 1 — Check your expiry date
Log in at UnlockTool.net and open your account page. The licence expiry date is shown there. Note it down before you order — you will use it in step 5 to confirm the renewal actually applied.
If the date has already passed, that is fine. An expired licence still counts as history, so a renewal is still the correct variant. You do not lose the account by letting it lapse.
Step 2 — Choose the renewal length
Three durations are available, and the renewal price is identical to the new-activation price for the same length — the difference between the two variants is which process runs on the licensing server, not what you pay.
- 3 months (90 days) renewal — the usual choice for testing the waters or a slow season
- 6 months (180 days) renewal — the middle option
- 1 year (360 days) renewal — the lowest cost per day of the three
Compare all six side by side on the pricing page.
Step 3 — Order the renewal variant
Open the renewal licence you picked and place the order. Two things matter here, and both are worth double-checking before you pay:
- The variant says Renewal, not New Activation. They sit next to each other and cost the same, which is exactly why they get mixed up.
- The username is exact. Copy it from UnlockTool.net rather than typing it from memory — a single wrong character sends the licence to the wrong account or stalls the order.
Step 4 — Wait for the licence to apply
Renewals are applied to your UnlockTool.net account within 1–6 hours. There is nothing to install and nothing to activate manually — the extension happens server-side on the account itself.
You can keep working in the meantime if your current licence has not expired yet. If it has already lapsed, the tool will start working again as soon as the renewal lands.
Step 5 — Verify the new expiry date
Close UnlockTool completely, reopen it and log in. The account panel should now show the extended expiry date. If it still shows the old one, log out and back in once — the client caches the licence state between sessions.
Renewing before your licence expires
You do not have to wait for the last day. Ordering a renewal while a licence is still running generally extends the existing expiry rather than overwriting it, so the days you have already paid for are not thrown away. If the exact timing matters for a job you have booked in, confirm with support before ordering rather than after.
If the renewal has not arrived
Past the 1–6 hour window, check these in order before contacting anyone:
- Payment cleared? An order that is still pending payment has not entered the queue at all.
- Right username? Re-read what you submitted against your UnlockTool.net account name, character for character.
- Right variant? If you ordered a new activation for an account that already has history, the order is sitting in manual review rather than failing outright.
- Still stuck? Send your order number to support. Orders that have not been processed can usually be corrected without a second purchase.
The activation guide covers the same troubleshooting path in more detail, and the download and install guide covers the errors that show up on the client side rather than the account side.
Do I need to reinstall or re-download?
No. A renewal touches your account, not your installation. Reinstalling is only worth doing if the client itself is misbehaving — and in that case, grab the current build from the download page rather than an older copy you have lying around.
