Keyhalt

Pay once. The key is in your inbox.

Keyhalt is the checkout a software store sends you to. You pay by card, and the licence key is e-mailed to you the moment the payment clears. There is nothing to sign up for and no account to keep.

How a purchase works

Four steps, and only one of them needs anything from you.

  1. In the store

    You pick the product and the plan and go to the checkout, giving the e-mail address the key should be sent to.

  2. The payment link

    The store sends you to a keyhalt.com address made for that one order. It works for fifteen minutes and can be used once.

  3. The card

    You pay in US dollars in Stripe's own card form. Nothing is charged until you press pay, and the charge shows as KEYHALT.

  4. The key

    Your licence key is e-mailed as soon as the payment clears, usually within seconds. If a key has to be prepared by hand, the e-mail says so and the key follows.

Where your card details go

Nowhere near Keyhalt. The form you type into belongs to Stripe, and that is the whole of the arrangement.

The form is Stripe's own

The card fields on the payment page are served by Stripe inside the page. What you type goes straight to Stripe. Card numbers are never sent to Keyhalt's servers and are never stored here.

Keyhalt keeps the order

What was bought, what it cost, when, the reference, and the e-mail the key was sent to. From Stripe we learn whether the payment succeeded, plus the card brand and its last four digits. Nothing else.

No cookies, no analytics

Keyhalt sets no cookies of its own and runs no tracking. The payment page holds one value in your browser's session storage so a declined card can be retried without opening a second payment; it is gone when you close the tab.

The longer version, in plain language

A person reads every message

Write to [email protected] about a charge, a key that has not arrived, a link that stopped working, or a refund. We reply within one business day.

Please include

  • The reference from your payment page or e-mail — it finds the order straight away.
  • Or, if you do not have it, the date and the amount of the charge.
Contact details

Questions people actually ask

There is a charge from KEYHALT on my statement

That is a software licence bought through a store that takes its card payments here. The key was e-mailed to the address given at checkout. If you cannot place it, write to [email protected] with the date and the amount and we will tell you what it was for.

My key never arrived, or I have lost the e-mail

Check the spam folder first — it is the usual answer. If it is not there, write to [email protected] with the order reference, or the date and amount of the charge, and we will find the order and send the key again.

My payment link says it has expired

Payment links last fifteen minutes and work once. That keeps a link that was forwarded, bookmarked or left open in a tab from being paid twice. Go back to the store and start the checkout again — nothing is charged until a payment goes through.

Can I get a refund?

If you were charged twice, never received a key, or received one that does not work and cannot be replaced, yes. A working key you changed your mind about is not refunded, because delivery is immediate and a delivered key cannot be taken back.

What does Keyhalt keep about me?

The order: what was bought, what it cost, when, the reference, and the e-mail address the key went to. Not your card number — that goes straight to Stripe and never reaches Keyhalt.

I have a question about the software itself

Ask the store you bought it from. Keyhalt takes the payment and delivers the key; it does not make the products and cannot answer questions about how they work or what they support.

More answers on the help page