If your game is also for sale on Steam (Congratulations Paper Sorcerer) you can now offer Steam key redemption from your game’s purchase and download page.
You can find the External keys page on the new Download keys page from the game tool tabs when editing your game.
You can supply keys in bulk and then buyers can request a key on their download page if one is available. If your game has been for sale on itch.io for a while before being on Steam those who have purchased it can go back to their download page and still get a key.
Enjoy!
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What happens if the bulk of keys runs out? Do we have to reload the keys with newly generated ones again?
That’s correct, the end-user will see a message that keys have run out and you will will be responsible for providing them again. If you don’t add them back then your page will stop displaying that a Steam key is included with the purchase.
If someone does buy your page while it advertises that a Steam key is available, but you are unable to provide one then we may process a refund.
That makes sense. Do we get notified if the keys are running low?