---
title: "Adding the license key"
canonical_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/nodejs/troubleshooting/license/add-license-key/"
md_url: "https://www.nutrient.io/guides/nodejs/troubleshooting/license/add-license-key.md"
last_updated: "2026-06-19T09:21:00.305Z"
description: "Learn how to request and implement your Nutrient SDK license key to use documents without watermarks. Start in trial mode easily!"
---

To use our SDK without seeing a watermark added to documents, request a license key and provide it to the SDK when loading a document. If you don’t yet have a license key, you can proceed by not setting one, which allows you to start Nutrient in trial mode.

There are two steps involved in this.

1. Log in to our website and visit our [getting started](https://www.nutrient.io/sdk/nodejs/getting-started.md) guides, where you’ll be provided with the license key.

2. When calling the `load` method, provide your license key in the `license` property:

```js

import { load } from "@nutrient-sdk/node";

const instance = await load({
  license: {
    key: "your key goes here",
    appName: "your app name goes here"
  }
});

```