After your purchase

Thank you for your purchase! Your licence does not arrive as a key in the post – it sits in your Lokstore account, and LoDi-Aura fetches it from there onto your layout computer by itself. This page shows the five steps from purchase to unlocked software.

Step 1: Create a Lokstore account

1. Open the customer portalOpen the Lokstore customer portal and choose to create a new account.
2. Register with your order addressEnter the email address you ordered with and choose a password.
3. Confirm your addressYou will receive an email with a confirmation link. Open it – only a confirmed account can sign in to LoDi-Aura. No email? Have a look in your spam folder.

If you already have a Lokstore account with this email address, skip this step.

Step 2: Download LoDi-Aura

LoDi-Aura is available for download from 15 November 2026. You will then find the installation package for Windows, macOS and Linux on our Downloads page. It always has the current version. Take the package for the computer your layout is connected to – the layout computer.

Step 3: Install and start

How to install LoDi-Aura on Windows, macOS or Linux and start it for the first time is shown on Installing and starting. That page also lists what the computer needs.

Step 4: Sign in to LoDi-Aura

1. Open the pageIn LoDi-Aura, open “System” › “Lokstore account & license”.
2. Sign inIn the “Sign-in” card, click “Sign in”. LoDi-Aura shows a short code and opens the confirmation page of the customer portal.
3. Confirm the codeSign in to the customer portal with your Lokstore account and confirm the code. It is valid for ten minutes. LoDi-Aura then signs in by itself.

Step 5: Fetch your licence

Right after signing in, LoDi-Aura fetches the licences of your account onto the computer by itself. The “Licenses” card shows them with their end date. If your licence only reaches your account later, for example after a pre-order, press “Fetch all” there.

No licence in your account yet? Then the same page offers “Activate trial license”. The trial licence is valid for a limited time, once per account.

What your licence unlocks

• Basic, Standard or Professional: the highest tier you have always applies. What each tier includes is on Signing in and licences and on the LoDi-Aura page.
• Command station licence (Z21, Märklin® CS2/CS3, ESU ECoS, Lenz): works together with Basic or Standard. Professional already includes all command stations.
• Pionier: comes on top of Professional and brings new versions ahead of release.

What next?

Start with Getting started: short pages that take you step by step from your first layout to your first run. If you would like to practise without a layout first, read Trying it without a layout.

Problems?