An MEC update has locked out all MEC Pro features, such as bookings and taking payments. There is already a thread in the general support forum, but I thought it worth posting here in beta, hoping the dev team can jump on it, as sites with Bookings enabled are currently unable to transact.
This lockout was first noticed around 5 hours ago on our sites using MEC bookings.
Just to say I am not seeing the same problem (Yet)
as an idea, have you tried removing the plugin and reinstalling via Pro Validation, it can sometimes solve these kinds of problems
Thanks @scotbaston - tried that, but still have the block on all MEC Pro modules. I am on MEC version 7.36.3. Hopefully @charlie and the team will get it resolved quickly! 
I’m on 7.35.1 here (multiple sites), when I tried to update to 7.36.3 it wasn’t available (last week I logged a call to make it available)
This particular site is on auto-updates (client wishes), so it self-installed. I would avoid 7.36.3 until Charlie has a fix!
Thanks for the heads up!
Thanks for the messages. I’ll take a look and try to solve this this week.
Hi @charlie
Can you explain this please: Modern Events Calendar will receive theme licensing information from us for future Pro support
Yes, they are going to validate an X or Pro license is valid in our system. They are hardening their licensing system so to make sure our users have the Pro version of MEC they are going to check out servers if a license and site is valid before allowing usage of their plugin. The recent update adds a filter to our integration with them so they know what license and site is in use for a given install. Let me know if that helps.
it doesn’t work yet, using the ProVersion: 6.9.4
Also please note, Envira gallery has the same problem
The code is in place for MEC, I believe they still have to finish their integration. I will remove that notice for Envira in the next release. Thanks for sending that my way and have a great day.
Thanks @charlie! Looking forward to the clear update path for MEC moving forward and a clean dashboard after the integration is complete.
Thanks for the update Charlie,
is it worth downgrading the MEC plugin to predate this latest update? as quite a few people currently have broken booking systems
It’s a good question. I believe there was a security vulnerability in the last release so I’m not sure what to do. I’ll try to reach out to them tomorrow and see how long it will be.
@charlie Do we have an update from MEC on when we might expect to get a working licence system?
Currently we are stuck between vulnerable software and broken software, neither are ideal
I sent them a follow up message. I’ll update this thread with their response. I know it’s not ideal and hopefully they will resolve this soon.
Thanks Charlie, I look forward to not getting warning messages
I’m told their update will release soon. Stay tuned. Thanks for the patience.
Thanks for the update Charlie
