You must enter a new key after 90 days. These are the steps. First of all you register and you give your email address. After few days creator of Smartpls send you the an email with username and password. After that they send you a second email with the activation key. After that you can login and you can click "my key". There is a very detailed video. Here is the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivRj5a3bttc
Hope it helps. Good luck.