Meta Box not recognizing our staging environment

Hi,

Our development/staging site is not being recognized as such, it contains ".dev." as part of the FQDN so unsure why it's not being recognized (other plugins recognize this as a staging environment). I am not sure what will happen when we go live and push the site from staging to production. I am guessing that we would have to deactivate the staging environment license but this leaves us crippled for being able to test updates, etc. on the staging environment before pushing them to production, which is one of the main purposes of a staging environment.

How do we get this fixed?

Thanks,
M.