diff --git a/website/source/docs/enterprise/index.html.md b/website/source/docs/enterprise/index.html.md
index 402c511d42..9b8227fac9 100644
--- a/website/source/docs/enterprise/index.html.md
+++ b/website/source/docs/enterprise/index.html.md
@@ -30,4 +30,7 @@ Licensing capabilities were added to Consul Enterprise v1.1.0. The license is se
 once for a datacenter and will automatically propagate to all nodes within the
 datacenter over a period of time scaled between 1 and 20 minutes depending on the
 number of nodes in the datacenter. The license can be set via the 
-[API](/api/operator/license.html) or the [CLI](/docs/commands/license.html).
+[API](/api/operator/license.html) or the [CLI](/docs/commands/license.html). When
+Consul is first started, a 30 minute temporary license is available to allow for
+time to license the datacenter. The license should be set within ten minutes of
+starting the first Consul process to allow time for the license to propagate.