1. Agreement to terms
These Terms of Service (“Terms”) govern your use of Chargd (the “App”), a desktop invoicing application. By downloading, installing, or using Chargd, you agree to these Terms. If you don't agree, don't use the App.
2. What Chargd is
Chargd is a one-time-purchase, offline-first invoicing and quoting application for freelancers and small businesses. It helps you create invoices, quotes, and credit memos, track clients and payments, and generate reports. It runs locally on your device. Your business data is stored on your device, not on our servers.
Chargd is not:
- A payment processor: it doesn't move money or process card payments; you record payments as received manually.
- An accounting or bookkeeping suite, and does not replace professional accounting or tax advice.
- A cloud service: there is no hosted account, and we don't store your business records.
3. Licence to use the software
3.1 Free tier
Chargd offers a free tier with limited features (see in-app details, e.g. a client cap and a subset of templates), usable indefinitely without payment.
3.2 Pro licence
Upon payment of the one-time Pro licence fee (currently $49, or local currency equivalent, subject to change for future purchases, your price is locked in at the price you paid), you are granted a non-exclusive, non-transferable, lifetime licence to use Chargd Pro features on up to 3 machines you own or control, for as long as you comply with these Terms.
This is a software licence, not a sale of the software itself. We retain all intellectual property rights in the App. You may not resell, sublicense, reverse-engineer for the purpose of removing licence checks, or redistribute the App or licence keys.
3.3 What “lifetime” means
“Lifetime” refers to free updates within the same major version line (v1.x) for as long as we continue to release them. A future major version (v2.0+) may be offered as a separate paid upgrade; existing licences will continue to work with the version they were purchased for.
3.4 Machine limit
A Pro licence may be active on up to 3 machines at a time. You can deactivate a machine yourself via the customer portal provided by our payment processor to free up a slot, for example after replacing a device.
4. Purchases and payment processing
All purchases are processed by Lemon Squeezy, acting as merchant of record. Lemon Squeezy handles payment collection, tax/VAT calculation and remittance, and receipt issuance. Your payment details are handled entirely by Lemon Squeezy. We never receive or store your card information. See our Refund Policy for cancellation and refund terms.
5. Your responsibilities
- Keeping your licence key confidential and not sharing it beyond your own devices.
- The accuracy of the business, client, and financial data you enter into the App.
- Maintaining your own backups. Chargd provides a manual export/backup feature; use it. We're not responsible for data loss due to device failure, accidental deletion, or failure to back up.
- Complying with applicable tax, invoicing, and consumer-protection laws in your jurisdiction when issuing invoices, quotes, and credit memos to your own clients.
6. Acceptable use
You agree not to:
- Use the App for any unlawful purpose, including issuing fraudulent invoices.
- Attempt to circumvent licence activation, machine limits, or Pro-feature gating other than through legitimate deactivation/reactivation.
- Reverse-engineer, decompile, or modify the App except to the extent expressly permitted by applicable law.
- Use the App to process another party's licence key without authorisation.
7. Data ownership
You own all data you create in Chargd: invoices, client records, business details, and so on. It's stored locally on your device and we have no access to it. You're solely responsible for exporting, backing up, and securing that data. See our Privacy Policy for full detail on what limited data is transmitted (e.g. during licence activation) and to whom.
8. Updates
The App may check for and offer updates. Free-tier users receive all v1.x updates. We may change, add, or remove features in future updates; we will not remove Pro features you've already paid for within the same major version line without providing a reasonable alternative or remedy.
9. Disclaimer of warranties
The App is provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We don't warrant that the App will be error-free or uninterrupted, or that generated documents will meet the specific legal or tax requirements of your jurisdiction. You're responsible for verifying that documents you send comply with applicable law.
Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited under applicable law, including UK/EU consumer protection law.
10. Limitation of liability
To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total liability arising out of these Terms or your use of the App will not exceed the amount you paid for your Pro licence in the 12 months preceding the claim. We're not liable for indirect, incidental, special, or consequential damages, including loss of profits, loss of data, or business interruption.
This limitation does not affect your statutory rights as a consumer under UK or EU law.
11. Termination
We may suspend or terminate your licence if you materially breach these Terms, for example by sharing licence keys or attempting to bypass activation limits. You may stop using the App at any time; your data remains on your device and is unaffected by termination of the licence itself, though Pro features will no longer be accessible.
12. Changes to these Terms
We may update these Terms from time to time. Material changes will be reflected in the “Last updated” date above and, where appropriate, announced in release notes. Continued use of the App after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the revised Terms.
13. Governing law
These Terms are governed by the laws of [jurisdiction, e.g. England and Wales], without regard to conflict-of-law principles. If you're a consumer resident in the EU or UK, you retain the benefit of any mandatory consumer-protection provisions of your country of residence.
14. Contact
Questions about these Terms: support@chargd.pro