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Refund Policy

Version 2026-08-19

The short version: try it free for seven days before you pay anything. After that, you can cancel whenever you like and you keep what you have already paid for until that period ends. We do not refund time you have bought. If we charge you something we should not have, that comes back every time.

1. The free trial is the trial

Every plan starts with seven days free. Nothing is charged during it and no money moves. If Seneschal is not right for you, cancel before the trial ends and you will never be billed at all. That is the point at which to decide, and it is why there is no separate money back window afterwards.

2. Cancelling

One button inside the app. No phone call, no email required, no retention offers to click past. Cancelling is as easy as subscribing, on purpose.

Cancelling turns off the automatic renewal. It does not cut you off. You keep full access until the end of the period you have already paid for, and nothing is charged after that. A monthly subscriber who cancels on day three still has the rest of that month. An annual subscriber who cancels in month two still has the remaining ten months.

3. What we do not refund

Time you have bought is yours to use, so there is nothing to give back:

  • Part of a month on a monthly plan.
  • Part of a year on an annual plan. The discount for paying annually is the discount for committing to the year, and you keep the whole year.
  • Periods you were correctly billed for and had access to.
  • An account we closed for a serious breach of the terms of service.
  • Time lost to an outside service changing or breaking, where Seneschal itself was working.

4. What we always refund

These are our mistakes, not your change of mind, and they come back in full without you having to argue for them:

  • We charged you in error. A duplicate charge, the wrong amount, a charge after you cancelled, or a charge on an account you did not open.
  • Sales tax charged incorrectly. If we taxed you at the wrong rate, or taxed a sale that should have been exempt, we refund the difference.
  • A prolonged outage. If Seneschal is unusable for an extended stretch inside a period you paid for, we credit or refund that time. You do not have to ask twice.

None of this limits any right you have under Washington consumer protection law. Where the law gives you more than this policy does, the law wins.

5. Sales tax on a refund

Any refund includes the proportional share of the sales tax you were charged on it. The refunded tax is shown on the credit note.

6. How to ask, and how long it takes

  • Open Help & Support and send a Billing ticket saying what you want refunded and why.
  • We reply within one business day.
  • Approved refunds are issued within three business days.
  • The money returns to the card that paid, typically appearing in five to ten business days depending on your bank. We cannot make that part faster.

Every refund produces a credit note in your billing history, showing the service amount, the tax refunded and the total.

7. Chargebacks

Please ask us first. Nearly every dispute is a misunderstanding we can sort out in a day, and a chargeback filed before asking freezes your account until the bank finishes its process, which takes weeks and helps nobody.

Adapted from the Basecamp open-source policies / CC BY 4.0.

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