Refund Policy
The short version
If SORMALITICS is not for you, tell us within 14 days of your first subscription payment and we will refund it in full. No reasons needed. After that, subscriptions are not refundable, but you can cancel at any time and you will not be charged again. Your rights as a consumer under local law sit on top of this and are not affected.
1. The 14-day goodwill refund
We offer a full refund of your first subscription payment if you ask within 14 days of that payment.
- Applies to your first payment on a Professional, Business or Practitioner plan
- Applies whether you are a business or a consumer
- No reason required
- Available once per customer
Email support@sormalitics.com from your account address, or ask through the support portal. We aim to process within 5 business days; your bank may take a few days more to show it.
Your account reverts to the Free plan. You keep your data and can carry on using SORMALITICS within the Free plan limits.
2. Your rights under consumer law
Nothing in this policy or in our Terms of Service removes or reduces a right you have by law. If your statutory right gives you more than this policy does, the statutory right wins.
Under section 44 of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, a consumer may cancel an electronic transaction within 7 days without reason or penalty. The Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 also applies to consumer transactions.
These rights are for consumers. They generally do not apply where you are buying for a business.
Consumers have a 14-day right to cancel a distance contract. For digital services, that right ends once supply has begun with your express consent and your acknowledgement that you lose the right — which is what you agree to when you start using a paid plan immediately.
Our goodwill refund in section 1 gives you the same 14 days regardless, so in practice you are no worse off.
If you are a consumer, you keep the mandatory protections of the country where you live.
3. Subscriptions after the first 14 days
Beyond the goodwill window, subscription fees are not refundable — but cancelling is free and immediate:
- Cancel any time from your account settings
- You keep full access until the end of the period you have paid for
- You are not charged again
- Your data stays available for export
Annual plans are not refunded pro-rata if you cancel mid-term. You keep access for the remainder of the year you paid for.
4. Practitioner client slots
Practitioner plans are billed per client slot, with a minimum of two. Please note:
- Adding slots charges you immediately for the remainder of the current period.
- Removing slots does not produce a refund. The reduction is scheduled and takes effect at your next renewal date. You keep the capacity you paid for until then.
- The two-slot minimum is billed whether or not you use both.
If you added slots by mistake, tell us within 48 hours and we will sort it out. We would rather fix an honest error than argue about it.
5. One-off document and template purchases
Individual documents and templates bought from the Store are delivered immediately, so they are not refundable once accessed or downloaded — except where consumer law says otherwise, or where:
- You were charged more than once for the same item
- The item did not work, or was materially different from its description
- You have not opened or downloaded it
6. When we will refund you regardless
Outside every window above, we will refund you if:
- We charged you in error — duplicate charges, wrong amount, or a charge after you cancelled. Refunded in full, always.
- You paid but never got an account — payment taken and setup never completed.
- We materially change or withdraw a feature you are paying for — we refund the unused portion of your prepaid period.
- We change our Terms materially and you do not accept — cancel before the change takes effect and we refund the unused portion.
- We close your account without cause — the unused portion is refunded.
An account closed for breach of the Terms is not refunded.
7. How to ask, and what happens
- Email support@sormalitics.com from your registered address
- Tell us which payment, and roughly why — a sentence is plenty
- We acknowledge within 2 business days
- We decide and process within 5 business days of acknowledging
- Refunds go back to the original payment method, in the original currency
Your bank or card issuer may take a further 5–10 business days to show the credit. Exchange-rate movement between payment and refund is outside our control.
If we say no and you disagree, reply and ask for it to be reviewed — a different person will look at it. If you are still unhappy, you may take it to your consumer authority: the National Consumer Commission in South Africa, or your national body in the UK or EU. Please come to us first; it is usually quicker.
8. Chargebacks
If you think a charge is wrong, please contact us before raising a chargeback with your bank. We can usually resolve it faster, and a chargeback may suspend your account automatically while the dispute runs — including your access to your own documents.
Contact
Refunds and billing: support@sormalitics.com
Telephone: +27 (0)67 921 1947 — 09:00–17:00 SAST, Monday to Friday
Customers in the UK and EU contract with Polompa Investments Limited (no. 15079461). Customers elsewhere contract with AlloBTeQ (Pty) Ltd (reg. 2023/270245/07). See Terms of Service §1.2.
This Refund Policy forms part of our Terms of Service.