Pricing

What it is

The Syndik8 paid plan is billed monthly, on two things: how many aircraft your syndicate operates, and how many members it has. Nothing is priced per feature. A paid syndicate gets the whole app whatever its size. A syndicate’s first subscription starts with a 14-day free trial; later subscriptions do not receive another trial.

The main prices include UK VAT. We show the ex-VAT amount alongside for VAT-registered customers. The checkout gives the total before purchase and the invoice separates VAT. Whether a customer can reclaim VAT depends on its own circumstances. Member rates, dues and balances elsewhere in these docs are set by the syndicate; Syndik8 does not add VAT to those charges.

Who can use it

Prospect: reads this while working out whether the paid plan fits the syndicate’s budget.
Admin: sees which plan the syndicate is on, its status and the current billing period on the syndicate’s Subscription screen. That screen quotes no recurring subscription price; the rates are the tables below, and what was actually charged is on the invoices in the payment provider’s billing portal. Any admin can upgrade or change the plan.

Where to find it

Subscription: open the syndicate, go to the Admin tab, and tap Subscription.
Checkout runs on the web only. On iOS and Android, see upgrade prompt for how the hand-off works.

Fields / options

The rates

What you pay for	Monthly including VAT	Excluding VAT
First aircraft	£24/month	£20/month
Each additional aircraft	£14.40/month	£12/month
Members 1 to 15	included	included
Each member beyond 15	£1.20/month	£1/month

Aircraft are charged the way income tax is: each aircraft is priced at its own rate, and the fleet you already have does not re-price when you add to it. Adding an aircraft raises the bill by exactly the advertised £14.40 a month including VAT (£12 excluding VAT), every time.

What that adds up to

Aircraft	Members	Monthly including VAT	Excluding VAT
1	4	£24	£20
1	15	£24	£20
2	12	£38.40	£32
2	20	£44.40	£37
3	50	£94.80	£79

The last row in full: £20 for the first aircraft plus £12 for each of the other two comes to £44 of aircraft. The first 15 members are included, which leaves 35 chargeable at £1 each, or £35. Total £94.80 a month including VAT (£79 excluding VAT).

Behaviour rules

Aircraft pricing is graduated, not banded. Each aircraft is charged at its own rate. Your existing aircraft never re-price because you crossed a threshold, and the bill always moves by the rate on the tin.
The first aircraft costs more than the rest because it is not buying an aircraft. It buys the platform (the treasury, the governance tools, Direct Debit collection) plus the 15 member seats. Every aircraft after that buys only another aircraft’s worth of scheduling and maintenance tracking.
The member allowance is flat, not per aircraft. A syndicate gets 15 included members whether it flies one aircraft or five. A syndicate that outgrows 15 members is usually turning into a flying club, and it keeps paying the per-member rate for everyone above the allowance.
The included members appear on the invoice. The members line counts everyone, with the first 15 priced at £0, so the allowance is visible rather than buried in the small print. The invoice reads Aircraft × 3 and Members × 18, not Members × 3.
Billing is monthly. There is no annual option and no annual discount.
A syndicate’s first subscription starts with a 14-day free trial. You enter a card at checkout and the free-tier limits lift straight away, but nothing is charged until the trial ends; the first monthly payment is taken then. While it runs, the Subscription screen shows the status Trial and the date the trial ends. Each syndicate gets one trial: a syndicate that has had one and subscribes again is charged from the start.
VAT is included in the main prices. The checkout shows the total including VAT, and the invoice separately identifies the subtotal, 20% UK VAT and total.
One subscription covers the syndicate. The purchaser accepts responsibility for it using an authorised payment method. This does not prove whose card it is; members are not individually charged for Syndik8 merely because they join. (A small fee applies when members pay their syndicate through the app; that is separate, and covered on the payments pages.)
Changes that increase the bill ask first, and check before they quote. Adding an aircraft, or inviting a member above the allowance, is never a silent increase. You get a prompt saying the change may increase the subscription and offering to check what it costs; the payment provider is asked; and only then does a figure appear for you to accept. The question is put as early as it can be answered: for an aircraft that is when the form opens, and for an invitation it is when you choose the role, since a viewer is free at any size. See add an aircraft and invite members.
No price is stated until it has been checked with the payment provider. The figure is the one the provider is about to bill, so a founding syndicate is quoted its discounted rate rather than the rates above. If the change turns out to fall within the allowance your syndicate was sold, or is already being billed for, you are told so and there is nothing to agree to. If it cannot be reached, the published rate above is shown instead, marked as an amount that could not be worked out exactly. During a free trial you are told the date the trial ends instead of an invoice total, because nothing is charged until then; from then the change is billed at the VAT-inclusive monthly total shown before purchase.
Nothing is charged at the moment of the change. The difference is prorated by the payment provider and appears on your next monthly invoice. There is no card-authentication step to complete.
Reductions apply on their own. Removing an aircraft, or a member leaving, lowers the count without asking, so you stop paying for capacity you no longer use.
Founding syndicates pay less for their first 24 months. Founding pricing is a 50% discount applied to the whole subscription, not a separate set of rates.

Why the first aircraft carries the platform cost, and why the member allowance does not scale with the fleet: subscription philosophy.