Assigning licenses to my circle

Choose a plan, let Fenzly assign the licenses to your circles' members or assign them one by one, take one back, and understand what happens at the end of the trial.

During the trial

Every account starts with 14 days of trial with every feature, no card and no automatic billing. The app warns you a few days before the end. There is nothing to do for the other members of the circle: each has their own trial.

1. Choosing a plan

One person in the circle subscribes, from Settings → License & subscription → Plans, or directly in the App Store or Google Play:

Mono: 1 license, for yourself.
Duo: 2 licenses, a couple or a parent and a child.
Family: 8 licenses, for the whole household, grandparents included.

Monthly or yearly, the yearly one being cheaper. The payer’s license is assigned to them automatically; the others are free.

2. Assigning licenses automatically

The simplest way is to let Fenzly hand your free licenses to the members of your circles, in their order of arrival. Three ways to turn it on:

Right after the purchase, the app asks “Assign your licenses to your circles’ members automatically?”. Yes turns it on for every circle you are a guardian of and covers the members already there at once. No changes nothing.
When creating a circle, the Assign licenses automatically box shows on the first step if you have a subscription. It is ticked for your first circle, unticked for the next ones.
At any time, open the circle, Sharing tab, Licenses section: the Assign licenses automatically switch turns it on or off for that circle. Only a guardian who pays for a subscription sees it.

From then on, each member you accept into the circle gets a free license, with nothing else to do, and is told so. When no license is left, uncovered members wait their turn: the next license freed, or the extra licenses of a bigger plan, go first to those who arrived first. Your phone hands out the licenses, when you confirm a member, after a purchase or the next time you open the app: the server knows nothing of your circles.

The order of arrival applies to all your circles in automatic mode at once. That is why later circles start unticked: a friends’ or grandparents’ circle in automatic mode would take your licenses before family members who join after them. Turn it on only where you want to cover everyone.

3. Assigning a license by hand

To cover someone in a circle without automatic mode, or one particular person:

Settings → License & subscription → Distributed licenses shows each license: assigned or free.
On a free license, tap Assign and pick the person among your contacts.
The license is assigned to them at once and they are told. You see “Assigned on …”.

A person already covered, by you or by someone else, cannot receive a second license. A child member receives their license the same way, assigned by their guardian.

4. Taking a license back

On an assigned license, tap Remove and confirm. The person is told immediately and keeps sharing for three days, then goes into spectator mode unless someone assigns them another license. The license becomes free right away.

A member who leaves a circle or is removed from it keeps their license until you take it back: its line reads “No longer in your circles”.

If a member does not want the license

There is no invitation to accept any more: the license arrives directly, and the person keeps the last word. In Settings → License & subscription they see “License assigned by …” and can tap Give back this license. They keep sharing for three days, then go into spectator mode. On your side the license becomes free, with no reason given, and automatic assignment will not give it back to them by itself; if they change their mind, assign it to them again by hand.

What a member without a license sees

Spectator mode erases nothing: the person still sees what their people share and keeps their conversations. They no longer share their position or record their trips. As soon as a license is assigned to them, everything resumes.

Changing plan, cancelling

Plan changes and cancellation happen in the store; the Manage button takes you there (guide Manage or cancel the subscription). Moving to a smaller plan first frees the free licenses, then removes the most recent assignments, yours last, with the usual three days of grace.

What Fenzly knows about your subscription

Who pays, which plan, on which dates, and whom the licenses are assigned to: that is needed to validate the purchase with Apple or Google and so that each phone knows its rights, even offline. This information is never joined with your positions, places or circles, of which the server knows nothing.