Using the tablet apps today

The Shine Tablet apps are covered by your Shine Forms licence — anyone with a current Shine Forms licence can install and use the tablet apps.

People without a current Shine Forms licence can install and use the Shine Tablet apps, but will not be able to upload certificates or generate PDFs.

Our current Shine Forms licences are priced as follows:

All licences are annual and renew at the purchase price.

Engineer licences (planned)

Our desktop application, Shine Forms, has always been licensed to the computer. This has worked reasonably well for a long time and we have never changed it.

However, we would like customers who are using our tablet apps to have greater flexibility and not be tied to individual devices. We therefore plan to license the tablet apps to the engineer and not the computer.

An engineer licence is attached to the engineer themselves.

Anyone using an engineer licence can make changes to a certificate only if their engineer details appear on the certificate they are changing.

An engineer with an engineer licence will be able to:

• Install and use the Shine Tablet app on any tablet
• Install and use Shine Forms on any computer

Engineer licences will not be transferable.

Expected pricing for engineer licences

We are intending to launch the Engineer Licence at:

As usual, there are no hidden costs. The engineer licence fee allows access to everything and includes the cost of storing certificates against your Shine Forms account.

Existing Shine Forms users

Existing Shine Forms customers will be able to transfer their licences to a new engineer licence on a pro-rated basis for any time remaining on their Shine Forms licence.

We will also keep selling our computer-locked Shine Forms licences for as long as it makes sense to any customers who wish to continue using those.