Terms of use
What this service is
FMlane is software. We are the vendor: you buy the subscription from Ellul Solutions Ltd directly, and there is no third party between us. We introduce you to nobody, we sell your details to nobody, and we take no commission from anyone for sending you anywhere. We aim to keep the service available at all times and to keep your data recoverable, but we do not guarantee uninterrupted access. If we plan work that will take the service offline we tell subscribers first. You can export your buildings, assets and work orders at any time while your subscription is active and for 90 days after it ends.
How we are paid
You pay us, and that is the whole of how this business is funded: a monthly subscription to FMlane Pro, sold to businesses and institutions. Nothing on this site is an advertisement we are paid for, and no figure or recommendation here is influenced by a commission, because there is none. Price, renewal date and cancellation route are shown before you pay and stated again in your account. Purchase is offered to people acting for purposes related to their trade or profession. Where a consumer nonetheless buys, the statutory cancellation and digital content rights are honoured in full rather than excluded.
Online payments. When you connect your own Stripe account and take a payment through a pay link, FMlane charges a platform fee of 1% of that payment, in addition to Stripe's own processing fee. Stripe deducts both from the payment before it is paid out to you; FMlane never holds your customers' money. The rate that applies is the one shown in your account on the day the pay link is created, and a change to it applies only to links created afterwards.
The free worksheets
The free worksheets on this site are provided as working calculators for facility maintenance managers. Their output is arithmetic on the figures entered. They do not tell you what a code requires, what interval a standard sets for an asset, what a building is worth or what an engineer would find on inspection, and they are not an engineering report, a code compliance statement or professional advice.
No warranty
Nothing on this site is engineering, legal or financial advice, and FMlane is not an engineering firm. What a code requires of your building, what interval a manufacturer or a standard sets for an asset, what your building is worth and what an inspector would find are questions for your own engineer, your insurer and your appraiser. The worksheets work your figures; they publish no requirement and no rating.
Contact
Ellul Solutions Ltd. hello@fmlane.com