Terms of use

Last updated: 25 October 2026

This is a translation for your convenience. Only the German version is legally binding.

1. Scope

These terms apply to the provision and use of the Honeypod software. The provider is Tim Schenk, sole trader (Einzelunternehmen). For the address, see the legal notice.

2. What Honeypod is

Honeypod is an application for macOS that helps with bookkeeping: It imports receipts and bank statements, matches payments with invoices, creates invoices and quotes, prepares the provisional VAT return (Umsatzsteuer-Voranmeldung) and generates a posting batch for the tax consultant.

Honeypod is not tax advice and does not replace it. The software makes suggestions and calculates according to stored rules. Whether an entry, a category, a useful life or a provisional VAT return is correct is the responsibility of the user, together with their tax consultant where applicable.

3. Licence

Purchasing a licence grants a simple, non-exclusive right to use the software. A licence key is valid for the number of businesses agreed at the time of purchase. For each business, the software may be used on up to three computers. More computers can be unlocked. Each computer is registered when the key is entered. If it is signed out, its place becomes free again. Reselling, subletting or passing on the licence key to third parties is not permitted.

Time-limited licences, for example for testing purposes, switch to a read-only mode once they expire. The data remains intact and readable.

4. Updates

Updates included in the scope of the licence are provided through our own update channel. There is no entitlement to specific future features.

5. Data and backups

The bookkeeping data is stored on the user’s computer. The user is responsible for backing up this data. Honeypod creates a backup before far-reaching operations such as an import, but this does not replace a backup of your own.

The user remains responsible for the retention obligations under commercial and tax law, in particular under the principles for the proper keeping and retention of books (GoBD).

6. Third-party services

Some features rely on services that are not operated by us: submission to ELSTER via the program libraries of the tax authorities, sending invoices via your own outgoing mail server and the bank connection via a provider of account information services of your choice. We accept no responsibility for their availability, terms and costs.

7. Warranty

The statutory provisions apply. The software is provided in the condition it is in. No particular fitness for a particular purpose is warranted, nor is uninterrupted or error-free operation.

If the software is recognisably in a testing phase, you should expect features to change or errors to occur. Using it without a backup of your own is not recommended during this phase.

8. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence as well as for injury to life, body or health. In the case of simple negligence, we are only liable if an obligation is breached whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may rely. In that case, liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract at the time it was concluded.

Liability under the Produkthaftungsgesetz (German Product Liability Act) remains unaffected.

9. Right of withdrawal

Consumers have a right of withdrawal. For digital content, it expires if performance has begun with their express consent before the end of the withdrawal period and they have confirmed that they know the right expires. Anyone who acquires the software for business purposes is not a consumer within the meaning of this provision.

10. Final provisions

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies. If any provision is invalid, the remaining provisions remain in effect.