ControlCircuit · Licensing

Buy it once. Then it is simply yours.

Schematic drawing, terminal and wire schedules and symbol authoring in every licence — with the full publishing suite in PRO. All of it perpetual: no renewal date, no seat audit, no feature that switches itself off because an invoice lapsed. Draw at any size up to A0.

ModelPerpetual CurrencyGBP excl. VAT LicensingOne key per PC IssueRev. A

01 · Licences

Four licences, sized to the job (2026/27 Pricing)

Every one is a one-time purchase. What separates the commercial tiers is how much drawing you do, and whether you want the advanced Publisher Tools: a Web Portal for the workshop floor, and finished documentation for your customers. STD carries the first of them, Smart PDF; PRO carries the full set.

EVAL
Time limited
FreeThe full drawing tool, watermarked

Prove it on a real circuit before you spend anything.

10 Sheets
  • ●Every drawing and schedule feature
  • ●Symbol Editor, DXF in and out
  • ○Watermarked output
  • ○100 automation runs, then the automated tools lock
  • ○Non-commercial evaluation only
HOME
£95One time, perpetual

Hobby panels, restoration projects, teaching yourself the trade.

10 Sheets
  • ●Full Symbol Editor and libraries
  • ●All six schedules and listings
  • ○No publisher tools — no Web Portal, Smart PDF or DXF Portfolio
  • ○Non-commercial use — a grey line above the drawing names the licensee
STD
£295One time, perpetual

The sole trader and the small controls shop. Clean drawings out the door.

40 Sheets
  • ●Commercial use, no marks on output
  • ●Custom form templates and borders
  • ●Smart PDF — live cross-references
  • ○No Web Portal or DXF Portfolio
PRO
Most shops
£895One time, perpetual

Machine builders and integrators who hand a documented panel to a customer.

400 Sheets
  • ●Web Portal — a browsable, searchable set
  • ●Smart PDF — live cross-references
  • ●DXF Portfolio export
  • ●Symbol library PDF with documentation

Companion key

Most engineers draw at a bench and review on a laptop. Add a second key to your order for 25% more and the same person gets both machines — the bench and the laptop. It goes on the original order only, so decide when you buy.

HOME+£25
STD+£75
PRO+£225

02 · In every licence

The Coach seats are as comfy as the Club seats

These are the parts of the tool you would resent paying extra for, so you do not. A £95 HOME licence draws with the same engine as an £895 one. The Web Portal and DXF Portfolio are PRO only, and not in HOME or STD at any price. STD carries one publisher tool, Smart PDF, so a commercial pack goes out navigable. An evaluation does not publish either — it is there to let you draw with the tool, not to hand work to a customer.

Symbol Editor

The complete authoring tool, including DXF import and export. Build your own library and take it with you.

Sheets to A0

Any sheet size up to A0. If a job genuinely wants one enormous drawing, nothing stops you.

Six schedules

Wire, Cable and Terminal Schedules, Component List, Purchase List and Contact Cross-Reference — read from the drawing, not typed twice.

Form templates

Your own borders and schedule forms, so the paperwork leaves the office looking like yours.

Costed from the drawing

The Purchase List and Component List price the job off the same data the schematic already holds.

Point releases, free

Every fix and improvement within your major version, for as long as that version is supported.

03 · Side by side

What actually differs

  EVAL HOME STD PRO
Scope
Price—£95£295£895
Sheet limit101040400
Automation runs100UnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited
Commercial use——●●
Marks on outputWatermarkLicensee lineNoneNone
TermTime limitedPerpetualPerpetualPerpetual
Drawing
Sheet sizes to A0●●●●
Symbol Editor + DXF●●●●
All six schedules●●●●
Custom form templates●●●●
Publisher tools
Web Portal———●
Smart PDF——●●
DXF Portfolio———●
Symbol library PDF———●
Keys & support
Licence key activates1 PC1 PC1 PC1 PC
Companion key—+£25+£75+£225
SupportForumForumForumForum + email

04 · The licence, in plain words

No asterisks worth chasing

Perpetual
The version you buy is yours to run for as long as you like. It does not phone home for permission and it does not stop working.
Updates
Every point release in your major version is free — fixes, new symbols, new report types. When a major version lands, you may move up for 45% of list, or stay exactly where you are.
One key, one PC
Each licence key activates a single computer. The companion key adds a second machine for the same engineer at 25% of list — the bench and the laptop, not two people. It is ordered with the licence, not added afterwards.
Upgrades
Move up the range whenever the work asks for it. You pay the difference between what you paid and the higher tier's list price on the day you upgrade, within your major version. No deadline, and you never buy the same software twice.
Support
The community forum is open to everyone, on every tier, with no time limit. Email support comes with PRO and above, because the full set of Publisher Tools is where a job gets complicated. It does not expire either: a perpetual licence with support that lapses is not perpetual.

Support covers the software, not the engineering. How to make a schedule show spare ways is support; whether your motor starter is right is not. And a bug report is welcome from anyone, on any tier, forever — if something is broken, tell us, whatever you paid.
Automation runs
Auto Numbering, the two cross-reference sweeps, Net Runner and Populate Forms are unlimited on every paid licence. An evaluation includes 100 runs in total — far more than trying the tool takes, and they are the only thing in it that is counted.
Your files
Projects are readable files on your own disk. Drawings export to DXF and PDF from every tier, so nothing you draw is trapped in here.

The sheet limit is the limit

Each tier draws up to its sheet count and no further. There is no soft edge and no grace sheet, so choose the tier that matches the jobs you actually take on rather than the one you hope to grow into.

If the work outgrows it, moving up costs only the difference. Buying STD today and PRO whenever you actually need it costs no more than buying PRO outright — there is no window to miss.

And if 400 sheets is not enough, that is not the end of the road either: larger licences are issued on request. Tell us the size of the job and we will size one to it.

05 · Moving up

Pay the difference, never the price

Start where you are today. When the work grows — next month or in five years — you pay the difference between what you paid and the higher tier's list price on the day. No deadline to beat, and never more than buying that tier outright. The figures below are today's.

HOME → STD
£200
STD → PRO
£600
HOME → PRO
£800
Companion key, at purchase
+25%
ProductControlCircuit
ModelPerpetual
CurrencyGBP excl. VAT
IssueRev. A
Sheet1 of 1

Licences above 400 sheets are issued on request, as are educational and volume licences. Prices shown exclude VAT, which is added at checkout according to your location. An evaluation licence may be issued once per organisation.