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Postcode Address File (PAF®)



Licence fees

The prices below are valid from 1st September 2008 to end March 2010, we are currently reviewing all pricing and licensing Terms and Conditions in a phased approach ending in 2010.

From 1 September 2008 the annual licence fee (linked to the number of users) starts at £85, and data supply from £1,700. There are five main types of licence:

  1. Single use licence: means an individual work station or terminal or hand-held or otherwise portable device within an End-User’s organisation which has access to the whole or part of the Data
  2. System licence: Where the End-User is an individual organisation or legal entity trading or operating under one name, and the Data is resident upon a single server or other storage device (“System”) to which 2 or more Users are directly or indirectly connected; a System Licence is available as an alternative to paying per User. Amount payable per licence according to level of Data supplied. Separate licences are required for each System (per level of Data supplied) upon which the Data is housed (and to which satellite systems may be linked for access)
  3. Multi-system licence: An alternative for organisations holding three or more system licences for each category of data being used
  4. Corporate licence: An alternative for organisations which want to cover all branches and subisidiaries owned by the main group.
  5. End user per click licence: PAF data can be licensed for use over the internet as an End User per click product.  The licence fee for unlimited use is £3,750 per annum. 

LICENCE TYPE

LICENCE FEE

Prices below apply only if you take data for the whole of the UK

Prices below apply per Postcode area

Single use licence (one workstation or PC)

£85

£2

System licence

£3,850

£40

Multi-system licence

£11,550

£120

Corporate licence

£75,000

£1,000

End user per click licence (unlimited)

£3,750

Not applicable

 

It is also possible to purchase an Associated user licence: this enables an end user to set up a franchise type network containing 'Associated Users' (for example where they have purchased the rights to trade under the name of another company).  The charge is either £85 per user, or £23,100 for an unlimited number of users in the usergroup.

Please give us a call on 08456 066 854 (option 2) if you require any further information about our licences.


Supply charges

There is a minimum data supply cost of £600.

 

Supply option Cost
1 complete edition and 3 quarterly updates £1,700
1 complete edition and 11 monthly updates £1,700
4 quarterly complete editions £2,000
4 quarterly updates £1,200
Daily internet updates (for existing users) £2,750
1 complete edition plus daily Internet updates £3,250
12 monthly updates

£1,200 

PAF® extract (minimum data supply cost = £600)

 £150 per Postcode area

 
 
NOTE: All prices attract VAT at the prevailing rate

What to do next

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