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Postcode Lookup Prices
Below is an easy to view comparison guide of the different packages available for postcode lookups.
Royal Mail licence their data in different ways, depending upon where you plan to use your postcode lookups. Beneath the prices you will see a breakdown of the usage types for postcodes
| Package | Lookups per pack | Public use (website) | Internal (10p)* | User based (3p)** |
| FREE TRIAL (once only) |
30 | FREE |
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| Extended Trial | 50 | £5 | ||
| Starter Pack |
500 | £30 | £50 | £15 |
| Level 1 | 2500 | £100 | £250 | £75 |
| Level 2 | 5000 | £175 | £500 | £150 |
| Level 3 | 10,000 | £300 | £300 | |
| Bulk Level 1 | 50,000 | £1000 | £1500 | |
| Bulk Level 2 | 125,000 | £1875 | ||
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Example
You have a front end website that your customers have access to. You want to put your lookups on your contact page and your order form and you think the 2 pages will use around 3000 lookups per year (9 a day roughly). You also have a back office area of your website where 3 PC's are used to carry out administration on the system and a further 3000 lookups are carried out here.
Solution: You'd go for the Level 1 (2500) pack for web use to cover your customers use of the system. You'll use the 2500 postcode lookups within the 12 months and so when you run low, you simply purchase a new pack of 2500 and a new 12 month period starts. To cover the internal use, the cheapest option is also the Level 1 Internal pack for the same reason - its the closest to what you would use within a 12 month period and the purchase of a new package when finished would start a new 12 month period.
If your internal use of the system extended to around 5000 per year, this would cost £500+VAT using the Level 2 package, whereas 3 user licences at £100+VAT each, plus £150+VAT for the Level 2 "per user" package makes £450+VAT, so its cheaper to licence on a per user basis and buy the per user lookups in that case.
NOTE: Extended Trial can be refunded with PromotionCode PAFREFUND when you order any subsequent Postcode package.
Use of Postcode lookups in different places:
Public Use (i.e your website): Defined as being accessible to the general public (whether or not they have to log in to use the lookup). This is where you put the address checking system on your contact, enquiry or order pages and is the major source of usage of the system. If the person using the lookup is not employed by your company or acting on behalf of your company, then its public use.
* Internal Use. If you have a back office system for your company's own use, whether its web based or not, if its not accessible to the general public it is deemed to be for internal company use. These per-click lookups are charged at a higher rate by Royal Mail, but under the new 2010 licence there is no longer a restriction on the number of lookups you can use this way per year.
** Internal Use (with a user licence). If you have a small number of computer screens accessing the lookups on your internal system but you are doing quite a few lookups, it may be cheaper to purchase a Royal Mail "user licence" for each machine that has access to the address checking. At Royal Mail, a "user" is a computer terminal not a physical person. Once the required number of user licenses are purchased (£100+VAT each per year), we make a nominal charge for each lookup carried out (3pence), rather than the higher priced lookup where no user licence has been purchased.
When you make the call to our system, you specify in the lookup code whether you are using web, internal or per user so that the lookup comes off the correct package.
Please note ALL postcode lookup packs expire after 12 months. Any unused lookups within the package will be lost (this is a Royal Mail requirement)
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