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PAF gives you access over 30 million residential and business addresses and 1.8m UK postcodes. You can find our PAF Data Supply and Licence fees within the tables below. These fees are for PAF only. Hover over the sections of the table to learn more, or click on the hyperlinks to view diagrams.

Pricing Examples

Please see below some example scenarios of how much it might cost your organisation to use PAF.

Example 1

Your End User has a project to cleanse some customer address records which will be used for mailing purposes. Only one User will be using the data. Therefore you would need to return the following User fees back to Royal Mail using your monthly licence fee Report. Access the Fee Reporting Rules:

• Fee for one User of PAF Data: £95.00 + VAT

Example 2

Your End User has an internal customer relationship management (CRM) system, and they want to add address validation to the new customer input form. There are 10 Users of the CRM system. Therefore you would need to return the following User fees back to Royal Mail using your monthly licence fee Report. Access the Fee Reporting Rules:

• Fee for 10 Users of PAF Data: £950 + VAT (10 x £95.00)

Example 3

Your End User has built an e-commerce Website and they want to build in address validation when someone purchases a product. There will be no other Users of PAF Data, just the Website. Therefore you would need to return the following User fees back to Royal Mail using your monthly licence fee Report. Access the Fee Reporting Rules:

• Fee for use of PAF on a Website (as Website Use licence fee): £6,900 + VAT

Multiple Residence (MR) data can be used alongside PAF to identify dwellings that share a letterbox. You can find our MR Data Supply and Licence fees within the tables below. These are for MR only. Hover over the sections of the table to learn more, or click on the hyperlinks to view diagram.

Pricing Examples

Please see below some example scenarios of how much it might cost your organisation to use MR.

Example 1

Your End User has a project to cleanse some customer address records which will be used for mailing purposes. Only one User will be using the Multiple Residence (MR) data. Therefore you would need to return the following User fees back to Royal Mail using your monthly licence fee Report. Access the Fee Reporting Rules:

• Fee for one User of MR Data: £12.00 + VAT

Example 2

Your End User has an internal customer relationship management (CRM) system, and they want to add address validation to the new customer input form. You decide to include both PAF and Multiple Residence (MR) data. There are 10 Users of the CRM system. Therefore you would need to return the following User fees back to Royal Mail using your monthly licence fee Report. Access the Fee Reporting Rules:

• Fee for 10 Users of PAF Data: £950 + VAT (10 x £95.00)
• Fee for 10 Users of MR data: £120.00 + VAT (10 x £12.00)

Example 3

Your End User has built an e-commerce Website and they want to build in address validation when someone purchases a product. There will be no other Users of PAF and Multiple Residence (MR) Data, just the Website. Therefore you would need to return the following User fees back to Royal Mail using your monthly licence fee Report. Access the Fee Reporting Rules:

• Fee for use of PAF on a Website (as Website Use licence fee): £6,900 + VAT
• Fee for use of MR on a Website (as Website Use licence fee): £810 + VAT

Not Yet Built (NYB) data identifies the addresses of properties and buildings under construction. You can find our NYB Data Supply and Licence fees within the tables below. These are for NYB only. Hover over the sections of the table to learn more, or click on the hyperlinks to view diagram.

Table 1: Licence Fees

Table 2: Licence Fees – Transactional and Website Use

Pricing Examples

Please see below some example scenarios of how much it might cost your organisation to use NYB.

Example 1

Your End User, selling new carpets, wants to target newly built houses to sell their products and would therefore benefit from Not Yet Built (NYB) data to help identify target areas and be ready for when these houses are built and ready for occupation. Only one User within the company will use the data. Access the Fee Reporting Rules

• Fee for one User of NYB Data: £12.00 + VAT

Example 2

Your End User has an internal customer relationship management (CRM) system and wants to add Not Yet Built (NYB) addresses to the ‘new customer’ input form so that they can process orders prior to these properties being added to PAF. There are 10 Users of the CRM system. Access the Fee Reporting Rules

• Fee for 10 Users of NYB data: £120.00 (10 x £12.00)

Alias data can be used alongside PAF to identify properties that have additional address characteristics i.e. a house name. You can find our Alias Data Supply fees within the table below. Please note that your use of Alias is covered by your PAF Agreement and no additional fees are applied. Hover over the sections of the table to learn more.

If your solutions contain Alias data, you do not need to declare any additional User fees because these are covered by the PAF Agreements.

For example, in a scenario where your End User has a single individual who wants to cleanse their address records using data from both PAF & Alias, you would only need to return one User Licence fee in respect of this use, on the monthly Licence Fee Report. (see the Fee Reporting Rules):

• Fee for one User of PAF Data: £95.00 +VAT because the User Licence for PAF covers the use of the Alias data as well.

The PIF file is used to help the barcoding of mail. Delivery point suffix (DPS) & checksum information is required to create barcodes on mail and PIF supplies these; useful if your database or PAF® product does not include it.

If your solutions contain PIF data, you do not need to declare any additional User fees because these are covered by the PAF Agreements.

For example, in a scenario where your End User has a single individual who wants to cleanse their address records using data from both PAF & PIF, you would only need to return one User Licence fee in respect of this use, on the monthly Licence Fee Report. (see the Fee Reporting Rules):

• Fee for one User of PAF Data: £95.00 +VAT (because the User Licence for PAF covers the use of the PIF data as well.)

One of the pricing options for using PAF, Multiple Residence and Not Yet Built is Bureau Services. When a database is cleansed (see Data Cleansing) and the resulting records are passed back to your client this is known as Bureau Services. There is an annual fee to provide this service as follows:

Pricing example

Please see below an example of how much it might cost to license the use of Bureau Services.

During the next year your End User will cleanse some customer address records which will be used for mailing purposes. Once these records have been Cleansed they will be returned back to their customer, meaning that a Bureau Services Licence fee would be payable. The End User has five Users accessing PAF and Cleansing the data. During the course of the year the End User estimates they will Cleanse less than 1,000,000 records.

• Fee for five users of PAF Data: £475 + VAT
• Fee for relevant band of Bureau Services: £340
• Fee to download PAF quarterly: £1,012.50
• Total cost for one year: £1,827.50 + VAT