Why doesn't the Postcode Lookup give me the property name or number now?

Jan 2017

Our members have enjoyed looking up full addresses from postcodes without the extra charges many of our competitors levy for this.

Royal Mail have changed their rules and Allies Computing our long-term supplier has slapped a huge cost increase on us (£8k PA to £60k PA).

We've therefore written our own postcode lookup that mainly uses  public domain data and only uses the Royal Mail PAF file for new postcodes. However, we can't give you house names or numbers -

BA11 3EG will give you Vallis Road, Frome and you'll have to type "57" in.

We've swallowed the development costs and a marginally increased anticipated annual cost but we've learnt a lot about public domain property data and you'll see us use more of this in the coming months to give you a competitive advantage.

If you really want the full capability back, you can pay separately for a Royal Mail PAF File licence but we are required to charge £55 per NAMED user per annum. So, if you've got 6 EA subscriptions but you've actually got 10 people when you take into account Saturday staff, viewing staff etc, you'd need to pay 10 X £55 = £550 per annum just to save typing in door numbers that by definition you've had to ask for and we can't see many members doing this  - chat to your account manager team (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) on 01225 303500 option 2 if you want to have this.