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Solutions Providers are organisations licensed by Royal Mail to sell sophisticated solutions and software products. These solutions incorporate PAF address data alongside other data to provide organisations with the capability to make their operations more effective and efficient. You can find a list of licensed PAF Solutions Providers within our Supplier Directory.

You should start by searching within the Supplier Directory and selecting suppliers with appropriate expertise. We recommend that you speak to more than one Solutions Provider however: in order to assess factors such as price, regularity of data updates, whether they incorporate other valuable datasets into their solutions, ease of installation, provision of ongoing support and suitability for your needs.

Yes it does. Our UK Addresses product allows users to search, print and export PAF addresses quickly and easily. UK Addresses is available via online download or an easily installable software solution supplied on DVD.

Organisations with a low volume use may prefer ‘Pay As You Go’ by licensing blocks of transactions, prices start from £1.75 for 100 clicks. Alternatively, larger users may wish to simply cap their costs. Speak to a Solutions Provider for more information.

You can use PAF data to make online transactions easier, verify customer identities, manage your database and deliver mail more efficiently.

The licence fee is the same whether you take data directly from Royal Mail or from a Solutions Provider. However, a Solutions Provider will charge you for the full solution (including PAF data) whereas if you take data directly from Royal Mail, you will pay the data licence and data supply fees.

Our PAF sample data is available in two formats – .CSV and .FWF – and comprises approximately half a million records across two Postcode Areas; York (YO) and Plymouth (PL). Sample data is also available for all of our addressing datasets.

If you have the capabilities in-house to programme data then you may prefer to develop your own solutions. In this instance, we always recommend downloading sample data before purchasing a data product to ensure that you are able to work with it. If you don’t have this capability or would prefer the convenience of using a ready-made PAF solution then we recommend you search for a Solutions Provider within our Supplier Directory.

In many cases, yes. Solutions Providers have the ability to provide potential customers with access to their solutions on a trial basis. Individual contact information for licensed Solutions Providers is available within our Supplier Directory. We recommend that you discuss terms and conditions directly with them.