Web Developers..

[nekrum]

Hi

Question for any web developers / development companies.

We have developed a web service for a client which does postcode lookup against Royal Mail PAF data. We're considering making it commercially available and would be interedted in any feedback from anyone that already uses such a service or would be interested in the service. We're looking at charging annually per domain for unlimited lookups. What price would you be willing to pay?

Thanks in advance..

[Z064life]

Sounds good.

I can see the use of this in projects I've done at home.

Unlimited lookups for a set annual price is a great idea. Not sure how much you should charge, perhaps see what other web services charge annually for those who do unlimited lookups?

[zippy3x]

Make it free!!

Initially anyway.

Give good support for people developing against it. Maybe even do , or get someone to do, a simple component that can be used in common development languages.

As long as you make sure that its very clear that this is free for 3 months or whatever and then it will be x amount, i don't think you will have any problems.

As for prices, as mentioned before - check out the competition and undercut them.

[plasticpig]

First off you need to make yourself fully aware of the licencesing costs of what you want to do. You will need to register with the Royal Mail as a Solution provider.

[fade2grey]

bare in mind that this is also available through a number of other options (AFD postcode etc)

[timskipper]

plasticpig said:

First off you need to make yourself fully aware of the licencesing costs of what you want to do. You will need to register with the Royal Mail as a Solution provider.

+1

[ingelow]

fade2grey said:

bare in mind that this is also available through a number of other options (AFD postcode etc)

Agreed, I've dealt with this sort of thing before - I think it's GBMail or someone who do it as a standalone license (with update files you subscribe to), PostcodeAnywhere do it for 2p a query (web service) as well (from memory, so could be wrong company and/or amount sorry ).

You need to be careful with the unlimited offering too I'd have thought, depending on the way you pay for the data in the first place - could be a possible avenue for abuse?

Is there any kind of value add on top you might be able to offer to give you an edge? (just a thought)

[Timja]

We use postcode anywhere for this, so have to be better than that to consider changing.

[The Moose]

can i test this out? i have a project that might need it

The Moose