Rapid Addressing

Put in the postcode - Get the address

Address Management

Rapid addressing; postcode identification and more

Mailing List Generation

Build mailing lists for bulk mailing for free

Gazetteer

A list of all towns and villages in the UK,
with their size and position

Where's My Nearest?

Find the local branches of a business

Map Referencing

Pinpoint the map position of a postcode

Web Use

Get a visitor's address from their postcode -
save time and eliminate mistakes.

News

New Royal Mail licensing is here!

 1 April 2010

From the 1st April the Royal Mail is making the biggest change to its licensing arrangements in over 12 years.

One important change is that "unlimited" licences have been made much more expensive. The basis for this is that it was felt that smaller users were unfairly subsidising the largest users who could licence perhaps hundreds of their staff with the relatively low cost unlimited licence. In the new scheme, individual licences will be reduced in cost but large users must buy "blocks" of 300 licences.

Another change is that the "Pay As You Go" or "per-click" licensing is being extended to internal users, whereas it has previously only been available to websites serving the public. However, the cost per lookup has been set at a rather high level and will mostly benefit occasional users.

The cost of Pay As You Go for public servers remains unchanged at a very low figure. If you run a website serving members of the public you are urged to change to PAYG which will not only save money but involves you in less administrative work.

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Technology for Marketing Exhibition

22 December 2009

We will again be exhibiting at the Technology for Marketing and Advertising Exhibition at Earls Court on the 23-23 February 2010. 

We'll be showing our existing range of addressing and mapping products together with a brand-new and ultra-convenient method of generating addresses in Windows 7.

We will also be happy to discuss changes to pricing and implementation driven by the new Royal Mail licensing terms which come into force on 1st April 2010.

 

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Free map references!

12 April 2010

Following a public consultation exercise some Ordnance Survey data was made free to the public with effect from this month. This information includes the "Code-Point" dataset which is broadly equivalent to the Royal Mail "Postzon" data consisting of map references and Local Authority and NHS codes.

With effect from the Quarter 2, 2010 issue, Arc en Ciel is including this data free with its Address and Address+ products. The new map references are more precise than the old ones, having an accuracy within 1 metre, where the old set was within 100metres.

The drawback is that Code-Point is only available free for Great Britain. Clients needing Northern Ireland data can be supplied with the existing Postzon product, but we will have to make a charge for this.

Full details of the story can be found at:- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/01/ordnance_survey_opendata/

 

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Latest data issues

16 June 2010 

Addressing data:

We are currently shipping the Royal Mail data for Quarter 3, 2010.

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