For Newsagents: Subscription Fees

Fees are based on a newsagent being fully compliant or not(see below for the definition of Compliance).

Below is the new XchangeIT LINK table of fees per Newsagent store:

Membership Type/Category Services Annualised Fee – Ex GST

Introductory/Regular/

Compliant Member

Full Service of Delivery, Sales, Returns, and Returns Forms provided ITC tests are passed

$400

Delivery Only

Full Services, with Returns TBA

$400

POS DOS newsagents

Delivery Data only

$600 for 3 months after Go-Live; then $850

Sales Data unavailable

Delivery Data only

$850

Base price

All data types still under the compliance testing process

$850

Explanation of some terms in the table:

  • ITC= Integrity, Timeliness, Continuity.  These are the 3 tests used to measure & ensure Compliance.
  • “Services” refer to 2 way data flow, which is Delivery Data, Sales Data, and ReturnsData/Claims. The fourth EDI element is Returns Forms and, of course, these forms use the data sets already mentioned.
  • “Fee” refers to the annualised fee, payable in two equal instalments before each 186 day Compliance evaluation period.

 

The new fees apply when you renew your subscription, or when you upgrade to XchangeIT LINK or when the old platform closes in October2009, whichever comes first. 

If your renewal date is after October and you have not upgraded before August, we will schedule a time to upgrade you.  

Where applicable, credits will be given for unused days under the old XchangeIT platform.

Fees are subject to change depending on your Compliance Status (see Fee Table and Compliance Status, above).  

 

Compliance and Billing

As mentioned above, Compliance means you provide ALL data (Sales Inventory, Returns) on time, all the time, and that the data is correct/accurate.

In order to give newsagents more than one opportunity per year to be Fully Compliant, and therefore take advantage of the much lower subscription fee, we have changed to a billing and compliance evaluation cycle that occurs every 186 days. The 186 days relates to 6 evaluation cycles of 31 days each.

Paying twice a year also has another nice benefit for Newsagents: You lay out less cash than a once-a-year payment.