Firmcheck uses a standard self-serve billing model to ensure fair, transparent, and accurate charging based on usage. Here's a breakdown of how it works, including timing, rate logic, and how changes during the month are handled.
How you're billed depends on when your firm started its subscription. If you subscribed on or after 5 November 2026, see the first section below. If you subscribed before 5 November 2026, see the second section.
£25 per month, which includes your first 50 clients.
Each client above 50 is 50p per month.
PEP, sanctions, and adverse media checks and Essential ID checks are free. Advanced Biometric ID checks are £4 each.
When you start your subscription, you're charged straight away for a pro rata share of £25, covering the days until the 20th of the month.
From then on, you're charged £25 on the 20th of each month for your first 50 clients.
Each month, you're charged for the number of clients you have on the 20th. There are no pro rata charges or credits for clients that are added, deleted, or offboarded during the month.
Clients above 50 are only charged from your first 20th. So if you import all your clients before then, that first pro rata charge of £25 is all you'll pay for them for that initial period, however many you add. The only extra cost in your first month would be any Advanced Biometric ID checks you run.
Example: if you subscribe on 5 November, you'll pay a pro rata share of £25 on that day to cover 5 to 19 November. You'll then be charged £25 on 20 November, plus 50p for every additional client above 50 clients, and the same on the 20th of every month after that.
If your firm subscribed before 5 November 2026, your billing works as follows.
On your billing anniversary date each month, Firmcheck charges you in advance for a full month's service.
This charge is based on the number of active entities (e.g. clients) loaded into the system at that point in time.
If you add new entities after your billing anniversary date, these are not immediately charged.
Instead, the system tracks those additions and applies a retroactive pro rata charge on your next invoice.
This means you're only charged for the portion of the month those new entities were active.
If entities are off-boarded or deleted, the system stops charging from the date they’re removed.
Any resulting credit adjustment is also reflected in the following invoice as a pro rata deduction.
Let’s say your billing anniversary is the 1st of each month. Here’s how this would play out:
Date | Event |
June 1 | 10 entities active → Charged £100 in advance (£10 per entity) |
June 10 | 2 entities added |
June 20 | 1 entity deleted |
July 1 | Next invoice generated |
Base charge: 12 entities currently active → £120
Pro rata charge for the 2 entities added on June 10:
Charged for 21 days in June → approx. £14
Pro rata credit for 1 entity deleted on June 20:
Credited for 10 unused days in June → approx. –£3.33
🧾 Total July 1 invoice:
£120 (base) + £14 (pro rata) – £3.33 (credit) = £130.67
To access your invoice in Firmcheck navigate to the top right drop-down, then manage subscription.
Firms that are on custom plans, please refer to your agreement for your payment terms, as they may slightly differ from this guidance.