Business Status Alerts


Check your customers' credit status


With Business Status Alerts you can stay right up to date with the creditworthiness of your customers. It can help you to minimise your exposure to bad debt.



Late payment and bad debt have an adverse effect on cash flow and profitability for every business. Business Status Alerts helps you minimising their incidence.

Working with Equifax, a leading UK credit reference agency, the service brings you an effective way to protect your organisation against bad debt.

With Business Status Alerts you can:

  • Carry out credit checks, access reports and obtain information on your new and existing customers
  • Be notified of any changes that could influence the risk posed by a customer
  • Safeguard your own supply chain
  • Effectively manage your own credit status
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Even in buoyant economic conditions, you can’t take a customer’s creditworthiness for granted. In less certain economic times, there’s an even greater need to be watchful.

With Business Status Alerts, your business will benefit from:

  • Greater knowledge – with access to information on over two million limited companies, four million company directors and nearly three million non-limited UK businesses
  • Greater protection – you’ll be able to act faster to protect your organisation from bad debt and avoid losses through corporate fraud
  • Automatic alerts – emailed to you when the status of one of your customers changes
  • Improved financial controls – and evidence to lenders on the stability of your customer base
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Bronze, Silver or Gold

There are three different packages for Business Status Alerts – giving you the flexibility to select the level of protection that suits your business best.

  • Bronze – pay a small annual fee of £25, access unlimited reports and establish unlimited alerts on a pay as you use basis
  • Silver – for an annual fee of £120 (payable monthly) you can access unlimited credit reports on 16 designated companies
  • Gold – you can obtain as many credit reports as you need on 30 selected companies. The annual fee is £216, payable monthly.


Package name
BronzeSilverGold
Corporate Report£7.50 per reportIncluded in packageIncluded in package
Business Report£7.50 per reportIncluded in packageIncluded in package
Director SearchesIncluded in packageIncluded in packageIncluded in package
Registered Office SearchIncluded in packageIncluded in packageIncluded in package
Portfolio MonitoringIncluded in packageIncluded in packageIncluded in package
Limited Credit AlertsIncluded in packageIncluded in packageIncluded in package
Non Limited AlertsIncluded in packageIncluded in packageIncluded in package
Detrimental/Gazette AlertsIncluded in packageIncluded in packageIncluded in package
Business Identification Alerts£1 per alert Included in packageIncluded in package


All packages are for two year contracts, reviewable after 12 months.

Included in packageIncluded in package
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