| Search | Price | What's included |
|---|---|---|
| By VIN | a one-off fee | PPSR search, plain-English summary, official PPSR certificate (PDF), free re-check for 14 days where finance is owing† |
| By Number Plate | a one-off fee | Everything above, plus matching your plate and state to the vehicle and confirming it with you before the search runs |
| SMS optional add-on | free | One text with the headline answer and your report link, and a further text if the finance changes during the free 14-day re-check |
Why a plate search costs more
The PPSR has no plate search — it accepts a VIN, a chassis number or a manufacturer's number and nothing else. A plate has to be matched to a vehicle first, through the national registration database. That lookup has a cost of its own, and it is the difference between the two prices.
What you are not charged for
- A plate we could not match to any vehicle. No PPSR search is run, so there is nothing to charge for one.
- A search blocked by a register maintenance window.
- Resending a report to a corrected email address.
- The free re-check, for 14 days, where a security interest was found.†
See the Refund Policy for the full position.
Do I need the SMS?
No. Every search is emailed, and the report link in that email does everything the text does. The SMS is for people who are standing in a driveway with a seller waiting, and want the answer on the screen in their hand rather than buried in an inbox.
How to pay
Visa, Mastercard or American Express. Card details are handled by our payment provider and never reach our servers.
* Delivery time. Reports are issued within minutes while the Personal Property Securities Register is available. The register has scheduled maintenance windows, set out in our Terms & Conditions. A search requested during a maintenance window is issued as soon as the register reopens.
† Free re-check. The 14-day free re-check applies only to vehicles that returned a registered security interest (finance owing). It re-checks whether those security interest details have changed. Stolen and written-off records are not re-checked.