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  • FREE if less than 25 firms in your group
  • Annual subscription only £49.00 (PLUS VAT)
  • Additional firms only £39.00 per year (PLUS VAT)
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How It Works

Firmrater is easy to use and doesn’t require any training.

  1. Open an account online;
  2. Log in and submit details about your business(es);
  3. Pay the subscription fee(s), if applicable, by bank transfer;
  4. Log in and run a Performance Report to find out how you’re doing.

It’s free to open a Firmrater account and you only pay the annual subscription fee if there are more firms already in your primary business activity group than our minimum number. We also offer a discount if you have more than one active subscription in the same account. You can enter up to 99 firms in one account if you have several businesses, a group or a chain.

When you run a Performance Report, the Firmrater system searches its database for other firms with the same primary business activity as yours and compares your firm’s performance to that of the group. You can refine the group further by using filters to specify additional business activities, distance from your business, turnover, headcount and business age. You can even change the postcode in the report to see how your business compares elsewhere in the UK.

The system is confidential. You will not be able to identify the other firms in your group and they will not be able to identify yours.

Matching similar firms is based on the UK "Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 2007" (SIC-2007). You must enter a primary business activity for your firm and you can also enter up to four additional activities if you wish. For example, a garage may sell new cars as a primary activity but also sell used cars, fuel, groceries and car accessories as additional activities.

The Firmrater system requires each subscriber to provide certain business information as described in our Data Collection Guide. This is so that the system can perform identical calculations for all firms in the database and ensure that the Performance Reports show results on a like for like basis.

While you have an active subscription, you can log in as often as you like to run Performance Reports for that firm.