But even more important that my company operates efficiently:

Looking at figures for the cost of processing an invoice for small business owners:

states that processing a single paper invoice costs between $12 an $30,

Bringinging it down to $3-4 for electronic invoices.

My guess is that it may be even more expesive with international payments.

In my bank it will cost me 3–7EUR to make an international payment 

(as opposed to 0,25 for a domestic)

So If I split the 1400 EUR into 12 and pay it in installments of 117EUR a month,

It adds at least 33EUR to the bill in bank charges maybe up to 275EUR

Which is between 2.3 and 20% to the bill.

So in order to save money I would definitely go for the yearly billing 

in order to save some money on my end.

From Gwens email it is clear that there will also be savings on the RIPE NCC end.

Since the surpluss is sent back to the members we will benefit even more if RIPE NCC

can operate more efficiently.

Hans Petter

LIR no.visma