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Court data, allowances and usage

Connecting a provider, setting what each plan may spend, and reading what it cost.

Open this page Reviewed 24 September 2026

Step by step

  1. Set the base address and the key Both are settings with documented defaults. If the provider moves, this is the one place to change.
  2. Set the free allowance How many tracked cases a new account gets before a plan is needed. Three is the shipped default.
  3. Set the per-plan allowances Per tier, with zero meaning unlimited.
  4. Set the cache window How long a court record is reused before a fresh call is made. A few hours suits most courts; zero turns the cache off, which costs money and helps nobody.
  5. Set the nightly refresh budget The largest single consumer of the allowance, because a scheduled call always misses the cache. The budget caps lookups per run, and the per-account share stops one chamber taking the whole thing. Zero turns the scheduled refresh off and leaves Refresh working by hand.
  6. See what tonight would buy before it buys it php tools/sync_tracked.php --plan lists the exact cases the budget would pay for, in the order it would pay for them, and calls nobody.
  7. Read the usage Calls by kind, what they cost, what failed, and what the cache saved. Failed calls are metered because the provider charges for them.

Worth knowing

  • Prices are stored on each row as they were at the time, so a rate change does not rewrite last month’s figures.
  • The cache is platform-wide because a court record is public, and the commonest duplicate is a chamber following one matter from several accounts.

Questions

Searches return nothing but there is no error.
Check the base address first: a response nothing maps out of is a failure, and the page names the keys it did receive so it can be told apart from an empty result.
Can I see which account spent what?
Yes, the usage page breaks it down.
What does the nightly refresh actually cost?
The budget multiplied by the per-case price, at most — it is printed under the field. It is spent on the cases most likely to have moved: a hearing that has already happened first, then today and tomorrow, then the fortnight. Muted, decided and already-fresh cases are never called for.

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Lookups, limits and cost What is free, what is counted, and how to check what you have used. Setting up a new installation The four things to do before anybody else signs in.
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