What is corporate scheme:

The Corporate Payment Scheme is a way of streamlining communication with firms, members and the RICS.

Firms registered with the corporate payment scheme make an agreement with the RICS to make payment for all RICS professionals/Candidates registered on their scheme.  Individuals will not be contacted and asked to make payment for their fees, all communication will go through the firms registered contact.

We ask for a single contact at the firm who will deal directly with the corporate team, this individual will work with us to review those who are registered on the firm’s corporate payment scheme and will provide the necessary details when requested.

At the start of the campaign the nominated contact will be asked to provide us with a list of all the Professionals/Candidates they wish to register on their Corporate Payment Scheme we ask for a minimum eligibility of 5+ members, this can be of any grade (FRICS, MRICS, AssocRICS and candidates) to join the scheme.

The registered contact at the firm will send a data template of all the Professionals/Candidates they would like to make payment for, the registered contact has the chance to review this information prior to an invoice being issued to the firm this will be a total cost breakdown.

Once an invoice has been issued, as mentioned in the RICS Corporate payment scheme terms and conditions firms have 30 days to make payment.

Professionals are not contacted regarding their membership fees:  all communication will go through the registered firm contact

Access to their digital membership card & CPD support pack via the online portal 

Downloadable data input template 2024

Please download the below data template, if you are a firm opted into the corporate payment scheme for 2024, and return back to corporate@rics.org.

New Firm Requests

If you think the firm is eligible or if they would like more information on the corporate payment scheme, please fill in the below joiner form and return to corporate@rics.org in order to be registered on our corporate payment scheme.

Please note the deadline for new firms to opt into the scheme has now passed, if your firm would like to join for 2025, kindly complete the new joiner form and submit to corporate@rics.org

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Corporate Payment Scheme Timeline

We have 3 invoices periods per campaign to accommodate new starters, firm leavers, and any candidate upgrade fees, details regarding the corporate payment scheme deadlines can be found below.

August 2023

Reach out to firm’s contacts to supply data template of all Professionals/Candidates they would like to make payment for.

September 2023

Deadline for firm contacts to provide data template ready for RICS corporate team to provide a cost breakdown.

November 2023

All Round one invoices are sent to registered firm contacts ready for payment.

December 2023

Cut off deadline for any new firms to register onto the corporate payment scheme.

January 31st 2024

Cut of date for leavers if an employee leaves the firm prior to the 31st of January 2023, they will have 30 days to claim a refund, any refund requests after this point will need to be recouped by the Professionals/Candidates directly.

January 2024

Data request will be sent for all new starters who have joined the firm in the interim of the round one invoice being sent

February 2024

Deadline for firm contacts to provide data template ready for RICS corporate team to provide a cost breakdown.

March 2024

Round 2 invoices are sent to firm registered firm contacts ready for payment.

July 2024

A cost breakdown will be sent to the registered firm contact, with all newly elected professionals who have passed their assessments. RICS will use the data supplied via round one/two to establish who has recently passed.

Please note: these timescales for round three may change if assessment windows are altered.

August 2024

All firm contacts will have their round three invoice.