{
  "schema_version": 1,
  "report": {
    "slug": "irish-software-price-index",
    "name": "Irish Business Software Price Index",
    "edition": "2026-Q3",
    "page_url": "https://vendors.ie/reports/irish-software-price-index",
    "data_api_url": "https://vendors.ie/api/reports/irish-software-price-index.json",
    "date_published": "2026-08-11",
    "last_verified": "2026-08-11",
    "publisher": "Vendors.ie",
    "license": "CC BY 4.0",
    "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "citation": "Vendors.ie Irish Business Software Price Index, 2026-Q3 edition. https://vendors.ie/reports/irish-software-price-index"
  },
  "methodology": {
    "summary": "Per-category median, minimum, and maximum published EUR entry prices for business software sold to Irish SMEs, with the pricing-model mix and the count of published versus contact-only pricing. Every number is computed deterministically by scripts/build-price-index.mjs from the committed vendor dataset; nothing is fetched at request time and nothing is generated by an LLM.",
    "notes": [
      "The canonical URL never changes; a dated quarterly data file is dropped behind it each refresh.",
      "Vendors listing only non-EUR pricing are counted separately and excluded from the EUR entry-price statistics."
    ]
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Vendors.ie pricing methodology",
      "url": "https://vendors.ie/methodology"
    },
    {
      "title": "Vendors.ie verified vendor dataset",
      "url": "https://vendors.ie/dataset.json",
      "note": "The committed vendor dataset the index is computed from."
    }
  ],
  "data": {
    "quarter": "2026-Q3",
    "computed_at": "2026-08-11T16:38:18.355Z",
    "currency": "EUR",
    "totals": {
      "vendors_indexed": 122,
      "categories": 21,
      "eur_priced": 84,
      "contact_only": 5,
      "non_eur_listed": 24
    },
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        "slug": "accounting",
        "name": "Accounting Software",
        "page_url": "/accounting-software-ireland",
        "vendor_count": 5,
        "eur_priced_count": 3,
        "published_pricing_count": 4,
        "contact_only_count": 1,
        "non_eur_listed_count": 1,
        "entry_price_eur": {
          "min": 17,
          "median": 21,
          "max": 60
        },
        "pricing_model_mix": {
          "flat": 3,
          "per_user": 1,
          "usage": 0,
          "annual": 0,
          "contact": 1
        }
      },
      {
        "slug": "accounts-payable",
        "name": "Accounts Payable Automation Software",
        "page_url": "/accounts-payable-automation-software-ireland",
        "vendor_count": 5,
        "eur_priced_count": 4,
        "published_pricing_count": 4,
        "contact_only_count": 0,
        "non_eur_listed_count": 0,
        "entry_price_eur": {
          "min": 0,
          "median": 19,
          "max": 31.5
        },
        "pricing_model_mix": {
          "flat": 3,
          "per_user": 1,
          "usage": 1,
          "annual": 0,
          "contact": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "slug": "ai-tools",
        "name": "AI Tools",
        "page_url": "/ai-tools-ireland",
        "vendor_count": 6,
        "eur_priced_count": 3,
        "published_pricing_count": 5,
        "contact_only_count": 0,
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          "median": 21,
          "max": 22
        },
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          "usage": 0,
          "annual": 0,
          "contact": 0
        }
      },
      {
        "slug": "bid-writing-software",
        "name": "Bid Writing Software",
        "page_url": "/bid-writing-software-ireland",
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        }
      },
      {
        "slug": "business-banking",
        "name": "Business Banking",
        "page_url": "/business-banking-ireland",
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        }
      },
      {
        "slug": "crm",
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        "name": "Email Marketing Software",
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