Annual Subscription

How the Commodity Production Costs annual subscription works — industry groups covered, pricing, delivery, renewal, usage rights, and how it differs from one-time report purchases.

About the Subscription

What is Commodity Production Costs Subscription?

Commodity Production Costs Subscription is an annual, schedule-based offer that delivers every report scheduled in the selected industry groups for one calendar year, all in the Detailed edition.

The subscription is a separate offer within the Commodity Production Costs family. It complements — rather than replaces — the existing one-time report purchase model. Reports included in the annual schedule may also be sold individually in the store; the subscription does not come with exclusivity.

Coverage scales by the industry groups you select, not by feature tier. There are no Starter, Pro, or Advanced plan variants — the offer is a single annual subscription with coverage defined by industry-group selection.

Which industries are available?

The subscription is organized into six industry groups:

Alcohols & Organic Acids
Aromatics & Derivatives | Oil & Energy
Fertilizers & Gases | Food & Nutrition
Inorganic Chemicals | Pharmaceuticals
Olefins & Derivatives
Polymers

You subscribe by industry group — one group is the smallest unit. You can take a single group or combine several. Subscribing to a single commodity on its own is not supported under the subscription model.

What does a subscription include?

Each industry group includes every report on its annual schedule for the contracted calendar year — 16 reports per group per year, delivered in four quarterly batches of four. Groups that pair two industries deliver 16 reports total spanning both. All reports are delivered in the Detailed edition. The annual list of reports by group and by quarter is public and treated as a fixed commercial commitment.

Is subscription different from buying reports individually?

Yes. The two models are independent and coexist:

One-time purchase: You select and buy specific report titles individually from the store. Each purchase is a standalone transaction.
Subscription: You select one or more industry groups and receive every report on those groups' annual schedule for the contracted year, delivered automatically in quarterly batches.

Reports in the subscription schedule may also be sold individually in the store. There is no subscriber exclusivity — subscribing does not give you earlier access or reports unavailable to individual buyers. The subscription's value is convenience and predictability: a single annual commitment covers a full year of structured schedule coverage without tracking and buying reports one by one.

Pricing and Discounts

How is the subscription priced?

Pricing is public and charged per industry group, billed annually. All industry groups use the same monthly rate of $999 USD/month (billed annually).

Industry groups (same transaction)	Discount	Total Monthly Rate (billed annually)
1	—	$999 USD/month
2	—	$1,998 USD/month
3	10%	$2,697 USD/month
4	10%	$3,596 USD/month
5	10%	$4,496 USD/month
6 (all available)	20%	$4,795 USD/month

Compared with buying the same 16 reports per group individually in the Detailed edition, the subscription represents roughly 50% savings over the year. The annual price is the same regardless of the month in which you subscribe within the contracted year.

How do volume discounts work?

Discounts apply only to industry groups purchased in the same transaction and are calculated on the size of that transaction alone. They do not factor in industry groups you already hold from a prior purchase.

If you start with 2 industry groups and later add 3 more in a separate transaction, the first purchase has no discount (1–2 groups) and the second transaction qualifies for the 10% discount (3–5 groups). There is no retroactive recalculation of the earlier purchase based on your combined total.

Timing and Delivery

Yes. The subscription can be purchased at any point during the calendar year at the same annual price.

The subscription is tied to the calendar year of the contracted schedule, not to a rolling 12-month term from your purchase date. When you subscribe mid-year, you immediately receive access to all reports already released that year for your selected industry groups, plus all remaining quarterly batches through December 31.

A subscription purchased late in the year provides a shorter remaining window before the next annual cycle begins. The annual price reflects the annual commitment, not the number of months remaining — the same price applies regardless of when you purchase.

How are reports delivered?

Reports are delivered in one quarterly batch per quarter (Q1, Q2, Q3, Q4). All subscription reports are delivered in the Detailed edition as downloadable PDFs, accessible through your account on the Intratec website.

At expiration, access through the portal ends. This includes access to the private subscription area, active download links, and future scheduled deliveries.

Can I upgrade subscription reports to Premium?

Yes. Subscribers can upgrade individual reports from the Detailed edition to Premium separately, at the standard upgrade fee. Technical support and plant capacity assessment included in the Premium edition become available for the upgraded report.

The base subscription covers the Detailed edition only — Premium is not included automatically.

Renewal and Expanding Coverage

Does the subscription auto-renew?

Auto-renew is available for subscriptions paid by credit card or PayPal. If auto-renew is active, the subscription continues into the next calendar-year cycle with the same selected industry groups at the same price.

The renewal charge occurs at the transition to the next annual cycle, not on the monthly anniversary of your original purchase.

If you modify the industry-group set at or before renewal, the modified configuration is repriced using the public table then in effect.

Does payment method affect renewal?

Yes — the renewal experience differs by payment method:

Credit card / PayPal: Auto-renew is supported. If the industry-group set stays the same, renewal price is unchanged.
Wire transfer: Auto-renew is not supported. Renewal is a manual repurchase at the public price then in effect. Same-price protection does not apply.

Customers who pay by wire transfer can still subscribe and renew each year, but should plan for renewal as a fresh purchase rather than a passive continuation.

Can I add more coverage during the year?

Yes. Industry groups can be added during the same calendar-year cycle. Added groups are treated as a new purchase and charged the full annual price — no pro-rata reduction applies, even if you are adding them mid-year.

When you add a group, you immediately receive access to all reports already released that year for it, plus the remaining quarterly batches through year-end. Added groups become part of your active package and are eligible for auto-renew into the following cycle (under the same payment method rules).

Earlier purchases are not retroactively recalculated. The discount on the new transaction is calculated on its own size.

Changes, Cancellation, and Refunds

Can I reduce or cancel my subscription?

Partial downgrade — removing specific industry groups while keeping others — is not part of the standard offer. Your available options are to keep the current package or cancel the subscription entirely.

For credit card or PayPal subscriptions, you can turn off auto-renew before the next cycle begins to let the subscription expire at year-end without a new charge. For wire transfer, not placing the next manual renewal has the same effect.

Are refunds available?

The subscription is an annual commitment with no proportional refund. It is not a monthly or pro-rated model.

Renewal charges for this offer are non-refundable, except where required by law. This applies because renewal immediately unlocks access to downloadable reports for the new annual cycle.

Yes. Sharing is permitted as internal sharing within the same business, managed by the subscription owner and admins. Team members from the same organization can be added as users through the account management area on the Intratec website.

Sharing is restricted to individuals with a business email associated with the licensed organization's domain. Users from outside the organization cannot be added under the standard offer.

Can I use subscription content externally?

The subscription is licensed for internal business use. The following are not allowed under the standard offer:

Third-party sharing: Reports cannot be redistributed to clients, partners, vendors, or any external party.
Integration: Subscription content cannot be embedded or integrated into a service, product, or external deliverable.
Publication use: Using subscription content in external articles, presentations to outside audiences, or marketing materials requires prior written consent from Intratec.

Use cases beyond internal business use require a separate conversation with Intratec to determine the appropriate licensing path.

Methodology and Scope

What are subscription reports designed for?

Subscription reports use the established Commodity Production Costs methodology — the same consistent methodology applied across the entire Commodity Production Costs library. They are designed to support conceptual techno-economic assessment, including:

Investment screening and option evaluation
Preliminary feasibility analysis
Process benchmarking and cross-process comparison
Research, R&D planning, and budget validation

The reports provide structured, comparable cost analyses that cover capital costs (CAPEX), operating costs (OPEX), and production process information, in the same standardized format used throughout the Commodity Production Costs library.

What are subscription reports NOT designed for?

The subscription delivers structured Detailed reports — not an interactive analytical environment. The following capabilities are not part of the offer:

Not a process design package or FEED document: The preliminary process designs in the reports are intended for cost estimation, not for engineering or construction use.
Not a scaling tool: The reports do not include a mechanism for users to adjust costs dynamically across plant capacities or locations on demand. (Plant Capacity Assessment is available only in the Premium edition of individually upgraded reports.)
Not an interactive modeling platform: There is no web-based environment for adjusting feedstock, utility, or product prices and re-running calculations live.
Not an integrated market-price intelligence layer: Live or forecasted commodity market prices are not bundled with the subscription.
Not a substitute for enterprise ecosystems: The subscription does not replicate the breadth of larger enterprise programs that combine interactive tools, historical process databases, and integrated market intelligence.

The value of the subscription is structured, methodologically consistent techno-economic content delivered on a public, predictable annual schedule.