Serving Officer Bundle

What the Serving Officer Bundle is

The bundle puts the four paid tools for serving prison staff into one purchase: Pay Planner Pro, Pension Command, the Pension & Lump-Sum Report and the Promotion Prep Pack. Bought separately they come to £12.99 + £39 + £14.99 + £19.99 = £86.97. The bundle is £59, so the saving is £27.97.

The tools are the same ones you can buy individually. The bundle is just a discount for taking four together, with one payment and access to all four from the card above.

What each product does

• Pay Planner Pro helps you plan 12 months of earnings, including overtime, Payment Plus and unsocial-hours scenarios, and what a pay award or a promotion would do.
• Pension Command lets you test your alpha pension at different retirement ages and contribution choices, with projections and comparisons.
• Pension & Lump-Sum Report goes deeper on the lump sum trade: scenarios side by side, what you would need, and a printable briefing.
• Promotion Prep Pack helps you weigh up a move to a higher band, build evidence for an application and keep to a preparation plan.

Who should buy it

It suits a serving officer who wants to look at pay, pension and promotion together: for example, someone mid-career weighing up promotion, thinking about how much overtime to do, and starting to look at what their pension could be. If you expect to use three or four of the tools, the bundle is cheaper than buying them one at a time.

It can also suit someone who is not sure yet which tool they need and would rather have them all. Even then, we would suggest trying the free tools first.

Who should not buy it

If you only need one tool, buy that tool. For example, if you only want to model a lump sum, the £14.99 report is enough. If you only want pension planning, Pension Command on its own is £39. If you are only curious, the free calculators will answer most first questions.

The bundle is not worth it just because it is a discount. A saving only counts if you would genuinely use the extra tools.

Try the free tools first

Each paid tool has a free version that stays free: the overtime calculator, the pension calculator, the pension lump sum calculator, the promotion pay calculator and the ill-health and injury benefit calculator. Use them first. If you find you keep wanting more depth, that is a sign a paid tool may help.

Price, refund and access

£59. One payment, no subscription. 14-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked. See the terms for the refund details. If you change your mind, email hello@prisonofficerpay.co.uk within 14 days of buying and we refund the full amount.

You can buy without an account. The card above also shows which of the four you already own, so you can check before you buy. Creating an account afterwards is optional and helps you keep access on other devices.

When the arithmetic works and when it does not

Pension Command is the most expensive of the four at £39, so whether the bundle pays off depends largely on whether you want it. If you do, Pension Command plus Pay Planner Pro is £51.99, and adding any one more tool takes you past £59: with the Pension & Lump-Sum Report it is £66.98, with the Promotion Prep Pack £71.98.

If you do not want Pension Command, the other three together cost £47.97, which is less than £59. In that case buy the three you want individually rather than the bundle. The Pension & Lump-Sum Report and Pension Command also overlap in places, since both look at retirement choices, so check the individual pages before assuming you need both.

None of this is a reason to buy. It is a way of checking your own plans against the price, so that the £27.97 saving is real for you and not just a headline.

How to decide