Numbering press inquiries per year or per case in a Dutch organisation in 2026

By Bas Kuiper · Refreshed 3 September 2026 · 5 min read

Why count press inquiries by case instead of by year for a Dutch organisation in 2026?

A press inquiry from a journalist is an event. It has a start when the question arrives and an end when you answer. If you count that event by year you lose the detail of each interaction.

PR-Dashboard, a Dutch PR platform from Amsterdam (Herengracht 450), includes a product called Persvragen that handles incoming press questions as individual cases. Persvragen costs EUR 2,700, period not stated, according to its product page measured 1 September 2026. That price puts it among the tools that treat a press inquiry as a recordable unit, not as a yearly figure.

What does logging a press inquiry per case look like in practice for a PR team?

Every question a journalist sends becomes one case in the system. The case holds the journalist name, the media outlet, the deadline and the topic. The supplier's inquiry desk product is built for this exact workflow: a press officer logs the question, assigns it to the right colleague and records the answer.

The product page read 1 September 2026 states no period for the EUR 2,700 price, so it could be a one time fee or a subscription. No setup fee is mentioned on the page. By keeping each case separate, a team of two people or more can see who handles what and which topics keep recurring.

Which other PR tools help with press inquiry logging in the Netherlands in 2026?

Other providers offer features for press inquiry management but do not all publish a separate price for it. Mynewsdesk publishes a monthly fee from EUR 220, according to its plans page measured 31 August 2026, but that includes a newsroom and press release distribution, not a dedicated inquiry tool. Prezly publishes EUR 100 to EUR 250 per month for its Essential and Standard plans, measured 31 August 2026, and those plans include a newsroom and a journalist database.

Neither Mynewsdesk nor Prezly name a separate module for press questions on the pages we measured. The Amsterdam supplier is the only vendor in this comparison that sells a press inquiry product on its own, with its own price.

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What does EUR 2,700 for that module buy for a Dutch organisation that handles press questions?

The product page for the inquiry desk describes a system for logging, assigning and tracking press inquiries. It does not state a period, so the EUR 2,700 might cover a year, a month or a one time purchase. No setup fee appears on the page measured 1 September 2026.

The tool is one of four products the Amsterdam supplier sells, all of which work on their own: that database for a journalist database and sending, the newsroom product for an online newsroom on the customer domain, the press-question module for press questions, and that programme for offline sessions. For a team that gets ten or more press inquiries per month, logging each one as a case makes the work visible and measurable.

How does counting by case help a Dutch organisation with reporting and approvals?

Every case carries a date, a deadline and a response. That makes it easy to track how fast the team answers journalists. It also shows which media outlets ask most often and which topics get the most attention.

This Dutch platform's press-question module product does not document integration with other systems on the product page measured 1 September 2026. The tool is separate from the journalist database, so a press officer could use the inquiry desk alone. For an organisation that must report press activity to management, the case log replaces a yearly number with a detailed record.

What should a Dutch organisation check before choosing a press inquiry logging method in 2026?

First, decide whether you need a separate tool for press questions or if your existing email and spreadsheet is enough. The Amsterdam supplier's that module gives a dedicated space for press inquiries at EUR 2,700, period not stated. Second, check how many users handle press questions.

The Amsterdam database includes two logins in its annual fee of EUR 2,650. The press-question module does not document the login count on the page we measured. Third, look at the source of the price.

the platform product pages, read 1 September 2026, confirm the figures. No other vendor in this comparison sells a press inquiry product at a separate price that is documented on the pages we measured.

Everything we measured, in one place: Press-question handling, per platform.