A single shop is at once an employer, a premises operator, a data controller and a seller of age-restricted goods — answering to the fire service, the ICO, Trading Standards, the licensing team and more. ShopGuard sorts the fire, staff, data and age-restricted-sales paperwork for you, and gives you a window sticker that proves it.
No corner shop has a compliance manager, yet the obligations stack up across four regimes at once, with unlimited fines on one side and loss of your licence to trade on the other.
A mandatory licence to sell tobacco and vapes is coming, with on-the-spot fines for underage sales. Brand-new, universal to this trade — the moment to get ready.
The responsible person must keep a written fire risk assessment and train staff. Since October 2023 the fines are unlimited, with prison for the worst breaches.
A positive duty to take reasonable steps to prevent harassment of staff — including by customers. Tribunals can uplift awards by 25% where it's been ignored.
Run CCTV and you process personal data: pay the ICO data-protection fee, post the signage, set retention. Non-payment is itself enforceable.
…plus alcohol licensing & Challenge-25, guaranteed hours under the Employment Rights Act 2025, the PPL PRS music licence, and commercial-waste duty of care. ShopGuard keeps the whole stack in one place.
The same platform that scans, generates and trains across the Friam family — set up for the realities of a small shop.
Get set for the new tobacco & vape retail licence, with a Challenge-25 policy, refusals-register template, and short staff training on age-restricted sales of alcohol, tobacco and vapes — the area that can cost you your licence to trade.
A guided written fire risk assessment for a retail unit, plus the records and staff fire training the responsible-person duty expects — kept current with renewal reminders.
A harassment-prevention policy and incident log to build the "reasonable steps" record, plus guaranteed-hours tracking for shift staff under the Employment Rights Act 2025.
Sorts your ICO data-protection fee, CCTV signage and privacy notice, and a simple retention policy — so your cameras are an asset, not a liability.
Reminders and records for your alcohol premises licence, PPL PRS music licence and commercial-waste transfer notes — the easy-to-forget items that carry fixed-penalty and unlimited fines.
A printable window cling and web badge showing your shop is fire-assessed, staff-trained, ICO-registered and licence-current — visible to customers, landlords, insurers and inspectors.
ShopGuard is built for owner-run convenience stores, off-licences, newsagents and vape shops — the ~50,000 independents who face the same eight regulators as the supermarkets but have no head-office compliance team. We pre-fill what we can from public records, scan your shopfront and website for gaps, and generate the rest — so you can get back to serving customers.
ShopGuard provides tools and content; it is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. The tobacco & vape retail-licensing scheme and Employment Rights Act 2025 guaranteed-hours provisions are being implemented through secondary legislation and will be updated as confirmed. Generated assessments, policies, training and records help you build and evidence your compliance — they support, but do not on their own guarantee, a defence.