Looking for something more bespoke?
Our tailored audits allow you to build a programme that fits your exact business needs. Serve Legal can support your business with tailored audits, Trading Standards-approved guidance, and expert advice.
Our Wider Services
At Serve Legal, we provide a variety of additional services designed to complement our core offerings. These services they play a crucial role in enhancing your overall compliance and operational effectiveness.
Explore how these offerings can allow your business to operate with confidence.
Use By Date Compliance Audits
Serve Legal’s Date Check Audits involve a thorough in-store review by an auditor to ensure all products are within their expiration dates.
This service helps maintain compliance, product safety, and customer satisfaction by ensuring only fresh, in-date items are available for sale.
Fuel Compliance Audits
Our specialist Fuel audit enables retailers to sell fuel responsibly and safely.
The audit reveals staff’s vigilance in pre-approving sales dispensed safely and legally. Harnessing independent data to help improve your staff’s performance will ensure a retail focus on service standards with less exposure to theft, revenue loss and safety issues.
Promotional Compliance Audits
Serve Legal’s Promotional Compliance Audits ensure that special promotions, product displays, and related materials are correctly set up and presented to customers in-store.
This audit helps verify that your promotional efforts are executed as intended, maximising visibility and impact for customers.
Electric Vehicle Charging Audits
Our EV Charging Audit service helps Charge Point Operators maintain optimal performance and customer satisfaction by identifying issues with charging station functionality and on-site customer messaging.
Through detailed audits, we ensure that charging stations are fully operational, user-friendly, and aligned with industry standards.
House Call Audits
Our House Call Audits have provided clients with essential follow-up after a product recall, delivering key health and safety information directly to customers.
This audit guarantees that customers receive vital information. With our 100% nationwide coverage, we ensure that every corner of the UK and Ireland is reached promptly.
Competitor Audits
Our competitor audits provide a comprehensive analysis by running any type of Serve Legal audit at both your sites and nearby competitor locations.
This offers locally focused comparison data on key performance metrics, helping ensure you're offering customers the best service available in their area.
Our success stories
“We have worked with Serve Legal since 2008. During that time they have conducted over 14,000 audits to all of our stores in Scotland, North of England and Northern Ireland. Several stores are in very remote areas, as far north as Wick and Thurso. Serve Legal has always been able to visit any store that we have requested no matter how challenging the location. The audit reports are always delivered in an accurate and timely manner and the management team have a pro-active approach and are always looking for ways to improve their service to their customers. We would have no hesitation in recommending Serve Legal to others.”
“We use Serve Legal regularly to carry out tests on our compliance with age restricted sales. This includes tobacco and the recently introduced tobacco display ban. They deliver a reliable and efficient service within agreed deadlines and with very few data errors. They are able to swiftly provide accurate analysis of our data which helps with our training and future testing programs.”
“We have worked with Serve Legal since 2014 and they have significantly helped us to combat illegal broadcasting in the UK and Ireland. Their knowledge, expertise and robust auditing in conjunction with the prompt supply of infringement data has generated over 8,000 leads; which has led to valuable leads for our sales force and investigation team to defend our investment in exclusive sports content. Serve Legal have consistently delivered against agreed KPIs.”
“We have worked with Serve Legal since 2009 and they have helped us to significantly reduce our risk with age-restricted sales. They have played a key role in monitoring our risk across a range of age-restricted products. Their knowledge, speed of service and flexible data provision helps us to sharpen our training and inform our future approach to compliance.”
“The Serve Legal information is extremely useful, informative and well presented. The issues with sites not using ‘Challenge 25’ can now be dealt with the backing of evidence of where they’re failing. I am most pleased with how the surveys are being conducted and appreciate the detailed information provided.”
“Using an independent test purchase service such as Serve Legal demonstrates to the local authorities that I am taking the issue of underage sales seriously. The due diligence provided is invaluable and has played an important role in defending my license in a recent licensing hearing.”
“We have worked with Serve Legal since 2008. The visit reports are always delivered in an accurate and timely manner. The accuracy and consistency of the information provided has allowed us to identify training needs, target resource, protect our business and improve our compliance. I would have no hesitation in recommending Serve Legal to others.”
“We use Serve Legal monthly to conduct test purchases of alcohol, in order to monitor our adherence to our Challenge 25 policy. This is also extended to campaigns of test purchasing on other age-restricted products. The professionalism and flexibility they offer has assisted us in improving our compliance levels, and where required, using targeted activity. The online portal provides easy to read data in a timely fashion for reporting.”
“We have worked with Serve Legal since 2009 and they have helped us to significantly reduce our risk with age restricted sales. They have played a key role in monitoring our risk across a wide range of age restricted products. Their knowledge, speed of service and flexible data provision helps us to sharpen our training and inform our future approach to compliance.”
“Serve Legal was appointed by my company in order that we gain valued feedback from a licensing perspective. The relationship between Serve legal and my business is friendly, professional and feels personal. The feedback we have gained is invaluable to our operation, we have been able to use the data to make changes in our business to ensure a risk free operation. I would highly recommend.”
How Serve Legal can help
The Risk
In today's business environment, compliance and operational risks are constantly evolving.
Failing to monitor key aspects of your business can expose you to a wide range of risks, including regulatory penalties, reputational damage, financial loss, and compromised customer trust.
How We Help
Let us be your eyes on the ground. With complete nationwide coverage and a network of thousands of auditors across the UK and Ireland, we provide direct customer insights into your operational needs.
Our bespoke audit programs are designed to fit the unique requirements of your business, rigorously assessing and ensuring that your staff consistently meet the highest standards in customer service and retail experience.
Who We Are
Serve Legal is the market leading provider of compliance auditing services in the UK and ROI and is a trusted provider of revenue protection audit programmes to some of the UK’s largest supermarkets.
Serve Legal has a nationwide community of 18+ auditors who are highly engaged and closely managed to deliver accurate audit results. We are able to fully audit entire retail estates across the UK and Ireland within weeks, as well as providing powerful analysis of audit data to support our clients in identifying and solving operational issues related to loss of revenue.
Frequently asked questions
Serve Legal also offers age-verification audits, facial biometric accuracy and fairness auditing, revenue protection, responsible gambling, digital media and sports broadcasting compliance audits as well as customer service and experience audits.
We are flexible and work with our clients to accommodate changes in scheduling or other unforeseen circumstances.