Sagax compliance services
Sagax compliance services for UK operators running a self-employed workforce
Sagax compliance services are consultancy reviews for UK operators running a self-employed workforce, offered alongside Zerity. Sagax reviews policies and audit preparation. Zerity is the software that holds the driver file. Zerity stores the licence record, the date it was checked and the expiry. Track every expiry date in one place. A review does not decide employment status for HMRC.
Last reviewed 25 September 2026.
Software or a review
Use this page when you want a person to look at policies. Use the product when you want the file. Logistics UK and the RHA publish member guidance for operators who want a trade body instead.
| Use Zerity software | Use a Sagax review |
|---|---|
| The depot already has a written process and needs expiry tracking, onboarding and pay in one system. | An audit date is fixed and you want policies and preparation reviewed before it. |
| From £6 per active driver per month, self-serve. | Quoted separately. The software price does not include the review. |
| Stores the driver file. Zerity stores the licence record, the date it was checked and the expiry. Track every expiry date in one place. Does not decide tax status. | Looks at whether the process is fit to show an auditor. Does not replace the file. |
Who Sagax is
Sagax Global Consulting was formed in 2018 by Ian Hewitt, after more than 16 years in senior management and Head of Security, Risk, Audit and Compliance roles in retail and logistics, and 22 years of military service. The practice consults for warehousing and operators running self-employed contractor fleets.
What a review covers
Business infrastructure review
An assessment of how the depot is set up, with a written plan for the gaps the review finds.
Policies and procedures
Policies aligned to the contracts you already hold, maintained when those contracts change.
Employment status paperwork
A review of whether the documents match the status you have chosen. Sagax does not decide that status. You and your adviser do, using HMRC guidance.
Standard operating procedures
SOPs for the depot, with digital sign-off. An SOP does not, by itself, settle employment status.
Health, safety and security review
A review of site and people risks, including risk assessments. Day-to-day records stay in health and safety software for courier fleets.
Pre-audit preparation
A review before a client audit. The documents you will be asked to show should already be in the Zerity file.
How to brief the review
Both options are quoted. Neither has a published Sagax price on this page.
A single review
- Infrastructure and compliance review
- Policies and procedures
- Alignment to the audit requirements in your contracts
- Operational SOPs and health and safety risk assessments
Review plus follow-up
- Everything in the single review
- Policy updates as the contracts change
- Advice during the engagement
- Pre-audit preparation and help closing the points the audit raises
Read the fleet compliance library for the official DVLA, DVSA and HMRC links, and the UK fleet compliance checklist for the file a depot keeps. Driver compliance software is the person-level record inside Zerity.
Questions
- What are Sagax compliance services?
- They are consultancy reviews for UK operators running a self-employed workforce, offered with Zerity. The review looks at policies and audit preparation. The driver file stays in Zerity.
- Does a Sagax review include a DVLA licence check?
- No. A review can tell you whether your process is fit to show an auditor. The operator remains responsible for the licence check, and Zerity stores the record.
- When is software enough without a review?
- When the depot already has a written process and needs expiry tracking, onboarding and pay in one system. Start with courier compliance software and add a review if an audit date is fixed.
- How are Sagax compliance services priced?
- Sagax quotes the review separately. Zerity software is from £6 per active driver per month for the self-serve platform. That price does not include the consultancy.
Ian Hewitt, MD, Sagax Global Consulting: 07540184978 or [email protected]. Zerity product questions go through contact.