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# Compliance Star

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> Compliance Star is a technology-enabled compliance platform that enables businesses to control and monitor compliance management, workflows, and monitoring of firms authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Compliance Star allows access for both directly authorized firms who monitor branches or agents – and for principal firms to monitor and supervise their Appointed Representatives (ARs). T Managed by a team of compliance experts, the Compliance Star platform is applicable for firms across many sectors of the financial services industry


Strengthened by a calendar-based task management system, allowing for automatic and manual setting of tasks, the platform features include notifying actions, automatically populating deadlines into a calendar, issuing reminders and the monitoring of tasks for completion.


The platform enables comprehensive tracking of internal regulatory processes, ultimately reducing compliance and administrative burden. It provides up-to-date, single-point data access and the ability to turn this data into reports required by the FCA and evidence robust compliance arrangements and controls.


Management information is also available to facilitate management and board oversight and efficient FCA Gabriel returns.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **5.0/5** by 2 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **5.0/5** | 2 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 5.0/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 100% | (10/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Thistle Initiatives
- **Founded**: 2012

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: £60.00
- **Pricing model**: Per Feature (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: Compliance Star is available across four pricing plans; Principal firms: Principal - £700/mo - 10 users, \*£20 per month per additional user (12-month contract) | Directly Authorised firms: Essential - £60/mo - 1 user (12-month contract), Business - £300/mo - 3 users (12-month contract), Professional - £500/mo - 10 users, \*£20 per month per additional user (12-month contract)
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: English
- **Available Countries**: Guernsey, Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, United Kingdom

## Features

- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Alerts/Notifications
- Approval Process Control
- Archiving & Retention
- Asset Tracking
- Audit Management
- Audit Planning
- Audit Trail
- Business Process Automation
- Calendar Management
- Case Management
- Collaboration Tools
- Compliance Management
- Compliance Tracking
- Corrective and Preventive Actions (CAPA)
- Customer Complaint Tracking
- Dashboard

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Phone Support

## Category

- [Task Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/1412/task-management/software)

## Related Categories

- [Task Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/1412/task-management/software)
- [Complaint Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/499/complaint-management/software)
- [Audit Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4188/audit/software)
- [Workflow Management Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4272/workflow/software)
- [Compliance Software](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/directory/4363/compliance/software)

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## Reviews

### "Fantastic platform to assist with regulatory oversight." — 5.0/5

> **Shyam** | *5 August 2020* | Insurance | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Everything is now in one place and it provides a safe and reliable system to record and demonstrate regulatory oversight. This platform brings all of a firms monitoring into one secure platform. Very user friendly and helpful team to get this set up.
> 
> **Cons**: It would be nice to introduce a white label version so we can have our Company branding alongside which helps reinforce to our clients that it is a safe request from our business.
> 
> We are able to obtain real-time and accurate information which supports with our oversight.

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### "Great for governance, training and monitoring a regulated business" — 5.0/5

> **Lee** | *5 August 2020* | Banking | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: The software was an integrated tool that allowed us to build out our compliance function without developing other tools, customising another tool, or purchasing expensive software to meet our regulatory requirements. Compliance Star did this for us out of the box.
> 
> **Cons**: Some features were a touch tricky to navigate, or didn't work well in all browsers, but those issues have been resolved now.
> 
> Being compliant\! This helped without requiring us to re-invent the wheel.

## Links

- [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/115821/compliance-star)

## This page is available in the following languages

| Locale | URL |
| en | <https://www.softwareadvice.com/compliance/compliance-star-profile/> |
| en-AU | <https://www.softwareadvice.com.au/software/115821/compliance-star> |
| en-GB | <https://www.softwareadvice.co.uk/software/115821/compliance-star> |
| en-IE | <https://www.softwareadvice.ie/software/115821/compliance-star> |
| en-NZ | <https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/115821/compliance-star> |

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