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Buying, downloading and making the documents yours.

Everything a buyer needs to know before and after purchase: how the download works, what software you need, how to rebrand the documents, how updates reach you, what the licence allows and, once you have bought, where your downloads live and how to manage a subscription. If your question is not here, email and you will get a reply from Craig, normally within one working day.

Which pack?

Choosing the right product

Going for ISO 9001

Start with the ISO 9001 Construction QMS. It is the manual, procedures, forms and registers a certification auditor will ask to see, plus the gap analysis and 90-day roadmap. Add the Quality Audit & Reporting Pack when you need internal audits and a monthly quality report.

Winning work

The Bid & Tender Pack has model PQQ answers under every Common Assessment Standard heading, each pointing at the document in the other packs that evidences it. The Subcontractor Management Pack is the same process from the other side.

Everything, once

The Complete Site Quality System is every pack in one purchase at roughly half the price of buying them separately, with one worked-example project running through all of them so the documents cross-reference each other correctly. If you would rather subscribe, the Standards Watch and All-Access membership gives you the monthly standards bulletin from £9 a month, or every pack and every update from £99 a month.

Still unsure? Download the free ITP first, or email a one-line description of the job and you will get a straight answer, including a straight no if none of it fits.

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Buying and downloading

How the purchase works

Where do I buy, and who takes the payment?

All products are sold through the StructAssure store on Payhip at payhip.com/structassure. Payhip takes the card or PayPal payment; StructAssure never sees your card details. Prices are in pounds sterling.

What happens after I pay?

The download page opens immediately and Payhip emails a download link to the address you entered at checkout. Each product is a single .zip file. Save it somewhere permanent, then extract it (right-click, Extract All on Windows; double-click on a Mac).

I have lost the download link.

Search your inbox for an email from Payhip (check junk). The link does not expire and always fetches the current file. If you cannot find it, log in to your Payhip customer account, where every purchase is listed, or email the address you bought with and the product name and the link will be re-sent.

Can I get a VAT invoice?

Payhip issues a receipt for every purchase, and the receipt has a Generate link that produces a PDF invoice with your company name, address and VAT number on it. StructAssure Ltd is not VAT-registered, so no VAT is charged. If you need an invoice on StructAssure letterhead as well, email with the order number.

Can I buy a single document rather than a pack?

Yes. Most documents are also listed individually in the store, priced by document. A pack is always cheaper than its contents bought separately, and the Complete System is cheaper again than the packs.

What is the refund position?

These are digital goods, so once downloaded there is no refund. That is why a complete document is given away free first: read the free ITP and judge the standard before you spend anything. If a file is corrupt or a pack is missing something the listing promised, email and it will be put right.

After you buy

Your downloads, updates and subscription

Every purchase is held in a Payhip customer account in your name. Log in at any time to download again, generate a VAT invoice or manage a subscription. StructAssure does not run a separate login; there is nothing else to register for.

How do I download something I bought earlier?

Two ways. The download link in your Payhip receipt email is permanent and always fetches the current file; search your inbox for "Payhip". Or log in to your customer account (the person icon at the top right of the store, or the login link in any receipt) and every product you have bought is listed there. If you bought before creating the account, open any old download page and accept the prompt to add it to your account; Payhip then attaches every purchase made with that email address.

Payhip says my download limit has been exceeded.

Payhip counts downloads per product to discourage link sharing. If you hit the limit, email the address you bought with and the product name; the counter is reset the same working day and a fresh link sent.

How will I know when a document is revised?

When a standard changes and a pack is revised, the file on Payhip is replaced and your existing link fetches the new version. An email goes to every buyer of that pack who ticked "Send me product updates and offers via email" at checkout, so please tick it. Each revision is recorded in the document's revision table, so you can check your copy against a fresh download at any time. Minor typographical corrections are replaced without an email.

Can I get a VAT invoice in my company name?

Yes. Your Payhip receipt email has a "Generate" invoice link. Enter your company name, address and VAT number and it produces a PDF; you can regenerate it if a detail was wrong. StructAssure Ltd is not VAT-registered, so no VAT is charged and none is shown.

Where is the Standards Watch bulletin and the members area?

Members log in through the same Payhip customer account. The monthly bulletin, the change log and each updated document are published as posts in the members area; a notification email is sent when a new post goes up (at most one a day). All-Access members also see every pack in their account.

How do I change my card or cancel the membership?

Log in, click the person icon, choose Settings, then the Subscriptions tab. Card details and the cancel button are there. Cancelling stops the next payment immediately and closes access to the members area; the packs you downloaded stay yours under the licence. No notice period, no email needed, though a line saying why is always welcome.

What happens if a membership payment fails?

Payhip retries the card and emails you over the following weeks. Update the card from the Subscriptions tab and access continues without a break. If nothing is done in that time the subscription is cancelled automatically; rejoining is a fresh sign-up at the current price.

I bought with a personal address and want it under the company account.

Log in with the new address, open the download link from the original receipt and use the "Transfer ownership" prompt at the bottom of the download page. Or email and it will be sorted for you.

Files and software

What you need to open and edit them

What formats are the documents?

Native Microsoft Word (.docx) and Excel (.xlsx), plus a PowerPoint (.pptx) deck builder in the audit pack. Nothing is a PDF, nothing is locked, and there are no macros. Every pack includes a READ ME FIRST text file that lists the contents and what was verified.

Which software works?

Microsoft 365 or Office 2016 and later on Windows or Mac is the tested platform. LibreOffice, Google Docs and Sheets, Apple Pages and Numbers open the files but may shift table layouts or lose some conditional formatting in the Excel registers. Open a document on your own machine before printing a batch.

The Excel registers have formulas and drop-downs. Will they break?

Not if you insert rows inside the table rather than below it, and do not delete the hidden lists that feed the drop-downs. Each register has a Read Me tab that explains its formulas. If one does break, the fix is usually to copy a working row down.

Can I open them on a phone or tablet?

Yes for reading. Editing the Excel registers on a phone is not practical; do that on a computer and print or share to site.

Making it yours

Branding and tailoring

How do I put my company name and logo on them?

In Word, double-click the header, replace the StructAssure logo with yours and edit the title block. In Excel, the header is in Page Layout, Print Titles, Header/Footer. Do the title block once, save it as your template, then apply it to the rest. Allow half a day for a full pack.

The worked examples mention Harland Construction, Northgate Business Park and named people. Who are they?

A fictional project that runs through every pack so the documents cross-reference each other consistently: Northgate Business Park Unit C, principal contractor Harland Construction Ltd, subcontract packages Caldbeck M&E, Ferrow Civils, Moorcroft Envelope and Aldergate Interiors, under NEC4 ECC Option A. None of it is real. Use Find and Replace to swap the names for your own project, or keep the examples as training material and use the blank templates for live work.

Can I delete procedures that do not apply to us?

Yes, and you should. A QMS with procedures nobody follows fails audits. Remove what does not apply, renumber if you want, and update the document register so it matches what is actually in use.

Do I need to keep any StructAssure reference on the documents?

No. Once rebranded they are your documents. The licence does not require attribution.

Updates and standards

Keeping the documents current

Which editions of the standards are cited?

Every citation is checked against the primary source (BSI, HSE, legislation.gov.uk, CIBSE, ISO) at the time of build, and the READ ME FIRST in each pack lists exactly what was verified and when. The edition and amendment are written into the document, for example BS 7671:2018+A3:2024 or BS 5975-1:2024, so you can see at a glance what it was written against.

What happens when a standard changes?

StructAssure keeps a register of every standard cited in every product and checks it for new editions and amendments. When a change affects a document, the document is revised and the pack on Payhip is replaced. Your download link always fetches the current file, so re-download from your Payhip link to get the latest revision. Revision history is in each document's revision table.

Will I be told when a pack is updated?

Yes, if you ticked "Send me product updates and offers via email" at checkout: Payhip then emails every buyer of that pack with a fresh download link when a standard changes and the pack is revised. If you did not tick it, compare the revision table in your copy with a fresh download from your link. Minor corrections are replaced without an email. See after you buy for the customer account.

I have found a mistake.

Please email the document number and the line. It will be checked against the source and corrected, and you will be told what was found either way.

Licence

What you can and cannot do

You can

  • Use, edit and rebrand every document throughout your own company
  • Use them on an unlimited number of projects, for as long as you like
  • Issue them to your clients as part of your own quality management system
  • Install them on as many of your own company's computers as you need

You cannot

  • Resell them, or supply them to another company as your own product
  • Share the files outside your company, including with subcontractors as a pack (issue them your completed documents instead)
  • Make them available for download by anyone else
  • Claim ISO certification on the strength of buying them: These documents support your route to certification. They do not confer it. ISO 9001:2015 certification can only be granted by a UKAS-accredited certification body following audit.

The full licence is the LICENCE.txt in every pack. A group of companies under common ownership counts as one company. Consultants who want to use the packs across multiple client companies should email for a practice licence.

Still stuck?

Email and a person answers.

Questions about a purchase, a download, a document or whether a pack fits your trade all go to the same address and are answered by Craig, normally within one working day.