Stroma Certification Scheme NAPIT bought out Stroma?

[Baddegg]

So if Stroma installer certification is now part of Napit can we access the Napit software etc for notifications? might be a bit better than the Stroma offering.

Told me today that notification is backed up for months...bit of a mess I think,

 

[PJH2903]

Told me today that notification is backed up for months...bit of a mess I think,

Tell me about it. Had my annual assessment beginning of July, all fine. Updated my PL and PI details with them 2nd week in July. Now I am blocked from doing notifications as the system says I am not insured.
Can not get through to anyone at Stroma and Napit say as it is pre-1st August they can not help me with this problem and I need to contact Stroma to get it resolved.
Making me look a right numpty to my customers. Wonder if I could make a claim for reputational damage as a result of this. £££££

 

[ferg]

Part P.... Scotland....

 

[Baddegg]

Tell me about it. Had my annual assessment beginning of July, all fine. Updated my PL and PI details with them 2nd week in July. Now I am blocked from doing notifications as the system says I am not insured.
Can not get through to anyone at Stroma and Napit say as it is pre-1st August they can not help me with this problem and I need to contact Stroma to get it resolved.
Making me look a right numpty to my customers. Wonder if I could make a claim for reputational damage as a result of this. £££££

I’d ask for me money back if you can’t notify,

 

[Midwest]

Tell me about it. Had my annual assessment beginning of July, all fine. Updated my PL and PI details with them 2nd week in July. Now I am blocked from doing notifications as the system says I am not insured.
Can not get through to anyone at Stroma and Napit say as it is pre-1st August they can not help me with this problem and I need to contact Stroma to get it resolved.
Making me look a right numpty to my customers. Wonder if I could make a claim for reputational damage as a result of this. £££££

Think if this went on for more than a few weeks, I'd seek some legal advice and consider going with another scheme and getting your money back through small claims?

 

[Andy78]

Told me today that notification is backed up for months...bit of a mess I think,

That's what the installer portal said to me too when I notified a job last night. Had the notification to my email within the hour though. It's an automated service so I can't see how it gets backed up really.

 

[vintageleccy]

Hi, been looking at the Stroma/NAPIT topic. I am Stroma registered, and received a phone call from NAPIT yesterday to tell me that they had taken over the electrical aspect of Stroma but 'nothing will change' I would still be Stroma registered and pay the same.

Hold on, there's a Gloucester saddleback just making a four-trotter landing in my yard!

I was with NAPIT for nearly ten years (after being with another organisation that treated its members like cash-cows)but left when I was charged the full amount (Just 8 had gone by then) after being seriously ill and did just 1 notification! By this time my health decreed that I could only do EICR's and third party work.

Why was the 'Just 8' scheme finished? I was told UCAS had told them to stop it as companies with loads of sparkies could benefit from the cheap rates while they kept off the domestic notification work. UCAS denied this when I enquired! Another price hike!

 

[PJH2903]

Finally got my Stroma issues sorted and can now do notifications again.
BC Certificate has changed and now shows Stroma under authorisation of Napit.

 

[peterinreading]

I am due for renewal with Stroma but have not received anything from them about it. In previous years this went quite smoothly. Do I have to contact NAPIT? If so what is the phone number or email address?

 

[Taylortwocities]

Your existing deal is with Stroma. If your T&Cs have in any way changed they will (should) be informing you in writing.
Continue to contact Stroma in the normal way, on the usual number/email address.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Why was the 'Just 8' scheme finished? I was told UCAS had told them to stop it as companies with loads of sparkies could benefit from the cheap rates while they kept off the domestic notification work. UCAS denied this when I enquired! Another price hike!

I think that it was because the reasons for notification was slashed to not many in the last iteration of Part Pee. NAPIT (in a rare moment of insight) surmised that many one-man-bands may only need 8 notifications a year under the new P requirements and that they (NAPIT) would lose a chunk of revenue if those sparks switched to Just8.
It would have helped me out as I neared retirement......Bar stewards.

 

[PJH2903]

Asked Napit about benefits for Stroma members after they bought them. This was their reply (what I expected really)

 

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They don't seem to be making a great job of the transition, seems to old Stroma section is now backlogged. Wouldn't be surprised if they are just trying to push members to move to the Napit bit and pay the extra money

 

[peterinreading]

Your existing deal is with Stroma. If your T&Cs have in any way changed they will (should) be informing you in writing.
Continue to contact Stroma in the normal way, on the usual number/email address.

Maybe they will (should) be informing you in writing about changed T&Cs but they didn't.

Napit are now dealing with the renewal process. The main issue was they will only take payment over the phone from a credit card whereas Stroma used to email me an invoice which I paid directly to their bank account. I really don't like organisations which insist on speaking to you on the phone to extract your money. They seem to operating like a debt collector.

 

[netblindpaul]

I've heard it's down to different back office systems not being compatible, and things having to be converted across which couldn't happen until the take over had been completed, i.e. IT issues!