Running a Licensed Reptile Business
Licensing, inspections, procedures, staff and selling animals responsibly.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Study time
- TBC
- Modules
- 0
- Lessons
- 0
- Assessment
- Module quizzes · graded certificate
- Version
- v1.0
What you'll learn
- ✓Explain the animal activities licence and how inspections and star ratings work
- ✓Write procedures and records that meet licence conditions
- ✓Recruit, train and supervise staff
- ✓Source animals responsibly and advise customers honestly
- ✓Plan for emergencies, complaints and continuous improvement
About this course
Selling or breeding reptiles as a business in England needs an animal activities licence and a lot of good practice behind it.
Drawing on years of running a specialist reptile store, this course covers licensing and inspections, star ratings, written procedures, record systems, staff training, sourcing animals, advising customers, selling responsibly and dealing with complaints and difficult sales.
Cover photo: Reptile enclosures in a specialist reptile shop in Florida. Photo: MatthewHoobin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Course content
0 modules · 0 lessons · study time TBC
Who this course is for
- People planning to open a reptile shop or breeding business
- Shop managers and senior staff
- Animal management students interested in business
Assessment & certificate
Each module ends with a quiz that is marked automatically: multiple-choice questions plus a written section where you explain what you've learned in your own words. You can take each quiz once and cannot retake it, and you'll see the correct answer to any question you got wrong.
When you've completed every module, you receive a certificate of completion with a unique verification code, graded on your average score across all the module quizzes:
- PassUp to 69%
- Merit70–79%
- Distinction80–100%
Everyone who completes every module receives a certificate.
This certificate confirms completion of an online, theory-based course and a passed online assessment. It is not an accredited qualification and does not certify practical competence.