Which? does not publish a standard duration, and there is no reliable figure to quote.
What can be said is how the process ends. After the assessment, the business is given a list of actions to complete in order to meet the scheme standards, and the endorsement team supports it through them. The actions carry timescales, and endorsement follows once they are completed.
How long that takes depends on how many actions were raised and how quickly the business can evidence the fix, which is why a business should not promise a customer a date for the badge appearing on a van.
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