Setting Up Your Business Profile & Locations

Configure business details, add each venue, and set opening hours, timezones, and monitoring thresholds.

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Your business profile

The business profile holds details that appear across Paddl and on exported documents. Set it under Settings > Business.

  • Business name and logo (used on exported HACCP and SFBB documents)

  • Contact phone and website

  • Company and VAT or registration numbers

  • Country, which drives the region-specific behaviour below

How country changes the app

Setting

UK

EU

US

Allergen standard

14 allergens

14 allergens

9 FDA allergens

Food safety system

SFBB available

Equivalent tools

Equivalent tools

Inspection wording

EHO

Health inspection

Health inspection

Chemical labels

COSHH / GHS

COSHH / GHS

GHS

Adding a location

A location is a single venue. To add one:

  1. Go to Locations and click Add Location

  2. Enter the name and type (restaurant, cafe, pub, and so on)

  3. Add the address and select the timezone

  4. Set the operating hours for each day of the week

  5. Set monitoring thresholds where relevant, such as a noise limit for licensed venues

  6. Save

Why opening hours matter

Routines and reports are scheduled around your operating days, so accurate hours keep the right tasks appearing on the right days. Opening hours are not the same as licensed hours: premises licences live under Licences & Permits so their conditions and renewal dates are tracked separately.

Capacity and noise thresholds

On the location page you can set a maximum capacity and, for licensed or late-night venues, a noise threshold in decibels and where the reading is taken. These feed the capacity and noise logs under Location Monitoring, so a reading over the threshold can be flagged.

Assigning staff to a location

Each staff member is assigned to one or more locations, which controls what they see. Set this when you invite someone, or later from Team > Team Members by opening the person and ticking their locations. Everyone needs at least one location.

Editing or deleting a location

Open a location from Locations to edit its details, hours, thresholds, or image. To remove one, use Delete on its page and confirm. Deleting a location is permanent and removes its records, so only do it for a site you have genuinely closed. Removing a location also changes your subscription.

Running multiple sites

You can manage many locations from one account, and routines, documents, and records can target specific sites or all of them. On enterprise accounts you can also group sites into regions. Adding a location changes your subscription, covered in How Paddl Pricing Works.

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