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Inspection Readiness
One ring per inspector, one page per inspector grouped by what they score, your visits and internal audits, and the audit pack from the header.
ProtectionBusiness Rates Intelligence
Upload your rates bill and let Paddl check the figures, find relief, and verify against published valuations.
ProtectionTax Reliefs
Answer a few questions and let Paddl estimate the tax reliefs your business may be leaving unclaimed.
Compliance & Food SafetyAllergen Matrix
Build an accurate allergen matrix with AI, track may-contain and removable allergens, import in bulk, and keep it current.
Compliance & Food SafetyLogging Temperature Checks
Log fridge, freezer, cooking, and hot-holding temperatures, with the safe ranges and what to do when a reading is out.
Compliance & Food SafetyPAT Testing
PAT certificates live under Documents in the PAT Testing category, linked to the equipment they cover, with retest reminders.
OperationsDocuments and Staff Sign-Off
Upload certificates, policies and reports by category, track expiry and review dates, require staff signatures, and let AI extract key data from what you upload.
Mobile AppSubmitting Handover & End-of-Shift Reports
Raise handover notes at the end of a shift, see how the next shift picks them up at check-in, and where managers review them.
OperationsConnecting SumUp POS (Goodtill)
Ask SumUp to switch on API access, then link with your account subdomain and an owner login.
Getting StartedPaddy's analysis
How Paddy reads your documents and records in each area, what a finding is, what you can do with one, and when the analysis runs.
OperationsSend staff a task when the forecast matches
Create a task automatically when the day is forecast sunny, hot or wet.
Team ChatExports, retention, legal hold and privacy
Export a conversation as a PDF for an inspector or a solicitor, set how long messages are kept, and understand when an owner can open a direct message.
Compliance & Food SafetyGenerating an Audit Pack
Pull all your compliance documents into one downloadable ZIP, ready to hand to an EHO or inspector.
OperationsConnecting Epos Now
Add an API device in Epos Now Back Office and paste its key and secret into Paddl.
Mobile AppDownloading the Paddl App
Where to get the Paddl Assist app and how to log in the first time.
Mobile AppUsing Offline Mode
How the app keeps working with no signal, what gets queued, and how it syncs when you reconnect.
Team ChatOpen shifts and swaps in chat
Publish a week and the unfilled shifts land in the site channel as cards staff can claim, and a shift somebody cannot work can be given away from the thread.
OperationsWhat are Rules & Automations?
Set up rules that prompt staff and create tasks automatically based on real conditions like the weather and forecast.
Compliance & Food SafetyCreating, Editing & Exporting HACCP Plans
Generate a HACCP plan with AI from your menu, allergens and COSHH, review and update it with AI, manage CCPs, run reviews and sign-off, and export to PDF.
Compliance & Food SafetyFire & Safety Records
One Fire & Safety Records page with chips for the fire log book, fire safety checks and first response, with certificates under Documents.
Account & BillingSwitching Modules On and Off
Choose which parts of Paddl your business uses under Settings > Modules, and what happens to the pages, alerts and Ask Paddy when one is off.
Mobile AppSigning In, Face ID & Shared Tablets
Use Face ID or a fingerprint, stay signed in, and unlock a shared tablet with its device PIN instead of signing back in.
Compliance & Food SafetyGenerating & Signing Off Your SFBB Pack
Generate a Safer Food Better Business pack, assign it, sign off, and stay current with regulatory updates.
OperationsRoutines and Checklists
See today's tasks across your sites, build recurring checklists with rich field types, schedule them flexibly, assign them, and change them later.
OperationsDelivery Notes
Turn a supplier's order confirmation or delivery note into a due delivery, with every product linked to your allergen chart.
OperationsMaintenance Jobs & Appointments
How a reported fault becomes a booked job, gets a deadline, and is tracked through to done.
OperationsAssigning Maintenance Work
Give a job to a person, a team or a contractor, and make sure the person it lands on is told.
Compliance & Food SafetyThe Fire Log Book
Weekly alarm tests, emergency lighting, extinguisher and fire door checks, and drills: one routine category, exported as its own section.
OperationsConfirming and cancelling Paddy actions
Ask Paddy always shows you what it is about to do and waits for you to confirm. Here is how that works and what gets recorded.
TroubleshootingA routine is not showing up in the app
Work through the most likely reasons a routine is missing from a staff member's app, starting with the one that catches people out most.
OperationsConnecting Zettle by PayPal
Create an API key in your Zettle account and paste it into Paddl, so takings and what sold arrive every half hour.
OperationsLate and missed tasks
When a task becomes overdue, when it becomes missed, what "missed in the busiest hour" means, and how to resolve one.
TroubleshootingA routine is not generating any tasks at all
When a routine creates no tasks for anyone, the cause is usually the routine setup itself rather than who can see it.
Getting StartedInviting and Managing Team Members
Invite staff, choose roles, organise people into groups, and understand what each role can do.
OperationsSupplier Approval
Record when you approved each supplier and when to review them, and clear the Supplier approval chip on the Food Safety Records page.
OperationsWho can see sales and labour cost
Sales are owner-only unless the owner lets managers in. Labour cost has its own switch. What each setting exposes.
Mobile AppChecking In to Your Location
Check in to your venue so the right tasks appear, switch location, and check out at the end of your shift.
Mobile AppCompleting Tasks & Checklists on Mobile
Find your tasks, filter by day or status, work through the items, and catch up on anything missed.
Compliance & Food SafetyPreparing for an EHO / Inspection Visit
Readiness in the weeks before, the EHO visit page on the day, and the Audit Pack when they want a file.
OperationsShow weather, wind and tide at check-in
Give staff live conditions for their location the moment they check in.
OperationsKnowledge Hub and Ask Paddy
Build a searchable knowledge base, and use Ask Paddy to answer questions from it and to set work up for you.
OperationsManaging Visitors
Log visitors quickly or send a self sign-in link, capture badge details, and keep an on-site record.
Compliance & Food SafetyLicensing Records
The weekly licensing check, Challenge 25 training and your licence documents, and the incidents a licensing officer will ask about.
TroubleshootingStaff are not getting push notifications
If notifications are not reaching a phone, the usual cause is the phone itself blocking Paddl, even when every switch inside Paddl is on.
TroubleshootingA temperature log or report is missing
If a reading or report you expected is not in the records, check where and how it was logged before assuming it was lost.
TroubleshootingAn alert is not being raised
When you expect Paddl to flag something and it does not, check whether the alert was already handled or whether the thing it watches is switched off.
OperationsWhat Ask Paddy can do for you
Ask Paddy can set up routines, book visits, draft paperwork, chase your team and build an audit pack. Here is what to ask for.
TroubleshootingA staff member cannot log in
Most sign-in problems come down to the account, the invite, or the subscription rather than the password itself.
Compliance & Food SafetyYour Food Hygiene Rating
Link each site to its official FSA listing, read the rating and the three scores behind it, and hear about every change.
ProtectionInsurance, licences and lease
See what your business is expected to hold, what you hold and when it renews, and mark what does not apply.
OperationsScheduling checks around service
The routine editor shows the quiet windows in each site's day so a check lands in a lull, not the lunch rush.
OperationsPlanned Maintenance (PPM)
The checks and services that should happen on a cycle, from a catalogue of what a UK hospitality site is expected to do.
OperationsReact when a temperature is logged out of range
Automatically create a corrective task and alert managers the moment a fridge or freezer is logged out of safe range.
OperationsExporting & Printing Your Records
Where to find the export, download and print options across Paddl, including the per-chip export on every Records page, and which format each gives you.
OperationsEquipment Management
Track equipment, schedule servicing and PAT testing, attach manuals, and link items to your HACCP controls.
OperationsEligibility warnings on the rota
What each warning means, and why Paddl warns you rather than stopping you.
OperationsCreate your first automation
Use a starter template to set up a working rule in a couple of minutes.
OperationsConditions explained
How weather conditions work, and how combining them controls when a rule fires.
OperationsAreas & Rooms
Divide a venue into the places work actually happens: the cellar, the customer WC, or all sixty guest rooms.
Mobile AppReviewing Records & Sign-Offs (Manager)
Review submitted records, chase sign-offs and clear handovers from manager mode, and find the same list as the Inbox in the admin panel.
Mobile AppLogging Checks & Reports on the App
Use the Report tab to file deliveries, temperatures, accidents, incidents, fitness to work, complaints and maintenance: the same list as the admin panel.
Getting StartedYour Dashboard: Readiness and Requires attention
What Home shows when you sign in: how ready each site is for an inspection, the official food hygiene rating, and the four lists of what needs you.
Getting StartedGetting Started with Paddl
Set up your account, configure your business, invite your team, and get your first checks running.
Compliance & Food SafetyHow Do I Review or Update My HACCP Plan?
Use Review with Paddy to check an existing HACCP plan against your current menu, allergens and chemicals, accept the changes you want, and record a review.
Compliance & Food SafetyRecords: Checks, Reports and Evidence
The three kinds of record Paddl keeps, where each one lives, and what a dot or a missing row is telling you.
Compliance & Food SafetyRecording Pest Control
Routine pest checks, sightings and contractor visits on the Pest control chip of the Records page, with visit reports under Documents.
Compliance & Food SafetyFood Safety Records
One Records page for food safety: chips for each kind of check or report, Checks and Reports tabs, filters, resolving and export.