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Sharing products across your group

How a product from head office arrives at your business with its spec sheet and its supplier, and what to check when it does.

The group food view

The Food tab on your organisation home: where each business stands with the group's dishes, products and menus, and what is waiting there.

Group recipes and prep

What head office looks after on a group dish or prep item, what stays yours, and how to declare a local variant when your kitchen uses a different ingredient.

Recipes and prep

Record what goes into each dish and prep item, so allergens, shelf life and labels follow the ingredients. Gains show at once; removals wait for you to confirm.

The group allergen procedure export

One file for your Primary Authority or an EHO: the group's food masters, every version, when each business applied and acknowledged it, held removals, substitutions and allergen training.

The group food library

Share dishes, prep items, the products in them and whole menus from the organisation library to your businesses. Updates go live at once and each business acknowledges them.

When head office changes an allergen

An allergen head office adds shows at once at every linked business. A removal waits for a person at each business. What to reprint, and who to tell.

Acknowledging a group update

An update from head office is already live at your business. Check what changed, reprint what is on paper, tell the team, and acknowledge it within 7 days.

Group menus

Head office shares one menu with chosen businesses or a brand. Each business keeps its own sites, served times and page, can add local specials, and checks new dishes before they show.

Recording training done outside Paddl

Record a course someone took elsewhere, or training you gave them in person, so it counts in the matrix, Readiness, the EHO visit page, the audit pack and the rota.

When a delivery brings a substitute for a group product

A supplier sends something else instead of a product head office looks after. Check its allergens, then choose: no change, add its allergens here, or use it as a local variant.

Adding Library Items to Businesses

Roll a master out to chosen businesses and sites. It arrives ready for staff to sign, approved by you, in the businesses you run.

Organisation Roles

Admin, Library editor, Brand manager and Area manager, and how brand and area managers become managers in the businesses they cover.

Routines and Checklists

See today's tasks across your sites, build recurring checklists with rich field types, reorder them, link SOPs, schedule them every day, week or few weeks, assign them, and change them later.

Reporting Incidents, Accidents & Near-Misses

File incidents, accidents and near-misses on the Health & safety page, review them, and keep the evidence insurers and inspectors expect.

Organisations: Running Several Businesses Together

An organisation ties separate Paddl businesses together without merging them. What it is, who it is for, and what it can and cannot see.

The Organisation Library

Keep master HACCP plans, SFBB packs, risk assessments, SOPs, documents and routines in one library, starting from what businesses already have.

Creating, 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.

Allergen Matrix

Build an accurate allergen matrix with AI, track may-contain and removable allergens, import in bulk, export it, and keep it current.

Preparing 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.

Signing your HACCP plan

Where to sign a HACCP plan you have been asked to sign, on the web or in the app, who gets asked, and what a signer from another site sees.

Telling your team about an allergen change

Send your team one message about an allergen change from head office when you acknowledge an update or confirm a removal.

Knowledge 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.

Staff Training & Compliance

Assign training modules, run assessments and certificates, manage renewals, record training done elsewhere, and read the training matrix.

Generating & Signing Off Your SFBB Pack

Generate a Safer Food Better Business pack, assign it, sign off, review and re-issue it on a schedule, and stay current with regulatory updates.

Generating an Audit Pack

Pull all your compliance documents into one downloadable ZIP, ready to hand to an EHO or inspector.

Confirming an allergen removal from head office

When head office removes an allergen from a group dish or product, your business keeps showing it until an owner or a manager for the whole business confirms.

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.

Publishing an Update to a Master

Change a master, publish the update with a change note, choose who gets it, and make it Required with a due date and locked sections.

Finding Your Way Around

The sidebar and its sections, searching for any page, the Settings home, the bar at the bottom of a phone screen, and what the colours of Paddl's messages mean.

Setting Up Your Business Profile & Locations

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

Reviewing an Organisation Update

For businesses: review an update from your organisation section by section, take or keep each one, and see what is locked.