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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.

Legal Guidance

Triage a tricky situation, link the report it relates to, see your insurance options, and export an evidence pack.

What 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.

Logging Temperature Checks

Log fridge, freezer, cooking, and hot-holding temperatures, with the safe ranges and what to do when a reading is out.

Using Offline Mode

How the app keeps working with no signal, what gets queued, and how it syncs when you reconnect.

Switching Between Businesses & Adding a New One

Use the business switcher to move between businesses you belong to, and add a new business with its own billing.

A 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.

How Do I Review or Update My HACCP Plan?

Use Review with AI to check an existing HACCP plan against your current menu, allergens and chemicals, apply the suggested changes, and sign off a review.

How Paddl Pricing Works

Understand per-location pricing, what every location includes, and how extra users and storage are charged.

Getting Started with Paddl

Set up your account, configure your business, invite your team, and get your first checks running.

Routines and Checklists

Build recurring checklists with rich field types, schedule them flexibly, assign them, and change them later.

Create your first automation

Use a starter template to set up a working rule in a couple of minutes.

Review with AI on my HACCP plan is not doing what I expect

Why Review with AI may suggest nothing, why you might not be able to apply a change, and how to avoid ending up with a duplicate plan.

Ask Paddy cannot answer a question or will not do something

Why Paddy comes back with nothing, why it sometimes declines an action on purpose, and what to do about each.

A staff member is blocked from a task or area

Some tasks and areas are gated behind required training or a role, so a block is often working as intended until the requirement is met.

Equipment is missing or not raising service alerts

A fridge that will not appear when logging temperatures, or a service reminder that never arrives, usually comes down to its status.

Staff Inductions

Set up an induction so new starters complete the right steps and sign the right documents on day one.

Managing Contractors

Set credential requirements, invite contractors, review their documents, and control access with events.

Staff Training & Compliance

Assign training modules, run assessments and certificates, manage renewals, and read the compliance matrix.

Documents and Staff Sign-Off

Upload policies, require staff signatures, track sign-off, and let AI extract key data from what you upload.

Generating & Signing Off Your SFBB Pack

Generate a Safer Food Better Business pack, assign it, sign off, and stay current with regulatory updates.

Submitting 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.

Manager Mode on the Mobile App

Switch into manager mode for an overview of your team, compliance, sign-offs, and quick reporting.

Checking 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.

Smart Document Uploads & AI Setup

Upload your existing paperwork and let Paddl read it to build your allergens, HACCP, knowledge base, and more.