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Paddy'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.

The demand band on the rota

The strip under each rota day shows how busy the site usually is, hour by hour, from up to thirteen weeks of takings.

Who 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.

What the till sync brings in

What Paddl reads from Square, how often, how long a day keeps settling, and which features each figure feeds.

How accurate is the forecast, and when it says no

How the accuracy figure is measured, what moves it, and every reason a site can have no forecast.

Letting Paddy suggest a week

Ask Paddy to draft a week of open shifts against the demand band and your labour target. It never publishes.

Recording Deliveries & Traceability

Check deliveries in against the supplier's paperwork, take chilled and frozen temperatures, and keep the batch detail you need for a recall.

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.

Importing Data with CSV

Bulk-load equipment, suppliers, and allergens from a spreadsheet, with Paddy reading it for you, instead of adding them one at a time.

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.

Generating & Signing Off Your SFBB Pack

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

Delivery Notes

Turn a supplier's order confirmation or delivery note into a due delivery, with every product linked to your allergen chart.

Confirming 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.

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.

Allergen Matrix

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

Business Rates Intelligence

Upload your rates bill and let Paddl check the figures, find relief, and verify against published valuations.

Tax Reliefs

Answer a few questions and let Paddl estimate the tax reliefs your business may be leaving unclaimed.

Contracts & Agreements

Store supplier and service contracts, surface the key terms with AI, and get warned before auto-renewals.

PAT Testing

PAT certificates live under Documents in the PAT Testing category, linked to the equipment they cover, with retest reminders.

Documents 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.

Admin Panel vs Mobile App

When to use the admin panel and when to use the app, and how managers move between them.

How Paddl Pricing Works

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

Downloading the Paddl App

Where to get the Paddl Assist app and how to log in the first time.

Risk Assessments

Generate or write risk assessments, require staff sign-off, and keep them reviewed on schedule.

Monitoring Customer Reviews

Bring your reviews into Paddl, read the AI sentiment and themes, catch compliance flags, and see who was on shift.

Open 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.

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.

Marking something as not applicable

Take an item off what Paddl expects of your business, for one site or all of them, with a reason that stays on record.

Switching 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.

COSHH Management

Keep a digital COSHH register with safety data sheets, hazard info, PPE, and first aid for every chemical.

Routines 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.

Notification Settings

Choose what notifies you and how, set quiet hours, and get a message to the whole team.

Managing Suppliers & Recalls

Keep supplier records and act on recalls fast using the batch detail captured at goods-in.

Customer Complaints

Log complaints, categorise them, link a corrective action, and track resolution so patterns surface early.

Assigning Maintenance Work

Give a job to a person, a team or a contractor, and make sure the person it lands on is told.

Turning an EHO Report into an Action Plan

Upload the inspection report under Documents, let Paddy draft action points from it, and track each one to closure.

The Inbox

What lands in the Inbox tab of the bell, who sees it, and how each item clears.

Handovers

Where handover and end-of-day reports live in the admin panel, how to acknowledge one, and what the Handovers module switches on.

Licensing Records

The weekly licensing check, Challenge 25 training and your licence documents, and the incidents a licensing officer will ask about.

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.

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

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

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.

Insurance, licences and lease

See what your business is expected to hold, what you hold and when it renews, and mark what does not apply.

Staff Training & Compliance

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

Equipment Management

Track equipment, schedule servicing and PAT testing, attach manuals, and link items to your HACCP controls.

Building your first rota

Draft a week, copy last week forward, and save a template you can reuse.

Seeing your shifts in the app

Where your rota lives in Paddl Assist, and what the times mean.

Your 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 Started with Paddl

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

How 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.

Smart Document Uploads & AI Setup

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