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Team & Compliance Oversight (Manager)
See each staff member's compliance, drill into the detail, track visitors on site, and check section status.
Compliance & Food SafetyAllergen Matrix
Build an accurate allergen matrix with AI, track may-contain and removable allergens, import in bulk, and keep it current.
TroubleshootingThe check-in panel is not showing
Steps to take when staff check in but see no weather or tide panel.
TroubleshootingWeather or tide data looks wrong or missing
What to check when the check-in panel has no weather, wind or tide.
OperationsConditions explained
How weather conditions work, and how combining them controls when a rule fires.
OperationsApply a rule to specific locations
Run a rule everywhere or only at the sites it suits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
OperationsWhat are Rules & Automations?
Set up rules that prompt staff and create tasks automatically based on real conditions like the weather and forecast.
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.
Alerts & NotificationsThe Inbox
What lands in the Inbox tab of the bell, who sees it, and how each item clears.
Getting StartedGetting Started with Paddl
Set up your account, configure your business, invite your team, and get your first checks running.
Getting StartedAdmin Panel vs Mobile App
When to use the admin panel and when to use the app, and how managers move between them.
Compliance & Food SafetyTurning 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.
TroubleshootingReview 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.
OperationsLetting Paddy suggest a week
Ask Paddy to draft a week of open shifts against the demand band and your labour target. It never publishes.
Team ChatShared tablets: tapping in with a PIN
A tablet behind the bar can be used by the whole team without everybody sharing one login, so check-ins and messages are attributed to the right person.
OperationsBuilding your first rota
Draft a week, copy last week forward, and save a template you can reuse.
Mobile AppUploading Your Certificates & Documents
Add a food hygiene or first aid certificate, a training record, or an ID document to your own profile from the app, with expiry reminders.
Team ChatTurning a message into a job, a task or a report
A photo of a fault does not need retyping: turn the message into a maintenance job, a quick task, a handover note or a report, and the thread follows it.
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.
Mobile AppManager Mode on the Mobile App
Switch into manager mode for an overview of your team, compliance, sign-offs, and quick reporting.
OperationsThe labour cost report
What the rota will cost against what the approved hours cost, by site, person and day, and as a share of sales.
OperationsCreate your first automation
Use a starter template to set up a working rule in a couple of minutes.
Mobile AppDownloading the Paddl App
Where to get the Paddl Assist app and how to log in the first time.
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.
OperationsHandovers
Where handover and end-of-day reports live in the admin panel, how to acknowledge one, and what the Handovers module switches on.
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.
Team ChatGroups, channels and direct messages
Make a group for a project or a team, mute what you do not need, and understand why some channels cannot be left.
Team ChatTeam Chat: the basics
Where chat lives on the phone and in the admin panel, which channels you get, and what happens to a conversation when somebody leaves.
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.
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.
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.
Team ChatBroadcasts and acknowledgements
Send one message to everyone, a site, a group, a role or an employment type, and get a report of who read it and who acknowledged it.
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.
Alerts & NotificationsWhy did my rota notification change?
With team chat switched on, some notifications become posts in a channel instead of a push to everybody. Here is what moved and what did not.
Alerts & NotificationsUnderstanding Alerts
What Paddl alerts mean, how they are raised, and how to clear them before an inspection.
Mobile AppYour Compliance & Profile in the App
See your own training, documents, certificates, and compliance score, and change your app settings.
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.
Getting StartedLogging In and Troubleshooting Access
Log in, switch accounts, reset a password, and fix the most common access problems.
TroubleshootingAsk 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.
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.
OperationsApproving hours and timesheets
Payroll lists every shift in the dates you pick: what the flags mean, how to correct a time, and what approving covers.
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.
OperationsA person at a glance
Click a name on the rota, Payroll, Requests or Reports to see their hours, pay, holiday and anything worth knowing, without leaving the page.
OperationsLeave requests and holiday
Where requests for time off arrive, what the review shows before you decide, and booking leave for somebody yourself.
OperationsShow weather, wind and tide at check-in
Give staff live conditions for their location the moment they check in.
OperationsActions explained
The things a rule can do when it fires, from showing a panel to creating a task.
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.
OperationsMaintenance Reporting
What you spent, where the backlog is, which places keep breaking, and what the landlord should be paying for.
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 SafetyRisk Assessments
Generate or write risk assessments, require staff sign-off, and keep them reviewed on schedule.
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.
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.