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Turning 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.

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.

Setting Up Your Business Profile & Locations

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

Team 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.

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.

Broadcasts 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.

Shared 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.

A maintenance job is not showing, or nobody was told

A job that will not appear on somebody phone, an assignment that told nobody, or a request that never became a job.

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.

Assigning Maintenance Work

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

Staff 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.

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.

Downloading the Paddl App

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

Seeing your shifts in the app

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

Groups, 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.

Clocking in from a shift

Starting a shift from your rota, what the location check does, and what happens with no signal.

Uploading 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.

Manager Mode on the Mobile App

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

Signing 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.

Admin Panel vs Mobile App

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

Legal Guidance

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

Unfilled shift alerts

When Paddl tells you a published shift has nobody on it, how the till changes the order, and how the alert clears.

Building your first rota

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