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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.

Fire & Safety Records

Track fire certificates, drills and alarm checks, first response records, and your fire risk assessment.

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.

COSHH Management

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

Generating & Signing Off Your SFBB Pack

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

A routine is showing up twice

A duplicated routine almost always means it has been assigned in two overlapping ways to the same person.

Maintenance Jobs & Appointments

How a reported fault becomes a booked job, gets a deadline, and is tracked through to done.

Closing a Site for a Period

Tell Paddl a location is shut between two dates so no tasks are created for those days, and clear any that already were.

Planned Maintenance (PPM)

The checks and services that should happen on a cycle, from a catalogue of what a UK hospitality site is expected to do.

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.

Setting Up Your Business Profile & Locations

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

Equipment Management

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

Notification Settings

Choose what notifies you and how, and the best ways to get a message to the whole team today.

Inviting and Managing Team Members

Invite staff, choose roles, organise people into groups, and understand what each role can do.

Routines and Checklists

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

React when a temperature is logged out of range

Automatically create a corrective task and alert managers the moment a fridge or freezer is logged out of safe range.

Logging Checks & Reports on the App

Use the Report tab to log deliveries, temperatures, incidents, accidents, complaints, and maintenance.

Preparing for an EHO / Inspection Visit

Use the EHO Visit Dashboard to show an inspector everything they ask for from one read-only screen.

Manager Mode on the Mobile App

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

Importing Data with CSV

Bulk-load equipment, suppliers, and allergens from a spreadsheet instead of adding them one at a time.

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.

The rota and closed sites

What happens to shifts and alerts when a site is shut for a refurbishment or a holiday.

Assigning Maintenance Work

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

I cannot type a decimal point in a number field

Why a number field would not accept 1.5 or a half, and how to get it working.

Using Offline Mode

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

An alert is not being raised

When you expect Paddl to flag something and it does not, check whether the alert was already handled or whether the thing it watches is switched off.

Staff are not getting push notifications

If reminders and alerts are not reaching a phone, the cause is usually the device, the notification settings, or the type of task.

Understanding Alerts

What Paddl alerts mean, how they are raised, and how to clear them before an inspection.

A document is not showing for staff to sign

When a policy or document does not reach the people who need to sign it, check whether it is archived, who it is assigned to, and where they are.

Admin Panel vs Mobile App

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

A routine is not generating any tasks at all

When a routine creates no tasks for anyone, the cause is usually the routine setup itself rather than who can see it.

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.

Recording Pest Control

Log routine pest checks, record sightings, and keep contractor visit reports ready for inspection.

Food Safety & Hygiene Records

See completed temperature, cleaning, and food safety checks, with completion status and filters.

Logging Temperature Checks

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

Getting Started with Paddl

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

Completing Tasks & Checklists on Mobile

Find your tasks, filter by day or status, work through the items, and catch up on anything missed.