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How Paddl Pricing Works

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

Food Safety & Hygiene Records

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

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.

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.

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.

Late and missed tasks

When a task becomes overdue, when it becomes missed, what "missed in the busiest hour" means, and how to resolve one.

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.

Scheduling checks around service

The routine editor shows the quiet windows in each site's day so a check lands in a lull, not the lunch rush.

The 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.

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.

Reading the sales forecast

What the expected figure and the likely range mean, what drives them, and what the notes on a day are telling you.

Mapping Square locations to your sites

Pair each Square location with the Paddl site it feeds, and what happens to the locations you leave unmapped.

The till is not syncing

Work through a Square connection that shows an error, was revoked, or has stopped sending takings.

Building your first rota

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

Assigning Maintenance Work

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

Recording Deliveries & Traceability

Record deliveries with temperatures and batch detail so you can trace stock and act fast on a recall.

Recording tips and how they were shared

Enter a tip pot per period, share it over approved hours, and keep the record the law now asks for.

Routines and Checklists

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

Publishing a rota, and what the notice counter means

What staff see when you publish, and why Paddl records how much notice each change gave.

Approving hours and timesheets

How Paddl works out what was worked, what the flags mean, and how to correct a line.

Conditions explained

How weather conditions work, and how combining them controls when a rule fires.

Managing Contractors

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

Areas & Rooms

Divide a venue into the places work actually happens: the cellar, the customer WC, or all sixty guest rooms.

Exporting hours to payroll

The four formats, what is in the file, and what Paddl deliberately does not do.

Checking your hours

Where to find what you have worked this period and whether your manager has approved it.

Add manager notes to the handover report

Leave attributed notes on the day's handover so the next shift knows what changed.

Send staff a task when the forecast matches

Create a task automatically when the day is forecast sunny, hot or wet.

Create your first automation

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

Eligibility warnings on the rota

What each warning means, and why Paddl warns you rather than stopping you.

Staff Inductions

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

Maintenance Jobs & Appointments

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

Importing Data with CSV

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

Managing Visitors

Log visitors quickly or send a self sign-in link, capture badge details, and keep an on-site record.

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.

Smart Document Uploads & AI Setup

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

Understanding Alerts

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

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.

Downloading the Paddl App

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

Contracts & Agreements

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

Setting Up Regions

Group your locations into regions for cleaner multi-site management on enterprise accounts.

Logging Checks & Reports on the App

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

PAT Testing

Store PAT certificates against your equipment, track retest dates, and schedule testing visits.

We keep getting logged out on a tablet

Why a shared tablet seemed to log itself out or "expire" mid-shift, and how the device PIN replaces that.

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.

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.

My automation did not fire

Work through the usual reasons a rule did not run or create its task.

Reporting Incidents, Accidents & Near-Misses

Log incidents, accidents, and near-misses, investigate them, and keep the evidence insurers and inspectors expect.

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.

Completing Training on the App

Work through assigned training modules, pass the assessment, and find your certificates, even offline.

Team & Compliance Oversight (Manager)

See each staff member's compliance, drill into the detail, track visitors on site, and check section status.

Logging Temperature Checks

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

Clocking in from a shift

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

The App for Contractors

How contractors sign in, keep credentials current, sign documents, see their events, and track their hours.

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.

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.

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.

Monitoring Customer Reviews

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

Getting Started with Paddl

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

Customer Complaints

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

Seeing your shifts in the app

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

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.