# Hospitality compliance software, compared Canonical: https://paddl-ai.co/best Last reviewed: 2026-09-22 by the Paddl team Nineteen buyer's guides to UK hospitality compliance software: food safety apps, HACCP, SFBB, allergens, rota, team communication, training and risk assessments, each on published prices with the date they were checked. ## In one sentence The guides below compare UK hospitality compliance software on published prices, each price checked on a stated date; Paddl appears where it competes at £69 per location per month, every feature included, 30-day free trial. No tiers and no volume discount. ## The guides - [Best Food Safety Software UK (2026): Prices Compared](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-food-safety-management-software): Paddl is our pick for UK hospitality at £69 per location per month with every feature; Trail publishes per-site prices from £38 on a 12-month term, FoodDocs from $99 per site, and Navitas, Alert65 and Logit sell on quote. - [Best HACCP Software for UK Hospitality (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-haccp-software): Paddl drafts the HACCP plan with AI and runs the CCP checks on the app for £69 per location per month; FoodDocs builds a plan from $199 per site; MyHACCP from the FSA is free but writes nothing for you. - [Best Temperature Monitoring Systems for UK Kitchens (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-temperature-monitoring-systems): Paddl logs temperatures by hand on the app with limits and alerts for £69 per location per month and sells no sensors; Checkit, Navitas and Jolt sell sensors on quote, and FoodDocs connects sensors from a published $99 per site. - [Best Allergen Management Software (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-allergen-management-software): Paddl keeps a searchable allergen matrix and Natasha's Law labels in the staff app for £69 per location per month; FoodDocs covers allergens inside HACCP from $99 per site; Nutritics, Kafoodle and Erudus focus on labelling and data and do not publish prices. - [Best Digital SFBB Software (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-digital-sfbb-software): SFBB+ is the cheapest digital diary at £4.99 a month per premises, SFBB Pro is £25.95, and Paddl at £69 per location per month generates the pack and adds HACCP, allergens, training and the audit pack. - [Best Hospitality Staff Training Platforms (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-hospitality-staff-training-platforms): Paddl keeps training records and modules next to the checks for £69 per location per month; iHASCO and High Speed Training sell accredited courses per learner or per course; CPL Learning and Mapal Flow Learning are quote-led. - [Best Insurance Management Software for Hospitality (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-insurance-management-software-hospitality): Paddl reads the policy documents, lists cover gaps and tracks renewals for £69 per location per month; a broker portal shows only the policies it sold, and a free tracker spreadsheet works while somebody owns it. - [Best Complaint Management Software for Hospitality (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-complaint-management-software-hospitality): Paddl logs complaints against the site's own records for £69 per location per month; Freshdesk from $19 and Zendesk from £15 per agent per month run a ticket queue but know nothing about the kitchen. - [Best Risk Assessment Software for Hospitality (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-risk-assessment-software-hospitality): Paddl drafts risk, fire and COSHH assessments from your site details for £69 per location per month; SafetyCulture is free for ten seats then $24 a seat; Citation and BrightSafe bundle assessments into multi-year advice contracts; the HSE templates are free. - [Best Knowledge Management Software for Hospitality (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-knowledge-management-software-hospitality): Paddl keeps SOPs with sign-off and lets staff ask Paddy for £69 per location per month; Notion is free to £8.50 per member; Trainual and Mapal Flow Learning are quote-led; Connecteam is free for ten users. - [Best Hospitality Technology Communities and Resources (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/hospitality-tech-communities): Tech on Toast, UKHospitality, BigHospitality and the Hospitality Tech Expo are the places UK operators find and discuss technology; all are free to read or attend for operators. - [Best Hospitality Tech Stack for UK Restaurants (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/hospitality-tech-stack): A small UK restaurant runs on Square (free plan) for the till, Xero from £18 a month for the books, a rota tool, a reservations diary, and Paddl at £69 per location per month for compliance and operations. - [Best Restaurant Technology Solutions UK (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/restaurant-technology-uk): Lightspeed from £79 a month covers the till, Trail from £38 per site the checklists, Planday the rota, Vita Mojo QSR ordering on quote, and Paddl at £69 per location per month the compliance and operations records. - [Best Food Safety Apps UK (2026): 9 Compared on Price](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-food-safety-apps-uk): Paddl is the all-in-one pick at £69 per location per month; Hubl publishes plans from £19 a site; SFBB+ at £4.99 and SFBB Pro at £25.95 cover the diary only; Trail is from £38 a site on a 12-month term; FoodDocs from $99; Leafe and Food Safety Guru quote. - [Best Kitchen Management Software UK (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-kitchen-management-software): Paddl covers the checks, kit, handovers, rota and compliance records for £69 per location per month; Trail publishes task-list prices from £38 a site; Operandio, Jolt and Xenia quote. None of these is a kitchen display screen. - [Best Restaurant Compliance Software UK (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-restaurant-compliance-software): Paddl is self-serve at £69 per location per month with no contract; Alert65, Shield Safety, Citation and Navitas sell compliance with consultancy or advice behind it, on quote. - [Best Rota Software for Hospitality (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-rota-software-hospitality): Paddl includes a per-site rota in its £69 per location per month; RotaCloud publishes from £10 a month for five staff, Deputy from £3.25 per user with a £20 minimum, 7shifts has a free tier, and Planday and Bizimply quote. - [Best Team Communication Apps for Hospitality (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-team-communication-app-hospitality): Paddl includes team chat at £69 per location per month, with 5 owner and manager users per location, £2.99 a month for each extra, and staff do not take a seat; Connecteam is free up to 10 employees then from $29 a month for the first 30 users, Blink from $3.75 per user, Homebase from $30 per location, 7shifts from US$39.99 per location, and All Gravy publishes $375 a month for teams under 50. - [Best Multi-Site Compliance Software for Hospitality (2026)](https://paddl-ai.co/best/best-multi-site-compliance-software): Paddl prices every site at £69 per location per month with no volume tiers; Mapal, Navitas, Operandio and Crunchtime sell group contracts on quote; Trail publishes per-site prices; SafetyCulture is per seat. ## Questions **What is food safety software?** Food safety software digitises the records a UK food business must keep by law: temperature checks, cleaning schedules, opening and closing routines, allergen information, and the HACCP plan or SFBB pack behind them. Records are timestamped and retrievable, which is what an EHO inspector wants to see. Most platforms extend into staff training, equipment logs and supplier documents. **Is food safety software a legal requirement in the UK?** No. The law requires you to have a documented food safety management system based on HACCP principles, and to keep records proving you follow it. It does not say those records must be digital. Paper is still legal. Software matters because digital records are timestamped, harder to backdate, and immediately retrievable during an inspection, all of which feed the "confidence in management" score that shapes your food hygiene rating. **How much does food safety software cost in the UK?** Published prices span a wide range. Single-purpose SFBB apps start around £4.99 per month per premises. All-in-one compliance platforms run from roughly £69 per month per location. International systems are often priced per site in US dollars, from about $99 per month. Several vendors publish no pricing at all and quote on request, which is worth factoring into any comparison. **What is the difference between food safety software and a food safety management system?** The management system is the set of procedures you follow, usually built on HACCP principles or the FSA's Safer Food, Better Business pack. The software is the tool you use to run and evidence it. You can operate a valid management system entirely on paper. Software does not replace the system, it records and enforces it. **Which food safety software is best for a small independent?** It depends on scope. If the SFBB pack is the only thing you need to digitise, a single-purpose SFBB app is the cheapest route and starts under £5 a month. If you also need HACCP, allergens, temperature logging and training records, running three or four specialist apps usually costs more in money and friction than a single platform. Our individual guides compare both approaches on real pricing. **Do EHO inspectors accept digital records?** Yes. Environmental Health Officers accept digital records and many prefer them, because timestamps make records harder to fabricate after the fact. What matters is that the records are complete, consistent, and can be produced immediately when asked. An app that fails to sync, or that staff skip during service, is worse than a well-kept paper diary.