Food Safety Software and Apps
HACCP records, traceability, temperature monitoring and training, from our own products to systems built around your business.
Food safety software built with people who know food safety
Food safety is one of the areas we know best. We've built our own products for kitchens and small food producers, an online learning platform for a food safety training company, and reporting systems for the wider food industry.
The aim is always the same: records that are quick to fill in during a busy day, kept in one place, and ready when the EHO, an auditor or a customer asks for them.
Our food safety products and projects
SmartChef is our digital HACCP system for Irish kitchens. Staff record deliveries, temperatures, cooking, cooling, holding, calibration and cleaning on their phones, and every entry is dated, timed and linked to the person who made it. When a delivery arrives, staff photograph the label and AI reads the supplier, batch number and expiry date into the record. Optional WiFi sensors check fridges and freezers every 5 minutes and send an alert if one stays out of range.
SmartTrace is traceability software for small food producers such as bakeries, growers and cook chill kitchens. You record deliveries in with the supplier's lot number, make batches from your recipes and dispatch to customers, and you can trace any lot forwards or backwards in seconds. AI helps here too, reading delivery labels so the details don't have to be typed. SmartTrace is a joint venture with Food Safety Management Solutions.
Food Safety Management Solutions asked us to build an online learning platform for their food safety courses. Learners log in without a password, work through video modules and quizzes, pick up where they left off, and get a certificate emailed to them and their employer when they finish.
For a European food industry trade association, we're building a system for members to submit contaminant test results. The data is checked, anonymised and pooled, and the system produces the reports the association needs, including files in the official EU submission format.
What food safety software can include
Digital HACCP records
Deliveries, temperatures, cooking, cooling, holding and cleaning, laid out so they're filled in correctly first time.
Label reading
Photograph a delivery label and the supplier, batch and date are read into the record, with the photo kept as evidence.
Traceability and recalls
Link every ingredient lot to the batches it went into and the customers who received them.
Temperature monitoring
WiFi sensors in fridges and freezers with alerts by text, email, app and phone call.
Staff training
Online courses with quizzes, progress tracking and certificates sent automatically.
Reporting for audits and regulators
Records pulled together by date, site or batch, and data prepared in the format a regulator asks for.
Read more about SmartChef and SmartTrace, or see our page for food producers and small manufacturers.
Case Studies
Food Safety Management Solutions
An online learning platform for food safety courses, with quizzes, progress tracking and certificates emailed automatically.
Read moreFrequently asked questions
What food safety software do you offer?
We have two products of our own. SmartChef is digital HACCP record keeping for kitchens, and SmartTrace is traceability for small food producers. We also build custom food safety systems, such as an online learning platform for a food safety training company and contaminant reporting for a food industry trade association.
What's the difference between SmartChef and SmartTrace?
They do different jobs for different businesses. SmartChef is for kitchens such as restaurants, cafés, hotels and caterers that need daily HACCP records. SmartTrace is for small food producers that need to link ingredient lots to batches and customers so they can trace a product quickly.
Is SmartChef suitable for an EHO inspection?
SmartChef keeps your daily food safety records dated, timed and linked to the person who made each one, so you can show the EHO exactly what was done and when. It's your record keeping system, and you're still responsible for your own food safety management.
Do you use AI in your food safety software?
In a small way, where it saves time. SmartChef and SmartTrace both read delivery labels from a photo, so staff don't have to copy batch numbers and dates by hand. The photo is kept with the record so anyone can check it.
Can you monitor fridge and freezer temperatures?
Yes. SmartChef has optional WiFi sensors that log fridge and freezer readings every 5 minutes and alert you by text, email, app and phone call if a unit stays out of range, including overnight.
Can you build food safety training software?
Yes. We built the online learning platform for <a href="/case-studies/custom-online-learning-video-platform-for-food-safety-management-solutions/">Food Safety Management Solutions</a>, with video modules, quizzes, progress tracking and certificates emailed to learners and their employers.
Can you build a custom food safety system if your products don't fit?
Yes. If your records, reporting or approval steps don't fit an off the shelf product, we can build a system around them. A first version usually costs €3,000 to €8,000.
How much does SmartChef cost?
SmartChef starts from €25 a month. SmartTrace is one plan at €25 a month with everything included. Full details are on each product's own website.
Looking for food safety software?
If SmartChef or SmartTrace fits, we'll point you to them. If you need something different, tell us what you have to record and we'll tell you what it would take.