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The self-hosted FoodDocs alternative

Safora: Replace the paper food-safety diary with auto-flagged deviations and a PDF and CSV export for any date range. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying FoodDocs every month.

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Stop renting FoodDocs.

Rented FoodDocs Lite $79 per site/month on annual billing ($99 monthly); Standard $167 and Professional $250 per site/month annually; ex. VAT ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

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Safora

$79 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

1 month of FoodDocs costs what Safora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: Direct HACCP/food-safety digital-logbook SaaS; lowest realistic tier = Lite on annual billing, per site.

How FoodDocs pricing grows

FoodDocs prices per site per month on its named tiers, but multi-site operations are pushed to a quote-gated custom Enterprise plan.

“Need a custom solution? Talk to our team to get a tailored plan with custom users, features, additional support, pricing, and more.”, their own page, read 2026-09-24

What FoodDocs does that we don't

A guided HACCP plan builder and an allergen overview on its Standard plan, and traceability logging on Professional.

“Standard ... Create your HACCP Plan in 1 hour ... Instant overview of allergens ... Professional ... Simple traceability logging (read 2026-09-24)”, their own page

Who should stay with FoodDocs

If you need probes supplied and connected for you, stay with FoodDocs — Safora accepts readings from any probe that can post to its REST API, and ships no probe integration of its own.

What Safora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting FoodDocs.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in FoodDocs's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Safora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off FoodDocs.

Is this a legal guarantee of compliance?

No, and any tool claiming that should worry you. Safora is a record-keeping and compliance-documentation tool; it does not certify compliance or replace your food-safety management system or professional advice.

Will this run on shared hosting?

Yes. Safora needs PHP 8.1+ with PDO (SQLite or MySQL), no Composer, no external services, no API keys, and installs in about two minutes with the web installer.

Is the audit PDF a real PDF?

Yes. Safora generates a genuine, valid PDF, with no external library or cloud service, containing a daily compliance summary, manager sign-offs, and the full check log.

We work in Fahrenheit — is that supported?

Yes. Set the display unit to °F in Settings; staff enter and read temperatures in °F while Safora stores everything canonically in °C so the rules stay exact.

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Sources

FoodDocs: price checked 2026-09-03, source“Lite: '$99 Per site / month' [monthly] ... Lite: '$79' per site/month ('$1188 $948/yr') [annual] ... 'Prices are exclusive of VAT.'”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

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