Safora

Replace the paper food-safety diary with auto-flagged deviations and a PDF and CSV export for any date range.

The problem it solves

Food businesses keep daily records such as fridge and freezer temperatures, cooking and reheating temperatures, cooling times, delivery checks, cleaning schedules and opening and closing checklists. Safora records all six. Most still use a paper diary that gets coffee-stained, falls behind, and is a scramble to find when an inspector walks in. Paper has no way to flag a fridge that ran warm, and no way to prove a corrective action was taken.

• Paper diaries that fall behind and go missing on inspection day
• No proof that a corrective action was taken for an out-of-range reading
• No at-a-glance view of a month's checks

Every feature

• Chases the breach nobody closed. An out-of-range reading whose corrective action nobody verified is the row an inspector opens the book on. After a grace period you set, Safora emails the manager exactly once per breach — by button or by cron — and verifying the action is what stops the email.
• A closed day is not a missing record. Sign a day off as closed, with a reason, and it stops reading as red on the compliance calendar. Closing a day leaves an unverified deviation red: an unverified deviation stays red whatever the sign-off says, and the reason travels into the audit PDF.
• Automatic deviation flagging. An out-of-range reading cannot be saved without a corrective action, so every deviation has a recorded response.
• Green/amber/red checks calendar. See which days had every check done and every reading in range, driven by real rules for checks done and readings in range.
• Six record types. Covers fridge/freezer/hot-hold temperatures, cooking/reheating core temps, cooling logs, delivery checks, cleaning, and opening/closing checklists.
• Manager daily sign-off. A manager signs off each day's records with notes attached.
• Audit-ready export. Export a printable PDF pack and a CSV for any date range to share at an inspection.
• Installable mobile app (PWA). Add it to a phone or tablet home screen straight from the browser — a full-screen app served from your own server, with no app store involved. Business data is not stored offline on the device; what you see is read live.
• The whole inspection folder. Your HACCP plan, allergen matrix, staff training and certificates beside the temperature diary, and all of it at the end of the audit PDF.
• Recall-ready deliveries. Record product, batch and use-by at the delivery check; when a recall notice arrives, search the batch and see when it came in and who checked it.
• A morning digest, if you want one. One email a day with the checks due and anything left open. Off until you switch it on.
• Updates from inside the app. The Updates page installs a new release with your license key: Ownware's signature is checked, a backup is taken first, and the app puts the previous version back by itself if the update is interrupted or the database step or start-up check of the new version fails. It never checks by itself.
• Backups by themselves. Automatic backups, an optional copy to S3-compatible storage you own, and a weekly check that the latest backup reads back. The Health page names anything that needs attention.
• Own It 4.0.1 — fixes and an up-to-date manual. For Safora, 4.0.1 fixes an installer that had lost its styling and a command-line update that ended in an error after putting the previous version back. Its manual, FAQ and QUICKSTART now cover everything 4.0 added, including two Nginx rules that keep the data folder private. Your license covers it: press Check for updates on the Updates page, or download it from your order page.
• Own It 4.0.2 — the installer opens on every host. For Safora, 4.0.2 fixes a fresh install on an Apache host: the one-page setup at /install/ looped back to itself and never opened, and now it opens. Your license covers it: press Check for updates on the Updates page, or download it from your order page.

Release notes in full

• Own It 4.1: client installations and your other tools. For Safora, 4.1 makes two changes that every app gets. An Extended license bought from October 4, 2026 covers up to ten client installations, one per client project: hand each one over to the client or host it for them, with the client's logo and colors from the app's branding settings. The API reference now shows how to connect Safora to Zapier, Make or n8n, using its own webhooks and API key. Your license covers the update: press Check for updates on the Updates page, or download it from your order page.
• Own It 4.0: it updates and backs itself up. For Safora, 4.0 means updates from inside the app: the Updates page checks for a new release with your license key, verifies Ownware's signature, takes a backup and puts the previous version back by itself if the update is interrupted or the database step or start-up check of the new version fails. A new install can start with a sample business and remove it in one click; backups run by themselves, with an optional offsite copy and a weekly check that the latest one reads back; and the Health page says whether the install is looking after itself.
• Own It 3.3: the import preview tells the truth. The equipment import's preview used to count a fridge whose minimum is above its maximum as ready, and the import then skipped it. Now the preview shows it as skipped before you confirm.
• Own It 3.2: the whole inspection folder. For Safora, the 3.2 wave put the rest of the inspection folder beside the temperature diary: your HACCP plan, an allergen matrix, staff training, certificates with their expiry dates, and deliveries recorded with product, batch and use-by, with a recall log. The audit PDF now ends with all of it, the day view marks a checklist ticked unusually fast so the manager signing off can ask, and a morning digest of the checks due is off until you switch it on.
• Own It 3.1: it writes to the people you serve. The 3.1 wave gave the catalog a way to reach the other side of the transaction: counterparty email through your own SMTP server, calendar feeds your own calendar subscribes to, attachments filed where the paperwork belongs, and export presets other people's software imports. Each outbound feature ships switched off and runs on your own credentials; a failed send is recorded, and the action that triggered it stands. What this app gained is listed at the top of this section.
• Own It 3.0: works for your AI, not just for you. Scheduled checks say this check, this often, by this time — and a check counts as done because a reading exists, never because somebody ticked a box; a check counts as done only when a reading exists, not when a box is ticked. Subscribe to the due list from Outlook, Google or Apple Calendar. A manager can confirm each corrective action afterward, several at once in one step.
• Own It 2.0: API, 2FA, backups, dark mode. Safora 2.0 adds the 2.0 owner layer. Upgrade by replacing the files — the database migrates itself, and it is still the same one-time purchase.