Safora
Replace the paper food-safety diary with auto-flagged deviations and an audit-ready PDF and CSV export.
The problem it solves
Every food business, restaurant, cafe, caterer, butcher, bakery, care-home, or school kitchen has to keep daily food-safety records: fridge and freezer temperatures, cooking and reheating temperatures, cooling times, delivery checks, cleaning schedules, and opening/closing checklists. 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 compliance
What you get
Automatic deviation flagging
An out-of-range reading cannot be saved without a mandatory corrective action, exactly what an inspector looks for.
Green/amber/red compliance calendar
See a month of compliance at a glance, 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 genuine printable PDF pack plus a CSV for any date range, ready to hand over on inspection day.
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 never cached offline, so what you see is always live.
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.
- REST API with an OpenAPI spec and signed webhooks
- Two-factor sign-in (TOTP)
- Email notifications through your own SMTP
- CSV import with a mandatory dry run
- One-click backups
- Dark mode
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; that distinction is what survives an inspection. Subscribe to the due list from Outlook, Google or Apple Calendar. Corrective-action verification adds the manager confirmation HACCP expects.
- MCP endpoint — your AI works under the same guards you face
- Roles with email invitations and a last-admin guard
- Append-only audit trail across browser, API and agent
- Printable PDFs
- Your logo and colours throughout
- Scheduled backups with a guided dry-run restore
- Optional single sign-on (OIDC)
Pricing — one-time, yours forever
- ✔ Full source included — PHP you can read and change
- ✔ No subscription. One payment, yours forever
- ✔ It never phones home
- ✔ Your data stays on your server
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Honest limitations
- Single-tenant: one business per installation
- Staff enter readings manually (no probe/IoT sensor integration)
- Does not submit anything to any authority; it produces records you keep and present
- Threshold defaults are configurable guidance, not legal advice for any jurisdiction
- The preloaded statutory temperatures (63 °C hot-holding minimum, 8 °C chill maximum) are England & Wales figures (Food Hygiene Regulations 2006, Schedule 4) — operating under another jurisdiction, verify them against your local rules
Two-minute web installer, PHP 8+ with MySQL or SQLite; demo mode ships roughly two weeks of pre-baked sample records.
Covered in these guides
Five verified SaaS list prices, sourced and dated, multiplied by 36 months — next to the one-time price of owning the equivalent self-hosted tool. Arithmetic, not a quote.
Spreadsheets are genuinely fine — until specific failure modes appear. The honest thresholds for moving to a real tool, and which category to look at when you cross one.
SafetyCulture charges $24 per seat. FoodDocs charges $79 per site. Which is cheaper depends entirely on your shape, not your size — and nobody's comparison page shows you the crossover. Here it is, from both vendors' own pages.
Frequently asked questions
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+ 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.
Does it connect to wireless probes or IoT sensors?
No — Safora records the readings staff take by hand; it does not connect to hardware sensors.