Looking for a Safe Food Pro alternative?
Safe Food Pro is one of New Zealand's established digital food safety platforms, and plenty of businesses run on it happily. This page isn't here to tell you it's bad — it's here to lay the published facts side by side so you can decide whether its per-site subscription is the right fit, or whether a free diary with no end date and a flat annual upgrade (per site) suits your operation better.
The published facts, side by side
Everything in this table comes from each company's own public pages. Safe Food Pro figures are from safefoodpro.com/nz/pricing and their FAQ, checked 14 August 2026. Spot something out of date? Tell us or email [email protected] and we'll correct it.
| Safe Food Pro | KitchenSorted | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Professional: NZ$102 per site per month, or NZ$91/month per site paid annually upfront (both excl. GST). Premium for multi-site is price-on-application. | Free plan: NZ$0 with no end date (1 site, daily logs, last 30 days of history visible). Verification-ready: NZ$390 + GST per site per year, flat — that's the whole year, not a monthly rate. |
| A year on the entry paid tier | NZ$1,092 + GST on the annual rate (12 × $91), per site. | NZ$390 + GST, per site. |
| Free option | 14-day free trial (all features except Reports, no card needed). No ongoing free tier published — the trial is the only free option on their pricing and FAQ pages. | Free plan with no end date: daily temperature, cleaning and receiving logs for one site, no card, no trial clock. |
| Contracts & setup fees | No contracts, no setup fees (their FAQ is explicit about this — credit where due). Annual plan commits you for the year, paid upfront. | No setup fees. Billed annually upfront like theirs, with a 30-day money-back guarantee in our Terms — and if you don't renew, you drop to the free plan and keep your records. |
| What happens to old records | No data-retention promise published on their pricing or FAQ pages that we could find. | Records are never deleted — the free plan shows the last 30 days, and everything you've ever logged unlocks in full when you upgrade. Paid plans keep at least 4 years, matching the Food Regulations 2015 record-keeping duty. |
| Verification day | Reporting features on paid plans (Reports are the one feature excluded from the trial). | One-click verification pack — your records, gaps and corrective actions assembled into a single PDF for your verifier. Also available as a one-off NZ$99 + GST purchase without a subscription. |
| Sensors & hardware | A genuine strength: Safe Food Pro offers automatic temperature-monitoring hardware for its platform through its NZ shop (availability varies — items were listed as sold out when we checked on 14 August 2026). | No hardware — KitchenSorted is deliberately software-only. If automated sensor logging is a must-have, Safe Food Pro is the stronger fit today. |
Safe Food Pro prices and terms last checked 14 August 2026 on their public pages. We re-check monthly while this page is live.
Honest guidance: who should pick which
Safe Food Pro is likely the better fit if…
- → You want automatic temperature sensors wired into your records — their hardware ecosystem is real and ours doesn't exist.
- → You're a large multi-site group that wants group-level reporting and is happy to negotiate Premium pricing.
KitchenSorted is likely the better fit if…
- → You want to start free and stay free until a paid feature is actually worth money to you — there's no 14-day clock forcing the decision.
- → A flat NZ$390 + GST a year per site (NZ$290 + GST at 3+ sites) reads better to you than a per-site monthly subscription.
- → You want a written records-never-deleted promise and a one-click pack for verification day.
Either way, your records are yours and the law is the same whichever tool you use: businesses operating under a Food Control Plan or National Programme must keep accurate, dated, attributable records for at least 4 years. Moving your food safety records to any provider deserves due diligence — here's how we store and protect yours.
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