One subscription, not four.

Paperwork in one app. Allergens in another. A rota in a third, training in a fourth, and four renewal dates you only notice when they leave your account. managero is £18.99 a month for your first site, less than any single product in the table below.

The stack you're replacing.

the stack

checklists

menu design

rota

managero £18.99

per month, first site. £12 for each site after that.

Checks, temperatures, allergen records, menus, self-audits, incidents, training records, and the evidence pack you print at the end. All of that sits in the one subscription, billed monthly, with no minimum term.

Trail daily checklists
FoodDocs paperwork and menus
Alert65 paperwork and consultancy
Menutech menu design
Kitchen CUT menus, costing, allergens
RotaCloud rota
Planday rota
Highfield food safety training

Nobody buys all eight. You end up with one from each row, paid for separately, and a folder for whatever none of them covered.

Feature by feature.

Two comparisons, and you pick the one you came for. Against Trail it is a straight fight on the food-safety records, and everything else managero does comes in the same subscription. Against the full stack it is one bill instead of four. Several of the things people go to Trail for sit above the £38.00 tier its pricing page shows you first, and every row here says which tier.

Which comparison?managero v. Trailmanagero v. the full stack

How many employees?

Showing managero against Trail only. Trail shown at its Team tier. For 1 site, Trail is £38.00 a month and managero is £18.99.

Does it
Doesn't

The page each mark came off.

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Sources

Prices were checked on 30 August 2026, and the three products in the table again on 1 September 2026. If one has moved on since, tell me at hello@managero.co.uk and I’ll fix it.

managero

£18.99 first site, then £12.00 for each site after that. Monthly. No minimum term. Unlimited employees.

Price, plan names and what each plan includesmanagero.co.uk

Trail

£38.00 per site per month, Team tier. Unlimited users per site, on a 12-month minimum term.

What each tier adds over the one below ittrailapp.com/pricing
The feature descriptions quoted in the tabletrailapp.com/how-it-works/features
Which features are on Team and which are not, in their own wordsanswers.trailapp.com, Plans & Features

RotaCloud

Standard, £10.00 a month for 1 to 5 employees. Priced in bands by headcount: £10.00 a month at 1 to 5 employees, rising through twenty-one bands to £1,000.00 at 451 to 500, on the Standard plan. Pro is half as much again at every band. No setup fee and no contract. Above 500 employees RotaCloud publishes no figure and asks you to request a quote. Prices are before VAT.

What Standard and Pro each include, and the two paid add-onsrotacloud.com/pricing
That the published prices are before VATrotacloud.com/terms

Planday

from £2.99 per user per month, minimum 5 users. Minimum 5 users. Below five staff you still pay for five.

Price, plan names and what each plan includesplanday.com/pricing

Menutech

Mini plan, £20.00 a month. Eight published plans, priced by how many new menus you write a month, not by sites or staff: Mini £20 (one new menu a month), Maxi £40 (twelve), S £60 (thirty-one), M £120 (sixty-two), L £180 (unlimited), and three Enterprise plans at £390, £475 and £475. Recipes, costing, nutrition, multi-location and integrations are separately-priced modules on every plan below Enterprise. Prices are before VAT.

Which features each plan includes, excludes, or sells as a paid modulemenutech.com/en/prices
Allergen detection, the 14 EU allergens and the allergen tablemenutech.com/en/features/allergens
Recipes, ingredient costing, margins and nutritional valuesmenutech.com/en/features/recipes

Kitchen CUT

Price on application. The pricing page carries no figure. The motion is a workshop with your team, so the number depends on the conversation.

Price, plan names and what each plan includeskitchencut.com/pricing

FoodDocs

Lite, $99 per site per month. Four plans priced per site: Lite $99, Standard $199 and Professional $299 a month, with Enterprise on application. Billed annually those are $79, $167 and $250. Fourteen-day free trial, no card. Priced in US dollars.

Price, plan names and what each plan includesfooddocs.com/pricing

Highfield e-learning

Food Safety Level 2, £15.00 to £25.00 per learner. Ten food safety and hygiene courses, bought per learner and priced before VAT: Level 1 £10.00 to £15.00, Level 2 £15.00 to £25.00, Level 3 £95.00 to £175.00.

Price, plan names and what each plan includeshighfieldelearning.com, food safety courses

Food Alert / Alert65

Price on application. Software sold alongside consultancy. No published figure on the pages we read.

Price, plan names and what each plan includesfoodalert.com/software

Feature		TeamStandard
The records an inspector asks for
A list of checks ticked off on a phone: daily, weekly, monthly and periodic	managero: Yes. A list of checks ticked off on a phone: daily, weekly, monthly and periodic. Today's checks, with a frequency set on each one.	Trail: Yes. A list of checks ticked off on a phone: daily, weekly, monthly and periodic. Recurring digital checklists: “daily, every Tuesday and Friday or every 6 months”.
Temperature records: fridges and freezers, cooking, hot-holding, cooling and reheating	managero: Yes. Temperature records: fridges and freezers, cooking, hot-holding, cooling and reheating. Temperatures, against each appliance’s own min and max, and Cooking & cooling.	Trail: Yes. Temperature records: fridges and freezers, cooking, hot-holding, cooling and reheating. “Fridge & Freezer Temperature Log Sheets”, “maintain a complete record of cold storage temperatures”, “Hot Food Temperature Log Sheet” and “Cooked & Reheated Food Temperature Log”.
Goods-in checks with the supplier and the temperature at delivery	managero: Yes. Goods-in checks with the supplier and the temperature at delivery. Goods in.	Trail: Yes. Goods-in checks with the supplier and the temperature at delivery. “Delivery Checks” template, and delivery prompts on the day's task list.
The app asks what you did about a failed check	managero: Yes. The app asks what you did about a failed check. Corrective action prompted on any out-of-range or failed check. Never drafted for you.	Trail: No. The app asks what you did about a failed check. Trail sells this on Standard, not on Team. Corrective Actions.
A photograph attached to the check as evidence	managero: Yes. A photograph attached to the check as evidence. Photo-backed checks, and it can be made mandatory.	Trail: Yes. A photograph attached to the check as evidence. “Mandatory photos means you’ll have all the evidence you need”.
Works with no signal in the walk-in, syncs when it finds wifi	managero: Yes. Works with no signal in the walk-in, syncs when it finds wifi. Offline capture with sync.	Trail: Yes. Works with no signal in the walk-in, syncs when it finds wifi. “Trail has an offline mode in case of unreliable connection”.
A scored self-audit you run on yourself before someone else does	managero: Yes. A scored self-audit you run on yourself before someone else does. Self-audit, structured around the three elements an inspection scores.	Trail: Yes. A scored self-audit you run on yourself before someone else does. Custom Audits. Tier: Team, £38.00 a site.
Incident and accident records	managero: Yes. Incident and accident records. Incidents. Flags what looks reportable and tells you to check. It never files for you, and it never decides what is reportable.	Trail: Yes. Incident and accident records. “Incident Reports — accidents happen. Make sure all the details are recorded securely, and evidence collected.”
Somewhere to keep certificates, policies and contracts	managero: Yes. Somewhere to keep certificates, policies and contracts. Documents.	Trail: No. Somewhere to keep certificates, policies and contracts. Trail sells this on Trail Evo, not on Team. Document Storage and Custom Policy Management.
Getting the evidence back out
A branded PDF and a CSV, for the dates and sites you choose	managero: Yes. A branded PDF and a CSV, for the dates and sites you choose. Records → Export records. The thing you hand over.	Trail: Yes. A branded PDF and a CSV, for the dates and sites you choose. “Download reports”.
A record signed off by a named person, and kept that way	managero: Yes. A record signed off by a named person, and kept that way. A drawn signature, who signed, when, and a hash over what they signed.	Trail: No. A record signed off by a named person, and kept that way. Trail sells this on Standard, not on Team. “Use PIN codes to sign off on tasks as individuals… increase accountability and traceability.”
An owner’s dashboard across every site	managero: Yes. An owner’s dashboard across every site. Dashboard.	Trail: No. An owner’s dashboard across every site. Trail sells this on Standard, not on Team. Reporting Dashboards.
A digest emailed to the owner	managero: Yes. A digest emailed to the owner. Weekly digest.	Trail: No. A digest emailed to the owner. Trail sells this on Standard, not on Team. “Daily & Weekly Digests”.
A daily per-site measure, emailed out	managero: Yes. A daily per-site measure, emailed out. The managero record-keeping measure. Each site gets a figure from 0.0 to 10.0 every day, to one decimal, higher being better, for how completely it kept the records the business itself set. It is our own internal measure, nothing more. It is not a Food Hygiene Rating, nor any kind of hygiene score. The Food Standards Agency and your local authority neither issue it nor recognise it, and it does not forecast, estimate or correspond to the outcome of an inspection. On the dashboard, and in the daily email.	Trail: Yes. A daily per-site measure, emailed out. “Each site is given a daily performance score and the results emailed to all”.
An alert the moment something is missed or fails	managero: Yes. An alert the moment something is missed or fails. A record that lands failed or out of range emails the owner, and whoever holds management authority at that site, at the time it is written. What was missed is swept at 06:30 and reported for the day that has just ended. One email per site, subject and reason a day, and it stays quiet until the corrective action is closed. Owners can switch it off, or mute a single site, in Settings → Alerts.	Trail: No. An alert the moment something is missed or fails. Trail sells this on Standard, not on Team. “Task & Action Completion & Exception Alerts.” Their own plan table leaves this cell blank for Team.
Running it across more than one site
Several sites, with per-site permissions	managero: Yes. Several sites, with per-site permissions. Manage Sites, with membership and permissions held per site.	Trail: Yes. Several sites, with per-site permissions. Multi-site with per-site permissions.
Build your own forms, or start from a library	managero: Yes. Build your own forms, or start from a library. Custom Forms, and Forms → Form Library.	Trail: Yes. Build your own forms, or start from a library. Custom form builder, and “Pick from best practice templates”.
User roles you define yourself	managero: Yes. User roles you define yourself. Name your own roles. A Manager role is built in, set per site.	Trail: No. User roles you define yourself. Trail sells this on Standard, not on Team. Custom User Roles.
Every member of staff on the account, at no extra cost	managero: Yes. Every member of staff on the account, at no extra cost. Priced per site. The headcount does not move the bill.	Trail: Yes. Every member of staff on the account, at no extra cost. “Plans are priced per site, with unlimited users at no extra cost.”

Allergen declarations on every dish, and a matrix across the whole menu	managero: Yes. Allergen declarations on every dish, and a matrix across the whole menu. Allergens, recorded as the operator declared them, with who declared it and when. Never computed or inferred. Allergens → Allergen matrix puts the whole menu on one page.	Trail: No. Allergen declarations on every dish, and a matrix across the whole menu. Not part of what Trail sells, so it is not in a Trail subscription. It is included in managero at no extra cost.
Recipes and an ingredient library	managero: Yes. Recipes and an ingredient library. Menus & recipes. An optional module the owner switches on.	Trail: No. Recipes and an ingredient library. Not part of what Trail sells, so it is not in a Trail subscription. It is included in managero at no extra cost.
What a dish costs to make, and the margin on it	managero: Yes. What a dish costs to make, and the margin on it. Dish costs. An optional module. Theoretical margin from your own ingredient prices. There is no till integration, so it is not realised profit.	Trail: No. What a dish costs to make, and the margin on it. Not part of what Trail sells, so it is not in a Trail subscription. It is included in managero at no extra cost.
A print-ready customer menu	managero: Yes. A print-ready customer menu. Menu export, print-ready at A4 and A5. Your dishes and prices, laid out. Not a design tool.	Trail: No. A print-ready customer menu. Not part of what Trail sells, so it is not in a Trail subscription. It is included in managero at no extra cost.
Plan a week’s rota and publish it, from a template or by copying the week before	managero: Yes. Plan a week’s rota and publish it, from a template or by copying the week before. Rotas. An optional module. Plan the week, publish it, and republishing shows what changed and what was taken off. Copy a week onto another and anyone who has left is named and left out. That is the whole of it. It is a rota, not a workforce system.	Trail: No. Plan a week’s rota and publish it, from a template or by copying the week before. Not part of what Trail sells, so it is not in a Trail subscription. It is included in managero at no extra cost.
Staff see their own shifts on their phone	managero: Yes. Staff see their own shifts on their phone. Rotas → My shifts.	Trail: No. Staff see their own shifts on their phone. Not part of what Trail sells, so it is not in a Trail subscription. It is included in managero at no extra cost.
Shift swaps between staff	managero: Yes. Shift swaps between staff. Offer it to a colleague, they accept, a manager approves. Approving publishes a new version of the week.	Trail: No. Shift swaps between staff. Not part of what Trail sells, so it is not in a Trail subscription. It is included in managero at no extra cost.
A record of who is trained in what, and when it lapses	managero: Yes. A record of who is trained in what, and when it lapses. Training → Competency.	Trail: No. A record of who is trained in what, and when it lapses. Not part of what Trail sells, so it is not in a Trail subscription. It is included in managero at no extra cost.
Signed proof that a policy or handbook was read	managero: Yes. Signed proof that a policy or handbook was read. Assign the document, they sign it, the signature is kept with its audit trail.	Trail: No. Signed proof that a policy or handbook was read. Not part of what Trail sells, so it is not in a Trail subscription. It is included in managero at no extra cost.
A month, for 1 site	managero, a month£18.99£18.99, first site. Any number of staff.	Trail (Team), a month£38.00£38.00 × 1 site, Team tier. Unlimited users per site, on a 12-month minimum term.