Both products start from the same place: the FSA’s Safer Food Better Business pack. From there, they take very different approaches. SFBB+ is built around scanning in pages you’ve already completed by hand, useful if you want to keep your paper routine and just archive it digitally. Rated5 is built for entering records directly on a phone or tablet as you go, with every entry attributed to a named person and appliance, backed by corrective actions, safe methods sign-off and training records that sit around the daily diary rather than a separate, unconnected exercise.
SFBB+ also covers Scotland’s CookSafe and Ireland’s Safe Catering frameworks alongside England & Wales, genuinely useful if you operate across those specific systems. Rated5’s coverage is England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, all built on the one SFBB structure rather than separate frameworks.
SFBB+’s £4.99/month is a lower headline price than Rated5’s £14.99/month, but a scanned paper page isn’t a corrective action, a safe-methods sign-off, or a training record with a reminder before it expires. Rated5 includes all of that as standard, in one connected system rather than a collection of scanned images.