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.