Honest comparison
ProCafe vs Navitas Safety
Navitas Safety's real strength is its own monitoring hardware — Smart Pods, probes and door alerts, bundled with software on a long contract. ProCafe takes the opposite approach: £19 a month, rolling, with an open API so you can connect compatible sensors when you want them.
Competitor details are taken from their published websites and pricing pages, checked July 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell us and we'll correct it.
One site · minimum commitment
Their published bundle from $125/month × 24-month minimum, July 2026. ProCafe: cancel any month.
Nº 01 · At a glance
Navitas Smart Pods, probes, door alerts — their genuine strength
Navitas: 24-month minimum
✓ included · ◐ partial / via integration or a higher tier · — not offered
Nº 02 · What a year costs
Published prices, July 2026. Currencies shown as each product bills them.
Nº 03 · The detail
| ProCafe | Navitas Safety | |
|---|---|---|
| Published price | £19/month + £10 per extra location | Hardware bundle from $125/month |
| Contract | Rolling monthly | 24-month minimum |
| Monitoring hardware | None of our own — an open sensor API for compatible devices | Its own Smart Pods, probes and door-open alerts — a genuine strength |
| Daily checks, allergens & records | Included, with the published customer allergen view and inspection report | Included in its safety software |
| Rotas, handover & team operations | Included | Not the product's focus |
Nº 04 · Who should choose which
Choose Navitas Safety if…
- You want supplied, managed monitoring hardware as part of one contract.
- A 24-month agreement is fine for the certainty it brings.
Choose ProCafe if…
- You won't commit to two years for a fridge thermometer.
- You want the operations layer — rotas, handover, deliveries, stock — with your food safety.
- You'd rather start at £19 and add sensors through the open API when you're ready.
Nº 05 · What £19/month includes
- Daily checks & temperature logging with corrective actions
- UK 14-allergen matrix with a published customer-facing version
- Suppliers, deliveries (goods-in), batches & recalls
- Rotas, shift handover, announcements, stock requests & tasks
- Incidents, refusals, documents with staff sign-off
- One-tap inspection report + PDF/CSV/Excel exports
- Unlimited team members — no per-user fees
- Offline-first iPhone and Android apps
- Open sensor API for automated temperature monitoring
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Nº 06 · Common questions
- Do I need sensor hardware for food-safety records?
- No — manual checks on a phone are how most cafes run, and EHOs accept them. Sensors automate the fridge readings; whether that's worth a 24-month hardware contract is the real question this page is about.
- Can ProCafe work with temperature sensors?
- Yes — through an open sensor API: create a key, point compatible devices at it, and readings and out-of-range alerts flow in automatically alongside manual checks. We don't sell hardware or lock it to a contract.
- What's the minimum commitment for each?
- Navitas' published bundle carries a 24-month minimum from $125/month. ProCafe is rolling monthly — the minimum commitment is one month at £19.
- Which ProCafe tier can I choose?
- Core: £19/month, Pro: £39/month, Operations: £69/month for the first site; £10/month per extra site in every tier. Yearly: £190 / £390 / £690, plus £100/year per extra site. Existing subscriptions keep their agreed prices. Operations is paid and is not included in the ordinary free trial. Core covers daily records and team operations. Pro adds procedure building, training quizzes and kitchen labels. Operations adds shared follow-up, controlled rollouts, analytics and internal benchmarking, saved reports, scoped reporting APIs, signed webhooks and work account sign-in. Integration receivers and identity providers require configuration.
Try the whole operation for 14 days.
14-day free trial · no card required · then £19/month + £10 per extra location