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What to cook, what to buy, and what it costs.

Today tells the caregiver what to cook. The shopping list writes itself, you approve it from anywhere, and in the shop it goes aisle by aisle, with the price.

Free to start. One house, three people, no card. Installs on iOS and Android.

  • $0to startOne house, three people, every screen. No card.
  • 5origins for a buy requestA menu shortfall, an expiry, a par breach, a reserve gap, or a diet tag. No sixth.
  • 6front doors, one listThe shelf, the scanner, Today, an import, the catalogue, the system.
  • 10Oregon citations, explainedIn one line each, inside the product, beside the shelf they govern.
Home · Today

What to cook tonight.

No guessing at the fridge. Today tells her: Thursday dinner, chicken and rice, five trays — with the steps, the timers and the allergen check one tap away.

Cook modeThu dinner · chicken and rice · 5 trays
  1. 1Rinse and simmer the rice18 min
  2. 2Sear chicken thighs12 min
  3. 3Allergen check · 5 traysbefore plating
  4. 4Complete → stock downrice −2 cups · chicken −3 lb
On the shelf Rice14cups Chicken thighs5lb

One house, one shift: what to cook, what is short, what is dated.

Every house, rolled up: restock across houses and the next run.

AllergensRoom 3’s tags. Toggle one and watch Thursday.

Thursday · peanut sauce contains peanut. Room 3 carries a peanut allergen tag. Change the dish or record a substitution.

The week’s menu, full size
Aisle 3 · The buy queue

You don’t have to be there.

The list writes itself from the menu, the expiry dates and the pars. Staff add the rest. You approve from anywhere, and every line says where it came from and who asked.

ApproveMove a line along.0 approved by you
  • Whole milk · 2 galMenu shortfall · Thu dinner · asked by K. Silva Pending
  • Bottled water · 24-pack × 3Reserve gap · 3 days × 5 beds · asked by Rule set Approved
  • Applesauce cupsExpiry Watch · 2 days · asked by T. Nguyen Approved

Every change names who did it, and why.

Your purchasing rulesApprove from anywhere.Under your limit a rule approves the line; above it, you or a manager do. Assign a buyer, and when she is in the shop her phone opens on the list.
Six front doors, one list
  • The shelf
  • The scanner
  • Today
  • A workbook import
  • The catalogue
  • The system
All six write the same buy request under the same rules.
Works with no signal

In the shop, aisle by aisle.

The list sorts itself into that shop’s aisles — one hand, no signal needed. Pick the shop and the total changes. Every purchase remembers what you paid.

StorePick the shop. The list re-totals.
  • Aisle 3Whole milk · 2 gal$4.98no price at this shop
  • Aisle 7Rice · 10 lb$6.49no price at this shop
  • Aisle 12Bottled water · 24-pk × 3$9.99no price at this shop
Total at WinCo$0.00
Price memoryTap a shelf item.

Every purchase records a price at that shop on that date. Nothing is overwritten.

Aisle 2 · Stock

Everything the house buys.

Food, care, household and operations — counted by zone, in the order you walk the house. On hand is never typed; every change is a movement.

Four domains, one list
  • FoodWhat goes on the menu, from the pantry to the freezer.
  • CareBriefs, wipes, gloves, over-the-counter first aid.
  • HouseholdCleaning, paper, laundry.
  • OperationsWhat the house runs on, beyond the kitchen.
Expiry WatchMost urgent first, or most money first.
  • Applesauce cups · WH-2 2 days $3.29
  • Whole milk · open · WH-1 3 days $4.98
  • Yoghurt · 6 · WH-1 5 days $3.49
  • Sliced turkey · WH-1 9 days $2.44

Value at risk · $14.20 — use it, replace it, or discard it with a reason.

ParSet the par. The shelf answers.
Rice · 10 lbon hand 1 2 below par
In the queue
  • Rice · 10 lbPar breach · 2 below par

Par is the one number you set. On hand moves through the record.

Stock in depth: zones, reserves, the calculator
Aisle 1 · the organising idea

The loop closes by itself.

Count, queue, approve, shop, receipt, stock, cook. The house’s own numbers move around it, and nobody re-types anything.

  1. CountZone by zone. Each item keeps its last count.
  2. QueueOnly what to buy, each line with its origin.
  3. ApproveAuto under your threshold, a manager above it.
  4. ShopIn that shop’s aisle order. Works with no signal.
  5. ReceiptClose the run: stock and prices go back, once.
  6. StockNever typed. Every change is a movement.
  7. CookComplete, and stock goes down. Once.
Walk the whole loop, station by station
Reserves and the rule

The rule that says what the house must keep.

The reserve target is arithmetic from your bed count. Ten Oregon citations are explained in the product.

The reserve target is arithmetic, not a shrug.

ReserveDays × beds × per bed per day.
Target
15 gal
On hand
6 gal
Gap
9 gal Gap · files into the queue

The bed count is typed by a person, never derived. On hand comes from the last count.

Emergency reservesDays × licensed beds × the quantity per bed per day, then the on-hand reading and the gap.Dashboard and the surveyor PDF
The rule citationsTen Oregon citations explained in one line each: 411-050-0715, 0720, 0725, 0730 and 309-040-0385.Every catalogue row
Fatal FourEight closed tags on items and on residents, and a coverage reading per house.Residents and items
Diet, texture, allergensThe resident’s tags on the menu, the tray note per resident, the allergen check on cook.Menu and Cook
Food safetyExpiry dates and Expiry Watch on every dated item.Stock
The ten citations, and how sure we are
Residents

A resident is a label, never a name.

Diet tags, allergens, one texture level. Enough for a tray note and a menu check, and nothing more.

The resident record

Room 2 · A

Initials or a room, diet tags, one texture level, allergens, preferences. No diagnosis, no medication, no note, no free text.

Why initials are not a defence

In a house with five residents, initials identify a person to anyone who knows the house. They are ordinary decency, not a shield.

Tray notes

Drawn at the moment of viewing, never stored. A menu holds a recipe, not a person.

CareShop runs the kitchen. Nothing clinical is ever stored.

Who is in the store

Six people, and one of them has no account.

The person doing the shopping is often not the person with the licence.

providerThe licence holder or executive directorSet purchasing rules, approve, see spend across houses, manage billingPhone and laptop
managerResident manager or program managerPlan the menu, approve requests, attest to countsPhone
caregiverDirect care staffCount, scan, file a request, cook from Today, shop from the listPhone, at the shelf and in the store
buyerWhoever shopsShopping mode and the receiptPhone, in the store
no accountA spouse doing the Costco runOpen a shared run, tick, close it. A signed-in person confirms.Phone, on the web
operatorThe platform teamProvision, suspend, repair accountsWeb
Already on CareShop

Sign in at careshop.app.

One address for every house. Sign in with the username your admin gave you, or create an organisation. Free plan, no card.

  • One-time credentialsCaregivers get a username and password from an admin. No public sign-up for staff.
  • Seeded on day oneThe catalogue, the first house and the default zones are there before you add an item.
  • On the phoneInstalls on iOS and Android. Picks queue offline and never count twice.
Asked at the till

The questions we get.

Isn’t this just a grocery list?

A grocery list does not know that Room 2 is allergic to tree nuts, that the water reserve is short against your bed count, or what applesauce cost last month. The loop is the product.

My caregiver’s phone has no signal in the store.

Picks wait on the phone. When the signal comes back they land once, and a pick is never counted twice.

Can I use it across more than one house?

Yes. Pro covers up to five houses. Scale is unlimited houses and seats, with spend across all of them.

How is this different from a spreadsheet?

A spreadsheet does not scan, does not know who lives there, and does not put the receipt back on the shelf. CareShop closes the loop by itself.

Still a question?

Ask a person.

No sales team. The person who built it answers.

kitchen@careshop.app

  1. WriteOne line is enough. Say what your house looks like.
  2. A person answersWithin one working day, from the same inbox.
  3. See it runTwenty minutes on a call, with a house like yours.
Price tags

Nineteen dollars a house.

Every plan sees every screen. Anything above your plan shows its price. Nothing is silently blocked.

How many houses?

1
house
Free $0 One house · three people · no card One house, three people, five hundred items Start free
ProMost houses $19/ mo $19 per house a month Up to five houses Start with Pro
Scale $37/ mo $37 per house a month Unlimited houses, spend across houses, catalogue import and copying between houses Start with Scale

Sold on the web. Cancel in one tap, export any time.

The first ten minutes

If the loop closes once, you trust it.

  1. Add a zone and scan five items from the pantry.
  2. Set a par on one, and watch it become a buy request.
  3. Add a resident with a tree-nut allergy, and see the menu warn.
  4. Open Today and see what the house needs.

Where the first ten minutes end: Today, with the loop closed once.

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