Your food safety system, off paper in five days.
FSSC 22000, BRCGS, HACCP and R638 loaded before you log in. Built by lead auditors in South Africa, from R499 per site per month, live in five working days, 60 days money-back.
A web application and apps for Apple iPhone and Android, built by software engineers and lead auditors together.
ASCloud is not a folder of templates behind a login. It is a cloud application with a web dashboard for the QA office and apps for Apple iPhone and iPad and Android phones and tablets for the floor, one named login on every device, and one audit trail behind all of them.
ASCloud is a paperless food safety and integrated management system built in South Africa by ASC Food Safety Consultants. It loads R638, HACCP to SANS 10330, GFSI Global Markets, GLOBALG.A.P., FSSC 22000, BRCGS, SQF and IFS before first login, runs on the web and on Android and Apple devices, and costs from R499 per site per month, with a full document FSMS from R3,800, excluding VAT and invoiced in rand. As at September 2026.
Walk through ASCloud the way a specialist would show it to you.
The first three are the screens of a working site, redrawn pixel for pixel with the client's details replaced. The rest show a site running at full tilt, with illustrative data, so you can see where it goes. Scroll, and the screen follows the step.
- Dashboard · as on a live site
The first screen your quality manager sees
One folder per standard on your plan, loaded before the first login: here FSSC 22000 additional requirements, ISO 22000:2018, the ISO/TS 22002 prerequisite programmes, process control and the checklists. Nobody built this. It arrived with the subscription, mapped by ASC lead auditors.
- Compliance checklists · as on a live site
Every inspection, counted, assigned and watched
Daily, weekly, monthly, annual and as-needed inspections, each showing the templates that exist, who they are assigned to and how many are done. A check that is not done on time shows here first and escalates to the supervisor.
- Digitise · as on a live site
Drop in your paper form, get a digital checklist back
Your existing checklist document, in Word, Excel, PDF or a photo, is read field by field and turned into a checklist template. The forms your team already knows become the screens they tap, with no rebuild and no retraining on a new layout.
- Daily inspections · illustrative data
Today, at a glance
Fourteen checks due across three lines and two cold stores, twelve done, one overdue and already escalated. Each row carries the version, the named people responsible, the frequency and the status, with thirty-day compliance beside it.
- Checklist · illustrative data
A check being done, on the floor, right now
Cold room 2 reads 9.1 °C against a limit of 5 °C. The system opens a corrective action by itself, puts the two affected lots on hold and alerts the shift supervisor. A photo of the door seal and the operator's signature sit on the same record, time-stamped, synced when the signal returns.
- HACCP risk · illustrative data
The HACCP plan as a living record
Hazards scored by severity and likelihood, the Codex decision tree answered per step, CCPs and OPRPs classified, and each control measure tied to the monitoring checklist that proves it. Microorganisms named properly, Listeria monocytogenes included.
- Management · illustrative data
Document control that auditors sign off in minutes
Versions, approval workflow, read receipts across 31 users, superseded copies withdrawn automatically, and the clause each document answers. A scheme update arrives as proposed revisions, with the changed clauses counted.
- CAPA · illustrative data
From non-conformance to verified closure
The breach from the cold room becomes a CAPA with a root cause, owners, dates and a verification step, and a timeline showing the alert reached the supervisor in two minutes. The auditor sees the whole chain from one screen.
- Suppliers · illustrative data
Suppliers keep their own evidence current
Risk ratings, approval basis, certificate expiry with reminders sent to the supplier, delivery performance scored from receiving checks, and a lapsed certificate blocking that material at the door until it is renewed.
- Traceability · illustrative data
One lot, one search, forty-one seconds
Backward to the chicken, premix and packaging lots with their certificates, forward to every delivery note and customer, with the CCP records and the hold-and-release linked. Mass balance to the kilogram. BRCGS allows four hours.
- Recall · illustrative data
The mock recall, timed and evidenced
An allergen scenario on one premix lot: affected finished lots identified in two minutes, quantities shipped and in stock, customer notices generated, recovery tracked, and the whole exercise saved as audit evidence.
- Analytics · illustrative data
The numbers the management review needs
Thirteen weeks of compliance, checks on time, CAPA closure time, days to audit, the weakest area and the top non-conformance, and the environmental monitoring trend with the one positive Listeria swab and its clearance.
- Calendar · illustrative data
Every obligation on one calendar
Scheduled checks, pest control visits, calibrations, supplier audits, certificate expiries, the mock recall, the internal audit and the management review, with an Outlook sync for the people who live in their diary.
- Monitoring · illustrative data
Probes, loggers and people on one log
Temperature loggers, scales and the metal detector write into the same log as the person with the phone, each reading against its limit with the calibration certificate behind it. A breach escalates within minutes and the chain of who was told when is kept.
Test us before you spend a cent.
The clipboard challenge
Email us one paper checklist today, the Word, Excel or PDF your team fills in now. We send it back inside 24 hours as a working digital template on ASCloud, read field by field and reviewed by an ASC specialist, free.
Send a checklistBring your last audit report
Send your most recent audit report before the demo. We load your scheme and show each non-conformance already closed inside your own system, then pick any lot and trace it backward and forward in under a minute. BRCGS gives you four hours.
Book the demoScroll sideways through a working site.
Loads your standard, by version
FSSC 22000 Version 7, BRCGS Issue 9, SANS 10330:2020, R638 of 2018, GLOBALG.A.P. IFA v6. Every clause mapped to a procedure, a checklist or a record before your first login.
See every standard and priceTurns your paper forms into checklists
Upload the form your team already knows. It is read field by field, reviewed by an ASC specialist, and lands on their phones as the screen they tap.
Watch the digitise stepWakes the right person at 02:15
A missed cold room check escalates to the supervisor within minutes, then to the QA manager. A reading over its limit opens a corrective action by itself and holds the lot.
Alerts and automation, includedTraces any lot in under a minute
Backward to the supplier lots and their certificates, forward to every delivery note, with mass balance and the CCP records linked. The timed mock recall is saved as evidence.
Traceability moduleKeeps working without signal
Open checklists complete in the cold store or during load shedding and upload when the connection returns, with the time the check was actually done.
Web, iPhone and AndroidExports the audit pack by clause
Every record attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original and accurate, exported by clause or by date in one file. The certification body decides. Your records make it easy.
FSSC 22000 pageThis is the actual system your team will use
Live dashboard, HACCP risk assessment, digital documents, checklists that keep working offline, missed-task alerts and, with the traceability module, timed mock recalls. Take the two-minute tour before you talk to anyone.
Paper systems fail on audit day, when the auditor asks for a record nobody can find.
Lost records, unsigned checks, a supplier file three versions out of date. None of it shows until the auditor asks. ASCloud replaces the paper with a paperless food safety system that shows you the gap on Tuesday, days before the auditor arrives.
We load your standard
Your scheme's full requirement set is configured before you log in. Setup is once-off: R3,850 on entry plans, from R5,000 on Primary and Certification. It takes five working days, or spread over a month if that suits your team.
Your team works the checklists
Daily checks, records and sign-offs captured on any device, by named user accounts. The person doing the check makes the record, and every entry is attributable to one individual.
You walk into the audit ready
Every record time-stamped, attributable and one search away, exportable as an audit pack for your scheme. Your auditor sees the evidence on screen.
The standards we encode, by name and version
Start where your site is. Move up without changing systems.
Every South African food business sits somewhere on this ladder, with a retailer or an auditor pushing it upward. Each rung keeps your records when you climb.
All prices per site per month, excluding VAT at 15%. Named user accounts on every plan, with 50 GB of storage included per site. Setup once-off: R3,850 on entry plans, from R5,000 on Primary and Certification. Moving up a rung never restarts setup: your records, users and configuration carry over.
The team behind the system works inside these organisations' food safety systems
Organisations ASC Food Safety Consultants has worked with in consulting, training and second-party auditing, the same specialists who configure ASCloud for your site. Client names shown with permission.
The people who configure ASCloud, in their clients' words.
Eight of the 368 Google reviews across ASC's Gqeberha, Johannesburg and Cape Town offices, shown as written. They review ASC's consulting and audit work, which is the same team that loads your standard and trains your people on ASCloud.
From the first consultations/guidance till the very end, they made sure we are satisfied and prepared for our external audits and we are fully compliant. I mean even the Auditor was impressed by their Implementation system. Im grateful for Siphesihle Ngcebetsha, she made sure that our FSSC 22000 was compliant.
Super thankful to this team! They helped me and my grandma get a SIZA Gold Standard and also made our GlobalG.A.P. Audit smooth. Mind you, we did not give them enough time to help us with setting up the system but within 3 weeks we were ready for the audits. They also introduced us to some remarkable players in the citrus industry. They are definitely worth working with.
ASC for the win! Very happy to have used your services and skilled consultants. From the first consultations/guidance till the very end, they made sure we are satisfied and prepared for our hygiene audits (and more!) and fully compliant. I was so so much less stressed this time around! I mean even the ASC Pest Control was astonishingly effective! Keep up the fantastic work guys! Really well done.
Thanks to ASC Consultants, with whose assistance and guidance we were able to achieve our IFS and COC certification within 5 months. Thank you for the all the help. For those who are looking for well informed consultants within the agricultural industry, I can recommend ASC Consultants. Thanks MT for all the help.
Not having any experience or knowledge of what a food safety audit was all about was made very clear by ASC... Thank you for all your assistance. You really made it easy for us to get through this process and to crown it all your services were affordable to us as a start up business. Will definitely recommend ASC to any entrepreneur.
Excellent consulting service and after purchase service, the team is always ready to help. The materials i purchased are of great standard and matches my request. Thank you Asc
Hi Mandla, just want to say thank you for all your hard work helping me with the audit, I appreciate you and your work. Its always a plesure working with you. Enjoy your day!
The service the provide is so good and the consultants is so good on explaining and the make easy to understand
Average rating 4.9 out of 5 across the three listings on 3 October 2026 (Johannesburg 5.0 from 179, Gqeberha 4.9 from 99, Cape Town 4.9 from 90). Read them all on Google.
Included in every plan, at no extra cost
These are part of ASCloud on every plan, from R638 upwards. We will never sell them back to you as a module.
A scheme update changes the requirement set, templates and checklists inside ASCloud. If you want an ASC consultant to rewrite your own site procedures to the new version, we quote that in writing before any work starts.
Full document FSMS from R3,800
Every controlled document, procedure, form, record and checklist moves on screen, version controlled and signed by a named person. The printer, the lever arch files and the archive boxes can go. Full automation is possible too, one module at a time, each priced before you commit.
Prices in your currency
Use the currency picker at the top of any page to see prices in US dollars, euros, pounds, pula, kwacha, shillings, naira, cedi and more. We invoice in South African rand, so the converted figure is a guide at a dated reference rate.
Integrated management systems and ERP integration
ISO 9001:2026, ISO 14001:2026 and ISO 45001 run as one integrated system with your FSMS from R7,500 a month, or one standard alone for R3,800, with SMETA and social compliance evidence from the same records. ASCloud also connects to SAP, Sage, Syspro, Microsoft Dynamics, Xero, loggers and scales.
Paper, spreadsheets, a generic app, or a food safety system.
| What matters on audit day | Paper files | Spreadsheets | Generic checklist app | ASCloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Your scheme's requirements loaded, by version | No | No | You build it | FSSC 22000 V7, BRCGS 9, SANS 10330, R638 |
| Record attributable to a named person, time-stamped | Signature, any time | No | Usually | Named login, time, device, edit history |
| Missed check escalates by itself | No | No | Sometimes, extra | Included on every plan |
| Works when the signal and the power drop | Yes | Laptop only | Varies | Open checklists complete offline and sync |
| Lot trace, backward and forward | Hours of paging | Manual | Rarely | One search, mass balance included |
| Scheme update when the standard changes | Rewrite it | Rewrite it | Rebuild it | Arrives as revisions, included |
| Set up by people who audit food plants | You | You | You, or an integrator | ASC lead auditors, live in five days |
| Published price | Printing, filing, audit prep | Hidden time | Per user, on request | From R499 per site per month |
Compare in more depth on paper vs apps vs FSMS and ASCloud vs international platforms.
How audit-ready are your records today?
Answer honestly. Nothing is sent anywhere, the score is for you.
- Every CCP check from the last 3 months can be found in under 2 minutes
- Every record shows who did it and the exact time it was done
- A missed check is noticed the same day, not at the audit
- Your scheme's current version (for example FSSC 22000 V7) is reflected in your documents
- Superseded documents are withdrawn from the floor automatically
- Supplier certificates cannot lapse without someone being warned
- A mock recall was completed in under 4 hours in the last 12 months
- Corrective actions have a root cause, an owner and a verified closure
- Training records are current for every person on the line
- Management review used real compliance figures, not estimates
Work out your own number.
per month in time and materials. Against a full document FSMS at R3,800 per site per month, that leaves roughly R0 a year on the table, before counting the audit day it saves and the recall it shortens.
Price my siteThe questions South African plants actually ask
What is ASCloud?
ASCloud is a paperless food safety compliance system developed in South Africa by ASC Food Safety Consultants. As at September 2026 it covers R638 hygiene compliance, HACCP to SANS 10330, GFSI Global Markets, GLOBALG.A.P., FSSC 22000 and BRCGS Issue 9 on one platform, with add-on modules for ISO 9001:2026, ISO 14001:2026, ISO 45001, SMETA and social compliance, inventory, traceability and production planning, automated tools for culture, environmental monitoring, food defence, food fraud and food loss and waste, and integrations with ERP systems such as SAP, Sage, Syspro and Microsoft Dynamics. Plans start at R499 per site per month, a full document FSMS at R3,800 and an integrated management system at R7,500, excluding VAT and billed in rand.
Does it work during load shedding?
Checklists already open on a device can be completed without signal and upload when the connection returns. Keep devices charged, because records waiting to sync stay on the device until then.
What does the V7 upgrade cost?
Nothing. FSSC 22000 Version 7 upgrade audits run from 1 May 2027 to 30 April 2028. Subscribers receive the V7 requirement set as an included update, with a gap view showing exactly which records change.
Who owns our data if we leave?
You do. Full export in an open format, at no charge, within 30 days of termination. Your records are yours, including the audit trail.
How many users are included?
Every plan includes named user accounts as shown on each plan card, with additional users at R250 per user per month. Each account is personal to one named individual, so every sign-off is linked to one named login, time-stamped, with edit history kept. Every site (branch) includes 50 GB of storage; additional storage is quoted and agreed in writing before activation. Certification plan users are scoped in your written quote.
Is there an app for iPhone and Android?
Yes. ASCloud runs as a web application in any browser and as apps for Apple iPhone and iPad and Android phones and tablets. Your team uses one named login on every device, and every record lands in the same audit trail.
Add modules as you grow, from R650 a month, nothing hidden
Missed-task triggers, escalations, verifications, checklists, update notifications and every FSSC 22000, BRCGS, GLOBALG.A.P. and HACCP scheme update come with every plan. When you need more, add a module: ISO 9001:2026 at R2,800, ISO 45001 at R2,500, inventory and stock at R1,850, a supplier portal at R1,450, forward and backward traceability at R1,690, or traceability with production planning at R2,100. Each one writes into the same audit trail, and each is priced before you commit.
Upgrade audits run 1 May 2027 to 30 April 2028. Your deadline is your next audit date, which may fall well before 2028.
Paperless compliance support from three South African offices
ASCloud is configured and supported by ASC Food Safety Consultants from offices in Gqeberha, Johannesburg and Cape Town, with clients served nationwide, including Durban, Pretoria, Ekurhuleni, Bloemfontein and East London.
Gqeberha (Head Office)
14 Brickmakers Kloof Road, South End, Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth), 6001
+27 41 004 0382
Johannesburg
Atrium Terraces, 272 Oak Ave, Ferndale, Randburg, 2194
+27 10 500 4661
Cape Town
183 Albion Springs, Rondebosch, Cape Town, 7700
+27 21 300 4024
Frequently asked questions
How long does setup really take?
The standard fee of R5,000 (entry plans R3,850) covers five allocated working days, enough for a standard single-site operation, delivered in one week or spread over a month. If your site is more complex and more days are required, additional days are billed at R1,200 per day, each day allocating 4 hours of on-site work, quoted and agreed with you in writing before any work begins. Pricing is transparent and there are no hidden fees.
Is VAT included in the prices?
All prices on this site exclude VAT. South African clients pay VAT at 15% and receive a VAT invoice for every payment. We invoice in South African rand, by EFT or debit order. Prices shown in other currencies are indicative, converted at a dated reference rate, and VAT treatment for clients outside South Africa is confirmed on your quote.
Which scheme versions are the templates written to?
Every requirement set states its version: FSSC 22000 Version 7 (published May 2026) with the update included for subscribers, BRCGS Food Safety Issue 9, IFS Food version 8, SQF Edition 9 with Edition 10 for audits from 2 January 2027, GLOBALG.A.P. IFA v6 and SANS 10330:2020. When a scheme changes, we update the system and you see the change with its version number in your update log. Scheme updates are included in every plan.
What is the difference between GFSI Intermediate and Certification?
GFSI Intermediate covers your full compliance programme: checklists, audits, corrective actions, training, incidents and supplier approvals. Certification is the full document FSMS from R3,800 per site per month: everything in Intermediate plus the full requirement sets for FSSC 22000, BRCGS Issue 9, SQF and IFS Food version 8, and all FSSC additional requirements. It records the lot and batch codes your auditor samples. Full forward and backward traceability with mock recall runs on the traceability module at R1,690 a month.
What is the minimum contract?
There is no long-term lock-in. Plans are billed monthly and you may cancel with 60 days written notice. Annual prepay saves 15% and holds your price for the year. New subscriptions carry a 60-day money-back guarantee.
Can we see the system before paying?
Yes. Book a 20-minute demo and we load your scheme before the call, so you see your own checklists. Bring your last audit report and we will show you your own findings inside the system.
What does the consultant actually do during setup?
An ASC specialist configures your documents, your process flows and your users, migrates your existing records within the scope on your quote, and trains your team in two live sessions. You go live with your own system loaded and your team trained. Your records then make you audit-ready, and the certification body decides.
ASCloud was built by food safety professionals who spent years preparing manufacturers for GFSI audits out of disconnected spreadsheets, shared drives and paper checklists, and finally built the platform they always wished existed. Every template, checklist and workflow was designed by certified food safety professionals working beside the software team. We measure success by whether you pass your audit.
ASCloud is a paperless compliance software platform for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical sectors, built and supported in South Africa by ASC Food Safety Consultants, led by founder and Managing Director Mthokozisi Nkosi, and configured for food businesses in South Africa, with prices shown in 31 currencies for sites across Africa, the Gulf and beyond. Head office: 14 Brickmakers Kloof Road, South End, Gqeberha, with offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. ASCloud digitises R638 and Certificate of Acceptability compliance, HACCP to SANS 10330, GFSI Global Markets, GLOBALG.A.P., FSSC 22000 and BRCGS Issue 9. Pricing is published in rand: R499 per site per month for R638, from R3,800 for a full document FSMS, add-on modules from R650, setup once-off from R3,850, all excluding VAT. Named user accounts on every plan.
Reviewed by Mthokozisi Nkosi, FSSC 22000 and BRCGS Lead Auditor and founder of ASC Food Safety Consultants. Updated 3 October 2026.
The record exists. Now it can be found.
Twenty minutes online, your standard loaded before the call, your own last audit findings shown inside the system. Setup by lead auditors, live in five working days, with every price published before you commit.