Date marking with the right discard date, every single time.
A pan of béchamel, a hotel pan of cooked pasta, a deli ham you just opened: tap the product, the discard date is worked out for you, the label prints or you write it with a marker. Either way, the log keeps who labeled what, at what time, and for how long.
No credit card. Any off-the-shelf Android tablet will do; the printer is optional.
Day dots that are always right, and a log to back them up
The moment a ready-to-eat TCS food is opened, thawed or prepped, the manufacturer's date no longer applies. Your kitchen sets the new discard date, and has to be able to show it does so consistently.
What the Food Code expects
FDA Food Code 3-501.17: any ready-to-eat TCS food held more than 24 hours must be marked with the date by which it has to be used or discarded, 7 days at most at 41 °F, the day of prep or opening counting as day 1. Most kitchens go shorter for dairy sauces, cut produce and seafood. Local health codes build on the same rule.
The trouble with the marker and the roll of dots
Someone counts days in their head and lands one day off. The handwritten label smears, an unmarked hotel pan sits at the back of the walk-in, and nobody knows who wrapped it or when. A roll of blank day dots leaves no record at all: nothing shows the rule is actually followed.
What Tracito changes
Every product has its own shelf life. One tap, and the discard date is worked out from today. Several products in a row, then one single Validate with a first name and the time. Printed over Bluetooth or handwritten, every label leaves a line in the log, which you export as a PDF whenever you need it.
Set it up once, then label in three taps
The Tracito way: you set the products and their shelf life at the start, then the crew only taps and validates. No date to type, no math during prep.
Your products, with their shelf life
When you set up, a list of 29 products is already there, sorted by category: cold cuts, cheese, sauces, vegetables, meat, fish, cooked dishes, pastry, eggs. Cooked ham D+3, camembert D+5, cooked fish D+2, cooked pasta D+3: each product carries how many days it keeps once opened or prepped.
Change a duration if your HACCP plan says otherwise, add your own house preps (the ranch, the pico de gallo, the pancake batter) and remove what you never make. All of it can be changed later from the tablet or from your web account.
Label: tap, the date is worked out, validate
During prep, a crew member taps a product in the list or searches it by name, sets how many labels with − and +, and moves on. The discard date is worked out from today: a D+3 béchamel made on September 10 reads “Use by 09/13/2026”. Three products, then one Validate with the person's first name and the time.
The tablet works without Wi-Fi: at the cold station or in the walk-in, labels are saved on the tablet and go out on their own once the network is back. Several tablets and phones can be used in the same kitchen, each with its own printer or none.
The log writes itself
Every validated batch joins the module's register: time, first name, product, discard date, number of labels, and how the label was made, printed or “not printed (date written with a marker)”. Nothing gets erased: a cancelled line stays visible, crossed out, with who cancelled it and when.
The register exports to PDF or goes out by e-mail, for the period you pick: today, this week, this month, this year, or any two dates. When a pan raises a question, you find who labeled it and for which date in ten seconds.
Two options, depending on your kitchen
Allergens on the label: check each product's allergens once, and they print automatically from then on, nothing extra to enter when labeling. Handy for grab-and-go cases, catering trays and buffets.
Tracking of labels due: every day, the tablet lists what reaches its discard date based on the labels made, to check off when the food is tossed or used up. A help for the morning walk-in check, on or off as you like.
You know, without opening the walk-in
- The day on one screen. What was labeled today, by whom, at what time, and, if the option is on, what reaches its discard date and has not been pulled yet.
- A notification when something drifts. Any non-compliance recorded on the tablet, in this module or another, lands on your phone with the person and the action taken. You choose the quiet hours.
- Inspection mode. Hand the tablet to the health inspector: a read-only view, every register dated, the period's non-compliances, the complete file as a PDF. The month's labels are there, with their date and first name.
- The summary by e-mail. Every Monday and at the start of each month: what was done, missed and out of range, module by module.
- From your web account. The same registers, the product list and its shelf lives, several locations, a consultant invited in read-only mode.
With or without a printer, at your own pace
The printer: the Gprinter GP-2120T, over Bluetooth
Tracito prints on the Gprinter GP-2120T, a thermal roll label printer paired with the tablet over Bluetooth: no cable, no network to set up. You pair it once under “My printers”; you can declare several, one at the cold station, one in the bakery, and choose which one prints. It is the only printer supported: if you are buying one, buy that one.
No printer: write the date with a marker
No printer yet? The tablet works out the date, you write it on the film or the blank day dot, then tap “Record without printing”. The register marks the label as “not printed (date written with a marker)”: the record is there, the habit is the same. Plenty of kitchens start this way and buy the printer later.
Shelf lives that follow your HACCP plan
A U.S. location gets durations within the Food Code's 7-day rule out of the box, and shorter ones where kitchens usually go shorter. You can trim or extend product by product: whipped cream at D+1, dry salami at D+30. Every label keeps the duration that was set that day, even if you change it later.
One tablet for the whole crew
No account or password per person: everyone picks their first name when validating, and that first name goes in the register. The “+” at the end of the list adds a newcomer in two seconds, the night a temp shows up. Several tablets and phones can be used in the same kitchen, each one sees the others' labels.
The detailed answers are in the help center
- How do use-by labels work?
- How do I add a product or change its shelf life?
- Which printer do I need and how do I connect it?
- How do I work without a printer?
- How do I get allergens printed on the label?
All the module’s questions: help center › Use-by labels.
Every pan with the right date from your next prep
Create your location, keep or adjust the shelf lives, start labeling. 30-day free trial, no credit card. Then 29 € a month or 290 € a year per location, all modules included.
never a day off again