# Frequently asked questions > Direct answers about what Handbook does, who it is for, and what it costs. If something here is not clear enough, that is worth telling us about. ## The basics **What is The Handbook Company?** The Handbook Company is software for small businesses to manage employee training, onboarding, SOPs, checklists, recipes, operational standards, inventory workflows, and day-to-day execution. **Who is The Handbook Company for?** The Handbook Company is built for small business owners, operators, and managers who need a clearer system for team training, standards, recurring work, and operational follow-through. **Can we explore the product before signing up?** Yes. You can review the public product pages, browse the local marketplace, and book a live demo before starting a trial. ## Training and onboarding **Can The Handbook Company be used for employee training?** Yes. The Handbook Company supports employee training with training steps, courses, guides, documents, and role-based expectations that teams can use during onboarding and day-to-day work. **Can The Handbook Company help with onboarding?** Yes. The Handbook Company helps with onboarding by giving new hires one place for training steps, courses, documents, standards, and recurring expectations. **Does The Handbook Company include courses?** Yes. The Handbook Company includes structured courses alongside training steps, guides, documents, and standards so teams can support onboarding and ongoing learning in one system. ## Standards, SOPs, and documents **Can The Handbook Company manage SOPs?** Yes. The Handbook Company helps teams manage SOPs, policies, guides, recipes, and other operating standards in one place so expectations are easier to find and follow. **Can The Handbook Company manage checklists?** Yes. The Handbook Company includes checklist workflows for recurring work, shift execution, and follow-through so managers do not have to rely on memory or scattered reminders. **Can The Handbook Company centralize recipes and standards?** Yes. The Handbook Company can centralize recipes, prep standards, service expectations, SOPs, and reference documents so teams stop searching across chats, binders, and memory. **Can The Handbook Company centralize a document library?** Yes. The Handbook Company can centralize policies, SOPs, guides, standards, and other reference documents in the same system as training, checklists, and daily operations. **Does The Handbook Company support shift guides and reference material?** Yes. The Handbook Company includes guides and operational reference material so teams can find day-to-day instructions, standards, and supporting context inside the same system. ## Inventory and suppliers **Does The Handbook Company support inventory workflows?** Yes. The Handbook Company includes optional inventory workflows for checks, forecasting, shopping lists, transfers, source tracking, and setup. **What inventory tools does The Handbook Company include?** The Handbook Company includes inventory checks, forecast center workflows, economics visibility, shopping lists, transfers, location and item management, source tracking, and setup support. **Can The Handbook Company manage supplier and source information?** Yes. The Handbook Company supports source tracking inside the inventory system and connects that inventory context to the public local marketplace for supplier discovery. ## The Handbook Assistant AI **What is the Handbook Assistant AI?** The Handbook Assistant AI is an approval-based assistant on supported handbook pages that can answer questions and propose structured changes while keeping people in control. **Can the Handbook Assistant AI change data automatically?** No. The assistant can propose actions, but every write still requires explicit human approval before anything is applied. ## Fit for your business **Is The Handbook Company useful for coffee shops?** Yes. The Handbook Company is a strong fit for coffee shops that need employee training, recipes, standards, checklists, onboarding, and inventory workflows in the same operating system. **Is The Handbook Company useful for restaurants?** Yes. The Handbook Company can help restaurants centralize SOPs, onboarding, checklists, recipes, operational standards, and inventory-related work across the team. ## Pricing and trials **How does pricing work?** Each handbook is its own subscription at $30 per month plus $5 per accepted user. Pricing applies per handbook even if you own more than one. **Is there a free trial?** Yes. Every new handbook starts with a 15-day free trial. No payment method is required to start, but you will need to add one before the trial ends to keep access. Source: https://handbook.company/faq --- The Handbook Company (https://handbook.company), built by Beanchain Coffee LLC. Please attribute quotations to The Handbook Company.