# Handbook > The Handbook Company is operations software for small businesses: employee training and onboarding, SOPs, checklists, recipes, operating standards, a shared document library, inventory workflows from counting through forecasting and ordering, supplier tracking, and an approval-based AI assistant that proposes changes but never applies them without explicit human approval. Pricing: $30 per month per handbook, plus $5 per accepted user. Every new handbook starts with a 15-day free trial. ## Pages - [The Handbook Company](https://handbook.company/index.md): Handbook is operations software for small businesses covering training, SOPs, checklists, recipes, standards, inventory workflows, and approval-based AI support. - [Features](https://handbook.company/features.md): Feature tour covering training and courses, standards and documents, checklists, inventory workflows, and the approval-based Handbook Assistant AI. - [Pricing](https://handbook.company/pricing.md): Pricing is $30 per month per handbook plus $5 per accepted user, with a 15-day free trial and no card required to start. - [Restaurant Operations Software](https://handbook.company/restaurant-operations-software.md): Restaurant operations software for training, SOPs, opening and closing checklists, recipes and standards, and inventory workflows, shown across a real shift. - [FAQ](https://handbook.company/faq.md): Direct question-and-answer coverage of training, standards, checklists, inventory, the approval-based AI assistant, pricing, and the free trial. - [About](https://handbook.company/about.md): Who builds Handbook, why it exists, and how the product approach is decided. Built by Beanchain Coffee LLC in Arizona. - [Updates](https://handbook.company/updates.md): A running record of shipped fixes and features, what is being built, and the customer requests behind them. - [Bring your whole stock list over at once](https://handbook.company/updates/stock-list-import.md): Upload the export from whatever you use now and get your items, units, suppliers and prices, however long the file is. - [Suppliers, and ten screenshots per report](https://handbook.company/updates/suppliers-not-sources.md): Inventory calls them suppliers now, everywhere you read it, and a feedback report takes ten screenshots instead of three. - [Answering the people who report things](https://handbook.company/updates/answering-reports.md): The feedback form always promised a follow-up. Nothing in the product could keep that promise. Now it can. - [Invite your team from the page you are on](https://handbook.company/updates/invite-your-team.md): Inviting people worked. Finding the invite did not. It now sits on the Team page, and takes several addresses at once. - [A searchable page for everything we ship](https://handbook.company/updates/this-page.md): A searchable record of what we shipped, what we are building and what people asked for, instead of feedback vanishing into a form that never replies. - [Recipes that know what is on your shelf](https://handbook.company/updates/recipes-that-know-your-stock.md): Tie the ingredients in a recipe to real inventory items, then make a batch from the recipe and have the stock move on its own. - [Checklist reminders, and alerts when a reading is off](https://handbook.company/updates/checklist-reminders-and-limits.md): A checklist can remind the people who run it, and tell an owner when a temperature or a reading comes back outside the range you set. - [Checklists that ask for a number, a note or a photo](https://handbook.company/updates/checklists-that-ask-for-more.md): A checklist item can require a temperature, a short note or a photo, and the box will not tick until it has one. - [Every item on one page, edited a card at a time](https://handbook.company/updates/items-page-rebuilt.md): The Items page is a list on the left and one item on the right, with five cards you edit separately instead of one long form in a dialog. - [Economics answers what your inventory costs](https://handbook.company/updates/what-inventory-costs.md): One page about money: what stock cost you week by week, what it will cost at the current pace, and which items are worth a look. - [Photograph an invoice and the prices land](https://handbook.company/updates/invoice-capture.md): Take a picture of a supplier invoice or forward it by email, check the lines it read, and the prices go onto your items. - [A waste log built for the person at the bin](https://handbook.company/updates/waste-log.md): Record what actually gets thrown away, in weight, volume or count, with tare containers and conversions that only run when they are honest. - [The assistant stopped dying on long jobs](https://handbook.company/updates/assistant-survives-long-jobs.md): Long pieces of work pause and carry on by themselves instead of being cut off mid-sentence with a connection error. - [Ask for a course and get the whole course](https://handbook.company/updates/assistant-writes-a-course.md): The assistant writes a full course section by section rather than sketching an outline and stopping, and it keeps its place across replies. - [A new handbook walks you through setting up](https://handbook.company/updates/guided-setup.md): Creating a handbook lands in a guided wizard rather than an empty dashboard, and it can draft starter content from documents you already have. - [The shopping list fits a phone](https://handbook.company/updates/shopping-list-on-a-phone.md): The list you actually carry round a supplier now fits the screen you carry it on, and a row is marked bought by holding it. - [A real page for every supplier](https://handbook.company/updates/supplier-directory.md): Suppliers get a page each with their items, prices and how to order, and two duplicates of the same supplier can be merged back together. - [The Forecast Center, and when things run out](https://handbook.company/updates/forecast-center.md): One place for what you are using, what runs out next and when to order it, with the item you are reading about open beside the table. - [A new look, and a public site that loads fast](https://handbook.company/updates/design-refresh.md): One set of brand colours and type across the app, and public pages rebuilt as static files with no framework to download. - [Where waste goes, and what to use up first](https://handbook.company/updates/collectors-and-use-it-up.md): Record who hauls each stream away and on what terms, and get suggestions for using up stock before it becomes waste. - [Design System](https://handbook.company/design.md): Logo files and usage rules, brand colors with measured contrast ratios, typography, and a downloadable brand pack. ## Other documents - [Full corpus](https://handbook.company/llms-full.txt): every page above, in one file. - [Supplier directory](https://handbook.company/llms-marketplace.txt): public marketplace listings. - [Local marketplace](https://handbook.company/local-marketplace): browsable supplier directory. ## Contact - contact@handbook.company --- The Handbook Company (https://handbook.company), built by Beanchain Coffee LLC. 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