Handcard tracks every bartender's, server's and cook's food handler card from hire to expiry, records that the club paid, and refuses to put anyone on shift past the deadline without one.
Opens in this browser with an invented club already in it. No account, no email address, nothing installed. Never holds a card scan, a test score or a Social Security number.
The problem
SB 602 brought bartenders and drink pourers under California's food handler card. Each needs one within 30 days of hire - 10 in San Diego County - and since 2024 the club pays for the card and the training time.
for the card, the training, the test and the time, since January 2024.
Fisher Phillips →Not a reminder. Sign onto the shift refuses anyone who handles food or pours past the deadline without a valid card. A card is refused unless the club paid the fee and the training time. There is no "must already hold a card" box, because the law forbids it. Nothing is deleted.
How it works
Their role decides whether a card is needed; the deadline is worked out.
The date, the fee and the training hours the club paid.
Checked against the deadline and the expiry.
What it will never do
Handcard holds roles, card dates and what was paid, nothing more.
Pricing
For one venue.
Every pourer, every cook.
Monthly, per venue. Your bank statement says Handcard Software. Your licence key is on your screen as soon as the payment confirms.
Pay by card through Square, on Square’s own checkout page — we never see or store your card number. Or pay with bitcoin through our own bitcoin server. Either way you come back here, type your business name, and your licence key is on the screen — no email, no waiting on us.
Questions
Yes. SB 602 covers bartenders and anyone who pours drinks, along with waitstaff, cooks, bussers and hosts who handle food.
The club - the card, the training, the test and the time spent on them, since January 1, 2024.
No. The law forbids making an existing card a condition of the job.
No. It is the record and the gates.
The demo on this page is the whole program, running on invented records. Paying gets you a licence key — one line of text, on your screen as soon as the payment confirms: the checkout brings you back to our thank-you page, you type your business name and the key appears. Paste it into the program and from then on it keeps your own records. Until then, nothing you type into it is kept.
The key is checked inside the page, on your own machine. It never calls us, so there is still no account and nothing about your business goes anywhere. If you ever stop paying, your records stay exactly where they are, read-only, and Export still hands you every one of them.
An invented Los Angeles club has a cocktail server on day forty with no card - and Handcard will not put her on shift.