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Staff Rota Planner

Staff rota planning software that helps cut your costs, boost your efficiency and build your team.

RotaOne’s Staff Rota Planner puts all of your workforce planning tools in one place. View the rota as a summary of planned start and end times for each employee’s shift, or dive deeper to see what matters: costs, hours, swipe times, shift names, job titles, budgets and more.

The rota also shows when an employee is unavailable to work, or already working in another department.

A week’s rota on screen with an under-staffing alert, and the published shifts in the employee app

At a glance

  • Plan and schedule rotas quickly and easily
  • Choose rota planning views to suit your needs
  • Filter by organisation, department or individual
  • Colour coding for faster planning
  • Set staffing budgets and review planned against actual costs
  • Publish rotas to employees through the self-service app
The benefits

What Staff Rota Planner does for you

  1. The rota planner switching between summary and detailed views

    Various viewing options

    Switch between views of your workforce so you can focus on the task in hand. Whether you are reviewing next month’s shifts for the whole organisation or drilling down to one employee’s swipes for yesterday, RotaOne has the view you need.

  2. Filtering the rota by department and individual

    Filter by individuals or departments

    Look at the whole organisation, a single department or a single person. You can change your view with a single click.

  3. Working and absence slots in their own colours on the rota

    Simple colour coding for working and absence slots

    Create any type of slot that could appear on a rota: on-site or off-site working, holidays and annual leave, sickness, furlough, maternity and anything else you need. Each slot type belongs to a category you colour-code, for an at-a-glance understanding of your staff rotas.

  4. Role and permission settings restricting who can see payroll data

    Restricted access

    Employee data is valuable and private. Access to sensitive personnel and payroll information needs to be limited to specific managers and administrators, and RotaOne lets you control that access with flexible roles, rules and permissions.

  5. Planned and actual costs against a departmental budget

    Set your budgets, then see your actual costs

    RotaOne helps you watch your costs and hours. Whether it is a person, a department, a location or your whole business, set budget costs and then meet them.

  6. The rota shown over a fortnight, a month and a year

    Week, fortnight, four-week, month and year views

    Simplify planning, forecasting and team building with easy switching between current and long-term views of your workforce.

What customers say

RotaOne, in their own words

All testimonials
  • “We’ve been using Thinking Software for several years now, and it’s been a game-changer for our business.”
    Olympus Global logoTinaHR Manager, Olympus Global
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  • “I am writing this testimonial to express our utmost satisfaction with RotaOne, the cloud-based time and attendance software from Thinking Software.”
    Gear4Music logoDan DrogieGear4Music
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  • “I would definitely recommend RotaOne as a time and attendance system.”
    Sweeep Kusakoski logoJulie DeshampsSweeep Kusakoski
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Accreditations

Hosted on Microsoft Azure, certified to ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus, and registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Cyber Essentials Plus certified
  • Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office
  • ISO 27001 certified

Trusted by organisations worldwide

  • BM Foods
  • Cathay-Investments
  • Freshpeel
  • Glasgow Science Centre
  • Kingsley Healthcare
  • Lantor
  • Limar
  • Lincad
  • Markes International
  • Richard Whittaker
  • Senior Bird Bellows
  • Somerset Care
  • Steatite
  • North Ayrshire Council
  • APS Care Limited
  • The Kronen Collection
  • The Ardagh Group
  • Southbank Centre
  • Crealy Theme Park and Resort
  • Malmaison & Hotel du Vin
  • Holiday Inn
  • Parseq
  • Camino Healthcare

Book a demo

See Staff Rota Planner working with your own rotas

Sixty minutes with a RotaOne product specialist, using your sites, shift patterns and payroll as the example.