Rota Alternatives

Rota Cloud

  • Instant sign-up
  • Define: Name, Employees, Locations, Roles, Skills, Leave
  • Create shifts, exist in "open shifts". Drag to assign to rows representing staff
  • Copy shift/Copy Week
  • Private shift definition in advance of publishing
  • .ics publishing
  • Print rota; one line per member
  • Employees can be in one group. Have a default role
  • Request/Approve leave. Specify days off
  • Updates to the Carrubbers rota emails upon publishing including "your next shift is at"

Nice product, but pitched towards paid workforce and 40 hour week scenario.

Parim

  • http://parim.co.uk
  • Reviewed: 21st Oct 2014
  • Pricing: 1.5p per shift hour, lower limit of 15/month
  • Trial not instant access: 35 mins after sign-up, before account created
  • Very heavy weight: can't create an event without creating a client
  • User interface not intuative at all

Horrible product; seems to be from the perspective of a event management firm where you have a team of staff, and you create/approve events, define required positions, then staff up for the events. Doesn't seem to facilitate routine events.

Rotaville

  • Instant sign-up
  • Define: Rotas, Employees
  • Rota editor has one row per rota per day
  • Week or Month view
  • Shifts created for each rota
  • Assign users to rotas

Nice product, but no concept of creating events with duties, rather more overlapping shifts to define coverage.

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