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Team, HR & rota

Rotas, holidays and certificates in one place

Build the rota, approve holidays in a click and see who is trained for what. You get a warning weeks before a certificate or ticket runs out.

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Weeks aheadwarning before any ticket runs out
1 clickto approve a holiday request
Liveholiday left for each person
Westbrook Building & Roofing · Team, HR & rota
Rota planner. Build the week's rota, with gaps and overtime shown as you go.

This is a working example. Click, drag and try it.

4 ways it can work, or tell us yours

Pick the version closest to how you work. Under each one, tell us what you would change. It all goes into your system, and we build it the way you describe.

Westbrook Building & Roofing · Team, HR & rota
Holidays & absence. Requests approved in a click, with allowance left shown.

Holidays & absence

Requests with the dates, who else is off and the allowance left. Approve or decline in a click, and the days block out in the diary and the rota.

Any business with staff who book time off

What it does day to day

You build the week's rota on one grid, with gaps and overtime showing as you go. Staff request holidays on their phone, you approve them in a click, and the diary blocks those days out so nobody gets booked.

Each person's record holds their certificates, training and documents with expiry dates. The system warns you and them weeks before anything lapses, and timesheets come in from their phones ready for payroll.

  • Rota plannerBuild the week on a grid, copy last week, and see gaps and overtime as you fill it.
  • Holiday requestsStaff ask on their phone, you approve in a click and their allowance updates.
  • Absence recordsSickness and other absence logged against each person, with return-to-work notes.
  • Timesheets from the phoneHours logged on the phone or taken from the jobs they worked, ready to check and send to payroll.
  • Certificate expiry warningsCSCS, Gas Safe, DBS, first aid and driving licences, with a warning weeks before expiry.
  • Training matrixA grid of who is trained on what, with refreshers due picked out in colour.
  • Staff documentsContracts, handbooks and signed policies kept on each person's record.
  • Wage cost on the rotaSee the week's wage bill as you build the rota, set against what the week should bring in.

Spreadsheets, off-the-shelf or your own

How Team, HR & rota goes on each of the three ways businesses usually run it.

WhatSpreadsheets and paperOff-the-shelf softwareYour own system
Holiday requestsA paper form or a textAn HR app that links to nothingApproved in a click, blocked out of the diary
CertificatesFound out of date on siteStored but not linked to the workWarnings weeks before they run out
The rotaA spreadsheet emailed roundA rota app with a fee per headBuilt in the same system as the jobs
TimesheetsPaper sheets added up on MondayClocked in one app, keyed into anotherTaken from the jobs they worked
Who can do whatIn the manager's headA training add-onA matrix you check before you book

What changes for you

Rotas done in minutes

Copy last week, fix the gaps the system shows you, and send it to everyone's phone.

No surprise overtime

You see the wage bill as you plan, before anyone works the hours.

Fair and clear for staff

Everyone can see their shifts and holiday left without asking the office.

The right person on site

Customers get people with in-date tickets and the right training at their door.

Works with the rest of your system

Information goes from Team, HR & rota to the sections that need it, so nobody types it in twice. Add them now or later.

Connects to Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, FreeAgent, Stripe, GoCardless, Microsoft 365, Google and most modern software.

Questions about Team, HR & rota

Anything else, call us on 01903 368559.

Want Team, HR & rota built your way?

Add it to your system, tell us what to change, and we will send you a working version free.