The week's rota, done in a coffee break
Drag the shifts into place, see who can actually work, and download the hours for payroll. Free, however many of you there are.
No account, no card. The planner runs in your browser.
Want to support Rota?
Everything here is free, and that is completely fine. It costs us nothing beyond being on our server, so it costs you nothing.
Want to chip in anyway? It goes straight to keeping these tools free for everyone. Pick an amount, or write your own.
Why we built this
A rostering tool that wants five licences and a twelve-month contract is built for a chain, not for a café with three part-timers and a summer temp. The price on the page is rarely the problem — the seat minimum and the contract underneath it are. So we built the opposite.
Free for the whole place
No licences to count and nothing that jumps when the summer temp starts. It is as free for twenty people as for two.
No lock-in
Monthly. Cancel whenever, from the same screen you signed up on. No notice period, no call with a salesperson to get out.
Data kept in the EU
Rota runs on servers in the EU. The planner on this page keeps your week in your own browser — it is not sent anywhere, including to us.
How it works
1. Add your people
Name, contracted hours, and the days they cannot work. Two minutes, once.
2. Fill the week
Make your shift templates — opening, mid, closing — and let Rota hand them to whoever is available. Drag them wherever you want them afterwards.
3. Send the hours to payroll
One button gives you a timesheet as CSV, with Norwegian column names, DD.MM.YYYY dates and decimal commas.
What you actually use every week
A week you can drag
The whole week on one screen, one row per person. Move a shift to another day or another person by dragging it.
Holiday and absence
Holiday in proportion to the hours worked, done for you: 28 of 37.5 hours comes to 19 days. Add holiday and sickness and the week plans around them.
Send it to your staff
One link in the group chat and everyone sees their week. No account for them, no per-head price for you.
Availability
Everyone has the days they cannot work. Put a shift there and the plan says so immediately — not on Friday.
Shift swaps
Flag a shift as wanting a swap, then see who is free that day and hand it over in one click.
Shift templates
Your place probably has three or four shifts that repeat. Make them once and fill the week with them.
Hours against the contract
A running total per person while you plan, held against their contracted hours. You see who has run out before the week starts.
Timesheet for payroll
A semicolon CSV with Norwegian column names that you map into your payroll system on import.
What it costs
Nothing. Rota costs us nothing beyond being on our server, so it costs you nothing. There is no paid tier underneath this, no features held back, and no plan to introduce either.
Frequently asked questions
Does it cost more when we hire someone?
No. Rota is free however many people are on the rota. There is no per-seat price to introduce.
What is the catch?
There is not one. We do not sell your data and there are no ads. The rota is stored in your browser and sent nowhere, so there is little for us to trade in even if we wanted to.
Can I get my data out?
Yes. The week lives in your browser, so it is already yours, and the timesheet downloads as CSV whenever you like.
Where is the data kept?
Rota runs on servers in the EU. The rota you build in the planner here is stored in your browser and never reaches us at all.
Which payroll systems does the export suit?
The export is a semicolon-separated CSV with Norwegian column names, DD.MM.YYYY dates and decimal commas. Payroll systems with CSV import ask you to point their columns at yours on the first import — the file is named so that step is obvious.
Do I need to sign up?
No. The planner needs no account and no install — it runs in the browser, on a phone and on a PC.
Try it on the week you are actually in
The planner is the whole product, not a demo with holes in it. Add your people, fill the week, download the timesheet.
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