Retail scheduling software for the hours your store is actually busy.
Retail staff scheduling is a demand problem before it is a rota problem. The doors open at the same time every day and the shop does not stay equally busy inside them — and the hours you commit to on a contract still have to add up at the end of the week.
Each site is its own operation.
A second shop is not a second tab on the same rota. It has its own trading pattern, its own team, its own roles and its own week — and a manager who should see that store, not everybody else's.
RotaBot keeps them separate. Switch site and the rota, the staff, the requirements and the templates all change with it. Add a site when you open one. That is the difference between scheduling software for retail stores and a general scheduling tool: the store is the unit, not the company.
Everything you are looking at — the rota, the staff, the busy times — belongs to the site selected here.
Saturday afternoon is not Tuesday morning.
Staffing requirements are set as blocks inside the trading day: from a start time to an end time, how many people, and of what. Two on the floor from opening, a third from midday, somebody on the till until close.
Saved as a template per site, so a December week and an ordinary week are two named patterns rather than a rebuild — and the same blocks are what coverage is measured against afterwards.
Contracted hours are the commitment the week is measured against.
Each person carries their contract: contracted hours, an optional target and weekly cap, a maximum shift length, the days and windows they can work. A contracted person's availability is a contractual baseline; a casual person is only scheduled where somebody has recorded that they can work.
Demand pulls one way and those commitments pull the other. Both are inputs to the same solve, so the week that comes out has already reconciled them — and where it cannot, a contracted person can still come back short. RotaBot is heavily penalised for leaving them short rather than forbidden from it, and the shortfall is shown against their name rather than hidden.
What the floor actually needs.
Retail cover is rarely about a named job. It is about somebody being in the right part of the shop, trained for what happens there.
Cover, not headcount
Ask for a role when the job has to be that job, or an area when you need somebody covering a part of the shop and it does not matter who. Till, floor, stockroom, a supervisor on duty.
Trained is not a note
Somebody who is not trained on the till is not a candidate for the till. Training is a constraint the rota is built against, not a reminder you check afterwards.
The shift that never moves
A delivery morning, a standing keyholder. Fixed on the person and carried into every week, so it is not rediscovered each time.
A week you can check before the store sees it.
Coverage measured against the requirements you set, and everybody's assigned hours against their contract, on the same screen as the week itself.
What this page is, and is not.
The panels here are illustrations
They are hand-built representations of the current RotaBot interface, drawn with fictional data — not screenshots, and not a roadmap. What they show is what the product does today.
It is sold through a demonstration
There is no self-service sign-up. Tell us how your stores trade and we will show you the same week solved against them.