What it does not do
A short list, written plainly, because a rota tool that quietly grows into a pay system, a time clock and an HR adviser stops being good at rotas. Read this before a walkthrough; if one of these lines is something you need, we are not the right fit and we would rather say so here.
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The list
Six lines. Each one is a decision, not an omission.
No payroll
We do not calculate pay, run payroll or produce timesheets for pay. The planner knows shifts, not rates. Whoever runs your payroll gets the record of the week as plain text and works from there.
No time clock
Nobody clocks in or out. The planner does not know whether a shift was worked as drawn, only that it was planned and whether it was changed. That is a deliberate limit, not a missing feature.
No location tracking
We track nobody's phone, nobody's position and nobody's movements. The share link shows a week; it does not report back. Staff can open it from anywhere and the planner learns nothing about where that was.
No HR or employment-law advice
We give no HR, employment-law or working-time advice, and we claim no compliance with any of it on your behalf. The planner will happily show you a person on six days in a row; deciding whether that is right is yours, or your adviser's.
No personal records
A person is a name, a role and the shifts they worked. No address, no birth date, no next of kin, no bank details, no photograph, no notes about performance. There is nowhere to type them, on purpose.
No data sale, no advertising
We do not sell your data or anyone's, and we show no advertising, on the planner or on this site. The account is paid for by the business that uses it, which is the whole business model.
The reasoning
Why we will not add these, even when asked nicely.
Why the lines are where they are
Every one of them comes from watching what happens when a rota tool crosses it. The moment a rota touches pay, every swap becomes a pay query and managers stop recording swaps honestly. The moment it becomes a time clock, staff stop trusting the share link, because it has started watching them. The moment it offers employment advice, a screen starts making decisions that belong to a person who knows the team, and it makes them badly.
Holding the lines keeps the planner small enough to learn in a walkthrough and honest enough to leave on the wall. It also keeps the data we hold to almost nothing, which is the simplest privacy policy there is: we cannot lose what we never asked for.
What to use alongside it
Pay: your payroll provider or your accountant, fed with the record of the week. Clocking in: a till or a door system if you need one; the planner will not compete with it. Employment questions: a person qualified to answer them. The planner sits beside all three and stays out of their way.
The fit
Who it is for, and who it is not.
Who it is not for
Chains with several sites and a manager at each. Agencies placing temporary staff across many employers. Anyone whose rota must feed a pay system directly. Anyone who wants staff tracked. We turn these down on the first message, and the walkthrough page asks the questions that let us do that early.
Who it is for
One team, one manager who lives in the week, and a wall with a sheet on it: a café, a shop, a front desk, a workshop, a small kitchen. If that is you, bring a week.
If the list suits you, bring a week.
The walkthrough is the whole sales process: one real week, built in front of you, kept by you.
See it on your own week