A good staff rota in hospitality comes down to one thing: the right people on shift at the right moment.
To get there, though, you have to account for availability, holiday, sickness, contracted hours, school timetables, fixed shifts and the different roles within your venue.
Why switch from Excel to a digital rota app?
With a small team, a spreadsheet still works fine. As soon as your team grows, keeping all that information current takes more and more time. Availability sits in WhatsApp, holiday is tracked somewhere separate, and every change creates yet another version of the rota.
A digital rota brings it all together in one place.
What you need for a smart hospitality rota
A practical system has to be simple above all. You don't want to spend hours in settings — you just want to build your rota quickly.
Think of:
availability and unavailability;
school and college timetables;
holiday and sickness;
standard weekly rotas;
fixed shifts;
contracted hours;
different roles and skills.
All of this needs to be visible while you're building the rota, not afterwards.
Why Tiemdo is the cheap hospitality rota software?
Everything you need. Without paying over the odds.
Tiemdo brings all the information for your staff rota together in a single overview.
Staff enter their own availability and unavailability. School timetables, holiday, fixed shifts and standard weekly rotas are ready and waiting the moment you start planning.
So there's no more digging through WhatsApp, scraps of paper or a handful of Excel files.
With fixed shifts and standard rotas you simply drag your shifts onto the right people. For a normal week, that means the rota is often ready within minutes.
Then you publish it, and everyone sees the live rota straight away.
No conflicting versions. No confusion. Just one current staff rota for the whole team.
Fast, practical, complete and affordable. For a good rota, you don't need more than that.
Why this rota software can be so cheap?
£1 per employee per month. A venue with twenty staff pays twenty pounds. That's less than an hour of wages.
Comparable packages run four times higher. That difference isn't in the rota itself, but in everything around it: HR record modules, extensive reporting, features that earn their keep in a large company and go untouched in a pub.
We left those out. What's left is what you build your rota with. Cheap doesn't mean stripped back here. It means you're not paying for what you'd never use.
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