Staff scheduling software for every industry

Reduce the complexity of employee management with software designed to help you create rotas, manage shifts, track attendance, and optimise workforce coverage. Find the right staff scheduling software for your industry and business needs.

  • Build smarter schedules in less time
  • Improve shift coverage and reduce scheduling errors
  • Keep teams productive and fully covered

Staff scheduling software tailored to your industry

PeopleXD gives you one view of every rota, across every store, distribution centre and head office. You see who's working where, what it costs and what's coming.

  • Every store, one view. You coordinate rotas across all your stores in real time. Employee records sit in the same place.
  • Right people, right shifts. Rostering matches your team to forecast demand. It keeps to your company policy and regulation.
  • Labour cost, as it happens. You track spend against plan with real-time analytics, so you can act before the week closes.
  • Shift swaps from a phone. Your teams swap shifts in mobile self-service. You approve each swap, and skills cover stays intact.
  • Fair shifts. You can track shift patterns and share the popular and unpopular shifts evenly. Favouritism stops being a story people tell.
  • Peaks without the paperwork. Seasonal starters go from offer to onboarding to payroll. Nobody re-enters their details.
  • Hours that match the payslip. Variable hours flow from time and attendance into payroll sign-off.
  • Forecasts built on your own history. Smart Rostering draws on past sales, seasonal trends and weather.

Hospitality staff scheduling software that adapts to your operation . From AI-powered labour forecasting to manual rota building, our hospitality scheduling software gives offers flexible scheduling solutions for every approach to rota planning. 

  • Perfect staff rotas for every site
  • Time & attendance with holiday management
  • Optimised wage costs
  • AI-driven employee sentiment tracking
  • Employee self‑service and secure HR documents

Care rostering software designed to support safe, efficient workforce planning. From managing complex shift patterns to improving workforce visibility, our care rostering solution helps care providers schedule teams confidently while maintaining compliance and continuity of care.

  • Improve rota planning across teams and locations
  • Manage employee availability and shift coverage
  • Support compliance and workforce visibility
  • Reduce administrative workload and manual processes
  • Real-time access to schedules and workforce information

Volunteer management software designed to help organisations coordinate volunteers more effectively. From managing availability to improving communication and engagement, our solution helps charities and not-for-profits build stronger volunteer programmes.

  • Manage volunteer schedules and availability
  • Improve volunteer communication and engagement
  • Track participation, hours, and activities
  • Simplify volunteer administration
  • Create a better volunteer experience

Workforce management software built for facilities management and cleaning organisations. Improve workforce visibility, track attendance, and manage teams across multiple sites through one connected platform.

  • Monitor attendance and working hours in real time
  • Manage teams across multiple locations and contracts
  • Improve workforce visibility and operational efficiency
  • Reduce manual administration and compliance risks
  • Support smarter workforce planning and scheduling

You run rotating shifts with everyone from permanent production staff to seasonal workers. PeopleXD builds one rota for all of them. Approved shifts then go into your pay run.

  • Shift patterns: You can set up as many shift patterns as you need, including cyclical ones for rotating shifts.
  • Skills and compliance: Shift assignment checks skills and compliance as you build the rota.
  • Working time: You see working time risks before a rota goes live.
  • Overtime rules: You can apply different overtime rules to different employee categories.
  • Clocking: Your team can clock in and out on their phones.
  • Shift to pay: Your pay run uses the approved rota, including shift-based and overtime pay.
  • Labour cost: You can compare planned labour costs with actual costs and with budget.
  • Multi-site: You can manage every plant and warehouse in one place.

Whatever your shift pattern, you plan around your people, not around the spreadsheet.

  • Your managers spend more time with their teams. You start from a rota that's already built. You adjust what needs changing, then publish. Less time goes on the grid. More goes on the people working the shifts.
  • Staffing follows the demand you forecast. You match staffing levels to forecast demand. Coverage is in place when and where it's needed. 
  • You see labour costs before the rota goes live. You track planned and actual staffing costs against budget. You spot potential overspend while you can still change the rota.
  • Every rota gets checked before it's published. Schedules are checked against working-time regulations and your company policies. You see problems before shifts go live. 
  • Decisions rest on what the data shows. Workforce insights reveal scheduling trends across your teams. You use them to set staffing levels and find where operations can improve.
  • Your team manages their own shifts from their phone. Employees swap shifts, request leave and check their schedules through mobile self-service. Fewer admin tasks land with you. 
  • Your rota flows straight into payroll. Scheduling, time and attendance, and payroll run in one platform. Data moves between them without anyone retyping it. Fewer errors reach your payroll run.

Powered by Access Evo, our solutions help organisations work smarter across every industry.

Connected Workforce Management with Access Evo

  • Improve workforce visibility with access to employee, attendance, and scheduling data in one place 
  • Connect people, payroll, and workforce management processes through a shared digital experience 
  • Support smarter workforce planning with real-time insights and data-driven decision making 
  • Reduce administration by connecting scheduling, leave management, and payroll workflows 
  • Create a more connected employee experience through a single platform and sign-on 

Why businesses choose staff scheduling software

Staff scheduling and rota management solutions help organisations plan smarter, improve shift coverage, reduce administrative workload, and optimise workforce performance.

Managing shift patterns across multiple sites?

Talk to an expert to find out how Access HR and Rota software can streamline your scheduling processes.

Staff rota software built around your workforce

Whether you're managing a single team or multiple locations, our rota management software help simplify workforce planning, improve visibility, and reduce scheduling complexity.

  • Create staff rotas faster with intelligent scheduling tools
  • Improve shift coverage and reduce scheduling conflicts
  • Track attendance, availability, and time off in one place
  • Gain greater visibility of labour costs and workforce performance
  • Enable employee self-service, shift swaps, and mobile access
  • Integrate rota management with payroll and workforce management processes
  • Stay compliant with working time regulations and company policies

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Why work with us?

We’re more than a software provider. We help organisations build smarter, productive workforces.  

With over 30 years of experience and commitment to innovation, we support thousands of organisations with a comprehensive suite of award-winning business software solutions, from payroll software to ERP, finance to employee benefits, and beyond.

Connect your workforce, people, and business processes in a single digital workspace. By bringing everything together with one login, teams can work more efficiently and collaborate more effectively.

Compare staff scheduling and workforce management solutions designed for different industries and organisation needs.

Powered by Access Evo

Our workforce management software is now powered by Access Evo - our new AI-embedded software experience.

Access Evo helps organisations improve workforce planning, support smart scheduling decisions, and create a more connected employee experience across all your operations.

 

Copilot, your AI-powered assistant, helps managers save time by providing instant answers, surfacing important information, and supporting day-to-day workforce management activities.

 

People Analytics transforms workforce data into actionable insights, helping organisations monitor attendance trends, staffing levels, labour costs, and workforce performance in real time.

 

AI Feed keeps managers and employees informed by highlighting important tasks, scheduling updates, and workforce actions that require attention.

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Rota scheduling software FAQ's

What is rota software?

Access HR and Rota software helps automate time-consuming rostering tasks, reducing admin time spent on managing shifts and busy staffing schedules. You can even ensure integration with your payroll software to ensure the correct rate of pay is automatically set for future rotas.

What does rota software do?

Rota software helps you to:

  • Match your staffing levels to business demand
  • Easily understand your shift costs at a glance and manage the cost of your rosters
  • Configure rotas for various contract types such as full or part-time or agency
  • Let employees view their schedules on the go and make shift swaps themselves
  • Get real-time visibility of changes to your rota and any challenge areas to focus on to ensure you’re appropriately staffed
  • Report on key scheduling statistics to more easily manage your rostering in future
  • Stay compliant with working time regulations
  • Integrate with other HR software like absence and time management systems for a wider view of your people data, helping you to set future strategy

Why is staff scheduling software important?

Staff scheduling is a vital aspect of HR management and has several benefits, including:

  • Effective staffing: making sure you have enough staff to get the job done efficiently.
  • Cost control: Scheduling employees properly helps control labour costs, reduce overtime and unproductive hours.
  • Increased productivity: the right scheduling can improve employee morale, reduce stress and boost productivity.
  • Remain compliant: effective scheduling will ensure businesses follow the most up to date laws and legislation, including overtime and minimum wage regulations.
  • Work-life balance: fair and consistent scheduling can enhance work-life balance and reduce turnover.

Need a shift rota planner to effortlessly organise your workforce? Contact us.

How does staff management software help businesses?

Rota management software helps businesses reduce administrative workload, improve shift coverage, minimise scheduling conflicts, and gain better visibility of workforce costs.

What industries use rota software?

Businesses across almost every sector leverage rota software to streamline scheduling, save time and optimise staff costs. These industries include: healthcare and care homes, hospitality and retail, cleaning businesses, security guards, and those in the charity sector.

What kind of support will I get during and after implementation?

You’ll have access to always-on, UK-based support that covers both technical expertise and strategic guidance to help your HR suite deliver the ROI you expect.

Who will be my main point of contact?

You’ll be assigned a Dedicated Customer Success Manager who understands your business and goals, alongside a Technical Success Manager who provides proactive technical advice.

How quickly can I expect issues to be resolved?

We offer contractual service commitments with rapid response guarantees to ensure any issues are handled swiftly.

Do you monitor and optimise the system after go-live?

Yes – we provide proactive system monitoring and preventive optimisation so potential issues are addressed before they impact performance.

Will my team get training and best-practice advice?

Absolutely. We offer comprehensive training resources and ongoing best-practice guidance to help your team get the most from the system.

Does support stop once the system is live?

No – we provide an end-to-end partnership, from initial implementation right through to supporting your wider digital transformation.

Can employees swap shifts using staff scheduling software?

Yes. Most modern scheduling platforms include self-service tools that allow employees to request shift swaps and update availability, subject to manager approval.

Which staff scheduling solution is right for my industry?

The best solution depends on your workforce requirements. Access offers specialist scheduling and workforce management solutions for hospitality, retail, leisure, care, and enterprise organisations.

Can staff scheduling software support multiple locations?

Yes. Many workforce management platforms enable organisations to manage schedules, attendance, and employee availability across multiple teams, departments, and locations from a single system.