The week, the people, the cost
Every small employer that runs shifts writes a rota, and for most of them it lives in a spreadsheet, a group chat and one person's head.
Free for 14 days. No card needed.
Weekrota Pro is £6.50 per month for your whole team, billed monthly.
A small UK employer with five to eighty people on shifts, writing the week's rota, changing it when someone calls in sick, costing it and keeping it for payroll, and tired of a spreadsheet and a group chat
Not an employer tracking annual leave, attendance or hours worked, not a payroll bureau, not a US business writing a schedule or an Australian one writing a roster, not a hospital rostering doctors, and not a company shopping for a full HR suite
The week
The rota is built from the days you open and the people each shift needs, so the hours per person and the shifts still empty are on the screen while you are writing it, not discovered on Monday morning when someone does not turn up.
The people
A swap agreed in a group chat is a change nobody can find a week later. In Pro the change is made on the rota, by a named person, and the published version updates, so the record payroll is run from is the record the team actually worked.
The cost
Every person carries their own hourly rate and contracted hours, so the cost of the week and the gap against contracts are totals that follow the rota rather than a sum someone does afterwards in a second spreadsheet.
Tools
Weekrota is two free worksheets and one paid record for the UK employer with five to eighty people on shifts.
The first lays the week out: days open, shifts a day, people on each shift and hours a shift, and returns the rota hours in the week, the hours per person, what the week costs at your hourly rate and how that sits against the hours you have contracted.
The second turns a salaried person's pay into an hourly rate, a loaded cost with employer on-costs and the price of the rota week you have just given them. Both compute in the page with no account and no trial clock.
Free to use. No account, no card, no sign-up.
In figures
2.99USD
Median published figure, the middle half 1.85 to 5 USD
13 sources with a published figure, read 19 October 2026.
If you need clocking in, timesheets, payroll exports, holiday balances and HR files in one place, buy a workforce suite and do not read on. Weekrota is for the employer who has payroll handled and needs one thing kept properly: who is on which shift this week, what it costs and what changed. It is priced and scoped for that and nothing else.
| Weekrota | A per user rota and workforce suite | |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay for | One flat price for the whole team, £6.50 a month, however many people you add | A price per user per month, often with a minimum monthly spend, so the bill grows every time you hire |
| The free tier | Both worksheets, the whole calculation, with no account and no cap on use | A timed trial or a free plan capped by headcount, with the answer behind a login |
| What it covers | The rota: staff, rates, contracted hours, weeks, shifts, swaps, cover, publishing, hour and cost totals | Rotas plus clocking in, timesheets, leave, payroll and HR, whether or not you use them |
| Getting your data out | Export staff, weeks and shifts any time, and for 90 days after you cancel | Varies by plan; export is often a paid tier or a support ticket |
Competitor pricing read 2026-09-05 on the vendor's UK page: Deputy prices Lite at £3.25, Core at £4.25 and Pro at £6.50 per user per month, GBP excluding taxes, with a minimum monthly spend of £20 on its monthly plans (deputy.com/gb/pricing). Each figure is sourced in research/data/claims.tsv with its retrieval date; prices change and the vendor's own page is the authority.
Weekrota Pro
£7
per month, whole team
The worksheet gives you one week's hours and cost. Pro remembers it: the people, their rates and contracted hours, every week's shifts, every swap and every change, and the totals that follow when a shift moves.
Free for 14 days. No card needed.
Weekrota Pro is £6.50 per month for your whole team, billed monthly. Billed monthly. Cancel any time from your account page. Price and renewal terms are shown before checkout.