Less rota admin. More control.
Available now and planned next. Every feature here is something NextRota does today, unless flagged as on the roadmap.
Core rota foundations
The everyday tools your team uses week in, week out. Included in every plan, starting with Starter.
Visual weekly grid, copy-from-last-week, conflict warnings, locked-week governance.
Sub-teams, team admins, scoped permissions, employee read-only roster.
Half-day support, approvals, automatic capacity blocking, bank-holiday awareness.
Tag people with skills and surface them at scheduling time.
Share-ready workbook with banner, day super-headers, freeze panes and totals.
Landscape PDF, branded, ready to print or share.
Every assignment, approval and bulk action recorded. Search and filter by user or action.
Mobile drawer navigation, swipe-friendly roster, employee read-only view.
Smart coverage and rota intelligence
Coverage Guard, Rota Style, Pattern Engine, Rota Mix Intelligence and RMI scope detection. Preview before applying, always.
Checks every rota change against minimum-cover rules. Warns before any edit leaves a gap.
Reusable cycle-day templates. Build the shape of a typical week once, then apply across teams and weeks.
Varies day-by-day assignment patterns across active cells, keeping shift times, breaks and empty cells fixed.
Rebalance the team's category mix safely. Preview the impact on coverage before applying.
Mentions of a team, employee or weekday in your prompt pre-fill Refine Scope. Manager can still adjust.
Performance Focus, included in Growth
Compare activity results against the work you assigned. Targets adjust fairly for leave and bank holidays.
Compare employee activity results against the work assigned on the rota.
Company, team and employee views. Achievement, gaps, top performers and needs-attention at a glance.
Expected targets reduce for employees on leave or bank holiday. Actuals stay as recorded.
Bring in activity results from Excel or Google Sheets. Header rows auto-detected. UK date formats accepted.
Company, team and employee reports. Working time, category mix, leave and bank holidays.
Manager-controlled automation
The Autopilot module is live and included in the Command plan. Every 14-day trial includes full Command access, so you can try Automation before choosing a plan. Configure rules so NextRota prepares drafts, approves and publishes when allowed, and supports leave decisions based on coverage. Managers stay in control, automation is rules-based and coverage-aware.
Tell NextRota what you want to improve in plain English. It suggests a safe rota mix change for you to preview. Available in Command, and during the 14-day full Command trial and founder Command-level access.
Manager-controlled, rules-based automation. NextRota prepares drafts and progresses them on schedules you define. Available today.
Drafts are created automatically based on your Rota Style and patterns, ready for managers to review.
Drafts auto-approve after the review window you set. Managers can edit any time before that.
Approved drafts publish automatically when allowed, with full audit trail.
Clean leave can be auto-approved when your minimum coverage rules still hold.
Email on draft created, approved, published, and on leave decisions. Always under your rules.
Planned next
Genuinely future. Founding customers help shape the order these ship.
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