Can it handle multiple sites and locations?

Yes. Staff can be scheduled across sites where they are qualified, with travel and site-specific rules taken into account, and managers see only the locations they are responsible for.

Does the rota connect to timesheets and payroll?

Yes. Scheduled shifts flow into timesheets, are reconciled against actual clock-in and clock-out times, and the approved result exports to payroll - so scheduled, worked and paid hours are all traceable to each other.

What about last-minute sickness?

A reported absence removes the person from the shift and can broadcast the open shift to qualified, available staff who are not already at their hours limit. Cover is arranged in minutes rather than by ringing down a list.

Can staff state their availability?

Yes. Staff can record availability and preferences, which the rota builder respects and flags when overridden. It reduces the amount of rebuilding caused by a request that arrives after publication.

Rota Scheduling Software in Daventry

Daventry is well within our regular travel radius from Olney, which means implementation here is done in person rather than over a screen share. That matters more than it sounds: most of what a system needs to know is learned by standing in the building.

A rota is a spending decision, but most businesses only find out what it cost three weeks later when payroll is processed. CubeHR builds rotas from repeatable shift patterns, checks them against holiday, availability and required skills, and shows the forecast wage cost - including overtime and premium rates - live as you build. Publishing pushes shifts to staff phones, swaps and cover requests route through approval rather than through a group chat, and the finished rota flows into timesheets so the hours that get paid are the hours that were actually worked.

Live cost
Wage forecast updates as you build the rota
Blocked
Unqualified or non-compliant shifts cannot be saved
On a phone
Published shifts and instant change notifications

What it does

Inside rota scheduling software

The parts of CubeHR that make up rotas & scheduling. Everything here shares one data model, so nothing needs re-keying between them.

Patterns, not blank grids
Build repeatable shift patterns once and roll them forward. Four-on-four-off, annualised hours, split shifts and rotating weekends are all first-class, not workarounds.
Cost before you publish
Forecast wage cost updates live as you build the rota, including overtime thresholds, premium rates and unsocial-hours uplifts.
Skills and certification checks
The system will not let you schedule someone into a shift they are not qualified or certified for, and warns when a required certification expires mid-rota.
Published to a phone
Staff get their shifts on their phone with change notifications - no printed rota on a noticeboard that is out of date the moment somebody calls in sick.
Swaps, cover and open shifts
Staff can offer and pick up shifts, request swaps and volunteer for open shifts - all subject to approval and the same skill and working-time rules.
Working time compliance
Rest periods, maximum weekly hours and night-worker rules checked as the rota is built, with warnings rather than a breach discovered afterwards.

In practice

Problems this actually solves

Anonymised, but not invented. These are the situations businesses describe to us before they change anything.

A rota built in a spreadsheet every Thursday
The situation
A multi-site operator rebuilt its rota from scratch weekly, printed it, and dealt with changes by phone. Staff frequently arrived for shifts that had been changed after printing.
What changed
Patterns roll forward automatically and changes push to staff phones instantly. Rota preparation dropped from most of a day to under an hour, and no-shows caused by stale information stopped.
Overtime discovered at payroll
The situation
Managers scheduled to cover the work in front of them, and the overtime bill was a monthly surprise that nobody could trace back to a specific decision.
What changed
Live cost forecasting shows the overtime consequence while the rota is being built. Managers now make the trade-off deliberately, with a figure in front of them.
Cover arranged in a group chat
The situation
Shift swaps happened over WhatsApp with no record. Occasionally both people believed the other was covering, and neither turned up.
What changed
Swaps and cover requests route through the system with approval and an audit trail. The rota is always the single authoritative version.

Local coverage

Rotas & scheduling across Northamptonshire

We cover Daventry and the surrounding area, including Town Centre, Southbrook, Ashby Fields, Middlemore and Drayton, across the NN11 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Northampton, Kettering, Wellingborough and Corby and elsewhere in Northamptonshire.

Postcode districts

NN11

Areas we cover

Town Centre, Southbrook, Ashby Fields, Middlemore, Drayton, Stefen Hill, Lang Farm and Daneholme.

Getting to you

Roughly 21 miles from our office in Olney, Buckinghamshire. Discovery, training and go-live are done on site as standard - not because it looks good on a proposal, but because most of what a system needs to know is learned in the building.

Rotas & scheduling elsewhere in Northamptonshire

All of Northamptonshire

How it happens

What implementation actually involves

The same process wherever you are, and for Daventry it is done in person.

Discovery
A structured session mapping how you work now - the systems, the spreadsheets and the bits held together by one person’s memory. We come back with what the platform covers as standard, what needs configuration, and what needs building.
Configuration
Your structure, sites, roles, approval chains, document templates and permissions set up to match the business - not a demo tenant with your logo dropped on it.
Data migration
Existing records brought across and reconciled: customers, stock, bills of materials, employees, holiday balances, contracts. We migrate, you check, then we cut over.
Training & rollout
Role-based training so people learn the parts they actually use, with a pilot team first where it makes sense. Documentation and short screen recordings left behind for new starters.
Ongoing support
UK support from the people who built the platform, with a named contact, agreed response times, and a product roadmap you can influence.

You might call it something else

Rotas & scheduling goes by a lot of names - if you searched for any of these, this is the page you wanted.

Rota software
Shift planning software
Staff scheduling software
Workforce scheduling
Shift management system

Questions

The things people ask first

Yes. Staff can be scheduled across sites where they are qualified, with travel and site-specific rules taken into account, and managers see only the locations they are responsible for.
Yes. Scheduled shifts flow into timesheets, are reconciled against actual clock-in and clock-out times, and the approved result exports to payroll - so scheduled, worked and paid hours are all traceable to each other.
A reported absence removes the person from the shift and can broadcast the open shift to qualified, available staff who are not already at their hours limit. Cover is arranged in minutes rather than by ringing down a list.
Yes. Staff can record availability and preferences, which the rota builder respects and flags when overridden. It reduces the amount of rebuilding caused by a request that arrives after publication.