Plan a week of shifts
Put a crew on a day as a block of hours, and see the whole week at once instead of in six tabs. The week is the unit: Monday to Sunday, everyone in view, nothing hidden behind a click.
intendedA scheduling tool · not yet released
The rota,
written once.
Rosterly is a scheduling tool for shift-based businesses: the week’s shifts, who works them, and the hours each one adds up to.
Most rotas are still built by hand — a spreadsheet, a whiteboard, a photo of a spreadsheet on someone’s phone. Then the week starts. One person swaps a shift by text message, another calls in sick at four in the afternoon, two names end up in the same place at the same hour, and the hours written down in advance stop matching the hours that were actually worked. On Sunday the whole thing is rebuilt from memory, and a month later somebody reconciles the timesheet line by line.
Planning a week of shifts is not a hard problem. Keeping one version of that week, that everyone can see and that still matches the hours, is.
Week 42 · four crews
- shift
- open
The week view needs JavaScript to fill in. The page reads the same without it.
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What it will do
Four things, being built in that order. None of them is finished, and this is what the tool is aiming at rather than a feature list off a brochure.
Spot the gaps and the overlaps
The two mistakes that cost an evening: an hour with nobody on it, and one person booked in two places. Both are cheap to find on Thursday and expensive to find on Monday morning, so the tool should point at them while the week is still being planned.
intendedKeep the hours honest
Planned hours sit next to the hours that came back, so the difference between the rota and the timesheet is visible while it can still be fixed — not at the end of the month, when the only person who remembers that Tuesday is gone.
intendedChange one shift, not the sheet
When someone calls, the change happens once, in the place the rota already lives, and everyone who needs to know reads the same version. No second copy, no forwarded photo, no “the one I sent on Friday”.
intended
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Status
What exists, what does not, and how to reach the person building it.
In development
No sign-ups. No price. No date.
Rosterly is being built by Yordan Creatives, the studio that also runs winter-lighting installation crews. It is not open to sign-ups: there is no account to create, nothing to pay for and no waiting list. It has no public version and no site of its own yet — this page is the only description of it.
If you run shifts and want to talk about how you build your rota, or ask where this is going, email Yordancreatives@gmail.com. One person reads that inbox, and it is the same person writing the tool.
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Where it comes from
The problem is not hypothetical here. The same company installs winter lighting: crews of two to six, night windows fixed by the client and by the street, a van loaded at nine in the evening for a shift that starts at eleven, and a phone call at four in the afternoon because one man cannot come. The week gets planned on paper, changed by phone, and reconciled from memory.
Rosterly is being shaped around that week — first so those crews are planned and paid from one record, then for anyone else who plans a week the same way and is currently doing it in a spreadsheet.