Staff rotas, sorted.

The right rota app for a small business is one that covers the whole week without add-ons: building the rota, publishing it to staff phones, clocking in and out, and approving timesheets. Wavro does all four on one flat plan, with UK weekday, weekend, and bank holiday pay rates built in, so a team of five is not paying enterprise per-user pricing for features it never opens.

Any UK business that runs shifts - gyms and studios, salons and barbers, clinics and care teams, shops, cleaning crews, cafes, bars and restaurants. It suits owner-managers who currently build the staff rota in a spreadsheet and send it round on WhatsApp, and who want scheduled hours, actual clocked hours, and labour cost in one place instead of three.

No. Staff open Wavro in their phone browser to see the rota, clock in, request holiday, and swap shifts. There is nothing to download from an app store, and they can add it to their home screen so it opens like a normal app. That matters when a new starter needs to be on the rota the same day.

Staff tap clock in on their phone and the clock event is linked to the shift you scheduled, so scheduled hours and actual hours sit side by side. Managers see who is on, who is on break, and who is running late on the live dashboard, and the paid hours flow straight into the timesheet for approval instead of being re-typed at the end of the week.

Yes. You set weekday, Saturday, Sunday, and bank holiday rates per person, and shifts are costed at the right rate automatically. Paid holiday accrues at 12.07% of approved hours worked, which is the usual accrual for irregular-hours and part-year staff, and the balance updates as requests are approved.

Yes. The demo page shows a full sample week you can look at without signing up, and new admins can load the same sample week into a fresh company - two staff, 14 published shifts, and half the week clocked in - to see how the rota, timesheets, and cost forecast behave before adding real people.

Not yet. The current release focuses on the rota, clocking in, timesheets, labour cost, and manager visibility. Sales-linked labour percentage and payroll or accounting exports are on the roadmap; the cost forecast today is based on scheduled and actual hours at each person’s pay rates.

Yes. Add staff with their role and pay rates during onboarding, then send email invite links whenever you are ready. You can build and cost an entire rota before anyone is invited, so nothing is published to the team until you decide it is right.