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2026.37.1

Wavro has a blog

10/09/2026

There is now a blog at wavroapp.com/blog, with practical guides on rotas, labour cost and UK working time rules, sorted by trade. The first two pieces cover the four rest and rota rules every small team has to follow, and how to read your café labour cost percentage properly. New guides land every week from here.

Highlights

  • A blog, at /blog - guides written for the person who actually builds the rota, not for search engines. You can read everything, or filter to your trade: cafés and restaurants, retail, salons and barbers, gyms and studios, clinics, or general.
  • UK rest breaks and rota rules - the four numbers that shape a legal rota: the 20 minute break on shifts over six hours, 11 hours between shifts, a day off a week, and the 48 hour average. Includes what changes for staff under 18, and what "adequate records" actually means.
  • Café labour cost percentage - how to calculate it so the figure means something, why prime cost tells you more than labour alone, and the order to fix a high one in. Cutting hours first is the crude move and usually the one that costs you a good barista.
  • Every guide answers the question first. Each piece opens with a short, direct answer, then goes deeper. The common questions are collected at the bottom of each one.

Worth knowing

  • Nothing changes inside the app. This release is the public site only. Your rotas, clock-ins and timesheets are untouched.
  • The blog links are back in the header and footer. They were removed last release because the section had not shipped. It has now.

Changes

Features

  • feat(blog): add the marketing blog at /blog, with per-trade category pages, share images, and structured data so search engines and AI assistants can read the guides properly.
  • feat(seo): the blog, its category pages and every post are listed in the sitemap and in /llms.txt.

Fixes

  • style(ui): replace em dashes with plain punctuation across the app and the release emails, so text reads the same everywhere it is rendered.
  • fix(profile): remove the Area field from the personal profile page. Areas are defined by the company, not per person, and the field was showing a stale value.

Groundwork

  • feat(shifts): the database groundwork for shift claims, where staff ask for an open shift and a manager approves it. Nothing is switched on yet; the feature arrives in a later release.