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chronoskin plans the week for cafes, shops and clinics. Build a rota in minutes, let the team swap shifts among themselves, and send the hours straight to payroll.

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Plan the week

Drag shifts onto a grid of people and days. chronoskin warns you about clashes, short rests and anyone who is over their contracted hours.

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Swap shifts New

Staff offer a shift from their phone and a colleague picks it up. A manager approves the swap with one click, or sets rules that approve it for them.

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Run payroll

Worked hours, breaks and holiday are totalled per person at the end of the period and exported in the layout your payroll package already reads.

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The whole week on one screen. No more printouts.

Everyone sees the same rota, on the wall screen in the back office and on the phone in their pocket. Change a shift and the people it affects get a message.

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Holiday that books itself. Almost.

Requests land in one list with the cover already worked out, so saying yes takes a second and saying no comes with a reason.

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"Friday afternoons are mine again."

The rota used to take two hours and a pencil. Now it is a template, three changes and a button.

C The owner of a cafe with twelve staff

"Swaps stopped being my problem."

Two people agree between themselves and I get one message to approve. Most weeks I do not even get that.

S The manager of a shop on the high street

"Payroll takes ten minutes now."

The hours come out in the layout our package reads. Nobody retypes a timesheet any more.

P The practice manager of a dental clinic

Who uses it four kinds of team, one rota

Cafes

Early, late and split shifts across the week.

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Shops

Weekend cover and seasonal staff in one plan.

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Clinics

On-call lists and rest rules checked for you.

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Workshops

Jobs, benches and people on the same grid.

See a workshop rota

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Try it with your own team

Import last week's rota from a spreadsheet and have next week planned before lunch.

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What a week with chronoskin looks like, one screen at a time.

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We will import your first rota for you. Send the spreadsheet and it is ready the next working day.

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Planning the week

A rota is a grid: people down the side, days across the top.

Pick a shift from the palette and drop it on a cell. A shift keeps its start, end and break, so the hours add up as you go and the total for each person sits at the end of the row.

Start from a template

Most weeks look like the one before. Save any week as a template and the next one starts filled in.

  • One template per site, or one per season
  • Named shifts with their own colour
  • Open shiftsA shift with no name on it yet. It shows on everyone's phone. that anyone qualified may claim

Importing an old rota

Export the old sheet as rota.csv with one row per shift. The importer matches people by email address and tells you which rows it could not place.

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Read next: Swapping a shift Booking holiday What it costs What changed this month Back to the start

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Pricing

Pay per site, not per person. Every plan starts with 30 days free.

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Corner

$12

a month for one site and up to 15 people. Rotas, swaps and holiday.

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High street Most chosen

$29

a month for three sites and up to 60 people. Adds payroll export.

Choose High street

Chain

$79

a month for twenty sites and up to 400 people. Adds roles and reports.

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Prices in US dollars, billed monthly. Tax is added where it applies.
What you getCornerHigh streetChain
Sites1320
People on the rota1560400
Months of history kept31236
Text messages a month504002,500
Payroll export Add-on$5.00$0.00$0.00
In the tables: Included Add-onNot in the plan, but you can add it for the price shown. New Most chosen Ending soon 3
Read about the last price change

Questions about the plans

Can I change plan later?

At any time, up or down. The new price starts with your next bill.

What counts as a site?

One address with its own rota. A stall and its kitchen are one site.

Is there a contract?

No. Plans run month to month and stop on the day you cancel.

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News

Releases, customer stories and the odd note from the team.

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  • Shift swaps are out of beta

    Swaps now work across sites, and a manager can set rules that approve the simple ones without being asked.

    14 March 2013 by Ines Hartog in Releases, 6 comments
  • Payroll export for three more packages

    The export screen has three new layouts and remembers the one you used last time.

    2 March 2013 by Tom Reyes in Releases, 2 comments
  • How a bakery with four sites plans its week

    One planner, four ovens and forty people: a short interview about templates and early starts.

    19 February 2013 by Ines Hartog in Customers, 11 comments
  • Holiday requests on the phone

    Ask for a day off from the mobile page and see straight away who else is away that week.

    4 February 2013 by Tom Reyes in Releases, 4 comments
  • A quieter January, and what we fixed

    Forty small repairs, the largest of them to printing a rota on one sheet.

    21 January 2013 by Ines Hartog in Notes, 1 comment

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In the trial

Every feature of the Chain plan, for one site and as many people as you like.

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After 30 days

Choose a plan or do nothing. Rotas you have published stay readable for a year.

Bringing a rota with you?

Send last week's spreadsheet after you sign up and we will load it for you, people and shifts included.

How importing works

Teams that joined this week

  • BA bakery with four sites38 people, joined on Monday
  • DA dental practice11 people, joined on Tuesday
  • WA bicycle workshop6 people, joined on Thursday

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