Rotawise Shift Scheduler

Weekly employee shift schedules that respect availability, roles, max hours, overtime and rest rules, with PDF, Excel and calendar exports.

Rotawise Shift Scheduler turns your team's availability and the shifts you need covered into a weekly work schedule. A deterministic solver checks each hard rule before it assigns anyone: roles and skills, days and times people cannot work, max hours, the 40-hour overtime line, minimum rest between a closing and an opening shift, shifts per day and days in a row. When a shift cannot be covered it names the shift and the reason. It balances weekend and closing shifts, reports hours per person, and exports a printable landscape PDF, an Excel workbook and a calendar file for each employee.

What it does

• Weekly schedule from staff, roles, availability and the shifts to cover (headcount per shift)
• Hard rules checked for each assignment: availability, roles, max hours, overtime cap, rest between shifts (clopening), shifts per day, days in a row
• Open shifts explained: who could work it and which rule blocks each person
• Fair rotation of weekend and closing shifts, hours balanced across the team
• Overnight shifts and daylight-saving weeks counted in real hours
• Upload staff availability as CSV or Excel
• Check an existing schedule against the rules
• Printable PDF, Excel workbook and per-employee calendar (.ics) files

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Limitations

• Schedules one week at a time; rest and consecutive-day rules do not see the previous week
• Rules are what you set; it does not know state or city scheduling laws and is not legal advice
• Minimum hours and preferences are goals, not guarantees; hard rules come first
• Up to 80 staff and 400 people-shifts per week
• Does not publish schedules, message staff, track time clocks, or run payroll

Connect

Install Rotawise Shift Scheduler from the ChatGPT plugin directory. Developers can connect the MCP endpoint directly: https://shift-scheduler.zovo.one/mcp