Everything you need to know about the latest releases, updates and Rotaready news with a dash of industry insight from the people who empower your business!
26 February 2017
Business rates are being refreshed for the first time in seven years, meaning many businesses will face a sudden hike. Rotaready’s money and time-saving features bring huge efficiency savings, which can help offset the...
23 October 2016
Next week will mark a century since Daylight Savings Time (specifically British Summer Time, BST) was introduced in the UK. The clocks changing every March and October actually mark a shift in timezone. In fact, timezon...
31 July 2016
Do your staff work the classic Mon – Fri, 9-5? Many of our clients’ staff don’t. They have a variety of different shift patterns so keeping track of who’s available to work on any given day can be a headache. On top of...
24 April 2016
Whether you’re directly affected by the introduction of the National Living Wage or not, you’ll almost certainly have heard of it. It’s only been a legal requirement for a few weeks, but we’re already seeing a number of...
13 March 2016
A key design principle when we were building our rota management software was to ensure it’d be awesome in every industry, for businesses large and small. From hospitality to retail to healthcare to leisure and more, we...
07 February 2016
Adopting new software can be a worry. Especially adopting software that directly impacts something as important as managing your workforce. We get that. That’s why we go the extra mile to ensure your transition on to Ro...
03 January 2016
Time & attendance (“T&A”) – capturing and processing staff clock ins and outs – has been one of our most in-demand features in recent months. In this article I’ll take you through the importance of getting T&A right, ho...
30 November 2015
You may love it, you may hate it. You may have bagged a bargain you didn’t even know you wanted. Either way, you can’t argue that since its full-scale introduction to the UK in 2013, Black Friday has marked the start of...
14 November 2015
Sunday trading has always been contentious. Since the Sunday Trading Act 1994, shops bigger than 280m2 (3,000ft2) – typically the size of a convenience store or independent shop – have been limited to 6 hours of trading...
10 October 2015
If you use Elastic Beanstalk to run and manage your web apps, at some point you’ll want to setup some scheduled tasks, or cronjobs. Today’s blog post aims to take you through the best way of achieving this, whether you’...