Forecasting and labour planning

Overstaffed on Monday, understaffed on Friday? We can fix that

Forecast demand from the data you already have and set labour budgets that actually match what happens on the shop floor.

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★ Location B: Surrey⚠ Analysis

Demand vs scheduled staffDemandServicesTillsManagerUnderstaffed

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Demand coverage78%100%

Understaffed hours17 hrs0 hrs

Labour cost£1,184.20£1,162.75

✓ Staffing matched to demandEvery hour covered · within budget

Trusted by ops teams managing thousands of shifts every week

Why it matters

Know what’s coming, and staff for it

Most rotas are built on last year’s pattern and a manager’s gut feel. When demand moves, the schedule is already wrong.

Rotageek forecasts demand for every site, hour by hour, and turns it into a labour plan and budget your managers can schedule against. The result is fewer overstaffed quiet shifts, fewer short-staffed busy ones, and a labour budget that holds up on the day.

Forecast demand from your sales, footfall and bookings data, factoring in weather, local events and bank holidays
Turn the forecast into hours, roles and budgets
Test what a change would cost before you make it

Sound familiar?

The problems we hear most, and the part of the platform that fixes each one.

“Our forecasts live in spreadsheets and they're always out”
Demand forecasting
“Budgets don't reflect what each site really needs”
Labour budgets
“We can't see what a change would cost before we make it”
Labour modelling
“We don't know where scheduling is leaking money”
Scheduling analysis

Everything you need to get forecasting right

From the first forecast to the budget a manager schedules against.

Demand forecasting

Rotageek's workforce forecasting predicts sales, transactions or footfall for each location from your own history, so managers can plan rotas around the demand they expect.
Explore Demand forecasting
Labour modelling

The Labour Model Manager turns your forecast data into the number of people you need for each task, through the day, at each location.
Explore Labour modelling
Labour budgets

Load your labour budget into Rotageek and managers see it next to the hours they have planned, while they build the rota.
Explore Labour budgets
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Customer story

Pets at Home

Employees: 5,000+
Sector: Retail

Rotageek has completely changed how we manage rotas across our estate. What used to be a manual, inconsistent process is now fast, fair and data-driven. Our store managers can build accurate schedules in minutes and spend more time with customers and colleagues instead.

Oli SimonsDigital Operations Lead, Pets at Home Read the case study →

Forecasting and labour planning

Overstaffed on Monday, understaffed on Friday? We can fix that

Know what’s coming, and staff for it

Sound familiar?

“Our forecasts live in spreadsheets and they're always out”

“Budgets don't reflect what each site really needs”

“We can't see what a change would cost before we make it”

“We don't know where scheduling is leaking money”

Everything you need to get forecasting right

Demand forecasting

Labour modelling

Labour budgets

See your next busy week before it happens