Draft the week in minutes, catch mistakes as you type, and share it with your team.
By the numbers
Not a trial and not a demo tier: Essentials runs a working single-venue team — no card, no expiry.
employees on the free plan — full editor, guardrails, and sharing included
rotas included free — roughly two years of weekly scheduling
accounts your staff need — the published rota is a live link that opens on any phone
per employee per month on the Pro plan, after a 30-day free trial
Features
Darouta covers the whole loop — draft, check, publish, adjust — without a spreadsheet on the side.
Navigate, copy, paste, and fill the week with keyboard shortcuts, then mark every remaining empty cell as off with one click of “Fill days off”.
Insufficient daily rest, missing breaks, and weekly-hours risks are flagged while you schedule, for the jurisdiction you select — before the rota goes out.
Publishing creates a live schedule link that opens on any phone, no account needed. It always shows the current version, so old screenshots stop circulating.
On the Pro plan, publishing emails everyone their schedule with a PDF attached — and a republish emails only the people whose shifts actually changed.
On the Pro plan, “Alice 9-5 on Monday” is a valid way to schedule — type it into the command bar or dictate it, review, and it lands on the grid.
Pro workspaces parse Excel, CSV, ODS, and Apple Numbers files — and extract schedules from PDFs and images — into a staging area you review before anything merges.
How it works
Work the grid with spreadsheet shortcuts and fill patterns across the week — or, on the Pro plan, type the shifts in plain English and let them land on the grid.
Guardrails flag insufficient daily rest, missing breaks, and weekly-hours risks while you edit — so the classic close-then-open mistake never reaches your team.
Staff get a live link that opens on any phone, no account needed. When plans change, republish — the link is always the current version.
See it in action
Shifts, days off, and the risks that need attention — in a grid you can drive from the keyboard.
Editor screenshot coming soon
Room to grow
On the Pro plan, venues, departments, and collaborators give a multi-site operation the same clean grid a single team gets free.
Every site gets its own rotas, staff, and settings — all inside one workspace, one subscription, one login.
Split a venue into Kitchen, Bar, and Floor. Each department schedules on its own grid without stepping on the others.
Role-based access gives each manager exactly their patch — a whole venue or a single department — while the owner keeps the overview. Edits land in real time.
Pricing
Start free with up to 50 employees. When the operation outgrows one venue, Pro removes the limits — £2 per employee per month, after a 30-day free trial.
Everything in Essentials and:
Yes. The Essentials plan is free for up to 50 employees and 100 rotas — the full editor, Labour Law Guardrails, live schedule links, PDF export, and phone access included. No card and no expiry.
No. Staff open a live schedule link on any phone with no account, and it always shows the current published version. Darouta itself works on your phone and installs like an app.
Pro is £2 per employee per month after a 30-day free trial. It removes the employee and rota limits and adds multiple venues, departments, real-time collaborators with role-based access, plain-English and voice input, file parsing, direct email sharing, and shift-change notifications.
Yes. Labour Law Guardrails flag insufficient daily rest, missing breaks, and weekly working-hour risks for the jurisdiction you select, while you schedule. These automated checks are operational guidance, not legal advice.
Yes. The playground runs the real editor with up to 10 employees and no account — build a week, try the shortcuts, and watch the guardrails react.