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Guides

Practical, plain-English guides to rota planning and staff scheduling.

  • Free rota software

    What Darouta’s free plan includes — a full rota builder for teams of up to 50 employees, with no card and no expiry.

  • Rota software for multiple venues

    How one workspace runs per-venue rotas, departments, and managers who see only what they manage.

  • How to make a staff rota

    A practical walkthrough: availability, drafting, the UK working-time rules that bind every rota, and publishing.

  • Staff scheduling app

    Plain-English shift entry, working-time checks, and live schedule links — sized from a free 50-employee plan to multi-site teams.

  • Rota software for hospitality

    Rotas for pubs, restaurants, cafés, and hotels — including the close-then-open rest trap and mid-week changes.

  • Excel rota templates

    Where spreadsheet rotas genuinely work, where they break, and how to switch without retyping a thing.

  • UK working-time rules for rotas

    The legal floor with gov.uk sources: breaks, daily and weekly rest, the 48-hour average, night work, and under-18s.