Autorota Free

Autorota Free is a small finance tool whose purpose is to help you automate the creation of staff rosters. You can make use of rules for organizing different shifts, roles and working hours.

The utility does not impress much in the visual department, as the GUI looks a bit outdated. However, it reveals a clean feature structure and displays a tutorial with information about the key features of the program.

Autorota Free allows you to define a new department by entering details about the assignment rotation, shared assignments and split duties. All departments are revealed in a tree-like display.

The app automatically creates a ‘day off’ duty, default assignments and some standard days. You can add information about each employee, such as name and job title. After providing information about your personnel, you can set up duties and assignments.

Duties represent the daily working hours of your personnel and can be defined either as working hours or non-working hours (days off). You can manually enter the working hours for each duty and pick the color used for displaying the duty on the roster.

Assignments can be used for allocating duties to several members. You can configure a new assignment by providing details about the name and description, selecting the working days and duties, as well as setting up priorities.

Standard days can be created in order to label any day that is not available for a normal assignment, such as vacation, day off, training and national holiday.

The roster provides at-a-glance data about assignments and working hours. You are allowed to print the information or export it to CSV or HTML file format, automatically allocate assignments, view assignment history, and calculate the number of worked hours.

There’s also support for a built-in planner that shows the assignments for an entire year. You may add weekly notes and assign colors for tracking holiday, absence and vacation.

Autorota Free packs a combination of essential features for planning weekly rotation of staff and configuring shifts/assignments.