How can I make a staff rota without scheduling software?
Enter your opening hours, people needed per shift and staff availability in Pludor's free Staff Shift Schedule Maker. You get a weekly rota with hours per person and any shifts still to cover.
Keep a copy and get more free runs. Optional: we can also send a short setup guide written for your business.
Staff accounts with roles, POS PINs and a shared inbox.
Enter your opening hours, how many people you need and your staff with their availability. You get a weekly rota that covers every shift, with hours per person - ready to share with the team.
Start from your opening hours and how many people each shift needs, add each person's availability and maximum hours, fill the busiest shifts first and spread weekends fairly. Share it at least a week ahead.
Want this staff shift schedule maker on your own website? Download the free Staff Shift Schedule Maker WordPress plugin and your visitors can use it right on your pages. It uses your Pludor account's free monthly AI first, then pay-as-you-go credits, and pauses if your balance runs out.
Once the plugin is on, put this line on any page, post or sidebar and the tool appears there, ready for your visitors:
[pludor_tool slug="shift-schedule-maker"]
No code, no developer, no hosting to set up. Prefer clicking? Add the Pludor tool block in the editor and pick the tool from a list. Change the colour or turn tools on and off any time from Pludor › Dashboard.
[pludor_tool slug="shift-schedule-maker"].The same plugin also adds an AI chat for your visitors, shows which AI bots read your site and which AI assistants send you visitors, collects emails from your tools, and adds Pludor checkout to WooCommerce. See everything the Pludor WordPress plugin does.
Not on WordPress? The same tool works on Shopify, Wix, Squarespace or any HTML page. Ask in your Pludor dashboard for the embed snippet.
Enter your opening hours, people needed per shift and staff availability in Pludor's free Staff Shift Schedule Maker. You get a weekly rota with hours per person and any shifts still to cover.
List each person with the days and times they can work - the schedule only puts them in shifts they can take.
Matching availability, coverage and fair hours by hand is slow. The maker does the first draft for you to adjust.
Yes - Pludor's Staff Shift Schedule Maker is free.
Owners rebuild the rota every week by hand and someone always ends up with too many or too few hours.
Sharing one owner login with staff is insecure and makes it impossible to see who did what.
Team Staff gives each employee their own sign-in and POS PIN so they can work orders, the inbox and the POS without the owner's password.
On for every store, including the Free plan - a free amount every month, then pay only for what you use (1 credit = 1 cent).
Start from your opening hours and how many people each shift needs, add each person's availability and maximum hours, fill the busiest shifts first and spread weekends fairly. Share it at least a week ahead.
At least a week - two if you can. It cuts last-minute swaps and no-shows.
Yes. You get 8 free runs an hour with no account. Leave your email or sign in (also free) for 30 an hour and a saved history.
Yes. Download the Staff Shift Schedule Maker WordPress plugin from this page, upload it in Plugins > Add New, paste your free Pludor key, and add the Pludor tool block to any page.
No. After installing the free plugin, paste [pludor_tool slug="shift-schedule-maker"] on any page or post, or add the Pludor tool block. No code or developer needed.
Yes. Use the free WordPress plugin, or the embed snippet for Shopify, Wix, Squarespace or plain HTML. AI runs use your Pludor free monthly AI, then credits.
1 credit = 1¢. Your result stays right here.
You stay on this page and keep your result.