The schedule that writes itself
Plantime weighs availability, contract hours, and qualifications against every open shift and hands you a filled schedule to review instead of a blank grid to wrestle.
One click fills the open shifts
Pick a range in the planner and run auto-assign. Every open shift is matched against availability, contract hours, and qualifications.
Suggestions come back for review. Apply them, adjust with a drag, or discard and re-run. Nothing publishes until you say so.
It plans from real availability
Auto-scheduling works from the live picture: the preferences your team marked, approved leave, and each contract's weekly hours.
No stale spreadsheets, no guessing who can take Friday. The inputs update themselves as the team submits them.
Balance the load before you publish
Contracted versus assigned hours show per person while you review, so overloads and unfair weeks surface before the rota goes out.
Fix outliers with a drag, or re-run auto-assign. It only fills shifts that are still open and leaves your manual calls alone.
How the planner thinks
Every suggestion weighs the same six things. Here they are, in plain words.
Contracted hours
Everyone lands near their agreed workload, and nobody quietly drifts into overtime.
Roles
A shift that needs a role goes to the people who hold it.
Preferences
The wishes your team marked weigh into every assignment.
Working-time rules
Rest and maximum hours shape every plan as it is built. Anything that would break them is flagged, never smoothed over.
Cost
Enough people on to cover the day, without paying for a crowd you do not need.
Fairness over time
Unpopular shifts rotate, so the same people do not always get stuck with them.
Every one of these produces a suggestion, not a verdict. Adjust whatever you want with a drag: nothing is locked, and you stay in control.
How the planner works, in depth