Sound familiar?
It is not just the rota that is broken. It is the whole process around it.
The availability chase
Texting 8 people to see who can work Saturday. Some reply in 3 days. Someone says yes, then cancels at 9pm.
The agreement limbo
Swaps via WhatsApp. Holiday via text. Sick cover via a missed call. Nothing is in writing, everything is disputed later.
The rota lottery
You post the schedule to the group chat. Did they see it? "I never got that." Now you are chasing again.
Batch handles every step
From the first availability question to the moment everyone knows their shifts.
Staff share availability
Once, from their phone. The system remembers it, no chasing every week.
Requests agreed in-app
Holiday, swaps, sick days. Formally requested, formally approved. Nothing lost in a thread.
AI builds the rota
Pick the week. It uses availability and UK working-time rules to build the full rota in 90 seconds.
Everyone is notified
Publish once, every team member gets their shifts instantly. Change anything, they are notified again.
Everything else Batch handles
The rota is where it starts. Batch runs the whole operation around it, so you are not stitching together five different tools.
UK compliance, built in
Working-time checks, guaranteed-hours tracking and short-notice flags watch every rota, with a compliance record you can export.
Self-serve time clock
Staff clock in and out from their phone. Worked hours flow straight into payroll, no paper timesheets to chase.
Swaps & time off, in-app
Shift swaps, holiday and sick cover are requested and approved in the app. Every change is logged, nothing lost in a thread.
One-click payroll export
Timesheet CSV for your bureau: BrightPay, Sage 50, Xero, QuickBooks, or a full-detail generic format.
Hours & reports
Hours by person and period with overtime flags, saved and shareable reports, and an AI you can just ask.
Staff self-service
Everyone sets their own availability, sees their shifts and their own hours, and is notified the moment anything changes.
Ask AI anything about your team's hours
No spreadsheets. No exports. No waiting. Just ask.
I used to spend Sunday afternoons on the rota. Now I type what I need and it is done in two minutes, and everyone already has it.
One price.
Everything included.
No tiers, no add-ons, no per-seat fees.
- ✓AI schedule builder, full rota in 90 seconds
- ✓Unlimited staff, unlimited rotas
- ✓Time-off, swaps & sick cover, all in-app
- ✓Time clock, payroll export & reports
- ✓Auto notifications + UK compliance built in
The least expensive, with AI built in
Deputy and Planday bill per person, so the cost climbs as you hire, and Rotaready is quote-only. Batch is £10 flat for unlimited staff, with AI rota building built in.
* Competitor pricing from each vendor's own pricing page, July 2026. Per-user tools cost more as your team grows; quote-only vendors do not publish a rate.
I ran a café for three years. I knew every member of my team, and I still spent two hours every Sunday figuring out the rota on a spreadsheet. It was not that there were no tools out there. It is that none of them were built for how hospitality actually works: last minute, flexible, and never quite the same week to week.
Batch is built for the managers doing everything themselves. AI does the hard work. You just make the calls.
Common questions
Your next rota takes 90 seconds.
Join hospitality managers who stopped arguing with spreadsheets and started finishing Sundays on time.