How much does staff rota for tire depots cost?

About £10–15 a month for the tools, on the plans the setup needs. RotaCloud: Priced by number of employees, including you and managers. Only the 1 to 5 band (Standard £10 a month, Pro £15) is shown as plain text; the other bands here (Standard £20 for 6 to 10 and £40 for 11 to 20, Pro £30 and £60) come from the page's team-size selector, so check the price for your team size. Optional SMS notifications are £2 for the 1 to 5 band, with no unit given on the page. Yearly billing is cheaper (the page shows a £20 a year saving for 1 to 5). 30-day free trial, no payment details needed.

About £160 a month in manager time: 1.5 hours a week saved, 6.45 hours a month at 4.3 weeks, worth about £161 at an assumed £25 an hour. It pays for itself: in a few days, in the worked example.

Which tools do I need?

RotaCloud: Staff rota and scheduling software with a mobile app, shift swapping, staff availability, holiday management and labor cost reports.

How hard is it to set up?

Easy to set up. 5 steps: Start RotaCloud's 30-day free trial and add your staff, including yourself. Ask each fitter to enter the days they can and can't work. Build a standard week with two fitters minimum on every shift, then copy it forward. Have holiday and swap requests made in the app, and approve them only once cover is in place. Publish the rota at least two weeks ahead.

Staff rota for tire depots: cover Saturdays without rows

RotaCloud puts the fitters' rota, holiday requests and shift swaps on their phones. From $13£10€12A$19C$19 a month for up to 5 staff.

At a glance

What it costs$13–20£10–15€12–18A$19–29C$19–28 a month
Worth, in extra profit or time saved in the worked example$213£160€190A$307C$301 a month
Pays for itselfIn a few days
Sign up and configure; no technical skills neededEasy to set up

Figures come from the worked example below, using its stated assumptions. Tool prices checked October 17, 2026. How we check prices

The problem

A tire depot is busiest on Saturdays and Monday mornings and needs at least two fitters in at all times. Building the rota on paper and sorting holidays and swaps by text takes the manager about 2 hours a week, nearly 9 hours a month, and one uncovered Saturday morning means turning work away.

What the AI does

RotaCloud is rota software. Its site lists drag-and-drop rota planning, staff availability, holiday management and shift swapping on the Standard plan, with leave request rules on Pro. Fitters see their shifts and ask for swaps and holidays in the mobile app, and the manager approves them with the whole week in view, so it's obvious before approving when a Saturday would drop to one fitter.

A worked example

A tire depot in Ipswich has a manager and four fitters working a six-day week. The manager moves the rota from a wall chart and a group chat to RotaCloud Standard for the 1 to 5 staff band.

Before

About 2 hours a week on the rota, holidays and swaps: nearly 9 hours a month, and 1 short-staffed Saturday most months

After

About 30 minutes a week; swaps and holidays approved in the app with cover visible

What it's worth

About $213£160€190A$307C$301 a month in manager time: 1.5 hours a week saved, 6.45 hours a month at 4.3 weeks, worth about $214£161€192A$309C$303 at an assumed $33£25€30A$48C$47 an hour. That is against $13£10€12A$19C$19 a month on Standard, or $20£15€18A$29C$28 on Pro, for up to 5 staff.

How to set it up

Start RotaCloud's 30-day free trial and add your staff, including yourself.
Ask each fitter to enter the days they can and can't work.
Build a standard week with two fitters minimum on every shift, then copy it forward.
Have holiday and swap requests made in the app, and approve them only once cover is in place.
Publish the rota at least two weeks ahead.

What goes wrong

Pricing goes by headcount including you. A sixth person moves you to the next band, about $27£20€24A$38C$38 a month on Standard.
A rota isn't a record of hours worked or holiday pay. Keep what payroll and the Working Time rules need.
Staff need to check the app. Agree what happens when someone misses a change.

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Last updated October 17, 2026.