For convenience stores, corner shops and forecourts
TimeTally is a convenience store rota for UK shops open from early morning to late at night, seven days a week, with a small team to cover it. Plan the opener, the midday cover and the closer on one grid, see each day's hours and wage cost as you go, and let staff pick up and swap shifts from their phones.
This is a convenience store's week in TimeTally, open 06:00 to 23:00 every day with seven people. Two supervisors open and close, the manager works the week, a part-timer covers the middle of the day, and the weekend has its own staff. Each person's shifts and hours sit under their name, and the Hours row adds up each day.
Shifts start and end whenever the shop needs: a 06:00 opener, a 10:00 to 16:00 cover, a 23:00 close. A job role brings its usual break.
Save the week as a template and copy it forward for up to 13 weeks. Change only the days someone's away.
Approved holiday shows on the rota, so you see who's away before you fill the week.
05:30, and the opener is ill
In a small shop one missing person means the doors don't open on time. Your team has their shifts on the free iPhone and Android app, so you can sort cover there instead of ringing round.
There are no push notifications, and nobody is emailed about an open shift, so tell the team to check the app.
Plenty of shops give 16 and 17 year olds their first job. Young workers have their own limits on daily and weekly hours, breaks and late finishes, and those are yours to plan around.
Week 46 · rota hours
Total195h
From the Hours row above
Margins in a convenience store are thin, so the rota is where wage cost is decided. TimeTally adds up the hours as you plan and, for anyone allowed to see pay, the cost of each day.
It doesn't read your till or EPOS, so it can't set wages against takings: the figure in your rule is yours.
Choose hours worked as the way holiday builds up, and every approved timesheet adds holiday at 12.07% of the hours (or your own rate), rounded to the nearest whole hour. Staff on fixed hours can have a yearly allowance instead. They see their balance and book from the app. More on casual staff: zero hours contract software.
Real reviews from TimeTally customers
TimeTally has been excellent for our business… The system has saved us a significant amount of administration time.
Jordan IngoeCLI ManchesterSetup was dead simple and the team just got on with it. Got everyone up and running in an afternoon with no help needed. Does everything we need for timesheets and holidays without the faff.
Has completely changed how I handle timesheets. Used to dread it every week — now it takes me minutes. Really easy to get around and my staff picked it up straight away.
Started using it just for rotas but quickly realised it does loads more. The timesheets and leave management are great, and it even handles TOIL and overtime which I wasn't expecting. Use it for everything now.
It's the rota, clocking in, timesheets and holiday for your shop's staff. Better to know where it stops before your trial.
Running several stores or a bigger shop? See retail rota software.
£3 per employee a month for the rota, clocking in, timesheets and holiday together. No setup fee, no contract.
What owners and managers of convenience stores ask before they start.
Still have a question? See all FAQs
A convenience store rota plans who opens, who covers the middle of the day and who closes, every day the shop is open. In TimeTally the week sits on one grid with each person's hours, the day's hours along the bottom and, if you can see pay, the wage cost. Staff get their shifts on their phones, and it's £3 per employee a month.
Yes. Shifts can start and end at any time, including before 6am, at 11pm or past midnight. Most convenience stores run an early, a late and a midday cover; save your usual week as a template and copy it forward for up to 13 weeks, then change only the days that differ.
Not by itself. TimeTally doesn't store anyone's age, so it doesn't check young-worker rules on hours, breaks or late finishes. You can add a rota rule that warns you when a named person goes over the hours you set for a day or a week, before you publish. Planning their shifts within the law is still your call.
Post the shift as an open shift and the staff on that rota can say they'll take it; you pick who gets it. Open shifts are on the web app now and come to the phone apps in their next update, and nobody is emailed or sent a notification, so tell the team to check the app. Staff can also swap shifts with a colleague, which you approve.
No. It doesn't read your till, EPOS or takings. You see the week's hours on the rota and, if you can see pay, the wage cost per day, and a rota rule can warn you when a day's or a week's cost goes past a figure you set.
Choose hours worked as the way holiday builds up, and each approved timesheet adds holiday at your rate, 12.07% by default, rounded to the nearest whole hour. Staff on fixed hours can have a yearly allowance instead. Holiday booked and approved shows on the rota, so you don't put someone on a shift while they're away.
TimeTally is £3 per employee a month for the rota, clocking in, timesheets and holiday together, with no setup fee and no contract. A shop with 7 staff pays £21 a month. There's a 14-day free trial and no card is needed.
Try TimeTally free for 14 days. Put your earlies, lates and weekend staff on one rota, publish it to your team's phones and see the week's hours as you plan. It's the same rota planner hundreds of UK businesses use, at £3 per employee a month.
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