For garden centres and plant nurseries
TimeTally is garden centre rota software for UK garden centres. The plant area, tills, café and yard go on one week grid, with each person's hours as you build it. Seasonal staff come and go without a fuss, holiday for casual staff builds from the hours they work, and the whole team sees, swaps and books from their phones.
A garden centre's year
A garden centre needs twice the people in May that it needs in January, and the Christmas shop brings a second peak. The rota has to grow and shrink with it.
March to June
Build one busy week, save it as a week template and copy it forward for up to 13 weeks. Then change only the bank holiday weekends.
July and August
Holiday shows on the rota on the days it falls, booked from the app and approved by you, so August cover is planned in June.
November and December
Short of someone on a Saturday? Post it as an open shift and let the team say who can do it.
January
Seasonal staff gone until spring? Archive them: they stop counting on your bill, and restoring them in March brings their history back.
Busy months in the packet above are a drawn example, not a forecast: TimeTally doesn't predict how many people you need.
This is one garden centre's November week in TimeTally: supervisors who split the week, the plant area and tills seven days, the café on its own hours, and the yard in at half seven for deliveries. Sunday runs on shorter trading hours.
Save Early yard, Day and Sunday as shift templates with their times, role and break, then drop them onto the grid.
If you can see pay, a Cost row adds up each day from each person's hourly rate. A rule can warn you when a week goes over a cost you set.
Give the café its own schedule if it runs separately. Someone can work both, never two shifts on one day. More in café rota software.
Students on Saturdays, extra hands from March, a few on zero hours all year. TimeTally keeps their hours and holiday right without a spreadsheet beside the rota.
More on casual teams: zero-hours contract software.
Each timesheet you approve adds holiday at 12.07% by default, rounded to the nearest whole hour: 30 hours worked earns 4 hours.
Give someone a last day and Book Time Off won't let them book holiday after it. They show as Left once it passes.
Archived staff don't count on your bill and can't sign in. Their timesheets and holiday are kept.
Restore them when they come back and their history comes with them. Nothing is archived without you.
Staff see their week in the free iPhone and Android app, and can ask to swap a Saturday. No push notifications; you can email the week.
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, holiday and timesheets for your team. Better to know where it stops before your trial.
Running shops as well? See retail rota software, or build a week now in the free rota planner.
£3 per employee a month for the rota, holiday, clocking in and timesheets. Archived seasonal staff don't count. No setup fee, no contract.
What garden centre managers ask before the spring rush.
Still have a question? See all FAQs
Garden centre rota software plans who works which shift across the site and shares it with the team. In TimeTally the plant area, tills, café, yard and supervisors go on one week grid, each role in its own colour, with each person's hours and each day's total as you build it. Staff see their shifts on their phones, swap them and book holiday, and it's £3 per employee a month.
Add them when they start and give them a last day if you know it. Book Time Off won't let them book holiday after it, and they show as Left once it has passed. When the season ends, archive them: they no longer count on your bill and can't sign in, and their timesheets and holiday are kept. Restore them next spring and they're back with their history.
Put them on holiday from hours worked. Each timesheet you approve adds holiday at your rate, 12.07% by default, rounded to the nearest whole hour, so 30 hours worked earns 4 hours of holiday. Permanent staff can stay on a yearly allowance; the method can be set person by person.
It can warn you. Add a rota rule such as Staff on shift falls under 8 per day, and a day with fewer people is listed above the grid and again when you press Publish. You can then post the gap as an open shift for the team to answer (on the website now, in the phone apps from their next update), or let someone swap in. It warns; it never stops you publishing.
No. TimeTally doesn't read sales, footfall or takings, and doesn't forecast how many people you need. If you can see pay, the rota adds up the wage cost of the week from each person's hourly rate, and you can set a rule to warn you when a day or week goes over a cost you choose.
Yes. Make a schedule for the café and one for the shop floor, or keep everyone on one grid with roles to tell them apart. Someone can be on both schedules; once they have a shift on one that day, the other shows it and can't give them a second.
TimeTally is £3 per employee a month, with no setup fee and no contract. Nine people in November is £27 a month; if fifteen are on the team in May, it's £45. Archived staff aren't counted. There's a 14-day free trial and no card is needed.
Try TimeTally free for 14 days. Put the plant area, tills, café and yard on one grid, save your busy week, and publish it to your team's phones. It's the same rota planner hundreds of UK businesses use, at £3 per employee a month.
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