Rotas that take an hour, not an afternoon.
Built for teams of twelve to eighty: cafes, clinics, warehouses, care settings. Drag a shift, and everyone affected knows within seconds. Free for teams under fifteen, permanently.
A rota tool. Not a workforce management platform.
Cadence does scheduling, shift swaps, availability and hours totals. It does not do payroll, HR records, applicant tracking or engagement surveys, and we are not planning to. Small teams do not need a platform; they need the rota to stop being a spreadsheet that one person guards and everybody misreads.
Three things, properly
If you need the fourth thing, we will tell you which tool to look at.
Build the rota
Drag shifts onto people. Cadence flags double-bookings, unavailability and anyone heading past their contracted hours.
Handle the swaps
Staff request swaps in the app, cover is offered to everyone qualified, and nothing changes until a manager approves it.
Export the hours
Totals per person per period, exported as a file your payroll provider or accountant can actually use.
Honest numbers, updated quarterly
Including the ones most companies our size leave off the homepage.
Small teams, mostly found by word of mouth
Our rota lived in a spreadsheet that only the deputy manager understood. It took a Sunday to move across and it has saved her about three hours every single week since.
I asked whether it did holiday accrual and was told plainly that it does not, and which tool would. Being talked out of a subscription is not an experience I have had before.
The swap feature ended a two-year argument about who agreed to cover what. It is all in the log now and nobody has to remember a conversation.