Emplora vs Rosie

Emplora brings employee scheduling, shift management, and staff rota planning into one platform for small and mid-size businesses. Managers can prepare weekly or monthly schedules, with saved changes becoming visible to the team. Employees can check schedules in a phone browser using a QR code or PIN, without installing an app. Time-off requests and employee shift swaps require manager approval and are available from Starter. Schedules can be exported as CSV or PDF for payroll workflows. The Free plan supports one location and up to 15 employees; Starter and Professional add capacity and features such as notifications, reports, attendance tracking, analytics, and labour cost reports. Enterprise offers flexible pricing, unlimited scale, SSO, API access, a dedicated SLA, and training. Emplora says it uses bank-grade encryption and organisation-level data isolation, and its DPA covers EU GDPR, UK GDPR, and applicable data-protection law. Human support is listed as responding within 24 hours, usually faster. The service is available on the web and through an API; fully rules-based schedule generation and POS and PMS integrations are roadmap items. Pricing is Free, with paid plans from $39/mo and a 30-day trial.

Rosie is staff scheduling and rostering software for hospitality, retail, healthcare, and services businesses, available on Android, iOS, and web. Its constraint solver considers availability, contracted hours, qualifications, rest periods, and fairness when generating rosters. Managers can adjust shifts in a drag-and-drop weekly grid and publish schedules to staff. Employees can clock in or out on a phone with GPS verification or at a shared tablet kiosk. Rosie says it enforces 22 scheduling rules and supports break, rest, young-worker, and leave requirements across six jurisdictions. The scheduler uses Google OR-Tools CP-SAT version 9.8.3296 rather than a language model. The free plan covers up to 15 people at one site. Pro costs $3.50 per month and covers up to 75 people at five sites; Business costs $5 per month and covers up to 150 people with unlimited sites. Business plans can send approved hours to Xero, while timesheets and reports can be exported as CSV. Rosie passes hours and rates to payroll but does not calculate tax or pay employees.