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In the spotlight 🔦 - Your monthly newsletter uncovering new features and functionalities, plus those you might have missed.

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Shared by George • September 29, 2025

Hi there,

Welcome to ’In the spotlight’, our brand-new monthly initiative designed to help you unlock the full potential of Rotaready! Each month, we'll highlight the powerful features that might be hiding in plain sight, and update you on anything brand new.

Here's what we've got in store for you this month:

  1. Star of the month: Predictive Analytics
  2. Did you know? - A quick look at Rota Templates
  3. Coming soon... a sneak peek at some of the features that will be landing next

And all with useful links and details on where you can find out more. So, without further ado...

⭐ Star of the month: Predictive Analytics

A new AI-driven feature set ready to revolutionise the way you build your staff rotas.

What exactly is Predictive Analytics?

A dynamic trio of features powered by AI and Machine Learning, Predictive Analytics gives you a smarter way to plan, forecast, and schedule your rotas. Here’s a bit more about the AI-powered feature set:

Sales Predictions

Accurately forecast daily sales by stream using your business’s unique trading history, seasonality, key dates, and even weather patterns. It’s like having an experienced manager who never forgets a detail.

Labour Predictions

Build rotas that are smarter than ever, and in record time. Labour predictions combines your business knowledge, historical data and intelligent technology to deliver hourly labour predictions. And the more you use it, the more accurate and tailored these predictions become.

Labour Deployment

Your first step to AI-driven labour predictions, Labour Deployment helps you visualise staffing levels in real-time and spot over or understaffing before it happens. It’s your trusted scheduling companion, powered by your rules and forecasts.

Delivering real results

Our early data is showing an average improvement of 5% in rota accuracy, and up to a 25% improvement in the accuracy of sales predictions

Interested in finding out more?

Here are a few links you might find useful:

🤔 Did you know?

We also have a rota templates functionality that helps you save time and ensure coverage by generating rotas from templates tailored to your staffing needs.

Find out more about the feature here

🚀 Coming soon...

Curious about what we're working on behind the scenes? Here's a snapshot of the functionalities that will be landing next:

Hourly Salary Treatment – A new optional setting in Cost Control to pro-rate salary costs based on hours worked, showing costs only when employees work or take paid leave.

Pronoun Visibility – Track employee pronouns across profiles, with options to request during self-onboarding and update via the mobile app.

👋🏼 Until next time

We hope you found this post useful. Keep your eye out for next month's edition of 'In the spotlight 🔦' where we'll be doing a deep dive into Rotaready Evo 👀

If there's anything in particular you'd like to see featured next, let us know at comms@rotaready.com. And for any questions about new or existing features, get in touch with your Account Manager, or you can reach our team via live chat, and at team@rotaready.com