Plan the week
Drag people into shifts. Northgate warns you about overtime and missing cover before you publish.
A
AnaMon to Wed, 07:00
SetJ
JonasTue to Thu, 15:00
Open
topglow
New Shift swaps are here
Schedules your team can trust
Build the weekly rota in minutes, let people swap shifts on their phone, and see who is on at any hour.
Week 14 Kitchen, 12 people
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Ana
07:00 – 15:00
07:00 – 15:00
11:00 – 19:00
11:00 – 19:00
Jonas
15:00 – 23:00
15:00 – 23:00
15:00 – 23:00
Mira
11:00 – 19:00
07:00 – 15:00
07:00 – 15:00
One place for the rota, the swaps and the hours
Managers plan the week. Staff see their shifts, trade them and clock in. Payroll gets the numbers without anyone retyping them.
Swap in two taps
Staff ask a colleague to take a shift. The manager only approves what breaks a rule.
Can anyone take my Thursday close?
I can. Mira
Hours that add up
Clock-in times roll into one sheet per person, ready for payroll at month end.
March Total
M
Mira
148 hA
Ana
162 hRules
Say the rules once, and the rota follows them
Minimum rest, maximum hours, who may close alone. Northgate checks every change against them.
Rest rules Kitchen
Minimum 11 hours between shifts
No more than 5 days in a row
Two people to close
Warn about overtime
Shift swaps
Cover a missed shift before the day starts
When someone calls in sick, Northgate messages the people who can take the shift and fills it with the first yes.
Security
Staff data stays where it belongs
Hosted in the EU, encrypted at rest, and every change to a rota is logged with who made it.
paper (on body)
From first rota to full payroll in a week
- 1
Add your people
Paste a list or import it from your payroll tool. Roles and contracts come with it.
- 2
Build the first week
Start from last month's pattern, change what is different, and publish.
- 3
Send hours to payroll
Approved hours export as one file, in the format your payroll tool takes.
"We used to lose a Sunday every month to the rota. Now it takes twenty minutes, and nobody argues about the hours."
64%
fewer scheduling messages after the first month, across 2,400 teams
Hours
One sheet per person, checked every night
Clock-in times roll into a sheet for each person, and anything off the rules waits for a manager before payroll sees it.
Mira March
W
Week 105 shifts, no flags
38 hW
Week 115 shifts, 1 flag
41 hW
Week 124 shifts, no flags
31 h11 h
saved on every rota, every month
The average across the first hundred teams on Northgate. They plan once and let the rules do the checking.
This month Saved
K
Kitchen12 people
9 hB
Bar7 people
6 hF
Front of house14 people
14 hUsed every day by teams of every size
From a single kitchen to a hospital with forty wards.
2,400teams
61,000people on a rota
1.9 Mshifts a month
4.8average app rating
Built for the shift you actually run
Split shifts, on-call days, a floating pool. Set each one up the way your team works.
Shift pattern Bar
Split shift
On-call weekends
Floating pool
This week Bar
L
LeoSplit, 11:00 and 18:00
OnS
SofiaOn call, Sat
OffTime clock
Clock in from the phone, at the door
People clock in where they work. The time lands on the rota next to the shift they were planned for.
Today Kitchen
A
AnaIn at 06:58
OnJ
JonasStarts 15:00
LaterM
MiraDay off
OffPayroll
Hours go to payroll without a spreadsheet
Approved hours export in the format your payroll tool takes: one file, checked against every contract.
March export Ready
K
Kitchen12 people, 1,480 h
SentB
Bar7 people, 760 h
CheckMade by a small team on the coast
Fourteen people in two offices write Northgate, answer every message themselves and take their own rota seriously.
Try this week's rota for free
No card, no setup call. Add your team and publish the first week today.
Ask the rota a question
"Who can close on Friday?" Northgate answers from the rules and the calendar, and offers to fill the gap.
Assistant Today
Who can close the bar on Friday?
Leo and Sofia. Leo has 11 h rest, Sofia is on call. Want me to offer it to Leo?
Friday Bar
L
LeoRested, 11 h
OfferS
SofiaOn call
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