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Run your rota, clock-in and wage bill on autopilot.

Staff clock in on their phone and watch their earnings tick up live. You see who's in and exactly what the shift is costing, in real time. Start free for one site — staff are always free, every plan. Flat £10/mo per site as you grow.

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Built in the UK for cafés, pubs, holiday lets & more. 2–50 staff a site · no per-head fees, ever.

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your first site, forever (up to 10 staff)

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staff on every plan — never per head

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The £-a-week leak

Spreadsheets and per-seat bills are quietly costing you

Two things drain a small business: hours you can't see until payday, and software that charges you more every time you hire. WagePilot fixes both.

Paper timesheets, re-keyed by hand on a Sunday night.

Staff clock in by phone; approved hours export to payroll in a click.

You learn the floor was over-staffed a week later, on payday.

A live labour-cost board shows the burn rate now, while you can still act.

Per-seat software that bills you more for every new hire.

Flat £10 a month per site: staff are always free, so hiring never moves the bill.

A single over-staffed shift a week can cost more in a year than WagePilot costs in a decade. See what you'd save →

One app, the whole shift

Everything you need to run a team, nothing you don't

Rota, clock-in, holiday, timesheets and a live labour-cost board. No payroll bureau, no per-seat bill, no Sunday-night spreadsheet.

A look at the product

Every screen, doing real work

Built to mirror the real WagePilot, screen for screen. Flick through the ones your team and your office use every day, or open the live demo to drive the real thing.

app.wagepilot.co.uk/board

Labour cost · right now

£37.50 /hr

LIVE
9am12pm3pmnow
SP

Sam Pendry

Barista · Harbour

£40.04
JM

Jess Moran

Front of house · Harbour

£19.67
AK

Ade Kuti

Kitchen · Harbour

£12.40
TR

Tom Rhys

Bar · Wharf

on break
Projected today £416 on budget
app.wagepilot.co.uk/rota

Week of 15 June

Harbour Café · 4 staff · 38 shifts

Published
Staff MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
SP 8–4 8–4 · 8–4 · 7–3 ·
JM 12–8 · 12–8 · 12–8 · 10–6
AK · 9–5 · 9–5 · 5–11 5–11
TR · · 4–12 · 4–12 12–8 ·
1 clash with approved holiday Copy last week
app.wagepilot.co.uk/holiday

Holiday requests

3 awaiting approval

3 pending
JM

Jess Moran

24–28 Jun · 5 days · 12.5 left

AK

Ade Kuti

1–2 Jul · 2 days · 8 left

Clashes with Sam's shift on 1 Jul

SP

Sam Pendry

15 Jul · 1 day · 15 left

app.wagepilot.co.uk/timesheets

Timesheet · week of 15 June

Review & approve · 4 staff

Approve week
StaffClock in / outHoursStatus
Sam Pendry 08:02 – 16:04 7.55h approved
Jess Moran 12:00 – 20:11 8.18h edited
Ade Kuti 09:01 – 17:03 7.55h approved
Tom Rhys 16:00 – 00:18 8.05h review

Edit logged: Jess's clock-out adjusted 20:08 → 20:11, “forgot to clock out, confirmed with manager”. Visible to Jess.

app.wagepilot.co.uk/export

Export approved hours

Week of 15 June · 4 staff · all approved

Sam Pendry 38.2h £477.50
Jess Moran 32.7h £385.86
Ade Kuti 30.2h £398.64
Tom Rhys 24.1h £318.12
Total 125.2h £1,580.12
Works with XeroSageBrightPayQuickBooks

Live by this afternoon

Three steps from spreadsheet to autopilot

No hardware, no app-store download, no implementation call. Most owners are up and running the same day.

STEP 01

Set up your sites

Drop a pin, set the geofence radius, add your team and their rates. Ten minutes, tops.

STEP 02

Staff clock in

They open the app, slide to clock in, and the earnings gauge spins up. No paper, no WhatsApp.

STEP 03

Approve & export

Watch the live board, approve a clean week, export the hours. Payroll runs where it always did.

Why £10 beats per-seat

One price. However big your team gets.

Most rota tools charge per user, and several charge extra again for the time clock. So the bill climbs every time you hire. WagePilot is a flat £10 a month for one site: unlimited staff, every feature, clock-in included.

  • No per-employee fees: hiring never moves the bill
  • Clock-in, holiday and live labour cost all included
  • Honest comparison, dated and kept current
What you'd pay as your team grows: a typical per-seat tool vs WagePilot's flat price
Your team Typical per-seat tool WagePilot
5 staff ~£20/mo Free
10 staff ~£40/mo £10/mo
25 staff ~£100/mo £10/mo
50 staff ~£200/mo £18/mo

Per-seat figures assume a typical ~£4/user/month all-in rate (many tools sit £3–£6/user). Indicative, for illustration.

UK compliance, built in

Holiday and wage records that hold up

WagePilot is built for UK employment law, not retro-fitted from a US tool. Holiday accrual, minimum-wage record-keeping and an audit trail HMRC would accept, all handled for you.

5.6 weeks, worked out for you

Statutory holiday (28 days for a 5-day week, incl. bank holidays) tracked per person, pro-rata for part-timers.

12.07% accrual, automatic

Irregular-hours and part-year holiday accrues at 12.07% of hours worked (2024 Working Time Regs), no spreadsheet.

Six-year record-keeping

NMW pay records must be kept six years (since April 2021). Audited, tamper-evident timesheets give you the paper trail.

Source: GOV.UK holiday entitlement & National Minimum Wage record-keeping guidance.

What it's built to do

The outcomes we built WagePilot for

We're a new product, so we won't show you invented five-star reviews. Here's what WagePilot is designed to change for each kind of team. Judge it for yourself in the live demo.

“The live cost board changes how you run a Saturday. You can see you’re over-staffed by 2pm and send someone home before it’s money gone.”
C Café & coffee shops The over-staffing problem WagePilot is built to catch
“Watching the number tick up is weirdly motivating for staff, and it means the end of chasing paper timesheets at the end of the week.”
P Pubs & bars Why the live earnings gauge earns its keep
“Per-person software quietly costs a fortune across a few holiday lets. Ten quid flat for everyone is the whole point.”
H Holiday lets The flat-price case for multi-site operators

Prefer to see it working? Run the numbers or read why we built it.

Questions, answered

The honest answers owners ask first

Pricing, payroll, privacy and the UK rules: straight, with no small print.

How much does WagePilot cost?
WagePilot is a flat £10 a month for a single site: unlimited staff, every feature included, clock-in and all. Adding people never costs more; the only thing that moves the price is opening another venue (£8 per extra site). One site with up to 10 staff is free forever (the Solo plan), multi-site groups use Growth, and 10+ sites use Scale. Every paid plan starts with a 14-day free trial and no card is needed to begin.
Is WagePilot cheaper than Deputy, RotaCloud or When I Work?
For a clocking-in team on one site, from about ten people up it usually is: those tools price per user (and several charge extra for the time clock or set a monthly minimum), so a team of ten commonly lands around £20–£40 a month and climbs with every hire, while WagePilot stays a flat £10 for unlimited staff. At the very smallest sizes it is a tie rather than a win: a few rivals are free for tiny teams, and so is WagePilot’s own Solo plan. One UK tool, Findmyshift, is also broadly flat, so against it we would point to UK-native holiday and overtime depth and cross-site analytics rather than price. Figures are indicative, as of June 2026; always check current pricing.
Can I add my own branding or white-label the app?
Yes. From the Growth plan up you can brand the employee app and the clock-in kiosk with your own logo, colours, fonts and corner style, with a live preview as you set it. On the Scale plan you can fully white-label: remove the WagePilot mark and the “Powered by WagePilot” credit so staff only ever see your business. Branding applies to the staff-facing app and kiosk; the admin tools stay the same.
Does WagePilot run payroll?
No, and that is deliberate. WagePilot tracks time, attendance and live labour cost, then exports approved hours as a CSV to wherever you already run payroll (Xero, Sage, BrightPay and others). You keep your payroll setup; we just hand it clean, approved hours.
How does the geofenced clock-in work, are you tracking staff all day?
No. WagePilot checks location only at the moment someone clocks in or out, never continuously. If they are inside the site’s geofence the clock-in is confirmed; if not, there is a QR-code fallback by the till. Tying clock-in to being on-site is how it stops “buddy punching”. It is built for UK GDPR with data minimisation from day one.
Do I legally have to keep records of my staff’s working hours in the UK?
Yes. UK employers must keep records showing they pay at least the National Minimum/Living Wage, and since 1 April 2021 those records must be kept for six years (GOV.UK); you also need adequate records of hours under the Working Time Regulations. WagePilot’s audited, tamper-evident timesheets, with every edit logged with a reason and visible to staff, are built to give you exactly that paper trail, exportable whenever HMRC or an employee asks.
How do I work out holiday for part-time and zero-hours staff?
Most UK workers get 5.6 weeks of paid holiday a year (28 days for a five-day week, including bank holidays, per GOV.UK). Regular part-timers get it pro-rata, and for irregular-hours and part-year staff, holiday accrues at 12.07% of hours worked for leave years starting on or after 1 April 2024 (the 2024 Working Time Regulations reform). WagePilot tracks each person’s balance and accrual automatically, so you approve requests from an inbox with a clash warning instead of a spreadsheet.
What size and type of business is WagePilot for?
Small UK businesses with roughly 2 to 50 staff: cafés, pubs, restaurants, holiday lets, salons, retail and site teams. It is the sweet spot where per-person scheduling software gets expensive but a spreadsheet has stopped coping.

More questions? Read the full FAQ or email hello@wagepilot.co.uk.

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