For retail & salons

A team of part-timers, on one flat price

Students, Saturday staff, a chair rented here and there. WagePilot keeps the rota, the hours and the holiday straight for a flexible team, without charging you per head every time you take someone on.

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Rota

w/c 27 Jul

Coverage Templates Copy last week Publish

Scheduled hours

186.5h

this week

Wage budget

£2,172 / £2,400

£228 left

Shifts

3 drafts

Open shifts

needs cover

Harbour Café Auto-fill Broadcast

Team Mon 27 Tue 28 Wed 29 Thu 30 Fri 31 Sat 1 Sun 2

Ade Kowalski 15:00–23:00 Chef 15:00–23:00 Chef 15:00–23:00 Chef 12:00–23:00 Chef

Jess Morgan 12:00–20:00 Front of house 12:00–20:00 Front of house 12:00–20:00 Front of house 10:00–18:00 Front of house

Leo Marsh 09:00–17:00 Weekend cover 09:00–17:00 Weekend cover

Priya Shah 08:00–16:00 Supervisor 08:00–16:00 Supervisor 08:00–16:00 Supervisor 08:00–16:00 Supervisor

Sam Pengelly 07:00–15:00 Barista 07:00–15:00 Barista 07:00–15:00 Barista 07:00–15:00 Barista

Tom Rowe 16:00–00:00 Kitchen 16:00–00:00 Kitchen 12:00–20:00 Kitchen

Open shifts 11:00–19:00 claim me

Coverage Covered Covered – 1 short Covered 2 short 1 short

Day cost (est.) £312 £298 £341 £276 £355 £402 £188

Add anyone, same price. Hire a Saturday assistant or a summer temp: you are never charged per head, so they never move the bill.
Swaps without the chaos. Shift requests and cover handled in-app instead of a group chat.
Clean hours to payroll. Approve the week and export: no re-keying a pad of part-time hours.

The bits that make shift work hard

The same leaks show up week after week — and most of them only surface on the payroll run, long after you could have done anything about it. Here's where the hours and the money usually slip.

High-churn, flexible teams

Lots of part-timers and students means lots of small rota changes.

Per-seat pricing punishes growth

Every extra Saturday hire bumps a per-user software bill.

Availability juggling

Term times, second jobs and swaps that live in your head.

How WagePilot helps

The same building blocks — rota, clock-in, audited timesheets — tuned to the way Retail & salons actually run.

Add anyone, same price

Hire a Saturday assistant or a summer temp: you are never charged per head, so they never move the bill.
Swaps without the chaos

Shift requests and cover handled in-app instead of a group chat.
Clean hours to payroll

Approve the week and export: no re-keying a pad of part-time hours.

Hire anyone you like. The bill never moves

No per-head fees means you can grow the team without watching a meter: one site stays at £29 whether you're 3 people or 25. Open another venue and it's a flat £29 more, never per person.

See pricing Calculate your saving

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 · 1 site
25 staff	~£100/mo	£29 · 1 site
50 staff	~£200/mo	£29 · 1 site
80 staff	~£320/mo	£58 · 2 sites
150 staff	~£600/mo	£87 · 3 sites
200 staff	~£800/mo	£145 · 5 sites

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

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Retail & salons: common questions

Is WagePilot good for a team of mostly part-timers and students?

Yes — it is built for exactly that. Because you are never charged per head, a churny team of part-timers and Saturday staff never costs more. Availability, shift swaps and cover are handled in the app instead of a group chat.

How does holiday work for part-time and irregular-hours staff?

Accrual is worked out automatically, including the 12.07% rule for irregular-hours and part-year workers, so part-time and zero-hours holiday stops being a spreadsheet. Staff see their balance and request leave in a couple of taps.

Can salon staff on different start times clock in themselves?

Yes. Each person clocks in from their own phone when they arrive, confirmed on-site by geofence (QR fallback by the desk). You get accurate hours per person without a shared tablet or paper book.

Start running shifts on autopilot

Set up your first site this afternoon and watch the first shift tick up live. Free to start, never per head — flat per site as you grow.

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