How to Auto-Generate a Staff Schedule

See how RotaChief builds a fair, balanced roster in one click based on your staffing rules.

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Auto-generate builds a fair, balanced roster in one click, based on rules you set — not on AI or machine learning. It's straightforward, predictable logic, so the same inputs will always produce a similarly fair result.

What it takes into account

  • Each staff member's target days off per week
  • Your location's daily staffing target
  • Spreading days off across different days, rather than clustering everyone's day off on the same day
  • Your location's operating hours and closed days

What it doesn't do yet

  • It doesn't yet account for individual staff availability preferences
  • It uses one default shift template per run — it won't mix multiple shift types in a single generation

After generating

The result always lands as unpublished so you can review it first. Adjust anything you like — auto-generate gives you a strong starting point, not a locked-in final answer.

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