Moving from Timetastic? Bring your data with you.
Upload each person’s Timetastic download and their allowances, carried-over days, time in lieu and bookings come across, with a preview before anything is saved. Then get holiday counted from everyone’s own hours, the Bradford factor, and a rota in the same login.
Free for your first 6 months, then £1$1 per person per month. No credit card required today.
Everyone’s leave, at a glance.
A row for each person and a box for each day, with leave in its own colour. It’s what teams without shifts see first, and it takes seconds to read.
- Each person’s balance sits under their name, in days or hours.
- Pending requests are outlined until they’re approved, and part days are split.
- Click a day to book leave, or click a booking to see it. Move four weeks at a time.
- Week, Month, Quarter and Year views are a click away when you want more detail.
Try it alongside Timetastic first.
Use your six free months to run both side by side and try a few leave requests before you decide.
Bring your Timetastic data
Upload each person’s download from Timetastic to import their allowances, carried-over days, time in lieu and bookings. Check the preview before anything is saved.
Try it on a sample company
Open a sample company with leave and a rota already set up, and try the features before you add your own team.
Open the sample café →Your price locked for 2 years
£1$1 per person per month, plus VAT, fixed for 2 years from your first payment.
Leave whenever you like
No contract. Cancel your plan in Billing at any time. Export your people, leave, sickness, balances and overtime as CSV files in one zip.
The price lock covers the price per person for 2 years from your first payment. VAT follows the law. You only pay for active people.
RotaTiger and Timetastic, feature by feature.
Timetastic is a popular leave planner. If you want holiday counted from each person’s own hours, the Bradford factor, or a rota in the same product, here’s how the two line up. Every Timetastic entry below comes from their own website.
| Feature | RotaTiger | Timetastic |
|---|---|---|
| Leave wallchart | Yes | Yes |
| Approve in one click from the email | Yes | Yes |
| Approve from a mobile app | Yes | Yes |
| Allowances in hours as well as days | YesFor everyone, shown both ways | YesChosen person by person |
| Pro rata for part-timersWorked out from the days and hours each person works | Yes | Partly, or at extra costStarters and leavers. Timetastic’s help centre says it doesn’t cover part-timers |
| Public holidays | YesUK and US, per location | Yes250 countries, per person |
| Sickness recording | Yes | Yes |
| Bradford factor | Yes | No |
| Limit on how many can be off at once | Yes | Yes |
| Leave reports to download | YesCSV | YesExcel |
| Payroll export | YesIn hours, for UK companies | Partly, or at extra costRota & Time Clock plan |
| Rota and shifts | YesSame product, same login | Partly, or at extra costSeparate Rota & Time Clock app |
| Overtime recording | Yes | Partly, or at extra costRota & Time Clock plan |
| Price | Free for 6 months, then £1.00 per person a month | £1.20 (Business) or £2.00 (Pro) per user a month. Rota & Time Clock £4.00 |
YesNoPartial Partly, or as an add-on or higher planSoon Coming soon Not stated on their site
This table covers Timetastic only.
The full comparison adds Rotageek, RotaCloud and Deputy. It covers rotas and casual staff as well as leave.
Where RotaTiger is different
- Holiday is worked out from each person’s own week, for everyone. Three days a week, four long days or 37.5 hours all come out right. Starters and leavers too.
- The rota is part of the same product. Timetastic sells rotas and shifts as a separate app, Rota & Time Clock, at £4.00 a month for each user.
- UK companies get a six-year holiday records pack and a payroll export in hours. At Timetastic, the payroll export is part of Rota & Time Clock.
- The Bradford factor is built in. Timetastic’s help centre says it has chosen to leave it out.
- RotaTiger is free for your first 6 months, then £1 per person per month, with the rota included.
- There’s an import for your Timetastic data, so you don’t start again.
Moving from Timetastic, step by step
Download your data from Timetastic
In Timetastic, go to Users, click the three dots next to a person and choose Download data. You get a zip with a Timetastic_Data.xlsx file inside. The import reads this per-person file. Timetastic’s Full backup won’t work.
Upload it to RotaTiger
Register, then upload the zip in the setup wizard or on People. Before anything is saved, you see what will come across and answer a few questions where the two systems differ, such as your leave year. Repeat for each person.
Check the balances
Afterwards, each person’s balance for each leave year sits next to the figure from Timetastic, so you can see they match. Uploading the same file twice creates no duplicates.
What comes across
- Each person’s name and email, job title, phone number, payroll number and start and leaving dates.
- Departments, and each person’s approver as their line manager.
- Work schedules, as the days each person works.
- Allowances for each leave year, brought-forward days and time in lieu.
- Every approved and pending booking, with your leave types matched or added. Cancelled and declined bookings too, if you want the history.
What stays behind
- Birthdays, home addresses and emergency contacts. RotaTiger doesn’t store them.
- Sign-in history and notification settings.
- Bookings that overlap leave already entered in RotaTiger. The RotaTiger leave wins.
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Where to next.
- Leave for fixed hours →The wallchart, approvals from the email, and holiday in hours for office teams.
- The rota →Plan shifts in the same login, from a café’s eight staff to a contact centre’s eighty.
- Compare all five →RotaTiger beside Timetastic, Rotageek, RotaCloud and Deputy, with prices and sources.
Switching questions
In Timetastic, use Download data for each person, then upload their zip to RotaTiger. The import includes their details, department, line manager, working days, allowance for each leave year, brought-forward days, time in lieu and bookings. Check the preview before anything is saved. Afterwards, each leave year’s balance appears alongside the figure from Timetastic.
No. Import one person at a time and bring people across as you go. Uploading the same file twice doesn’t duplicate anything.
Yes. Invite them from People, and they sign in using the link in their invite email. Until they join, they still get their shifts by email.
Nothing for your first 6 months, with every feature switched on. After that it’s £1$1 per person per month, plus VAT, for active people only. That price is fixed for 2 years from your first payment.
Yes. There’s no contract. Export your people, leave, sickness, balances and overtime as CSV, then cancel your plan in Billing.
Bring your team across from Timetastic.
Free for your first 6 months. No credit card required today.