Scheduling software for retail stores: the rota planned against footfall
A weekly rota sized to the shoppers who will actually come through the door, a shelf price worked from cost, freight and markup, and the monthly expenses set against takings. Every answer comes from your own store's numbers, on the page, with no account.
Built for one trade, and it shows in the fields
Footfally has no restaurant module, no salon module and no warehouse module, and it is not going to get one. Every field on every screen is there because a shop floor needs it: the footfall, the conversion rate, the people on the floor while the doors are open, the landed cost and the markup on it.
The three sums a store owner does every week, worked from the store's own numbers
- The rota is sized to the footfall you expect, not to last week's habit. Hours open times the people the floor needs, plus the back of house hours that happen whether anyone walks in or not, checked against the transactions the footfall will generate. Change the conversion rate and the labor percentage moves while you are still writing the rota, which is when the number matters.
- One price per line from landed cost, markup, card fees and shrink. Cost from the supplier plus the freight to get it to your back door, the markup you choose, and what card processing and shrink take out of every sale. Keystone is one setting, not a rule, and the gross profit a week on the line is printed beside the price.
- What the store costs to keep open, and what it has to take to cover it. Rent, utilities, wages with burden, insurance, software and marketing added up, then the break even sales at your gross margin after card fees. It is the sum every landlord conversation and every hiring decision comes back to, and it is on one page.
The free tools
Every tool works out its answer on the page, free, with no account and no trial clock. Put in your own footfall, opening hours, wages, cost prices and rent, and the rota hours, the shelf price and the break even figure update as you type. The paid plan is about keeping what you make.
- Retail store scheduling software: Size the week's rota from your footfall, opening hours and floor cover, and see the labor percentage before you publish it.
- Retail price calculator: Price a line from landed cost and markup, and see the margin, the gross profit and what is left after card fees and shrink.
- Retail store monthly expenses: Add up what the store costs to keep open in a month and see the break even sales at your own gross margin.
Footfally Pro
The answers are free forever. Pro turns them into the store's own record: your store name on the rota and the price list, no watermark, every week's rota, every priced line and every month's figures saved against the store, and clean exports for the accountant. $49 a month for the whole store
