Emplora

What Emplora is

Emplora combines employee scheduling, shift management, and rota planning in a web platform. Managers can prepare weekly or monthly schedules, and saved changes become available to the team. Employees can check schedules in a phone browser using a QR code or PIN, without installing an app. The Free plan costs nothing and covers one location, up to 15 employees, three teams, scheduling, shifts, QR access, and team management. Starter costs $39 a month and adds shift swaps, time-off requests, notifications, reports, and CSV exports. Professional costs $79 a month and adds attendance tracking, analytics, labour cost reports, and priority support. Schedules can be exported as CSV or PDF for use with payroll software. The site describes those exports as the payroll workflow bridge; POS and PMS integrations are roadmap items. Fully rules-based schedule generation is also on the roadmap. Emplora states that it uses bank-grade encryption and organization-level data isolation. Its data-processing terms cover EU GDPR, UK GDPR, and applicable data-protection law. Human support is listed as responding within 24 hours, usually faster.

Who it suits

Emplora is designed for small and mid-size businesses with 1 to 500 employees. It may suit teams that need shift schedules, browser-based employee access, and payroll-use exports.

Limits

The Free plan includes one location, up to 15 employees, and three teams. Starter supports two locations with up to 40 employees each; Professional supports three locations with up to 70 employees each. Leave requests and shift swaps begin on Starter, while fully rules-based generation remains on the roadmap.

Getting started

1. Open emplora.io.
2. Choose the Free plan or review the paid plans, which start at $39 per month.
3. Use the 30-day trial if you want to try a plan before continuing.
4. Set up locations, teams, and employee access.
5. Create a weekly or monthly schedule and save it for the team.
6. Share QR code or PIN access so employees can view schedules in a phone browser.

Verdict

Emplora offers a free scheduling option and paid plans with additional leave, swap, reporting, and attendance tools. Teams needing automatic rules-based scheduling or POS and PMS integrations should note that those capabilities are roadmap items.