Generic rota software schedules shifts. A veterinary rota also carries on call fairness, OOH recovery and clinical cover rules. The second half is the hard half.
RotaCloud publishes its prices openly, credit to them: for one to five staff the Standard plan is 10 pounds a month and Pro is 15, with bands roughly doubling as headcount grows, all as published on their pricing page in July 2026. Clock-in, their Time and Attendance module, is a separate paid add-on, as are SMS notifications. It has a veterinary landing page and named vet customer stories.
Vet HR is a different shape: your rota, clock in and out, holiday and policies arrive as one white labelled build carrying your practice's name, designed around your OOH and on call patterns before launch, with HR consultancy from the same people. One written quote, not a plan-plus-add-ons sum.
All three come from RotaCloud's own published pages, as checked in July 2026.
The headline price is the rota only. Clock-in and timesheets sit in the paid Time and Attendance add-on, from 4.50 pounds a month at the smallest band, and SMS notifications cost extra too. Price the whole stack at your real headcount, and note the band jump: moving from five staff to six doubles the plan price on their published table.
Drag and drop shifts suit a rota that looks like retail. A veterinary rota carries first and second on call, OOH recovery time and clinical cover rules. RotaCloud offers a 30 day trial, so build your hardest fortnight in it, not your easiest, before deciding.
Rota disputes are rarely software problems: they are holiday accrual, working time and fairness problems. RotaCloud's published plans include software support, not HR or employment law advice. Decide before you need it who takes that call.
Every system carries your practice's name and branding, not ours. These are the ones that matter most here.
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. It is well priced, UK built, cancellable at any time and has real veterinary customers. If all your practice needs is a straightforward rota tool at a published price, it is a fair choice. Vet HR exists for practices that want the rota built around veterinary patterns, carrying their own branding, with HR advice attached.
Differently shaped. RotaCloud publishes banded plan prices and charges add-ons on top. Vet HR quotes one written price per practice for the build and support you actually need. At small headcounts RotaCloud's software alone will usually cost less; the comparison worth making is against software plus the HR support you currently pay for separately, or go without.
Our clock in and out system covers time capture at the practice and from a phone, feeding payroll ready exports. If your practice needs something specific, that is what the custom build route is for: we scope it, quote it in writing and build it, rather than pointing you at a feature list.
Less than you would expect, because we model your rota patterns before anything goes live and run the handover with you. Export your data, keep your trial period overlapping, and nobody misses a shift. Start with a free HR health check and we will tell you honestly whether switching is worth it.
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