Turn your Excel schedule into a system that schedules itself
You already have the truth in a spreadsheet. Drop it in and Weekeye reads the roles, shifts, people and patterns, builds your organization, and generates the next week — with rules you can finally enforce.
Your starting sentence — edit it before you sendOpen the builder with this exampleI have my current weekly shift schedule in Excel. Build my organization from it — roles, shifts and people — and then generate next week with the same coverage.
Free, no sign-up. The sentence is only a start — change anything, then send.
Why teams choose Weekeye
- Rules recovered, not retyped: the patterns in your sheet become explicit, enforceable scheduling rules.
- Excel, CSV and native PDF are read directly; the builder shows what it understood and asks before it assumes.
- The moment the organization exists, every employee can see their shifts on their phone.
Import your Excel shift schedule without retyping it
Which spreadsheet layouts work best
Weekeye reads Excel (.xlsx, .xls), CSV and text-based PDF schedules; scanned images are not read. The layout most rotas already use works well: days or dates across the top, shifts or times down the side, and names in the cells. Clear headers help, as do shift times written out in full (07:00–15:00 rather than just "morning") and one week per sheet or table. If your file is a list of people with their shifts instead of a grid, upload it anyway: the builder tells you what it could and could not read.
What the builder reads from your file
From the file, the builder recovers four things: the roles people fill, the shifts with their start and end times, the people themselves, and the patterns hidden in the grid, such as who never works nights or how many waiters a Friday evening carries. Those patterns become explicit, enforceable rules you can open and change, instead of habits that live in one manager's head. The builder shows what it understood as an editable structure and asks before it assumes, and nothing is committed until you say so.
What to check after the import
Spend five minutes on the result before you generate a new week. Check that role names were merged correctly, for example that "waiter" and "server" are one role if they should be. Confirm shift times, especially night shifts that end the next morning. Go through the recovered rules and remove any that were a one-off rather than a policy. Make sure everyone on the team appears, including people who happened to have no shifts that week. Then generate the next week with the same coverage and compare it with your sheet.
Excel import is in every plan, from $3 per employee
Frequently asked questions
Which file formats work?
Excel (.xlsx, .xls), CSV and text-based PDF schedules. Scanned images are not read.
What happens to my data?
Guest sessions are temporary and expire on their own; nothing is stored permanently until you sign up and save the organization.
What if the sheet has a layout the builder does not recognise?
It tells you what it could and could not read, and you can complete the rest in the same conversation.
Is there a file size limit?
Without an account you can try one file of up to 5 MB, which is enough for most weekly and monthly schedules. If your workbook is larger, split it or upload only the sheet that holds the current schedule.
Do I need to clean up my spreadsheet first?
Usually not. Upload the file as it is and see what the builder understood. Clear headers and shift times written out in full make the read more accurate, and anything it could not read you can complete in the same conversation instead of editing the file.
What happens after the import?
Weekeye builds your organization from the file, with roles, shifts, people and rules, and can then generate next week with the same coverage. Once you sign up and save, employees see their own shifts on their phone and send availability and swap requests, so the spreadsheet no longer travels around the group chat.
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