Rostered by mathematical optimisation
Auto Schedule weighs skills, leave, hours and coverage at once, in your model-driven app next to your Dynamics 365 and Power Platform apps.
More than filling shifts.
Plan the whole team.
Rostering for deskless and frontline teams in Power Apps, with Auto Schedule built in. You set up the roles, the skills and the cover you need. Auto Schedule proposes the roster against your rules, and you review it and publish it. Your roster stays in your own Dataverse.
Built for big rosters.
Where some platforms cap one request at 3,000 jobs, one Chrona run fills over 14,000 shifts.
- 2,000people
- Rostered in one run, every shift filled.
- 14,400shifts
- In one run: two weeks for 2,000 people, or four weeks for 1,000.
- 0Must rules broken
- Skills, leave and contract hours hold in every run.
Measured on test rosters with skills, contract hours, pay rates and leave, every shift open at the start, on the solver size we run in production.
Built for deskless teams.
Plan your frontline workforce on the Power Platform you already run.
Self-rostering on their phone
Chrona Workforce Mobile, a Power Pages app: open shifts, swaps, leave, availability and work preferences. In development.
One Dataverse for both
Your automation, customisations and integrations cover the whole team.
Everything a roster needs.
On the board you already know.
In eight languages, out of the box.
Roles and skills
Each role lists the skills it needs. Auto Schedule assigns only people who have them.
Availability and leave
Leave, training and other unavailable time keep people off shifts they cannot work.
Hours against capacity
Each person's hours show against their capacity while you plan.
Demand and coverage
Set how many people you need, and when. The coverage strip shows where you are short.
Shift templates and Generate
Save your shift patterns once. Generate creates the shifts for each period.
Roster periods and publish
Plan period by period. Publish a period when it is ready, and see what changed since.
Awards and enterprise agreements. Auto Schedule rosters inside your award and agreement
obligations: hours, rest between shifts, consecutive days, minimum engagement, penalty rates and overtime. The
roster is ready for your payroll.
Your roster lives with
the rest of your apps.
Chrona Workforce Scheduler is a managed solution in your own Dataverse, next to your other apps on Dataverse, including Dynamics 365 Sales, Customer Service and Field Service.
- Automate, report and integrate with the Power Platform tools you already use.
- Your security roles decide who sees and edits what.
- Auto Schedule sends a pseudonymous copy of one period, and you can read it before the first run.
- The answer comes back as a proposal, never as a write.
Power Apps
Dataverse
Power Automate
Power Platform
From an empty period
to a published roster.
Auto Schedule is how the roster gets built. You stay in charge of every change.
1
Describe the work
Set up your roles, the skills each role needs, and how many people you need at each time.
2
Generate the shifts
Save your shift patterns as templates. Generate creates the shifts for the period.
3
Optimize this roster
Auto Schedule assigns people against your rules: skills, availability, leave, locked shifts and hours.
4
Review and publish
The result arrives as a proposal on the board. Apply it or discard it, adjust by hand, then publish the period.
Add-ons, built in public.
What we are building next, and how far it has come. Dates and prices appear when they are ready.
Add-onIn development
Chrona Workforce Mobile
Staff self-scheduling for your deskless and frontline teams. Their schedule, leave and sick leave, shift swaps, open shifts, availability, work preferences and timesheets, on their phone.
It runs on Power Pages in your own Dataverse, next to your Dynamics 365 and Power Platform apps. Your automation, customisations and integrations stay in one place.
- WorkingPublished schedules on the phone, in our development site
- WorkingRequests and time recorded from the phone, in our development site
- NextInvite your workers in bulk
- NextNotifications
- NextThe installable package
Requires Chrona Workforce Scheduler. A paid add-on; the price comes with the release. Workers sign in under your Power Pages licences.
Add-onPlanned
Constraint packs
Maintained rule sets for specific industries and jurisdictions, kept current as the rules change. Partners will author packs against a published format. Not available yet.
About constraint packsPricing
Pay for the people you roster.
From A$1,000 a month, 50 resources included. Above 50, each extra resource costs less as you grow.
Estimate your month
Move the slider to the number of people and assets you expect Auto Schedule to roster in a month.
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| First 50 | Included |
| 51 to 150 | A$18 each |
| 151 to 400 | A$15 each |
| 401 to 1,000 | A$12 each |
| Above 1,000 | A$10 each |
A$1,900a month for 100 scheduled resources, before taxStart Workforce Scheduler
- Unlimited Auto Schedule runs within fair use
- Each resource counts once a month
- No seats, no solver time, no solve counts
- The Chrona Portal shows the count as it runs
Prices in Australian dollars. Tax is calculated at checkout. Microsoft licensing for Power Apps and Dataverse is separate and stays with Microsoft or your partner.
Three steps to
your first roster.
Subscribe in the Chrona Portal, then install in your own environment.
1
Sign in to the Chrona Portal
Use the Microsoft account you use for Power Apps.
2
Subscribe under Plan and billing
Pay by card through Stripe. Each month you get a tax invoice.
3
Download and import
Download Chrona Workforce Scheduler from Downloads. It includes Chrona Scheduler and the install guide. Import both solutions in order.
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Straight answers
Before you
subscribe.
The questions buyers ask first.
How many people can one run roster?
Up to 2,000 people and 14,400 shifts in one run: two weeks for 2,000 people, or four weeks for 1,000.
Does a bigger roster get more time?
Yes. A run's time grows with the number of people, and it stops as soon as it stops finding a better roster.
What counts as a scheduled resource?
Any person or asset Auto Schedule assigns work to, applied or not. Each counts once per billing period, however many runs, schedulers or environments it appears in.
Do we need Chrona Scheduler first?
No. The Chrona Workforce Scheduler download includes it. If you already use the free scheduler, the import updates it.
What happens if a payment fails?
A grace period keeps everything working with a warning. After it, Auto Schedule and Generate pause until payment is made. Viewing, manual rostering, editing and publishing continue, and no data is locked.
What keeps working if Chrona is unreachable?
Everything on your own data: viewing, rostering, editing, publishing and Generate. Auto Schedule pauses, and after 24 hours the scheduler bar says so, with Retry.
Does it support awards and enterprise agreements?
Yes. Auto Schedule rosters inside your industry award and enterprise agreement obligations, including hours, rest between shifts, consecutive days, minimum engagement, penalty rates and overtime, and keeps labour cost down.
Which licences does Chrona Workforce Mobile need?
Power Pages, from Microsoft. Each worker who signs in counts once a month as an authenticated user of your site, however often they sign in. Microsoft sells this in monthly packs or pay-as-you-go through Azure. Staff with Power Apps Premium in your tenant are not counted when they sign in with their work account. Microsoft 365 plans, F1 and F3 included, do not include Power Pages. Planners use the model-driven app under their Power Apps licences.
Are implementation services included?
No. Chrona supports its packages and its documentation. Consultancies and integrators implement; we do not sell implementation hours.
Start with your
next roster period.
Subscribe in the Chrona Portal, download, and plan in your own Power Apps.