Rota Horizon vs. Breathe

Rota Horizon is implemented on-site, offering a flexible and scalable workforce management solution. It provides the essential control, insights, and knowledge required to efficiently manage crucial aspects of your organization, including staff planning, payroll management, scheduling, attendance monitoring, reporting, and communication. With this tool at your disposal, you can plan strategically, reduce payroll expenses, and improve staff productivity. Rota Horizon can operate independently using our unique RFID or biometric terminals, or it can easily connect with your existing access control systems. This all-encompassing solution equips users at all levels with the vital resources needed to decrease payroll costs and enhance employee performance. Furthermore, Rota Horizon enables managers to oversee multiple rotas, making shift planning and budget oversight much simpler. By ensuring accurate payroll processing, Rota Horizon also minimizes the risk of human error, establishing itself as an essential asset for contemporary workforce management. Ultimately, Rota Horizon not only optimizes operations but also nurtures a more productive workplace atmosphere, fostering teamwork and collaboration among staff members.

If your employee details are spread across spreadsheets, emails and disconnected apps, Breathe brings them together. It's a UK HR platform launched in 2012 for small and medium-sized businesses. More than 17,000 of them use it, along with over 1,000 UK HR consultancies. Three everyday HR problems Breathe fixes Information everywhere: one central, accurate record for every employee. Endless chasing: staff book leave, sign documents electronically and follow shared workflows. A small HR team: start with the essentials and add more as you grow. The essentials: Core HR Store records and documents securely, manage holiday and leave, track sickness and absence, and let staff update their own details. Collect e-signatures, set goals, run one-to-ones and reviews, and spot trends with built-in reports. Optional extras Rota, Time and Attendance: plan shifts and track hours Expenses: claims, receipts and manager sign-off Recruitment: advertise roles and follow each candidate Health and Safety: risk assessments, incidents and compliance evidence e-Learning: assign UK-specific courses and see who's completed what Breathe is also building an AI Assistant to answer HR and policy questions, and plans to launch payroll in late 2026. Who gets the most from it UK organisations with up to 200 people, particularly charities, schools, healthcare, retail, start-ups and professional services firms with lean HR. If you need multinational payroll, global compliance or enterprise workforce planning, weigh it up first. Pricing, support and security Plans start from £24 a month for your whole organisation, with no long-term contracts or hidden fees. Try it free for 14 days, with UK-based support from setup onwards. Breathe holds ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 accreditation and keeps your data in UK data centres, protected by encryption and access controls.