HR software for retail & ecommerce
Peak trading runs on people showing up. CoDash handles the rota, the overtime and the absence signal - and gets seasonal starters productive in days, not weeks.
CoDash runs retail's people basics well: rotas drafted per store team and emailed on publish, peak-season overtime with weekend multipliers settled through a finance view, absence patterns (including the Monday/Friday skew) surfaced honestly, and onboarding checklists that cope with seasonal intake.
Rotas people actually receive
Draft the week per store or team, publish in one click, and everyone gets their shifts by email. Managers see their own stores' rotas - including drafts; staff see only what's published.
Peak season, paid properly
November's extra hours are logged in seconds, approved as TOIL or pay, weighted by weekday/weekend multipliers server-side, and settled from the finance payout view with a payroll-ready CSV.
Absence you can act on
Bradford Factor scoring, weekday-skew detection and return-to-work interviews - patterns surfaced as coaching prompts with the evidence attached, not gut feel in a back office. The measurement gap is real: ONS records 4.4 sickness days per worker while CIPD's employer-record figure is 9.4 - most of the difference is short absence that never gets logged, which is precisely what retail loses to.
Seasonal starters, sorted
Invite with a start date, the onboarding checklist anchors to day one, contracts e-sign in the app, and when the season ends, offboarding - kit back, access off, records retained per your policy - is a checklist too.
What we deliberately don't do
POS, stock and demand forecasting live in your retail systems. CoDash is the employment layer: hours, rotas, leave, people records and the registers behind them.
Worth reading alongside
- Bradford Factor calculator - and where the thresholds really come from
- Sickness trigger points that survive a tribunal
- How much notice for a rota change?
- Term-time and part-year holiday calculator
Common questions
Can store managers run their own rotas?
Yes - rota permissions follow the management line, so each manager drafts and publishes for their own teams only.
Do staff without email addresses work?
Every account needs an email, but personal addresses are fine and the phone app means no desk or shared terminal is needed.
How fast can 30 Christmas temps be added?
The CSV importer creates people and teams in bulk with per-row error reporting and optional invite emails - an afternoon, including checklists.
Does it flag absence patterns?
Yes - Bradford Factor per person plus company-level pattern analysis, both framed for a supportive conversation rather than an ambush.
See it before peak does
The demo is open - publish a rota, log overtime, check the absence view. No sign-up needed.