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Signing up and your free trial

How to start a WeRoster free trial, what you get during it, and what happens when it ends.

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Signing up takes about a minute and starts a 14-day free trial with full access to WeRoster. You don't need a credit card to start. You can subscribe any time during the trial from the Subscription page: you keep the rest of your free days and your first payment is on the day the trial ends. If you don't subscribe, you're never charged.

Signing up

  1. Go to weroster.co.nz and click Start free trial.
  2. Fill in First name, Last name, Email address and Password (at least 8 characters). Tap Show in the password box if you want to check what you typed.
  3. Click Start my free trial. Starting the trial means you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, so there's no box to tick.

You go straight to a short setup to create your store and add your team. See Creating your first store.

We also email you a link to verify your email address. Click it so you don't miss emails from WeRoster. It takes you to a page that confirms your email is verified, with a button back to your store setup or your Timetable.

Already have an account? If your email is already registered (for example, a manager added you to their store), the sign up form tells you so, with links to Log in or, if your manager added you and you've never chosen a password, set your password.

What's included in the trial

Everything. Stores, rosters, staff, availability, leave requests, shift tracking and the clock-in terminal all work during the trial. To see the date your trial ends, open the account menu (your initials in the top right, or Account on a phone) and choose Subscription.

Subscribing

You can subscribe during the trial or after it ends:

  1. Open the account menu and choose Subscription.
  2. Under Start your subscription, choose Monthly or Annual (annual gives you one month free compared to monthly).
  3. Enter your card under Card details.
  4. Click Start subscription.

If you subscribe during the trial, there's nothing to pay that day: your first payment is when the trial ends. Your plan is set automatically by the number of staff across your stores. See Plans and pricing and Starting or changing your subscription.

When the trial ends

If your trial ends without a subscription, nothing is deleted: your stores, staff and rosters are all kept. When you log in you're taken to the Subscription page, which says Your subscription has ended, so you can choose a plan and pick up where you left off. Until you subscribe:

  • Opening one of your stores takes you back to the Subscription page.
  • Your managers can still open the store, but publishing rosters and notifying staff are paused. They see a message that the store's subscription has ended and are asked to get you to restart it. Only you, the owner, can subscribe.
  • Your staff can still log in and see their Timetable.

Who can do this

Anyone can sign up. The person who signs up becomes the owner of the stores they create and is the one billed. Staff you add to a store don't sign up themselves: they get an email to verify their address and choose a password. See Adding your staff.