A spreadsheet is the default way people start tracking shifts — it’s free and you already know it. But the very things that make casual work tricky (penalty rates, breaks, midnight shifts, doing it on your phone) are exactly where spreadsheets fall over.
Side by side
| Spreadsheet | Orary | |
|---|---|---|
| Penalty rates | Manual formulas | Automatic |
| Shifts past midnight | Easy to get wrong | Handled |
| On your phone | Painful | Built for it |
| Weekly/monthly totals | You build them | Automatic |
| Payslip cross-check | No | Yes |
| 88-day visa tracking | No | Yes |
| Cost | Free | Free |
Where spreadsheets cost you
One wrong formula miscalculates silently down the whole column, so an underpaid shift can hide in a sheet that "balances". And because editing a spreadsheet between shifts on your phone is a hassle, people stop updating it — and lose the record entirely.
Where Orary wins
Orary knows your rates, applies penalties, totals everything, works on your phone in seconds, and cross-checks against your payslips — for free. You keep the simplicity of "log a shift" without the formula maintenance.
Get spreadsheet-free shift tracking that does the maths for you.
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