I don’t have a PC so I can’t trial this application out. However, according to its website, SmartRoster allows you to:

1. Define your Events – repeating daily, weekly, monthly, annually or at adhoc intervals
2. Define your Roles – linking them to events and setting their properties such as how many people for each role/event combination are required
3. Enter your People – setting their absences, preferred serving frequencies, and relationships, preferred events, and possible roles – or import them using the powerful import function
4. Create association preferences, such as who prefers (or must) be scheduled together or apart
5. Schedule them manually using the powerful and intuitive drag and drop interface
6. Finally hit the AutoFill key and watch as SmartRoster fills all the remaining vacant slots, and optimises the schedule according to your preferences
7. Create reports using many different built-in formats, using SmartRoster’s own viewer to see the output before printing, exporting to MS Word®, adobe pdf format (great forpublishing on your web site), or even as tab-delimited data into virtually any other program
8. Distribute your reports via email – SmartRoster was the first such program to be able to automatically create personalised reports (with a person’s name highlighted) and forward to each person’s email address
9. Create daily individualized email reminders of who is required in which duties
10. Automatically share your data over a LAN or by internet-connected PCs at completely different locations – even across the world!

In terms of pricing, there are numerous pricing options, but to give you an idea, a 5-user pack is AU$295.

A 30-day trial is available for download, so if you’ve got a PC, check it out!

Time for some feedback – have you used it? What do you think? Try out the demo and share your feedback!