Switching is one week of retyping. Or one photo.

For a venue that is on another tool today and has had enough of it. For a venue that plans on paper: the whiteboard in the office, or the sheet that gets filled in with a biro every Sunday. For a venue with an Excel that has a tab per month. And for the biggest group of all: the venue that simply drops the schedule into the WhatsApp group, Sunday night around half past ten.

Those four are the same case here, because all four already have the same thing to hand: a week that exists, in a shape a human reads. That is exactly what goes in. You do not need an export from your old tool, an integration, a CSV in a particular layout, or a call with an account manager.

1. You create an account and a venue. No card number, no demo call.

2. You open the schedule on the week you want to fill. While it is still empty, a bar above the grid offers "Import your current week". The app itself is in English — it is the website that is trilingual, not the product.

3. You paste your schedule as text, or you add one photo. A screenshot pasted straight into the box counts as the photo. Text goes up to 20,000 characters, comfortably one week; a photo up to 5 MB, and it is redrawn at 2000 pixels in your own browser before it is sent — so a phone photo of a whiteboard goes through without you doing anything to it.

4. You get a list back, not a filled-in schedule. One row per shift, with the line or the table cell it was read from beside it. Everything is editable: who, which day, which times, which station. Rows that cannot land as they stand arrive unticked with the reason next to them — "Several people match Tom — pick one", "Ends at closing — fill in the time", "Already works 17:00–23:00 that day".

5. You tick what is right and press add. Names that are not on the team yet are created as members, by name. At most a hundred shifts per import; a full week for a team of twelve is around 85 of them.

Until that last click nothing has been written. That is a decision, not caution: a misread row you can see on your screen is a three-second correction, while a misread row that quietly landed on Saturday is only discovered on Saturday.

Dutch, French and English, mixed. A WhatsApp message, a block pasted out of Excel, a photo of a whiteboard or of a printed grid. "17u", "17:00", "17h30", "5pm" and "9" are all understood, and nothing is rounded: "17h30" becomes 17:30, not 17:00. If the schedule says "close", that becomes your usual closing time, worked out from the shifts you already have — and when there is nothing yet to go on, it becomes a field you fill in rather than a guess.

A legend counts. If somewhere it says "V = 10-17, L = 17-close", the V and L cells are written out into real hours, and the app says it leaned on that legend. A day marked "off", "vrij", "congé", "repos", "x" or a dash does not become a shift: those are counted and the number is shown, so you can see they were seen.

And one thing is never guessed: which Saturday. A schedule that says "sat 17:00-23:00" says nothing about which Saturday that is. Day words therefore land in the week you have on screen. If your schedule does carry real dates and they all come from one other week — last week's photo, taken on Sunday to build this one — they slide onto the same weekdays and the app says so once, visibly. If dates from several weeks are mixed together, the foreign ones stay unticked: two Mondays out of two weeks is not a decision software should make for you.

What moves: the shifts of your week, and the people in them. A schedule is nothing more than that.

What does not move, and this is the most important paragraph on the page: your guest database. If you are leaving a reservation platform, that is exactly what you care about — your guest list and your future bookings. We do not take those over. There is no import button here for another system's guest database, in any format, and pretending otherwise is precisely the kind of promise that breaks on your first Saturday. What happens instead: your own booking page is live straight away and takes new reservations from day one. If you want to leave your old tool running for another month until the bookings already in it have passed, nothing stops you — the roster here is unaffected.

Also not moving: payroll history, contracts and Dimona filings. SuperHoreca is not a payroll engine and does not want to become one; it exports to whichever payroll office you already use. No menu, no gift cards, no till data.

And no address book. Team members here are created by name, without an e-mail address, because that is how most crews arrive: you share the week as a link in your group chat, and whoever opens it needs no account. If you want people to sign in themselves, submit availability or take over shifts, you invite them later. That is a separate decision, not a condition for starting.

The offer that gets used most in practice is also the simplest: send us what you use today, and we put your first week in. One of these three is enough — a photo of the paper or the whiteboard, your Excel or Google Sheet, or a screenshot of the WhatsApp message you send your crew. You get the link to your week back. No call, no fourteen-field form.

This holds on every plan, Free included. The import button inside the app does not: it reads your schedule with the assistant, and the assistant sits in Ultra — on Free and Pro the button is not even drawn, because a button you are not allowed to press is clutter on a screen a manager opens twenty times a day. But every new account starts with 30 days of Ultra, so in your first month it is there regardless.

For completeness: Free is €0 up to 10 staff, Pro €19 per month and Ultra €39 per month (€15 and €29 per month when billed yearly). Prices excl. VAT.

The week itself comes out as PDF, Excel or CSV, from the menu on the schedule. No request, no ticket, no notice period that has to run out first.

For a longer stretch: the planned hours over any date range as CSV, and the worked hours from the time clock in two shapes — a simple one (staff, e-mail, date, hours, hourly rate, cost) and a full one with clock times, breaks, planned versus worked, flags and notes. The full one is the file a payroll office asks for.

Your bookkeeper does not even need an account for it: there is an HR link, a read-only page per week carrying the same three downloads. And there is an iCal feed, per venue and per person, which keeps working in whichever calendar it was subscribed to.

The honest gap, because it belongs in the same paragraph: reservations have no export button today. That is a gap, not a policy, and we would rather write it here than have you find it on the day you leave. Beyond the buttons, portability of your data is simply in our privacy policy — a right, not a favour you earn by staying.