Headcount planner
The Headcount planner is a dashboard tool that allocates staffing hours across the trading day based on historical footfall, so labour is sized to actual customer demand.
Headcount planner is a tool inside the Aura Vision dashboard that allocates staffing hours across the trading day based on historical footfall. Instead of building a rota against intuition, managers enter the total staffing hours they have available and the planner distributes them hour-by-hour to match real demand.
How it works
The output is a coloured grid covering the trading week, with one cell per hour. Each cell contains a number — a staffing hour — representing how many people should be on the floor during that slot. A 4, for example, means four staffing hours (typically four people) are needed for that hour.
The distribution is driven by historical footfall patterns for the store, so peaks pull staff in and quiet hours release them. This lets retailers reclaim labour from over-staffed quiet periods and protect conversion during peaks, without changing the overall headcount budget.
For an end-to-end walkthrough, see How to optimise staff schedules to meet customer demand.