About
ScanRoster began as a QR check-in and checkout tool built for one working restaurant. Not a prototype shown to operators for feedback: software that a real team clocked in and out on, every shift, while service was running.
That is a slower way to start a company and a much harder one to argue with. A tool used daily by people who did not choose it, who have wet hands and ninety seconds before service, gets corrected fast. Staff scanned in the wrong doorway. Phones died mid-shift. Someone forgot to check out and the hours were wrong on Friday. Every one of those became a rule in the product, because it had already happened to somebody.
Only after the tool had survived months of that did it become a platform. Rosters, no-show cover, compliance and payroll came later, and each one arrived because the restaurant actually hit that wall, not because a competitor's feature list had a gap in it.
ScanRoster is built from Bangladesh for a global hospitality market, starting with the UK and UAE: two places where the rules on hours, breaks and records are strict, and where getting attendance wrong is expensive rather than merely annoying.
Founder
ScanRoster is not a first attempt at hospitality software. It is what was left after several of them.
Founder, Product Engineer & Data Scientist
Md Alqurayish Sharkar has spent the last five years building software for the hospitality industry — three products before ScanRoster, each one surfacing more of where hospitality operations actually break down. Before founding ScanRoster, he built a premium staffing solution for hospitality teams, work that shaped how he thinks about attendance, scheduling, and the problems operators live with every day.
As a product engineer and data scientist, he combines that hands-on hospitality experience with deep product and data work, including payroll and compensation systems — building ScanRoster around problems he has actually solved before rather than theorised about, not another generic team-management app with hospitality branding on top.
What we believe
These are not values on a wall. Each one has cost us a feature somebody asked for, which is the only test of whether a principle is real.
A rota that nobody trusts is not fixed by a model. AI earns its place in ScanRoster in exactly two spots, finding cover for a no-show and shaping shifts around real demand, because those are search problems a person genuinely cannot do at 6am. Everything else is plain software, and it stays that way.
Generic workforce software assumes a desk, a laptop and a nine to five. Hospitality has split shifts, casual contracts, a phone in an apron pocket and a break that legally has to be recorded. ScanRoster only serves hotels, restaurants and bars, which is why it can make assumptions a general-purpose tool never could.
Every standard plan is priced in full on the pricing page, including the per-employee overage. Sales is for genuine multi-property chains where residency, an SLA and procurement are real questions, not a gate you pass through to learn what a single restaurant would pay.
A scan outside the geofence is written down and flagged, never silently rejected. A device with a wrong clock is recorded and marked, not rewritten. Attendance is the evidence behind somebody's pay, and software that tidies away the awkward parts is worth less than the paper book it replaced.
Start
The free tier covers a single property and eight employees, permanently. That is roughly the restaurant this was built in.
