in minutes, not hours
Monthly roster planning
Monkaru is the intelligent co-planner for your medical department. Create fair rosters that automatically account for all KA-AZG requirements.
Monkaru is the intelligent co-planner for your medical department. Create fair rosters that automatically account for all KA-AZG requirements.
We know your daily challenges
The algorithm builds the plan automatically and validates every working-time rule in real time. Violations are caught before they take effect.
1Mo | 2Di | 3Mi | 4Do | 5Fr | 6Sa | 7So | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WALLNER Georg | N25 | N25 | WR | ||||
| AIGNER Theresa | N25 | T7 | T7 | T5 | WR | ||
| EDER Simon | T7 | T7 | T5 | WR | N25 | ||
| MOSER Ingrid | T5 | N25 | WR | T7 | |||
| KIRCHMAYR Daniel | T7 | T5 | N25 | WR |
Weekly rest violation: This shift would block every possible 36-hour rest window in the week.
Staff see their roster and the shared vacation schedule in real time, submit requests directly in the app, and share shift preferences before planning. And fair distribution is transparent for everyone.
A typical department with 50 physicians loses an estimated €78,000 to €164,000 per year to manual scheduling: planning effort, compliance risk, reactive gap-filling, and avoidable departures.
40–60 hrs
Monthly rostering and administration effort in a department of 26–50 physicians
Industry benchmarks
from €50,000
Cost to replace a single departing hospital physician
Recruiting, onboarding, and vacancy coverage; based on Austrian specialist salaries and DACH agency fees
up to €3,600
fine per KA-AZG violation, per employee and incident
KA-AZG §12. 47.5% of 2024 labor inspections found violations.
Estimates based on public sources (Austrian Medical Chamber, labor inspectorate, KA-AZG §12).
No guarantee of individual results.
Protecting your staff data is our highest priority.
Your roster data is processed in a Frankfurt data centre and never leaves the EU.
Encrypted in transit and at rest, protected down to the individual login.
You sign the data processing agreement during sign-up. Your data remains yours at all times.
Every roster change is logged with a timestamp and the user behind it. Months later you can still show who scheduled what, and when.
As a resident physician in Vienna, I experienced firsthand how much time, energy, and valuable resources go into rostering every month.
I refused to accept that medical departments are still managed with tools from the last decade.
Monkaru is my personal answer: software that meets Austria's specific legal requirements while placing people at the center.
Dr.med.univ. Manuel Istratoaie, Founder
Monkaru is built specifically for medical departments in Austrian hospitals, from small teams to large clinics. Planning revolves around KA-AZG rest periods, on-call duties and night, weekend and holiday shifts, plus the interplay between the coverage schedule and the duty roster. Whether part-time, full-time, rotations or special protected groups: the rules are fully configurable and mirror how your department actually works.
We'd rather take this off your hands: we set Monkaru up for you, free of charge. We import your existing data and configure your shifts, teams, coverage types and rules together with you. You're ready to go with no effort on your side. Prefer to do it yourself? You can: your first roster is ready right after signing up. Staff then join via an invite link.
No. You can first run Monkaru in shadow mode, in parallel with your current planning, and compare at your own pace, with no operational risk and no hard cut-over. Only once Monkaru has convinced you do you fully switch.
Monkaru checks every assignment in real time against the configured rules: daily rest, compensatory rest, weekly rest and weekly maximums. Non-compliant shifts are blocked before saving. Monkaru is decision support. The final legal responsibility stays with you, and Monkaru makes it verifiable and traceable.
Data privacy and security are our highest priority. In healthcare they are not optional, but a fundamental requirement. Your data is hosted exclusively in the EU (Frankfurt) and processed in full compliance with the GDPR at all times. Encryption (TLS 1.3 / AES-256), two-factor authentication and a complete activity log are a matter of course. Monkaru processes staff data only, never patient data. Your data remains your property and can be exported at any time.
Hardly. Staff see their own roster, submit preferences during the voting phase, and request leave, swaps or absences on any device, in real time. A built-in onboarding guide walks them through the essentials. The interface is deliberately designed to be clear without training.
No. The trial is free and ends automatically, with no credit card and no automatic renewal. The monthly licence can be cancelled at any time. You can still view your duty and coverage schedules after the billing period ends and export them as PDF, XLSX or calendar file (ICS).
Create your first roster right after signing up.
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