--- title: "On-call scheduling without per-seat pricing" description: "On-call schedules with rotations, handoffs and overrides. Pages by email, SMS and phone call with press 1 to acknowledge. Unlimited members from €48 a month on Team." url: https://spectate.net/features/on-call last_updated: 2026-10-26 --- # On-call for your whole team, one price > Schedules with rotations and overrides, pages by SMS and phone call with press 1 to acknowledge, and no per-seat fees: Team and Business include unlimited members. - **No per-seat fees.** Pay per monitor. Everyone can be on call. - **Press 1 to acknowledge.** Phone pages stop the escalation on a key press. - **Rotations and overrides.** Layers, handoffs and swaps on one timeline. ## Rotations that match how your team works Rotate people by hours, days or weeks with a handoff time you choose, add a weekend layer on top, and override for holidays and swaps. - Layers limited to certain days or hours - Overrides for swaps and holidays - Daylight saving safe handoffs ## Pages that wake you up, and let you go back to sleep Each person chooses email plus an SMS or a phone call. The call reads the alert out; press 1 and the escalation stops. - Press 1 to acknowledge - Acknowledge buttons in Slack and Telegram - Every acknowledgement attributed to a person ## Paged by the escalation path, at the moment it fires Spectate works out who is on call when the step runs, so a handoff mid-incident pages the right person. Nobody acknowledges? The next step runs. - Unacknowledged pages escalate - Gaps in the schedule never stall an alert ## Everything in on-call - **Who's on call now.** And when the next handoff is, per schedule. - **Your on-call.** Members see their shifts and set their own paging method. - **2-week timeline.** Shifts per person, with exact times on hover. - **SMS and voice credits.** 50 a month on Team, 200 on Business. - **Credit packs.** 100 credits for €19 that never expire. - **Unlimited members.** As many people on call as you need. ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does on-call cost in Spectate? On-call is part of the Team and Business plans, which include unlimited members. You pay per monitor, not per person: Team costs €0.60 per monitor a month with a minimum of 80, so €48 a month, and Business €0.50 with a minimum of 250. Prices exclude VAT and include a monthly allowance of SMS and voice credits. ### Is Spectate cheaper than PagerDuty for on-call? For most teams, yes, because Spectate doesn't charge per responder. Tools such as PagerDuty, incident.io and Better Stack price on-call per user, so the bill grows with every engineer in the rotation. In Spectate the price depends on how many monitors you have, and everyone on the team can be on call. ### How does Spectate page the person on call? By email, plus an SMS or a phone call to the person's own number, whichever they choose in their profile. The phone call reads the alert out and asks them to press 1 to acknowledge, which stops the escalation. If nobody acknowledges, the escalation path continues with its next step. ### Can I set up weekly rotations with overrides? Yes. Rotation layers hand off every set number of hours, days or weeks at a time you choose, in the schedule's time zone. Layers can be limited to certain days or hours, and overrides replace whoever is scheduled for a period, for example during a holiday or a swap. ### What happens if nobody is on call? If a schedule has a gap when an on-call step fires, Spectate skips to the next step of the escalation path right away and logs the reason, so the alert still reaches someone, for example a team channel or a second schedule. ### Can I acknowledge alerts without opening the dashboard? Yes. Press 1 during a phone page, or use the Acknowledge button on alerts in Slack or Telegram. Acknowledgements are attributed to your Spectate account, and the messages update to show who acknowledged and when. Replying to an SMS is not supported. ## Pricing On the Team and Business plans, from €48 a month (€0.50–€0.60 per monitor). 14-day trial, no credit card. See https://spectate.net/pricing. ## Related - [Alerting](https://spectate.net/features/alerting): Alerts by email, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, Pushover, webhook, SMS and phone call, with escalation paths that branch on severity, working hours, source and labels. - [Incident management](https://spectate.net/features/incident-management): Incident management with /incident in Slack, a channel per incident, roles, SEV1 to SEV4, a live timeline, Markdown updates, postmortems and status page publishing. - [Server monitoring](https://spectate.net/features/server-monitoring): Monitor CPU, memory, disk and network on Linux servers with a one-line agent install. 15s samples, threshold and no-data alerts, offline spool. €0.50–€0.75 per host.