For managers
Run the week from one place.
The schedule, the coverage scramble, and the announcements — handled in a tool your staff actually keep on their phones. Built for independent restaurants, bars, and hotels running one to twenty locations.
Build a week in about 20 minutes
Drag shifts into a grid, copy last week, keep templates for the patterns you always run. It works the way the paper grid worked — it’s just faster, and it adds up labor cost while you go.
See the gaps before Friday does
Thin nights and open shifts get flagged while you’re still building — not at 5:40 with the first table already seated.
One place for announcements
Post it once — new menu, closed Monday, holiday hours — and it reaches every phone. No screenshot chains, no “I didn’t see it.”
Scheduling
Build the week in one sitting.
The builder is a week grid with your people down the side — the same shape as the paper one, minus the eraser and the math.
- Drag shifts into place, copy last week, save templates for the weeks you run on repeat
- Labor cost adds up in the corner while you build, against the target you set
- Hit publish and it lands on every phone and lock screen in seconds — including the three people who never check email
Swaps + coverage
Coverage sorts itself out. You just approve it.
A shift someone can’t work goes on the board — not into a group chat where it dies under memes.
- Staff post a shift they need covered; coworkers who can take it claim it
- You approve in one tap, with conflicts and overtime flagged before you do
- Every handoff is in writing with a timestamp — the end of “I told Kayla three weeks ago”
Team communication
Retire the group text.
Announcements, crew chat, and shift talk live next to the schedule they’re about — not in a thread with someone’s cousin’s number in it.
- Post to everyone or to one role — servers see the server note, kitchen sees the kitchen note
- Crew chat keeps work talk off personal texts; nobody has to give out their number
- A new hire gets the whole picture the day they join, not a forwarded screenshot
The widget
It lives where they already look.
Nobody opens a scheduling app for fun. So the schedule comes to the front of the phone: the next shift sits on the lock screen with a countdown, and when you publish a change, it changes. That one habit — glancing at a lock screen — is why staff on ShiftGlance know when they work.
- Lock screen + home screen
- Small + medium sizes
- Updates when you publish
The employee app is free, and stays free. The widget is why they keep it.
Pricing
Free for your staff. Per location for you.
No per-employee charges — a big roster never raises the bill. No long contracts to escape from, either.
For your staff: free. Forever.
The app, the widget, swaps, and crew chat cost your team nothing — and never will. That’s what makes switching stick: there’s nothing to make anyone pay for or log into twice.
Starter
Free
For a single location getting off the group chat.
- 1 location, up to 10 staff
- Schedule builder + publish to every phone
- Swap approvals
- Announcements + crew chat
Pro
Most locations$29/location/mo
For locations that live and die by coverage.
- Unlimited staff
- Labor cost while you build
- Open shift posting
- Time-off, overtime + conflict warnings
- Reporting
AI
$59/location/mo
For managers who’d rather approve a schedule than assemble one.
- Everything in Pro
- Draft next week’s schedule from your rules
- Call-out autopilot: ranked cover offers, you approve
- Morning digest: gaps, approvals, overtime risk
Multi-unit
Custom
For groups running 2–20 locations.
- Org-wide roll-ups
- Per-location permissions
- Priority support
- POS + payroll integrations as they land
Pre-launch placeholder pricing — waitlist members lock in launch pricing before these numbers are final. No per-employee charges on any tier, no long contracts.
Before you ask
The questions every GM asks first.
Straight answers — including the two features we don’t have.
About an hour for most single locations. Add your staff to the roster, they join with a six-character code, and you build next week in the grid — most of it copies forward from the week before. Each employee’s part takes two minutes: install, join, add the widget. And there’s no long contract on our side to escape from, ever.
For employees: nothing, ever — the app, the widget, swaps, and chat are free. Managers pay per location, not per employee, so a big roster doesn’t cost you more. The numbers live on the pricing page; joining the waitlist locks in early pricing.
No. Anyone you add to the roster is on the schedule whether or not they ever install the app — they show up in every view like everyone else. And the week view prints clean, if the office door still wants its copy.
No, and we won’t pretend to. ShiftGlance does the schedule, the coverage, and the conversation around them. Payroll export is on the roadmap so hours can flow to your payroll provider — running payroll stays their job.
Not yet. POS integrations (Toast, Square, Clover, Lightspeed) are on the roadmap, so sales data can inform staffing. If a POS integration would decide this for you, book a demo and tell us which one — that is genuinely how we order the list.
Next step
Get the schedule off the office door.
Book a fifteen-minute demo, or join the waitlist and we’ll have you set up before your next schedule is due. Staff join free — that part never changes.
Prefer email? Write to support@shiftglance.tech — a person answers.