Employee scheduling that stops eating your week.
Drag shifts into place, publish in a few minutes, and let swaps, time off and availability sort themselves out. Free to start, whatever size or shape your team is.
Free for your whole team. No credit card required.
- Build your first week in minutes
- Swaps and time off handled in the app
- Free for your whole team
What you can do
Everything the week needs, on one grid.
Scheduling is rarely one job. It is building the thing, sharing it, catching the mistakes, and covering the gaps that appear on Thursday.
Drag shifts into place, then reuse the week
Team scheduling does not need to be hard. Start from a blank grid or from the last good week you built, and move shifts around until it looks right.
- Drag and drop names onto shifts in minutes, not hours
- Save any week as a template and start from it next time
- Build months ahead when you already know the pattern
- Edit from a laptop, a tablet or your phone
Why it helps
What changes in the first week.
Smarter schedules
See who is available, who has worked recently and who you need where, on the same grid you are already looking at.
Time off without the back and forth
Requests, approvals and remaining balances sit beside the schedule, so you answer them without leaving it.
Fewer no-shows and late arrivals
Automatic reminders reach your team before the shift starts, which means fewer empty stations at open.
How to
Four habits that make a schedule hold up.
The software does the mechanical part. These are the practices that make the result worth publishing.
- 1
Start with your anchors
Most managers fill Monday, then Tuesday, then Wednesday. Try it the other way. Place one strong person on every shift first, then build the rest of the team around them. Every shift gets a core of experience, and your newest hires always have someone to lean on.
- 2
Plan for the week falling apart
Somebody will call in sick. Keep a standing list of people who will take an extra shift, plus reliable part-timers and people who left on good terms you can call. Availability in Shift Amp gives you the first list without you maintaining it.
- 3
Set the labor budget before you build
Labor is one of the largest costs you carry, so decide what the week should cost before you start placing shifts. Shift Amp adds up wages as you go and tells you when the schedule runs past the number you set.
- 4
Turn your best week into a template
If next week looks like last week, do not build it twice. Save the shift slots, roles and hours as a template and spend your time on the exceptions instead of the formatting.
Compared to
Against the spreadsheet and the group chat.
Almost every team starts here, and it works right up until the business gets slightly complicated.
| What you get | Shift AmpFree, or $2 per billable member for Pro | Spreadsheet + group chat |
|---|---|---|
| Publish a week in minutes | Rebuilt from scratch each time | |
| Everyone sees the current version | ||
| Double-bookings caught for you | ||
| Shift swaps without a text thread | ||
| Availability and time off in one place | A second sheet | |
| Labor cost as you build | If you maintain the formulas | |
| Weekly hours limits before publishing | ||
| Usable on a phone | Technically |
iOS & Android
The schedule lives in their pocket.
Your team checks their hours on a phone, so that is where the schedule should be. They pick up open shifts, request time off and swap with a colleague from the same place they read it.
- Shifts, hours and upcoming time off at a glance
- Claim open shifts and request swaps in a few taps
- Push notifications when the schedule changes
- Message a manager without handing over a phone number
The rest of Shift Amp
More than scheduling.
The schedule is the start. These are the rest of the tools that hang off it.
Employee time clock
Accurate clock-ins and timesheets that are ready for payroll.
Learn moreLabor costs
See what a shift costs while you are still building it.
Learn moreTeam communication
Messages, group chats and channels next to the schedule.
Learn moreTask management
Assign the shift's work and see what actually got done.
Learn moreEmployee breaks
Break rules applied to shifts automatically, with reminders on the floor.
Learn moreEmployee documents
Licenses, contracts and certifications, with alerts before they expire.
Learn moreMulti-location scheduling
Staff several sites from one schedule and compare them side by side.
Learn moreLabor compliance
Break and overtime rules for every state, kept current.
Learn moreFAQ
Employee scheduling, answered.
What is employee scheduling?
It is the practice of setting out who works when. For some businesses that means everyone at one site, nine to five, Monday to Friday. For others it means different people on different shifts on different days across several locations. Either way, it is the timetable the rest of your operation runs on.
Why does employee scheduling matter?
It gives the workday structure. Managers and their teams both know who is working and who they are working with. It also gives your team the foundation for a reasonable work-life balance, and anyone who is rested and knows their hours in advance is in a better position to do the job well.
How does scheduling software help my business?
Three things, mostly. Time: a schedule that used to take hours takes minutes, and you get the rest of that time back for the rest of the job. Access: everything is cloud-based, so you can build, change or check a schedule from a desktop, laptop, tablet or phone. Accuracy: Shift Amp keeps track of time off, availability and hours worked in the background, and tells you when a shift conflicts with any of them before you publish it.
Who is employee scheduling software for?
Any business that runs on shifts, at any size. Restaurants, retail, healthcare, hotels, transportation, education, call centers, caregiving, entertainment, emergency services, nonprofits and remote teams all schedule the same way underneath. If your business does not fit neatly into one of those, the same tools still do the same job.
How do I keep the schedule inside budget?
Set a labor budget for the location, add wages to each employee profile, and Shift Amp prices the schedule as you build it. If the week runs past the number you set, or if someone is scheduled past their weekly hours limit, you get told while the schedule is still a draft.
What does it cost?
Scheduling is free for your whole team, at any size, with no credit card. Pro adds the time clock, timesheets, reports and more for $2 per billable member a month, and every new team starts with 14 days of everything free.
Why choose Shift Amp?
Because we save you time and money. Scheduling is free for your whole team, and Pro is $2 per billable member a month when you want the time clock and reports. We do what we say we'll do, and we'll never waste your time trying to upsell you.
How far ahead can I schedule?
As far as you want. Build next week, next month or the next six months, and save any of it as a template so the pattern carries forward instead of being rebuilt each time.
Pricing
All the schedule. None of the bloat.
No add-ons, no per-location fees, no surprises. Just a schedule your whole team can count on, and it's free for all of them.
Free
For any number of people.
- The schedule, with open shifts, shift swaps and coverage
- Availability and time-off requests
- Labor cost estimates as you build the week
- Messaging with photos and documents, and shift tasks
- iOS and Android apps for everyone on the team
- No credit card
Pro
Every member counts, from the first. No cap on team size.
- Everything in Free, plus:
- A time clock on phones and shared kiosks, with location checks
- Timesheets and approvals
- Payroll-ready exports
- Reports on hours, coverage, labor cost and attendance
- Paid time off balances
- A wiki for your team's how-tos
From the blog
Scheduling, written down.
Guides and tactics from the team, for the people who build the week.
Scheduling Minors: Hour Limits and Work Permits in 20 States
Federal law caps hours only for 14 and 15 year olds, so the real limits on a teen's schedule live in state law. Here is how 20 states compare, with a worked week and the mistakes that cause violations.
October 23, 2026
Can You Change an Employee's Schedule Without Notice? What You Owe, by City
Federal law does not require notice before you change a schedule, but a growing list of cities makes late changes cost money. Here is the default rule, where it flips, and what each change costs.
October 22, 2026
Open Shift Pickup Rules: First-Come, Seniority, or Lottery
Who gets the open shift? A vendor-neutral guide to first-come, seniority and lottery pickup rules, the overtime check most policies skip, and a copy-paste policy.
October 21, 2026
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