Lock it down with free guard scheduling.
Enforce your territory with scheduling built for guard teams. Communicate across posts, track time on the clock, control labor costs, and assign tasks so everyone knows what needs doing.
Free for your whole team. No credit card required.
Scheduling
Serve with authority, without the spreadsheet.
Schedule just the right number of guards, whatever your team size or structure, and be done before the next perimeter check, all while minimizing labor cost and complying with your local rest and break laws.
- Build the schedule once and reuse it
- Guards view assigned shifts from anywhere and get custom reminders
- Post available shifts and let guards swap
- Stay inside local rest and break rules as you schedule
Time clock
Time on the clock, accurate to the minute.
Track your team down to the minute, never rounded, and export approved hours for your payroll provider.
- Guards clock in and out from their phones or a central kiosk
- Location checks flag any clock-in from off site for your review
- See who is on time, who is late, and who no-call no-shows
- Use what you find to optimize next week
Communication
Every guard engaged and alert.
Streamlined communication that reaches the right guards without a phone tree.
- Send private and group messages
- Create wiki pages for teams and topics
- Post updates to a channel from your desktop or phone
- Stay in control of the message while everyone stays in the loop
Labor costs
De-escalate your cost of labor.
Labor is one of the largest expenses in a security operation. Track hours worked and set the most efficient schedule for your team.
- See time on the clock, and get warned when someone passes their weekly hours limit
- Plan ahead of payroll instead of reacting to it
- Compare labor cost to projected and actual revenue
- Get more out of every dollar you spend on coverage
Task management
Clear assignments, clear priorities.
Keep everyone on task and focused on what matters most this shift.
- Add tasks specific to any guard or shift
- Create a task from scratch or use a template for recurring work
- Your team gets more self-sufficient
- More gets done on every patrol
Spend less time scheduling
More time protecting your clients.
The details that keep a multi-site guard operation accurate and compliant.
Every post and site from one place
Manage details across sites from the office, on site, or on the go. Whether you have one detail in the field or a hundred, you can see who is working, where they are, and what they are doing, with clear scheduling and communication keeping everyone focused.
Credentials on file
Attach licenses, certifications, contracts, and records right to an employee profile so you can see who is certified for what. Alerts arrive before a document expires, so compliance never slips by accident.
Ready for payroll
Catch payroll and reporting problems before they happen and stop calculating time on the clock by hand. Track labor cost against your cash flow, export approved hours for your payroll provider, or pull reports down to the minute.
The math
What can Shift Amp help you save?
Set the sliders to match your operation and see what faster scheduling is worth each month.
- Savings per month
- $1,111
- Savings per year
- $13,333
- Your return with Shift Amp
- 22.2×
These figures are estimates and your actual savings will vary with team size and schedule complexity.
Keep your clients, and your guards, covered.
Scouting new clients and running team trainings already take enough of your time. Whether you have a team of five or five hundred, Shift Amp frees up hours each week with guard scheduling, time management, internal communication, and labor cost controls.
FAQ
Security guard scheduling, answered.
Is Shift Amp good for security guard scheduling?
If you own or manage a business whose team works in shifts, Shift Amp was built for you. It is particularly useful for security businesses, helping with scheduling, communication, and managing the labor cost of your workforce.
I operate multiple locations. Will Shift Amp work for me?
Whether your operation has one location, a hundred, or a thousand, Shift Amp works for you. Filter schedules, communication, and reports by location or region, and manage the whole multi-location operation from anywhere.
What is security guard scheduling software?
It is a set of digital tools for staffing every post and site. You build and publish guard schedules, keep each guard's licenses and certifications on file with alerts before they expire, get flagged when a guard clocks in from off site, and track labor cost and reports by location.
How does Shift Amp reduce security guard labor costs?
Labor cost is one of the largest expenses in your security business. By measuring what your team's time actually costs and analyzing it against revenue, you see exactly how much support you need to schedule and what that labor will cost.
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