One place for every work conversation.
Messages, group chats and announcements sit right next to the schedule your team already opens. No personal phone numbers, no group text nobody can search, no notice board nobody reads.
Free for teams up to 10. No credit card required.
- Private and group messaging
- Announcements that are hard to miss
- Free for teams up to 10
What you can do
Say it once, to exactly the right people.
Most workplace communication problems are routing problems. The message went to everyone, or to nobody, or to a thread that scrolled away.
Reach anyone without picking up the phone
Talk to one person or a whole department without collecting mobile numbers or starting another group text.
- Private and group chat with anyone on the team
- Send one message out to a group of individuals at once
- Images, GIFs and emoji, because your team are people
- Mark a message unread to come back to it later
Why it helps
What good communication actually buys you.
Conversation from anywhere
The thread keeps going when you or your team are away from a station, between sites, or off the clock and picking up a shift.
A team that holds together
Communication is most of what makes a shift team feel like one. Keeping it in one place makes it a habit rather than an effort.
Staff who can act
People who know what is going on can make the call themselves instead of tracking down a manager first.
Compared to
Against the group text.
Group chats are free and immediate, which is why every team tries them first. They also lose messages, mix work into personal phones, and follow people out the door.
| What you get | Shift AmpFree, then $2 per user | Group text or personal chat app |
|---|---|---|
| Announcements everyone sees | If they scroll back | |
| Search what was said last month | ||
| Message one location or role | ||
| No personal numbers shared | ||
| Access ends when someone leaves | ||
| Sits beside the schedule | ||
| Files and photos stay with the team | ||
| Control over what goes out |
iOS & Android
Where your team already is.
Your staff are checking their shifts on a phone several times a week. Putting the conversation in the same app is the difference between a message being read and a message being sent.
- Push notifications for messages and announcements
- Read and reply between tables, rooms or calls
- One app for the schedule and the conversation about it
- Nobody has to hand out a personal number
The rest of the platform
More than a messaging app.
Communication works best attached to the thing being discussed.
Employee scheduling
Build the week on a grid, publish it, and let the changes handle themselves.
Learn moreTask management
Assign the shift's work and see what actually got done.
Learn moreEmployee 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 moreMulti-location scheduling
Staff several sites from one schedule and compare them side by side.
Learn moreEmployee documents
Licenses, contracts and certifications, with alerts before they expire.
Learn moreEmployee breaks
Break rules applied to shifts automatically, with reminders on the floor.
Learn moreLabor compliance
Break and overtime rules for every state, kept current.
Learn moreFAQ
Team communication, answered.
What is team communication?
It is the exchange of information between you and your team in a way that helps the business run. In a shift business that mostly means schedule changes, coverage requests, operational updates and the day-to-day back and forth that keeps a site working.
Why does employee communication matter?
Informed employees are in a position to act. When people know what is happening, they can make a decision on the floor instead of waiting for a manager, and that shows up in how the shift runs. It is also one of the strongest inputs into whether a team stays together.
Is Shift Amp an employee messaging app?
Yes. Whether you need to reach one employee, a group, a location or everyone at once, the messaging, newsfeed and announcement tools are all part of the same platform as the schedule.
Do my staff have to share their phone numbers?
No. Everyone communicates through their Shift Amp account, so people can reach each other about work without handing out personal numbers. When someone leaves the business, their access ends with their account.
Can I send a message to just one location?
Yes. Messages, newsfeed pages and announcements can all be addressed to a group, a department, a position or a specific location, so people are not filtering out updates that were never meant for them.
How do I know an announcement was seen?
Announcements are posted where they cannot be quietly scrolled past, and staff are notified on their phones when one goes up. That is the difference between broadcasting something and knowing it landed.
Can we use it for more than operations?
Plenty of teams do. Newsfeed pages work just as well for shift-swap requests and policy updates as they do for photos from a busy Saturday. It is the same space your team already visits to check their hours.
What does it cost?
Messaging, group chats, announcements and the newsfeed are all in the free plan, forever, for teams of up to 10. Past 10 people it is $2 per user, per month, with nothing added and nothing taken away.
Pricing
Communication, and everything around it.
Messaging and news sharing start free. The paid plans add group messaging, time tracking, labor costs and reporting.
Free
The whole platform for a team of up to 10 people.
- Every feature in Pro
- Up to 10 people
- Scheduling, time clock and labor costs
- Messaging, tasks and documents
- iOS and Android apps
- No credit card to start
Pro
The same platform once your team outgrows the free plan.
- Every feature in Free
- No cap on team size
- Multi-location scheduling
- Payroll-ready timesheets and reports
- 14-day free trial
- Pay for the seats you use
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Get everyone on the same page.
Start free and move the group chat somewhere it can actually be found.
Free for teams up to 10. No credit card required.