About us

SetShifts runs a team that works in shifts — one location or a chain of twenty. It builds the roster, takes attendance from phones and from a clock at the door, handles leave requests, and produces an hours report ready for payroll at month end.

The problem it started from

Building next week's schedule is work that repeats every week and is never the same twice. Requests arrive by message and in passing, some get forgotten, and whoever builds the schedule holds it all in their head: who asked for what, who can't work with whom, who is short on hours and who is already over their limit.

The result is familiar to anyone who has done it: an evening lost to a spreadsheet, and a phone call on Sunday morning because someone didn't show up.

What we do differently

One principle drives the product: every assignment explains itself.

A system that produces a schedule in one click but can't tell you why it chose the people it chose is a system the manager won't trust — and they'll be back in the spreadsheet by week two. So every shift here can say who is on it, why that person, and what would have happened with someone else. And when a shift can't be filled, it says so plainly, instead of leaving an empty cell for someone to discover later.

Three things follow from that principle:

Who it fits

Any business that puts people on shifts and has more than a handful of staff: cafés and restaurants, retail chains, security firms, clinics and call centres, hotels, factories. Especially a multi-location chain, where one person may work across several sites and nobody holds the whole picture in their head.

Who it fits less well: a business where the same three people work the same hours every week. A note on the fridge does that job well.

What we commit to

Where we are today

The product is new and we are early. What that means for you in practice: you talk to us directly, a request you make is actually heard, and a version adapted to your industry is a conversation rather than a ticket in a queue. That is an advantage that only exists at the beginning, and it's worth using.

Talking to us

Through the contact page, or straight to support@setshifts.com