Diggt Shyftly
Cover every shift, grow your team, and connect labor decisions to store outcomes.
Shyftly helps multi-store and shift-based teams build schedules, recover coverage gaps, approve swaps, run retention actions, prepare payroll-ready exports, and grow toward workforce intelligence from one mobile-first command center.
Free for tiny teams. Pro starts at $9.99/mo while Shyftly is in early release.
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Manager dashboards, employee self-service, Growth actions, Payroll Prep, emerging Ops Intelligence, subscriptions, and team settings in one app.
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The daily operating layer between texts, payroll, and store outcomes
Shyftly focuses on the messy middle: who can work, who needs coverage, who is growing, who approved the swap, whether each store is payroll-ready, and which labor decisions are helping the business.
Fast schedule building
Create weekly schedules quickly with reusable patterns, clear roles, and manager-friendly publishing.
Team communication
Keep coverage conversations out of scattered texts with in-app updates, approvals, and manager visibility.
Coverage recovery
Open shifts, availability signals, and swap requests help managers fill gaps before the shift starts.
Owner command center
See schedules, staffing status, emerging labor intelligence, and team activity across locations without jumping between spreadsheets.
Payroll prep
Review timesheets, resolve missing punches, map payroll fields, and export cleaner payroll-ready data.
Growth and retention
Give managers action loops for recognition, coaching, career paths, and employee retention signals.
Employee retention work your managers can actually run.
Shyftly Growth helps shift-based teams turn frontline roles into visible career growth paths, so good employees see a future with you before they start looking elsewhere.
Who needs a nudge, a win, or a next step?
Alex has completed trainer milestones and picked up three coverage gaps.
Maya earned kudos from two managers for guest recovery and mentoring.
Jordan has missed recent preference updates and needs a manager check-in.
Make each person more than a name on the schedule.
Track goals, skills, kudos, coaching notes, milestones, and next-step readiness in one place.
Turn retention into daily manager behavior.
Prioritize who needs recognition, coaching, a check-in, or a growth opportunity before churn shows up.
Show the career ladder from first shift to leadership.
Create visible paths like Crew Member to Trainer to Shift Lead, with milestones employees can understand.
See whether stores are growing people, not just filling shifts.
Give owners and operators a clear view of recognition, growth actions, risk signals, and promotion pipeline.
Make positive moments visible across the team.
Capture the moments that build belonging, confidence, and manager trust instead of letting them disappear.
Spot who may need attention before they leave.
Surface patterns that suggest an employee needs coaching, flexibility, recognition, or a clearer path.
See the signal
Managers see missed engagement, growth readiness, recognition moments, and follow-up needs.
Take the action
Coach, recognize, assign a milestone, or schedule the check-in while the context is fresh.
Build the path
Employees see progress toward skills, responsibilities, and leadership opportunities.
Report the trend
Leadership sees whether stores are creating growth, reducing churn risk, and building bench strength.
Best fit when retention is becoming an operating problem.
If your leadership team is asking, "How do we keep good people and make this job feel like a path?", Growth gives managers the structure to act and gives owners the visibility to know it is happening.
Get from worked shifts to payroll-ready exports without spreadsheet cleanup.
Shyftly Payroll Prep helps owners and managers review timesheets, catch missing punches, correct labor data, map payroll fields, and create cleaner export files for the payroll system they already use.
May 16-31 export readiness
Managers reviewed worked hours, breaks, and corrections before payroll.
Readiness checks flag incomplete shifts before the export is generated.
Pay codes and employee identifiers are mapped for a cleaner payroll handoff.
Give managers a clean review step before payroll day.
Review worked hours, breaks, clock status, and shift corrections with role-aware controls.
Know what blocks payroll before the export fails.
Surface missing punches, unapproved entries, stale data, and mapping gaps while there is still time to fix them.
Prepare data for the payroll workflow you already run.
Map employee IDs, earning codes, locations, and departments for exports to payroll tools or CSV-based workflows.
Keep a defensible trail of what was sent and when.
Owners can see export history, readiness status, and the payroll period attached to each file.
Prepare payroll-ready files without claiming to process payroll.
Shyftly tracks export schema, checksums, employee IDs, and pay-code mapping so Generic CSV and QuickBooks handoffs are ready before payroll day.
Use one Payroll Prep workflow even when the provider changes.
The app keeps the owner and manager workflow consistent while future adapters add deeper provider-specific handoffs behind the same approval flow.
Capture work
Schedules, clock-ins, clock-outs, and shift corrections become the payroll source data.
Review exceptions
Managers resolve missing punches, corrections, and approval blockers before the run closes.
Confirm readiness
Owners see whether the period is ready, blocked, or stale before generating the export.
Export cleanly
Generate payroll-ready files for provider handoff while keeping Shyftly out of tax and direct-deposit processing.
Clear boundary: Shyftly prepares payroll data; your payroll provider processes payroll.
Payroll Prep is designed for operators who want cleaner timesheets, fewer payroll-day surprises, and a better handoff to CSV and QuickBooks-first payroll workflows. Gusto, Square, ADP, Paychex, Toast, and Rippling are planned future adapters. Shyftly does not replace employer tax filing, benefits, direct deposit, or compliance obligations.
Turn schedules, payroll prep, Growth, and future POS data into workforce intelligence.
Ops Intelligence is the next layer inside Shyftly Ops: it helps owners see whether labor decisions are protecting revenue, reducing avoidable overtime, improving schedule quality, and supporting retention.
Friday dinner labor signal
Compare revenue against scheduled and worked labor once sales data is connected.
Flag where demand was higher than staffing coverage during important store windows.
Connect Growth signals, recognition habits, and coaching follow-through to store outcomes.
See whether labor hours are converting into sales coverage.
Track sales per labor hour, labor cost percentage, revenue per scheduled hour, and revenue per worked hour.
Understand whether the schedule matched real demand.
Compare forecasted demand, scheduled coverage, actual sales, actual labor, missed peaks, and overstaffed windows.
Coach managers with patterns, not blame.
Identify managers who schedule close to demand, stores with avoidable overtime, and locations with labor leakage.
Connect employee reliability and Growth to store execution.
Analyze peak-period reliability, Growth score trends, recognition patterns, and readiness for expanded responsibility.
Find whether people practices are improving store stability.
Look for connections between churn, missed shifts, kudos, coaching, promotions, and coverage quality.
Start with CSV, then integrate POS data where it matters.
Recommended path: manual sales upload first, Square sandbox next, and Toast POS coming soon for restaurants with Toast Analytics API access.
Manual sales CSV
Upload store sales by day, hour, daypart, and order volume so owners can prove sales-per-labor-hour and missed-peak coverage before any POS paperwork.
Square POS
Square is the first integration path we are validating for sandbox sales, order, labor, location, and team-member facts behind the same Shyftly provider contract.
Toast POS
Toast is positioned as coming soon for eligible restaurant and QSR teams with Toast Analytics API access. We do not sell Toast live sync until access, credentials, and reconciliation are validated.
Clover, Shopify POS, Lightspeed
Future POS providers plug into the same canonical facts contract, so the app keeps one setup and intelligence workflow even when the external system changes.
Upload sales CSV
Begin with daily sales by store, department, and time window so labor insights can prove value quickly.
Schedule import
Move from manual upload to scheduled POS imports once the customer sees which dashboards matter.
Sync POS
Connect approved POS providers for near real-time trend detection and peak coverage insights. Square is the first sandbox path; Toast requires eligible Toast Analytics API access.
Recommend action
Turn labor signals into owner and manager actions across scheduling, Growth, Payroll Prep, and retention.
Clear boundary: Ops Intelligence explains labor decisions; POS systems still process sales.
Shyftly should use sales data to show whether staffing choices protected revenue, reduced leakage, and improved retention. Square is the fastest sandbox candidate, while Toast is a coming-soon restaurant/QSR path for customers with Toast Analytics API access.
Built for teams that are too busy for enterprise software.
Shyftly is strongest for owner-led teams with one to three locations today, and for early multi-location groups that need coverage discipline before heavier workforce systems.
- Replace shift chaos in group texts
- Give managers approval guardrails
- Turn retention into visible manager actions
- Prepare payroll exports without spreadsheet cleanup
- Keep costs lower than heavy workforce suites
- Connect labor, sales, and retention signals as integrations mature
Make the buying decision in one page
Most owners do not need a 40-minute demo to know if a scheduling tool is close. These are the decision points Shyftly is designed to clarify up front.
Schedules, growth follow-ups, and payroll prep live in separate places.
Shyftly centralizes the weekly plan, availability changes, swaps, retention actions, and payroll readiness so managers stop rebuilding the truth every day.
Great for daily workforce operations, not full HR transformation.
If benefits, tax filing, direct deposit, or mature real-time POS forecasting are the main problem, start with a suite. If scheduling, retention, payroll handoff chaos, and emerging labor intelligence are the problem, start here.
One avoided missed shift or payroll-day cleanup cycle can justify months of Pro.
For lean teams, the fastest ROI usually comes from fewer manager interruptions, faster swap approvals, fewer last-minute staffing gaps, and cleaner timesheet handoffs.
Try scheduling, ask about Growth, Payroll Prep, or Ops Intelligence.
The site should route buyers by urgency: self-serve trial for small teams, Growth fit check for retention pain, Payroll Prep demo for timesheet/export pain, Ops Intelligence for labor outcome questions, and enterprise for custom needs.
Built for shift-based teams across industries
The common thread is not one industry. It is teams that run on shifts, managers, availability, swaps, and last-minute coverage.
Restaurants
Coordinate sales floor, front desk, service counter, restaurant, delivery, or field coverage without spreadsheet drift.
Cafes & counter service
Handle availability, swaps, coverage gaps, and quick team updates from one simple workflow.
Retail-adjacent teams
Support convenience, service, and franchise teams that have similar shift coverage problems.
Compare Shyftly before the sales call
Use this section to decide whether Shyftly is the right-sized tool, or whether the buyer really needs a heavier workforce suite.
The core problem is daily workforce chaos.
Best for teams that need scheduling, availability, swaps, open shifts, approvals, Growth action loops, Payroll Prep, and manager visibility without a heavy rollout.
Payroll, HR, tax, or forecasting is the buying trigger.
If the buyer needs payroll processing, tax filing, benefits, compliance automation, deep labor forecasting, or HR records first, a full workforce suite may fit better.
The schedule is simple and price is the only criterion.
Free tools can be enough for very simple teams. Shyftly should win when approvals, coverage, employee growth, payroll readiness, and owner visibility matter.
| Option | Best when | Pricing signal | Shyftly angle |
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| Shyftly | Shift-based teams need schedule clarity, coverage recovery, retention action loops, and payroll-ready timesheet handoffs. | Free tier, Pro at $9.99/mo, Pro Premium at $29.99/mo during early release. | Lower-cost entry point across scheduling, Shyftly Growth, and Shyftly Payroll Prep. |
| 7shifts / Homebase | The buyer wants a suite with payroll, time clock, HR, and deeper back-office workflows. | Often location-based or user-based plans, commonly climbing into higher monthly costs as features expand. | Shyftly is a lighter starting point with scheduling, coverage, payroll prep, and export readiness before committing to a full workforce suite. |
| Deputy / When I Work | The team needs broad workforce scheduling across industries and is comfortable with per-user pricing. | Per-user pricing can scale with headcount. | Shyftly should win on workflow simplicity, multi-store affordability, retention visibility, and payroll handoff clarity. |
| Sling | The buyer mainly wants low-cost scheduling and team communication. | Strong free/low-cost entry tiers. | Shyftly needs to win on manager controls, coverage discipline, employee growth, Payroll Prep, and owner visibility. |
| TimeForge / Push | The business is ready for labor forecasting, payroll/HR operations, and more complex rollout. | Quote/package or employee-scaled pricing. | Shyftly can feed these systems with cleaner timesheets, payroll exports, and labor visibility. |
Sales shortcut: ask what broke last week.
If the answer is missed coverage, slow swaps, manager text threads, payroll cleanup, or not knowing which employees need growth attention, Shyftly is worth a demo.
Competitive pricing changes often; use this as a buyer-friendly decision frame, not a legal pricing claim. If the buyer says "labor leakage," "missed peaks," or "sales per labor hour," route them to Ops Intelligence.
"Shyftly is for teams that do not need another giant system. They need tomorrow covered, swaps approved, employees growing, payroll ready, and every manager looking at the same plan."— Shyftly product thesis
How it works
Get from chaos to clarity across scheduling, retention, payroll handoff, and workforce intelligence.
Plan and cover the week
Create store schedules, assign roles, publish shifts, and recover coverage without spreadsheet handoffs.
Coach and grow the team
Turn recognition, skills, retention signals, and career milestones into manager actions employees can see.
Prep payroll with confidence
Review timesheets, resolve blockers, confirm readiness, and export cleaner payroll-ready data.
Connect labor to outcomes
Use Ops Intelligence to compare labor decisions, schedule quality, Growth signals, and future sales/POS data.
The sales story is simple: protect manager time, service coverage, employee retention, labor efficiency, and payroll day.
Shyftly should help buyers quantify the operational drag they already feel: late-night texts, missed availability updates, slow swap approvals, payroll cleanup, labor leakage, retention follow-up gaps, and owners asking every store for staffing status.
A good sales conversation starts with the number of locations, employees, weekly schedule changes, missed or at-risk shifts, payroll exceptions, and retention concerns. That tells us whether Shyftly is a quick fit or whether they need a heavier suite.
Decision shortcut
If Shyftly saves a manager one hour of schedule chase, payroll cleanup, or retention follow-up each month, the Pro plan becomes easy to justify.
What buyers should know before they book
Clear expectations reduce bad-fit demos and make serious buyers more confident.
- Built for scheduling, availability, swaps, coverage workflows, Growth actions, Payroll Prep, and emerging Ops Intelligence
- Best initial fit: 1-3 locations or early multi-location teams
- Designed as a lighter alternative to full workforce suites
- Payroll Prep supports timesheet review and exports, not tax filing or direct deposit
- Growth supports retention actions and career paths, not generic gamification dashboards
- Pricing is introductory while timekeeping, labor analytics, Growth, Ops Intelligence, and integrations mature
- Enterprise path is available for integrations, onboarding, and higher limits
Introductory pricing for lean teams
Workforce suites can get expensive as locations, users, payroll, HR, and forecasting features expand. Shyftly starts simpler while teams prove scheduling, Growth, and Payroll Prep workflows.
Free
For one tiny team testing scheduling basics, with one store and up to five employees.
Pro
For small teams ready to run scheduling, coverage, and core team visibility across up to three stores.
Pro Premium
For growing teams managing up to ten stores with deeper manager coverage, Growth workflows, and Payroll Prep readiness.
Enterprise
For teams that need onboarding, payroll/provider integrations, higher limits, custom Growth programs, or support commitments.
Contact salesCurrent prices are early-release pricing and may evolve as Payroll Prep, Growth, timekeeping, labor dashboards, and integrations mature.
Sales FAQ
Answers for the questions most likely to slow down a buyer.
Is Shyftly replacing payroll?
No. Shyftly Payroll Prep helps teams review timesheets, resolve blockers, map payroll fields, and create payroll-ready exports. Your payroll provider still handles taxes, direct deposit, benefits, and compliance.
What does Payroll Prep include?
Timesheet review, missing-punch visibility, manager corrections, pay-period readiness checks, provider field mapping, export history, Generic CSV, and QuickBooks-first export workflows. Gusto, Square, ADP, Paychex, Toast, and Rippling are coming soon.
Who should request a demo instead of self-serving?
Teams with multiple locations, several managers, custom onboarding needs, or a current scheduling tool they want to replace should request a demo.
Why not use a free scheduler?
Free tools can be enough for simple schedules. Shyftly is for teams where coverage recovery, approvals, and owner visibility matter more than the lowest possible price.
Is Shyftly Growth just gamification?
No. Growth can use recognition and progress signals, but the buyer value is retention operations: helping managers coach, recognize, and create visible career paths for frontline teams.
What is Shyftly Ops Intelligence?
Ops Intelligence connects labor, schedule quality, payroll readiness, Growth signals, and future sales/POS data so owners can see whether staffing decisions are protecting revenue and improving retention.
What data helps us recommend the right plan?
Location count, employee count, current scheduling process, weekly shift-change volume, payroll exception volume, retention goals, whether sales CSV uploads are available, and whether payroll/POS integrations are required.
Start with the workforce pain you already have.
Invite managers, publish schedules, recover coverage, run Growth actions, prep payroll, and start connecting labor decisions to outcomes without waiting on a full back-office migration.
Start free trialTell us what broke last week.
Share the basics and we will route you to a trial, Growth fit check, Payroll Prep demo, or multi-location onboarding.
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We qualify the workflowLocations, headcount, scheduling process, retention goals, payroll handoff, and coverage pain.
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You get the right pathTrial link for simple teams, Growth demo for retention, Payroll Prep demo for timesheets, or onboarding for manager-heavy workflows.
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Sales gets clean contextYour lead is tagged in Diggt CRM with Shyftly attribution.
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