Free
$0/month
Build and share your team’s schedule.
- Up to 5 people on a new team, owner included
- Weekly scheduling and publishing
- Availability and pre-publish checks
- Estimated labor cost for the scheduled week
Employee scheduling software
Get next week's schedule done in one sitting.
Build the week, catch conflicts, and publish it to your team.
Free for up to 5 people. No credit card.
Features
Your schedule, your team, and the hours behind it.
Plan shifts, track time, and handle changes in one place.
Employee scheduling
Build your week without starting from scratch.
Create shifts, copy last week, or generate a draft around your team's availability.
- Catch conflicts before you publish
- Keep everyone on the same schedule
Time tracking
Know who's clocked in and from where.
Let your team clock in from their phone or a shared tablet, then review attendance in one place.
- Check clock-in locations
- Review hours and attendance
Team requests
Handle shift changes in one place.
Review shift swap and coverage requests without digging through messages.
- See requests alongside shift details
- Approve or deny from one place
Labor costs
See what your schedule will cost.
Add hourly rates to see scheduled hours and estimated labor costs as you plan the week.
- See scheduled hours and costs
- See each day's cost before you publish
I used to write our schedule on a piece of paper for each pop-up. Zchedule was easy to pick up, and now I can put the schedule together pretty quickly. My favorite part is that if I need to move someone’s shift, I can change it right there and the team gets notified.
Owner, Poppin Tea
Alexandra Lopez
Time clock
Clock in where work happens.
Let your team clock in with a PIN on a shared iPad, or use GPS to check where they clock in from their phones.
Shared iPad kiosk
Clock in with a PIN.
GPS clock-in
Check punches against your work location.
Editable timecards
Fix missed or incorrect punches.
The employee app
Employees open the app and see when they work.
Accept the invite and they're ready. Use the iPhone app or any phone browser.
- Their next shift, then the week
- What's coming up, the rest of the week, and hours so far.
- Requests from the shift itself
- Coverage and swaps are asked for on the shift and land in your Requests list.
- A notification when something changes
- A published week, a moved shift, an answered request.
Available on iPhone
(opens in a new tab)Get your first schedule out
Set up your team
Add the people you schedule.
Build next week’s schedule
Assign shifts and review the week before sharing it.
Publish it
Your team can see their shifts on their phones.
Get started free
Free for up to 5 people. No credit card.
Simple pricing for small teams
Start with free scheduling. Add GPS clock-in and an iPad time clock when you’re ready to track hours.
Billed monthly
Starter
Recommended$19.99/month
See when and where your team clocks in.
Included at $19.99/month:
- Shift swaps and coverage requests
- GPS clock-in and iPad time clock kiosk
- Timesheets and payroll CSV export
- Everything in Free, for up to 30 people
Pro
$39.99/month
Generate the week and see what labor really cost.
Everything in Starter, plus:
- Schedule generator
- Advanced labor analysis
- Unlimited managers
- Unlimited people
One price per team, not per person. Every new team starts on Free, with no card.
Small hourly teams
Teams where somebody opens and somebody closes.
Hourly shift work under about a hundred people, where one manager owns the schedule and the week changes after it's posted.
Straight answers
The free plan, in plain terms.
- The free plan has no expiry
- Up to 5 people on a new team, including you, with no card on file. Teams that stay small can stay on it.
- You pay only when you choose a plan
- Publishing a schedule never starts a trial or a charge. Your team stays on Free until you choose a plan.
- The bill doesn't move when the team grows
- Plans are priced per team. Hiring three people changes nothing about what you pay.
- Staff only ever see published shifts
- Drafts and pending edits never reach their app, and only managers can change the schedule.
FAQ
Questions worth answering up front.
Employee scheduling and time-clock software for small hourly teams. Managers build the week on the web, staff see it in the iPhone app or any browser, and the price is one flat amount per team. Free for up to 5 people.
The scheduling part, permanently, for up to 5 people including you. That's weekly scheduling and publishing, shift presets, duplicating a week, the publish check, availability and blocked-out dates, estimated labor cost for the scheduled week, schedule notifications, and the app for everyone on the team. Shift swaps, coverage requests, GPS clock-in, kiosks, timesheets and the payroll CSV are Starter. The schedule generator, advanced labor analysis and unlimited managers are Pro.
No. You create an account, build a schedule, and never enter card details unless you decide to pay for Starter or Pro.
Every new team starts on Free, with no time limit and no card, so you can use Zchedule as long as you like before choosing a paid plan.
There's no per-person fee. The plans have team sizes instead: 5 people on a new Free team, 30 on Starter, unlimited on Pro. Going from 6 people to 26 on Starter costs the same $19.99.
No. Employees can only read published shifts. Drafts, pending edits and shifts you've marked for removal don't reach their app at all, so a half-finished week can't be mistaken for the real one.
Managers build and publish from the web dashboard at zchedule.app, which is where the full board and the generator live. Employees use the iPhone app, or the web on any phone if they're not on iOS.
There's very little for them to do. They accept an invite, log in, and their shifts are on the first screen. No setup, no profile to fill in, nothing to learn before it's useful.
No, and that's on purpose. You get labor cost against the schedule and attendance records you can correct, but there's no payroll run, no HR file, no hiring pipeline. Scheduling is the product.
Next week's schedule is going to get built either way.
Build it here and you'll know about the overtime before payroll does, and your team will know their hours before they have to ask.
Free for up to 5 people. No credit card.
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