Shift scheduling for small manufacturers
Build shifts, assign employees, and see the week at a glance, with time-off requests showing where they conflict. Machine calendars and kiosk clock-in run on any computer, laptop or tablet you own. 20 employees included for $49.99 USD per year.
The problem
A whiteboard holds a week until the week moves. Then it is wrong, everyone knows it is wrong, and the real schedule is in whichever phone has the last message.
A swap, a sick day, a shift pushed to Thursday — the change lives in a conversation on one supervisor's phone, and two people believe different things about the same morning.
A request gets handed over at the door or sent while the person scheduling is on the floor. Approved by one person, unknown to the next.
Two shifts, one person, one Tuesday. Nobody did it on purpose — the board was right on Monday, and two changes went around it.
It is not a discipline problem. It is what happens when a schedule lives in three places at once and only one is current.
Shift scheduling
You build the shifts, assign employees, and see the week as one picture instead of a stack of messages. The week view is the schedule, not a summary you rebuild later.
Time-off requests appear on that same calendar, on the days they cover. A request that collides with a shift shows as a collision rather than sitting in an inbox. Move a shift onto someone's approved day off and you see it before the change is made, not on Thursday morning when nobody arrives.
Machine scheduling
People are half the constraint on a shop floor. The other half is equipment, and a busy machine holds a job for a day whether or not anyone is at it.
Machine scheduling gives every machine its own Gantt-style calendar. Assign jobs to machines and see the run of work in time, so a press, a laser or a mill shows what it is doing and for how long. Two jobs on one machine the same afternoon appear as an overlap while there is still room to move one.
Spotting that conflict on Tuesday costs a phone call. Finding it after the job is loaded costs the day.
Time clock
A schedule says who should be there; the clock records who was. Both live in one system, so schedule and timecards describe the same week.
Employees clock in at a kiosk with facial recognition or fingerprint, and a PIN is always available as a backup. When the work changes mid-shift they switch jobs from the kiosk screen, so the hours after the switch land against the new job.
From those punches come timecards by employee, job and pay week, with manual entries and approvals for the gaps. Time off carries request types and accruals, so balances are tracked rather than guessed at. Reports come off the approved records.
The kiosk runs in a browser on any computer, laptop or tablet you already own, with no dedicated hardware to buy.
Pricing
20 employees are included for $49.99 USD per year. That is the year, not the month, and it covers everything here — shift scheduling, machine calendars, kiosk clock-in, timecards, time off and reports.
There are no per-employee fees, and setup takes an afternoon: register the company, add departments and employees, put a device in kiosk mode. Your data stays yours.
There is a 30-day money-back guarantee, and you can cancel anytime.
FAQ
No. The kiosk runs in a browser on any computer, laptop or tablet you already own. A PIN is always available as a backup.
You edit the shift and the calendar shows the change for the week. Time-off requests stay visible there, so a reassignment onto someone's approved day off shows before you make it.
Yes. Machine scheduling uses Gantt-style calendars, one per machine. You assign jobs to machines and spot conflicts before they cost you a day.
A PIN is always available at the kiosk, and the punch lands on the same timecard as a scan would.
A year. $49.99 USD covers twelve months for 20 employees, with no per-employee fees. There is a 30-day money-back guarantee, and you can cancel anytime.
Shifts, machines and the kiosk in one system. 20 employees for $49.99 USD per year.
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