What you can do without an account
Open the free scheduler and start a fresh week. Add up to six employees by name. Click any day to add a shift, set start and end times, and save. The grid updates in real time with daily totals and weekly labour hours. Nothing is stored on a server; the schedule lives in your browser tab. Download a CSV when you want to keep it.
How it works in three steps
1. Add your team
Type each employee's name into the staff list. No full profile, no role setup, no ceremony. If you only have two staff this week, add two staff and get on with it.
2. Drop shifts onto the grid
Click an empty cell, pick a start time and end time, and watch the shift land on the grid with calculated hours. A 7:00-13:00 opening block should take seconds, not a staff meeting.
3. Export and share
When the week looks right, download a CSV. Open it in Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets, or any payroll tool that accepts CSV. Print it, send it, or paste the totals into your weekly hours report.
Built for small teams
The free scheduler caps at six employees because many independent shops live right there: a corner cafe with three baristas, a small retail store with four part-timers, or a food truck with a rotating two-person crew. Need more room? A free saved account supports up to twelve employees, and Supporter goes up to thirty.Supporter plan
Why managers prefer it over Excel
- No broken formulas. The scheduler does the time math. You will not paste a date into the wrong cell and watch your weekly hours vanish into spreadsheet nonsense.
- Visual at a glance. Shifts show as coloured blocks on a weekly grid. Empty days stand out. Conflicts are harder to miss.
- Works the same everywhere. You see the week on your laptop. A shift lead can check it on a phone. Nobody has to pinch-zoom a spreadsheet like it owes them money.
- Faster than starting fresh. Reusing last week's pattern takes a few clicks instead of copy, paste, fix formulas, mutter quietly, repeat.
Pair the scheduler with the employee hours calculator to verify weekly totals before payroll, or jump to the weekly schedule template if you want a head start on a recurring layout.