The schedule gets copied, not decided.
Last month's schedule, forward one week. Quiet mornings are full, Saturday afternoon is thin, and nobody sat down and chose that.
Shops and retail chains
Retail scheduling software for every store.
Retail scheduling comes down to your busiest hours: enough people on the floor on a Saturday afternoon, and no full mornings nobody asked for. Shiftbase puts the wage cost per store next to the schedule before you publish it. Your team swaps shifts and sets availability in the app, and the hours they work are ready for payroll.
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The problem
Every store plans alone.
Ten stores, ten spreadsheets, and no way to see the whole chain until the wage bill turns up. The busiest hour of the week is the one you're most likely to be short on.
Time off goes through the stockroom.
Six people want the same fortnight in August, three of them asked you in the stockroom, and the balances live in a spreadsheet you have not opened since June.
Contract hours slip out of sight.
Part-time contracts, plus and minus hours, students on a cap. It surfaces in payroll instead of during planning.
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See what the week costs before you publish it.
Set a budget per store or per day and Shiftbase shows the wage cost of the week you plan against it. Contract hours, availability and time off are in view while you plan.
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Most shops never clock in and out.
They don’t need to. You copy the published schedule to the timesheet, adjust the shifts that ran differently and approve the week. If you do want clock-ins, your team uses the app or a tablet in the store.
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Your team knows when they work and what they're paid.
Publish and the schedule lands in everyone's app. Swaps and availability run through Shiftbase instead of the staffroom noticeboard, and clocked hours flow into your payroll export.
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Retailers that run on Shiftbase get their Spark back.
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Retail
“In the old system it was very difficult to create the right reports yourself.”
Mark Vrieze
Area Manager at Blokker
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Retail
“It’s very convenient to clock in on your own phone, location-based. Now I have insight into whether everyone is starting on time.”
Liset Schiphorst
Operational Manager at Bomenbezorgd
50%
less scheduling time
9,000+
businesses run on Shiftbase
250k+
daily users
How other retailers schedule.
What changes for you.
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Owners and area managersEvery store, covered and costed.
One view across the chain, with labour cost per store next to it. Before the week starts, not after it ends.
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Store managersSet it up once, the rest follows.
Templates, recurring shifts, contract hours, and availability built in. Minutes on the schedule, not your Sunday evening.
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TeamAlways know when you work.
Check shifts, swap them, and claim an open shift at any store you have a team at, straight from the app.
A Saturday with Shiftbase.
Retail runs to a curve: a slow open, a middle that decides the day, and a close that always needs one more pair of hands. Here is how it looks when every store plans in the same place.
Open.
The opening team clocks in on the till tablet. Head office can see all ten stores opened on time.
Someone calls in.
Post the open shift. A colleague who has a team at this store as well picks it up before the morning rush.
Peak.
The floor is staffed to the hours that sell, not to last month's copy. Every clock-in lands on the timesheet in the background.
Close.
Turnover goes in and Shiftbase sets it against worked hours, per store. You know which Saturday earned its keep.
Try it out, then decide.
Set up in a day.
Every feature is available from day one, no credit card needed. Your first week can be live tonight.
Runs on shifts.
If your business runs on shifts, the setup already matches how you plan. Invite your team, set it up, and run it on a real week.
Cancel anytime.
Monthly plans, no long contracts. If Shiftbase doesn't fit your business, you leave with your data.
Data stays in Europe.
Wage data and contracts are sensitive, so we store them on European servers under GDPR.
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Industries
Every sector plans differently.
Restaurant
Publish once, and set the takings against the hours.
Hotel
Front desk, housekeeping and F&B on one schedule.
Retail
Approve the time off and see who that leaves on the floor.
Healthcare
Sleep shifts, on-call and four kinds of time off.
Recreation
Fill a peak week from a team that is half new.
Transport
Keep depot and warehouse hours in one place.
Production
Plan the crew, not the line.
FAQ
Questions about retail scheduling software
Everything about running a retail team on Shiftbase, and if it isn't here, our team is one message away.
Shiftbase sets the wage cost of your draft schedule against a budget per store or per day, before you publish. Turnover comes in from a connected till, such as Lightspeed, or you enter it yourself. That way you fix the schedule before the week starts rather than reading the payroll report afterwards.
Shiftbase holds no footfall or traffic data, so which hours are busy stays the store manager’s judgement. What Shiftbase does show is what each version of the week costs in wages before you publish it. With a connected till, turnover per day sits next to it, so you see which days earn their staffing.
Shiftbase shows contract hours, plus and minus balances and availability in the schedule while you build it. Overtime and conflicts show up before you publish, not in payroll.
An extra shift goes out in Shiftbase as an open shift. Everyone with a team at that store sees it in the app and takes it, or asks for it, depending on how you set it up. A flexpool belongs to one store, so somebody who works across stores is given a team at each.
You connect your till system to Shiftbase, for example Lightspeed. Turnover then comes across on its own and sits next to worked hours, per store and per day.
Retail scheduling software should build the schedule per store, get it to your team in an app and have the worked hours ready for payroll. For retail that also means handling part-timers with changing hours, keeping time off in view during busy months and setting till turnover against wage cost. Shiftbase does that in one system, for one shop or a whole chain.
Large shops in England and Wales, with a sales area over 280 square metres, can open for six continuous hours between 10am and 6pm on Sundays and must close on Easter Sunday and Christmas Day. Scotland has no Sunday trading hours restrictions. The details, including which shops are exempt, are under Sunday trading laws. Shiftbase does not check these rules for you.
Shop staff can opt out of Sunday working by giving written notice, unless they were employed to work only on Sundays. The notice period is three months, or one month if the employer did not give them the written statement within two months of starting. In Shiftbase, staff who no longer work Sundays can mark Sunday as unavailable, so it shows while you plan.