Shifts

Simple & effective employee scheduling

Shift management made easy with Zoho Shifts by conflict-free employee scheduling and managing availabilities, time-offs and shift trades.

Produce schedules quickly

Scheduling Interface

The straightforward and uncomplicated interface helps you to build schedules within minutes. You can create shifts in one click, drag and drop to move shifts or even copy previous weeks’ schedules. It is easy to adopt teams of any size and scaleable across one or many locations.

Schedule Templates

You can save standard or repetitive schedules as templates to save time and avoid reworking schedules from scratch. The templates can be also be modified when required.

Minimize scheduling conflicts

Employee Availability

Employee availability works hand-in-hand with the creation of a schedule. When your employees set their availability, it gets updated in the schedule and helps you to create a comprehensive schedule in just a single click.

Time off

Employees can request time-off from shifts subject to manager approval. Approved time-off requests are updated instantaneously in the availability of employees and helps you to create conflict-free schedules.

Instant team communication

Shift Notifications

Notifications of scheduled shifts and changes in schedule are sent instantaneously via text messages, emails or push notifications to employees . This ensures that your employees are informed and up‑to‑date.

Shift Reminders

Employees can also receive shift reminders before their shift is scheduled to begin via text messages, emails or push notifications. Your employees can set the number of hours before their shift that they would like to receive the reminder. This helps to reduce no‑shows and boost productivity.

Manage work shifts seamlessly

Shift Trades

Swap shifts and Offer shifts allow your employees to exchange with or hand off shifts to relevant, available and qualified co-workers. These shift trade requests can be approved or rejected by your managers. Shift trades helps in balancing manager and employee needs thus ensuring optimal productivity.

Open Shifts

You can schedule open shifts and send notifications to the qualified and available employees who are eligible to pick it up. The schedule is updated in real-time as and when an employee picks up the open shift.

Other Advantages of Employee Scheduling

Easy Setup

All you need is a web browser and internet. You can get started quickly and access everything online.

Multiple Schedules

Employee scheduling supports multiple locations and makes it easy to manage your employees across all locations.

Sync Calendar

You can sync your work schedules with common calendar applications such as Google calendar, Outlook and Mac Calendar.

Multiple Views

You can filter and view the schedule based on employees, positions, schedules and time period i.e. day, week or month views.

Custom Permissions

You can create your own custom roles with appropriate permissions to fit your needs.

Print Schedules

You can print schedules and share the copies with your employees who do not have access to a computer or mobile phone.

Time Tracking Simplified

Track employee attendance, approve timesheets and export accurate data to payroll with ease.

Hassle-free attendance management

Mobile Clock in

Get rid of chaotic paper timesheets. Your employees can now clock in/out of work right from their devices and thus creating accurate digital timesheets.

Time clock software for any device

You can turn any device - tablet or smartphone into an employee time clock. Your remote or off-site employees can clock in/out from their devices anytime and you will receive their attendance data instantly.

Effortlessly Manage Timesheets

Real-time attendance

Employees can start and end work shifts with our time tracking app. You can get a real-time update on who’s on the shift or on break or late to work.

Track labour costs

To ensure your employees are working on budgets, you can now compare scheduled hours with actual hours with our time tracking software.

Edit timesheets

You can edit clock in/out timings, change location, add shift notes and verify timesheets before you export it to payroll.

Payroll streamlined

Wage Compliance

You can now calculate wages for each employee according to your labour laws, including overtime pay with our timesheet software.

Customise Pay periods

You can set up your pay periods as per your organisation needs. You can now process your payroll weekly, bi-weekly, bi-monthly or monthly.

Payroll export

You can customise different pay rates based on each employee designation, review the timesheets and export accurate data to payroll seamlessly with a click.