Employee shift scheduling you own forever.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is When I Work, at $2.50/user/mo — roughly $600 a year, every year. Shiftly does the job for a one-time $29 — running on infrastructure you control.
Drag shifts between employees and days; shift templates like Morning or Close fill a week in two clicks.
For freelancers, drag-drop weekly schedule pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.
Weekly windows and approved time off, with unavailable, time-off and double-booked conflicts flagged red on the grid.
For freelancers, availability and time off pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.
Employee-to-employee swap requests with manager approval; approving reassigns the shift instantly.
For freelancers, shift swaps pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $29, not metered per month.
One payment of $29 gets you the packaged Windows installer with updates, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/shift-scheduler-mvp and run it free.
Run npm run desktop as a local window, or docker compose onto a $5 VPS when you need it public.
Drag shifts onto the grid, publish, and affected employees get notified.
Shiftly is $29, once. When I Work at $2.50/user/mo — roughly $600 a year, every year. One month of scheduling one small team more than pays for Shiftly, and it never bills per head again.
One month of scheduling one small team more than pays for Shiftly, and it never bills per head again. Shiftly costs $29 once; When I Work charges $2.50/user/mo — about $600 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — Shiftly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/shift-scheduler-mvp. The $29 buys the packaged Windows installer and updates; building from source is free.
In a SQLite file on your own server or LAN — your roster and wages never leave your box.