The Solution Nobody Else Built

1-Click Schedules
That Actually Work

Every scheduling tool gives you a blank calendar and calls it a solution. ShiftWiz actually builds the schedule for you. 25 real factors. Fair hours. Labor law compliance. Done in seconds. Plus built-in time clock, timesheets, and team messaging. Works right alongside Sling and Toast.

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Watch the Magic Happen

A complete week's schedule, built in seconds.

How It Actually Works

There's a quick setup the first time because good schedules need real information. After that, it's one click every week.

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Set Things Up Once

Add your team with their min/max hours, certifications, shift preferences, and availability. Define your shift templates (opener, mid, closer) with how many people you need each day. Import from Sling or Toast with the Chrome extension, or enter it by hand. The more the engine knows about your people, the better your schedules get.

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Hit Generate

One button. The engine considers availability, fairness, certifications, labor laws, hour limits, and your team's preferences, then builds a full schedule in seconds.

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Review & Publish

Look it over, adjust anything you want, and publish. Push it back to Sling or Toast with the extension, or let your team see it on ShiftWiz. Either way, you just got your week back.

The Invisible Scheduling Brain

You shouldn't have to switch platforms just to get a better schedule. ShiftWiz plugs into what you already use, does the hard thinking, and puts the result right back where your team expects it.

Sling • Toast • more coming
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Considers 25 factors, builds your schedule in seconds
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Zero disruption for your team

Your team keeps clocking in, checking schedules, and swapping shifts exactly where they do now. They don't need to learn anything new. The upgrade is invisible to them.

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One extension, one-time setup

Install the Chrome extension, import your team from Sling or Toast, then set their hours, availability, certifications, and shift preferences. Define your shift templates and staffing needs. It takes a few minutes the first time. After that, it's one click every week.

Gets better every week

The engine learns from swaps, tracks fairness across weeks, and adjusts to your team's real patterns. The more you use it, the more it understands how your shop actually runs.

Other tools want you to rip and replace everything. ShiftWiz just makes what you already have work better.

25 Things It Thinks About So You Don't Have To

Not just auto-fill. Real logic that understands how scheduling actually works.

Smart Shift Assignment

Most-constrained-first ordering ensures critical shifts (like closers needing certifications) fill first, then optimizes the rest.

Fairness Engine

Cross-week hour balancing, weekend rotation tracking, and shift-type rotation so no one gets stuck with the same shifts every week.

Quality Scoring

Every schedule gets a 0-100 quality score across 8 dimensions: coverage, fairness, labor compliance, cost, and more.

Simulated Annealing

Goes beyond basic hill-climbing. Accepts temporary trade-offs to escape local optima and find genuinely better schedules.

Swap Learning

Learns from approved shift swaps over time. If an employee keeps swapping off Tuesday closers, the engine stops scheduling them there.

Demand Forecasting

Uses historical sales data to predict busy periods and automatically staff up. More revenue per labor dollar.

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Tries Thousands of Combinations
Doesn't just fill the first available slot. Runs thousands of variations and picks the mathematically best one.
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Never Gets Stuck
If a scheduling conflict arises mid-build, the engine backs up, tries a different path, and finds a solution every time.
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Fills Critical Shifts First
Hardest-to-fill shifts, like closing shifts requiring certified staff, get solved first so nothing important gets left empty.
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Remembers Every Week
Tracks hours and shift types across previous weeks so the schedule stays fair over time, not just this Sunday.
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Learns From Swap History
Notices when employees keep swapping the same shifts and quietly stops scheduling them there. No manual intervention needed.
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Scores Every Schedule 0–100
Grades each generated schedule across 8 dimensions (coverage, fairness, cost, compliance) so you always know how good it is.
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Picks Its Best Work
Runs multiple scheduling approaches simultaneously and automatically selects the highest-scoring result.
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Staffs Around Your Busy Hours
Connects to your sales data and automatically puts more staff on the floor during your highest-revenue windows.
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Respects Every Budget
Set a weekly labor budget and the engine will never build a schedule that exceeds it. Automatically.
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Understands Plain English Notes
Write "no early shifts this week" or "needs Friday off" in plain text. The engine reads it and adjusts. No forms required.
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Certifications Enforced Automatically
Opening shifts need opening-certified staff, closing shifts need closing-certified staff. The engine never mixes this up.
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Smart Handoff Scheduling
Knows which shifts need overlap for a smooth handoff and schedules accordingly so your team never runs unsupported.
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Breaks Built In
Automatically factors in break requirements based on shift length. No manager has to remember to add them manually.
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Weekend Rotation Fairness
Tracks who worked weekends recently and rotates equitably. No one person gets stuck with every Saturday.
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Honors Shift Preferences
Employees can indicate preferred shift types and the engine weights those preferences when building the schedule.
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Schedule Stability
Avoids rebuilding everything from scratch each week. Keeps consistent patterns your team can actually plan their lives around.
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Minimum & Maximum Hours
Set floor and ceiling hours per employee. Part-timers stay part-time, full-timers get their hours without going into overtime.
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Employee Skill Weighting
Rates employees on skills like reliability, initiative, and attention to detail, and factors that into who gets which shifts.
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Buddy & Conflict Pairs
Mark employees who work great together, or who shouldn't be scheduled together. The engine respects it every time.
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Escapes Dead Ends
Uses a technique borrowed from physics to escape scheduling dead ends that simpler tools get permanently stuck in.
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Real-Time Labor Cost
See exactly what the schedule costs in dollars before you publish, broken down by employee and by day.
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Coverage Gap Detection
Instantly flags any day or time window where you're below your minimum required staffing, before it becomes a problem.
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Regenerate Individual Days
Made a change mid-week? Regenerate just that day without touching the rest of the schedule.
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Priority Scheduling
Flag your highest-priority employees to ensure they get their hours and preferred shifts before the rest of the roster fills.
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Gets Smarter Over Time
The more you use it, the better it knows your team. Every approval, swap, and edit teaches the engine what works for your specific shop.

Why ShiftWiz?

Other tools give you a blank calendar and call it scheduling software. ShiftWiz actually does the work.

Other Scheduling Tools

  • Manual drag-and-drop every week
  • Basic auto-fill that ignores real constraints
  • No quality scoring. Hope for the best
  • 3+ hours of scheduling work per week
  • Time tracking bolted on as an afterthought
  • Forces your whole team to learn a new platform
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ShiftWiz

  • 1-click generation, every time
  • 25 real intelligence features
  • Quality scored and optimized automatically
  • Seconds, not hours
  • Built-in time clock, timesheets & team messaging
  • Works alongside Sling and Toast. More platforms coming
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I used to spend hours every week building schedules in Sling, making sure everyone's hours were fair, certifications were covered, and no one was overworked. Now I click one button and it's done, and it's better than what I was building by hand.
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Cassidy H. Store Manager

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Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know before getting started.

What is ShiftWiz?

ShiftWiz is a scheduling engine that generates optimized employee schedules using 25 intelligence features. Unlike other tools that just give you a blank calendar to drag-and-drop, ShiftWiz actually builds the schedule for you in seconds, factoring in availability, fairness, certifications, labor costs, and more.

Do I have to switch away from Sling / Toast / my current tool?

No. That's the whole point. ShiftWiz works as the "invisible brain" behind your current platform. Install the Chrome extension, import your team from Sling or Toast, generate an optimized schedule, and push it right back. Your employees keep using the tool they already know.

Which platforms does the extension support?

Right now the extension fully supports Sling and Toast, both reading and writing schedules. Support for 7shifts, Homebase, and other platforms is actively in development. You can also use ShiftWiz as a standalone scheduling platform without the extension.

Can I use ShiftWiz without the extension?

Absolutely. ShiftWiz works as a full standalone scheduling platform with built-in time clock, timesheets, and team messaging. Add your team, set up shift templates, and generate schedules directly in the app. Your employees can log in to view schedules, clock in/out, submit availability, request time off, swap shifts, and message the team — all from any device.

How does the "1-click schedule" actually work?

Once your team and shift templates are set up, you click "Generate Schedule." The engine runs multiple seed variations in parallel, using greedy assignment with simulated annealing optimization. It factors in availability, fairness, skill requirements, labor costs, and 25 other constraints. It picks the best result, scores it 0-100, and presents it to you in seconds. You review, tweak if needed, and publish.

What does the quality score mean?

Every generated schedule is scored across coverage, fairness, hour distribution, cost efficiency, preference matching, shift variety, stability, and compliance. A score of 90+ means the schedule is well-balanced across all factors. You can see the detailed breakdown to understand exactly where points were gained or lost.

Is there a free trial?

Yes! 2 weeks free, no credit card required. You get all features — the only limit is schedule generation up to 4 weeks ahead. Subscribe to unlock unlimited scheduling. Founding member rate: $29/month locked in forever.

How much does ShiftWiz cost?

$29/month or $250/year (save 28%). No per-seat fees, no tiers, no upsells. Everything is included: unlimited schedule generation, all 25 intelligence features, time clock, timesheets, team messaging, employee portal, multi-location support, and the Chrome extension. Founding members lock in this rate permanently.

Does my team need to install anything?

If you're using ShiftWiz standalone, employees just open the app in their browser. It works on any device, no app store download needed (it's a PWA). If you're using the extension with Sling or Toast, only the manager needs the Chrome extension. Employees don't install anything.

Is my data safe?

Yes. All data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS), passwords are hashed with bcrypt, and sessions use signed JWTs with automatic expiry. Your data is never sold, and ShiftWiz never accesses your Sling or Toast credentials. The extension reads scheduling data from the page, it never touches your login.

Can I manage multiple locations?

Yes. ShiftWiz has full multi-location support. Each location gets its own shift templates, store settings, and schedules. Employees can be assigned to multiple locations.

What happens when my trial ends?

It's your choice. Your data stays safe. Nothing gets deleted unless you want it to. Come back and subscribe anytime to pick up right where you left off. Or request a full data deletion and I'll wipe everything clean. No tricks, no pressure.

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