Build and revise shift schedule drafts in a grid that feels like Excel.

Set staffing needs, time off, work limits, and fixed shifts or unavailable days on a familiar grid. Click Run to build a first schedule draft automatically, review totals and gaps, then adjust cells or rules and run again.

For owners, schedulers, and anyone who still builds schedules in Excel or Sheets and wants to stay in control.

When time off, staffing needs, or fixed shifts change, update the grid and run the schedule again.

• Keep the Excel-like grid you already know.
• Build a first schedule draft, then check staffing levels, totals, and gaps yourself.
• Change shifts or schedule settings, run the schedule again, and export CSV when it looks right.

How it works, step by step.

You stay on one familiar grid from setup to export.

This workflow is for people who want help building the schedule, but still want to review it themselves before they share it.

1. Add staffing needs, time off, work limits, and fixed shifts or unavailable days.
2. Click Run to build a first schedule draft automatically.
3. Review the grid, totals, gaps, and messages.
4. Adjust the shifts or schedule settings that need work.
5. Click Run again to rebuild the schedule with your changes.
6. Export CSV when the schedule looks right.

Starting the table takes work. But the bigger problem is having to revisit it every time something changes.

Excel or Google Sheets is not the problem. Rebuilding the schedule by hand is.

The hard part is not just making the table. It is having to go back through it whenever time off, staffing needs, or late changes come in.

Excel or Google Sheets is easy to start with. What takes time is checking the schedule again and again when staffing needs, work limits, manual edits, and last-minute changes start colliding.

• One change can create a new gap somewhere else.
• It gets harder to compare the table you are editing with the last schedule you shared.
• Late changes, time-off updates, and manual edits can force another full pass through the schedule.
• Manual checks get easier to miss when you are in a hurry.

You keep the Excel-like grid, but spend less time rebuilding the schedule by hand.

More scheduling help than Excel alone. Lighter than a full workforce system.

Built for scheduling, with control still in your hands.

This is not a full HR or payroll system, and it does not ask you to hand over the final decision. It helps the person making the schedule generate a first schedule draft, check gaps and totals, make changes, and run it again.

• Familiar for people who already work in Excel or Sheets.
• Focused on schedules, staffing needs, changes, checking, and CSV export.
• Useful when you want help building the schedule, but still want to check it yourself.

See the sample screen before you decide how far you want to go.

Check the grid, totals, and messages before you decide whether to try early access.

Start with the screen sample. View the sample outputs if you want the CSV sample and review notes too.

Look at the first schedule draft in an Excel-like grid, check the staffing totals, and check the messages before export. If you want more detail, compare the screen sample with the CSV sample and review notes in the sample outputs.

Shift Scheduler Standard Edition — scheduling grid preview

GRIDCheck the first schedule draft in an Excel-like grid.

TOTALSCheck staffing counts before export.

MESSAGESReview gaps, notes, and CSV output.

View the sample outputs when you want to check the CSV and notes.

Start with free early access to the Standard Edition.

No paid plan decision is needed to try early access.

Common questions before you try it.

Short answers only.

From here, you can try early access or view the sample outputs first.

Try the workflow, or review the sample first.

Start with the path that fits how you want to evaluate it.

Leave your work email for early access. Or view the sample outputs first if you want to review the current screen sample, CSV sample, and review notes before deciding.

• Early access is for trying the workflow.
• Sample outputs are for reviewing the current screen, CSV, and notes before you decide.

Preview note: the workflow is still evolving, so features and access may change. Early access may be limited or paused.