Scheduling that respects your rules

Build next week's schedule in one click.

Add your team, click optimize, publish. Shift Balancer fills the whole week — coverage, certifications, time-off, fair hours — in the time it takes to pour a coffee.

Free during early access No credit card No app for staff

It honors coverage, certifications, approved time off, and hour limits as hard rules. If your staffing can't cover them, it tells you exactly what's short — which day, which role, how many — and how to fix it, before it builds a thing.

Press Watch it build to see it happen.

Scheduling shouldn't cost you your weekend.

You know who's certified, who asked for Friday off, who's already maxed out. Holding it all in your head — or in a spreadsheet of strike-throughs — is the part that eats your evening. Hand it the rules once and get the evening back.

How it works

Three steps. One of them is a click.

Roles, certifications, and availability. Set it once; it carries to every week after.

One click builds a complete week — coverage, rest gaps, max hours and certifications all checked.

Adjust anything by hand, then publish. Your team gets their shifts by email.

See the difference

From Sunday-night spreadsheet to a week that scores excellent.

The same week, optimized. Every shift covered, every rule kept, scored excellent.

Last week, by hand. Guesses, sticky notes, three people texting “did I get Friday?”

What you get

Less work for you. A week nobody argues with.

One click

Hard rules, honored as rules

Coverage, certifications, approved PTO, availability, daily staffing, max shifts per week — enforced, not hoped for. Can't be met? It says so up front.

Fair by math, not by hand

It spreads the unpopular shifts and the hours evenly, so you publish a schedule nobody argues with.

No app for staff

Your team gets shifts, swaps, and time-off through a private email link. Nothing to download.

One click — after a one-time setup

The first setup takes a sitting. After that, next week's schedule is genuinely one click away.

Fewer arguments

A schedule you don't have to defend.

It works to honor day-off requests in priority order and split the late shifts and weekends evenly. You hand out a schedule your team accepts — without playing favorites or fielding “why me again?”

Built for your world

It already knows your rules.

Restaurants

The Friday-night line is covered.

Openers, closers, a certified lead on every shift — or a clear reason when it can't. Everyone sees their shifts the moment you publish.

Clinics

The right license, every hour you're open.

It places a qualified clinician in each slot and protects approved time off, so you're never short where it counts.

Your team's data stays yours.

Encrypted in transit & at rest Role-based access Never sold
Questions

The things managers ask first.

No. AI schedulers guess at a week and hope it holds up. Shift Balancer works the opposite way: you set your rules, and it only ever hands you a schedule that actually follows them — or tells you exactly what's missing. Nothing invented, nothing to double-check.
It checks before it builds and tells you exactly what's short — “Nov 14: only 3 people available but 5 required” — plus how to fix it. No half-built schedule to untangle.
No. They get their shifts by email and can request a swap straight from it — no app, no login.
Roughly $30–$50 per team each month — per team, not per location. It's free during early access, and founding teams lock in the best price.
One sitting to enter roles, certifications, and availability. After that, each new schedule is one click.
Hard rules — coverage, certifications, PTO, hour limits — yes, always, or it tells you why it can't. Day-off requests it honors in priority order; it gets as close as your staffing allows.
Early access

You get the founder's attention.

“We're early, which means real attention. Email us about anything awkward in your week and a founder answers — fast.”

— from the founder
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