Daypart
Scheduling without the corporate HR bloat

Simple scheduling for small teams.

Build weekly schedules, collect availability, manage shift swaps, and keep everyone updated — from one clean app. For bars, restaurants, salons, and small service teams who don't want another HR platform to babysit.

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Free for up to 5 teammates, forever. No credit card.

Free tier

Up to 5 teammates

Today

Web dashboard (iOS after GA)

Built for

Bars, salons, small shops

Built for how small shops actually work

The schedule, handled.

Four questions, answered fast: who's working, who's available, what's open, what changed.

  • Weekly schedule builder

    Drag a shift onto a day, snap to half-hour cells, copy last week with one button. The week comes together in minutes.

  • Availability collection

    Each teammate sets when they can work — split shifts welcome. The builder flags conflicts with a sunset ring before you publish.

  • Publish in one tap

    Push the week live and every assigned teammate gets the update — in-app bell, email, or both. No group text needed.

  • Shift swaps & trades

    Crew requests a drop or a two-way trade. Manager approves with a 7-second undo. Full audit trail on every decision.

  • Open shifts to claim

    Post an unfilled shift; qualified teammates see it on the app. First come, first scheduled — the row drops out of the list.

  • Time-off requests

    A clean approval queue with the same undo-and-change-decision UX as swaps. Approvals flow straight onto the schedule.

  • Day-level events row

    Pin an Event, Promo, Holiday, Closure, or Note above each day so the whole week reads at a glance. Color-coded chips, manager-edited, employee read-only.

  • Smart notifications

    Schedule published. Swap approved. Shift starts in 30. Ten kinds of in-app notifications, throttled so no one gets spammed during weekly planning.

  • Print-friendly schedule

    Black-and-white weekly schedule for the fridge or the back-of-house corkboard. Density toggle for poster or handout sizing.

What we're not building.

No payroll. No tax filings. No HR onboarding flows. No multi-state compliance maze. Daypart is a scheduling command center — not another HR platform you have to babysit. We'll integrate with the tools you already use for the rest.

Built for

Small teams that actually work shifts.

If your week starts with a group text and ends with a screenshot, you're who we're building for. Daypart fits crews of 3 to 75 — owner-run, not enterprise-run.

  • Bars & restaurants
  • Cafés
  • Salons & barbers
  • Cleaning crews
  • Retail shops
  • Medical spas
  • Trades & service
  • Food trucks

And event staff, fitness studios, small agencies — anyone scheduling part-time crews on a weekly rhythm.

Honest pricing

Honest pricing for small teams.

Start free today. Upgrade in-app when your shop outgrows the trial — founding teams who sign up before paid tiers go live keep a permanent discount.

  1. Free

    $0forever

    Get a feel for the schedule grid.

    • Up to 5 team members
    • Schedule builder + open shifts
    • Availability + notifications
    Start free

  2. Team

    Most popular
    $20/ month

    Where shops actually run their week.

    • Shift swaps + two-way trades
    • Time-off approvals + audit log
    • Multi-manager delegation
    • Up to 25 teammates · 3 locations
    Start free → upgrade later

  3. Business

    $40/ month

    Multiple locations under one roof.

    • Multi-location aggregate view
    • CSV / payroll exports (roadmap)
    • Up to 75 teammates · 10 locations
    Start free → upgrade later

Compare plans

Start free. Grow into the workflow you need.

Free is real — fully usable for a 5-person shop figuring out whether Daypart fits. The workflow features small businesses actually run on (swaps, time-off approvals, audit log) live on Team. Business adds multi-location.

FreeTeamBusiness

Scale

  • Team size52575
  • Locations1310
  • Price$0$20 / mo$40 / mo

Free — get a feel

  • Weekly schedule builder
  • Drag-and-drop + copy last week
  • Conflict detection
  • Availability collection
  • Open shifts + claims
  • Roles (assign + filter)
  • Smart in-app notifications
  • Email notifications
  • Print-friendly schedule
  • Light & dark mode

Team — the working product

  • Role color coding—
  • Day-level events row—
  • Shift swaps + two-way trades—
  • Time-off requests + approvals—
  • Approval audit log—
  • Multiple managers—
  • Publish 2+ weeks ahead—

Business — multi-location

  • Multi-location aggregate view——
  • CSV / payroll exports——Roadmap

Coming for everyone

  • iOS app for the crewRoadmapRoadmapRoadmap
Need swaps, approvals, and the rest? Team unlocks it all.

What Daypart is, and what it isn't

Narrow on purpose.

We don't want to be your HR platform. We want to be the scheduler your shop actually opens every Sunday afternoon.

DaypartBundled-HR tools
  • Build the week's schedule
  • Open shifts + claims
  • Shift swaps with approval
  • Time-off requests
  • iOS app for the crewRoadmap
  • Payroll & tax filingsby design
  • HR onboarding flowsby design
  • Multi-state complianceby design
  • Time clockRoadmap
  • Pricing$0–$40/mo, simple$20–$100+/mo, per-feature
  • Setup time10 minutesAn afternoon

Daypart is intentionally narrow. If you need payroll and HR bundled, you have great options — Homebase, When I Work, Connecteam, Deputy. If what you actually want is just the scheduler, and you'd rather pay only for what you use, this is for you.

Daypart workflow features (shift swaps, time-off approvals, audit log) available on the Team plan ($20/mo) and above.

Common questions

Straight answers.

  • Is it really free?
    Free is real but narrow. Build the schedule, post open shifts, collect availability, send notifications — all up to 5 teammates, forever. Once your shop needs shift swaps or time-off approvals, that's Team for $20/mo. Founding-team signups keep a permanent discount when they upgrade.
  • Does it handle payroll or taxes?
    No. Daypart is just the scheduler. Pair it with Gusto, Wave, OnPay, or whatever your accountant already loves. We don't want to be your HR platform.
  • Can my crew get this on their phones?
    iOS app comes after web GA. Until then, the web app is mobile-friendly — Safari, Chrome, or "Add to home screen" all work.
  • How long does setup take?
    For a 5-person shop with one location: about 10 minutes. Create the business, invite the crew, drag the first week's shifts, hit Publish.
  • Can I import from another tool?
    Not in v1. Cut-and-paste from your old tool is the workflow today. We'll prioritize importers once customers ask.
  • What if a teammate quits and comes back?
    Removing a teammate keeps their historical shifts intact. Re-invite the same email and their record reactivates automatically (the "boomerang rehire" pattern).
  • Where is my data hosted?
    Single Postgres database, single US region at launch. Nightly encrypted backups to Cloudflare R2. HTTPS everywhere via HSTS preload — your browser-to-Daypart traffic is always TLS.
  • What about light and dark mode?
    Sun-moon toggle in the top-right of every page. Choice persists across marketing and the app, and respects OS preference until you toggle.

More questions? See the full FAQ →

Founding teams welcome

Stop wrangling spreadsheets.

Free for up to 5 teammates, forever. No credit card. Sign up before paid tiers launch and you'll keep a permanent founding-team discount when they do — that's the deal for everyone who comes in early to help us build it right.

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  • · Up to 5 teammates on Free, forever
  • · iOS app for the crew (coming after GA)
  • · Cancel anytime — your data is yours