smoothroster

Scheduling for restaurants, cafés & shops

Build next week’s schedule in the time it takes to drink a coffee.

Drag shifts onto your team. Hit publish. Everyone sees their hours on their phone, and you stop texting screenshots of a spreadsheet.

  • No card needed
  • Set up in minutes
  • Works on any phone
Try it. Drag a ticket onto someone’s day.Thu – Sat
7a–3pOpening
11a–7pMid
4p–11pClosing
ThuFriSat
Priya
7a–3pOpening
Time off
Luis
11a–7pMid
Sam
16 scheduled hours Draft
SmoothRosterYou have a new shift now
One flat pricefor the whole team
14 days freeevery feature, no card
No app storeadd it to any home screen
Up to a monthscheduled in one view

The schedule board

The whole week, at a glance.

Every person, every shift, every hour and what it costs, on one screen. Drag to build it, drag to change it.

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The SmoothRoster schedule board: a week of shifts for a restaurant team, with hours and wages per person and overtime flagged in red

Built for the floor

Everything a manager reaches for on a Sunday night.

And nothing they have to learn.

Conflict warnings before you publish

Double-booked, on approved time off, or outside someone’s availability? The shift turns red right on the board.

Labor cost as you build

Hours and wages add up per person and per day while you drag, at the right pay rate for each position. Overtime gets flagged past 40 hours.

Shift trades, with you in charge

Staff offer a shift they can’t make, a coworker takes it, and nothing changes hands until you approve.

Suggests who can cover

Open a shift and see who’s free, available and under 40 hours, ranked for you.

Time off & availability

Staff ask from their phone. You approve in one tap and it shows up on the board.

Time clock & payroll export

Clock in from any phone, or switch it off if your POS already does it. Timesheets export to CSV.

Copy or repeat a week

Same team, same rhythm? Copy last week, or repeat one across the whole month, in one click.

Print it for the back wall

A clean, one-page printout of the week for anyone who still likes paper by the time clock.

Big team? Schedule one position at a time

Tap Cooks, build their week, publish. Then Bartenders, then Servers. Each tab shows what still needs publishing, and only that team is notified.

One person, more than one job

A cook who also bartends shows up on both teams, with a different pay rate for each. Their phone shows which job each shift is.

For your team

Their schedule lives on their phone.

No logins to forget and no app store. Your team opens a link, adds it to their home screen, and it works like an app.

An employee’s phone showing her upcoming shifts, with buttons to trade a shift or request time off
Schedule published3 shifts this week · 21.5h
Trade approvedSam is covering Fri 4p–11p

Getting started

Three steps, no training day.

  1. Add your people

    Type a name and email. They get a link to set a password, and that’s their whole onboarding.

  2. Drag shifts onto the week

    Pick Opening, Mid or Close from the side and drop it on a person, one position at a time if you like. Copy last week, or repeat it across the month, in one click.

  3. Publish

    Your team gets notified and sees the schedule on their phone. Changes stay as drafts until you publish again.

Pricing

One flat price per location. No per-employee fees.

Your whole team is one price, and it doesn’t go up when you hire.

Starter

For a single location getting off spreadsheets.

$29/ month
  • Drag-and-drop schedule, week to month
  • Publish to staff phones
  • Shift trades & reminders
  • Time off & availability
  • Schedule & publish by position
  • Up to 40 team members
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What would per-employee pricing cost you?

Per-employee appsat $2–$10 per person$50–$250
SmoothRosterStarter, whole team$29

Up to $2,652 a year back in your pocket.

Every plan starts with a 14-day free trial with every Pro feature, for up to 40 people. No card needed. Cancel anytime.

Questions

Good to know.

Something else? Sign in and use Help & support, and a real person answers.

Do my employees need to download anything?

No. It works in any phone browser. They can add it to their home screen like an app and get notifications there.

Can my managers edit the schedule?

Yes. Give someone the Manager role and they can build and publish schedules. Employees only see the published schedule and their own requests.

What happens when the trial ends?

Your schedules stay put and remain viewable. Pick a plan to keep editing. Nothing is deleted.

Can one person work two positions, like cook and bartender?

Yes. Give them a main position and tick the others they can work, each with its own hourly wage if the pay is different. They show up on each position’s tab, labor cost uses the right rate for every shift, and their phone shows which job each shift is.

We have a big team. Can I do the schedule one group at a time?

Yes. Pick a position tab, like Cooks, and build their week. Publish just that group, then move on to Bartenders. Only the people whose shifts changed are notified. Or build everyone and publish it all at once from the Everyone tab.

Can I schedule more than a week ahead?

Yes. Switch between a week, two weeks or a whole month, repeat a week across the next month in one click, and publish up to a month at a time.

We already clock in on our POS. Do we need the time clock?

No. The owner can switch the time clock off in Settings and it disappears for everyone.

Can I export my data?

Anytime. Owners can download all of their business’s data from Settings, and timesheets export to CSV.

Your next schedule is five minutes away.

Free for 14 days. No card, no setup call, no contract.

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