A fair week for every café, ward and shop floor: weekly offs rotated, overtime caught before it happens, every shift on staff WhatsApp by Friday.
Averages across Shiftboard teams in Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai and Trichy, April to August 2026.
Fourteen shifts went short at Filter Kaapi in September. Eleven of them were the close, and four of those fell in the same weekend.
Filter Kaapi, Adyar. Week of 7–13 Sep 2026. Everything past 48 hours is paid at twice the ordinary rate, the way the Tamil Nadu Shops and Establishments Act asks. Shiftboard drew this on Thursday, while the week was still a draft.
of overtime you decided to spend on Thursday — not ₹2,230 you found on the 1st. Two of the three crossings were fixed by moving one close; Sathish’s stayed, because he asked for it.
Kavya sees her own week the way the board sees it. When she asks for a swap, Shiftboard offers the shift only to people who can actually work it — right skill, right site, still under 48 hours — and the manager gets a yes or no, not a group chat.
Can someone take Saturday Mid? My cousin's wedding is in Tambaram.
Offered to the four people qualified for counter and under 40 h
I'll take it. I'm free till 7.
Nithya goes 24 h → 32 h. No overtime created
Approved. Board updated, both phones notified.
Saturday Mid now reads Nithya V. Payroll follows on its own
Punches from your eSSL reader or the phone app match against the rota on their own. Late marks and missed shifts land on the same board that made the roster, so the ledger above needs no second spreadsheet on the 1st.
Connect once, from Settings. Nothing to export on the 1st of the month.
Attendance and overtime post as payroll vouchers, one per person per month.
Staff list, leave balances and joining dates sync both ways every hour.
Hours worked flow straight into the salary run, with overtime at 2× rate.
Rotas, confirmations and swap requests, in Tamil or English. Used by 9 in 10 Shiftboard teams.
A daily who-is-in message for head office, and a nudge when a slot goes short.
Every shift on the person's own calendar, updated the moment a swap goes through.
Fingerprint and face punches arrive within a minute over your existing network.
A café with 24 people on the roster pays ₹1,176 a month. Managers and owners are never counted.
“Sunday nights used to be me, a notebook and fourteen WhatsApp groups. Now the rota is out by Friday lunch and the swaps sort themselves.”
“We haven't had an unfilled night shift on Ward 4 since March. The short-slot flag reaches me before the sister in charge even notices.”
“Overtime arguments went from every Friday to none. The timesheet shows the double-rate hours and that is the end of it.”
Free for teams under ten. Bring a staff list from a spreadsheet or Zoho People and publish your first week in fifteen minutes.