Staff scheduling built for how
cafés and restaurants actually run.
Rotating shifts, weekend coverage, part-time and full-time staff on the same roster. Build a fair week in under 5 minutes, then share it however your team already communicates.
If this sounds familiar, you're not alone.
Every café and restaurant owner we've built ShiftMate for described the same three problems.
Rotating AM / PM / Mid shifts, every week
Opening crew, lunch rush cover, closing shift — juggling three shift types across a roster of full-timers and part-timers by hand eats up a whole afternoon, every single week.
The same 2-3 staff always get the bad shifts
Without a system, the closing shift or the Sunday slot quietly lands on whoever's easiest to schedule, not who's actually next in fairness. That's exactly how good staff start looking elsewhere.
The schedule ends up as a screenshot in a WhatsApp group
Someone always says they didn't see it, or saw an old version. No confirmation, no clean personal record of just their own shifts.
Here's how ShiftMate actually solves it.
Auto-schedule that respects real constraints
Set each staff member's availability, leave dates, and preferred shift type once. ShiftMate's auto-schedule fills the week around those constraints automatically — including the rest-day and consecutive-shift rules that matter for F&B rosters specifically.
A fairness score before you commit
See a 0-100% score showing how evenly shifts are actually distributed before you send the roster out — not after someone complains about always getting closing shift.
One-click Excel export
Need a clean spreadsheet for your own records or a supplier/franchise report? Export the full week, grouped by staff, in one click.
Personal schedule, copy-pasted straight to WhatsApp
No app for your staff to download. Copy each person's own schedule as a ready-to-send message — in English or Bahasa Melayu — and paste it into whatever chat you already use with them.
Quick questions, straight answers.
We mix full-time and part-time staff — does ShiftMate handle that?
Yes. Set each staff member's availability, max shifts, and shift preference individually — the auto-schedule respects full-time and part-time constraints differently for each person on the same roster.
Do my staff need to download anything?
No. You copy their personal schedule as a ready-to-send message and paste it into WhatsApp, or export the whole week to Excel — whichever your team already uses.
Can I try it before paying?
Yes — 14 days full access, no credit card required. See full pricing.
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