Free during pilot · Built for small businesses with hourly staff
Schedule less, spend smarter.
Schedules built from your sales forecast — so every shift earns its place on payroll, and every assignment shows its reasoning.
Piloting with 2 modern tea shops to validate the labor-forecast wedge.
A 2-location café with $3k/week in labor over-staffed by 12% bleeds ~$18k a year. That's the dial we let you turn.
Labor cost matches sales, not last week's gut feel.
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Hours-by-hour coverage. One drag-resize away from re-staffed.
Optimized: top pick of 4 candidates — lowest overtime impact, best fit for forecasted hours
- 0.0 hr OT impact (lowest of 4 candidates)
- 37.5 hr week (target 38)
- 12-day tenure ahead of next pick
Every shift shows its work. No black-box scheduling.
Imports your daily-sales report from
Plus any POS that exports a CSV with a date and a daily total. Don't see yours?
The wedge
Three things every other scheduler skips.
Forecast-driven schedules, decision logs on every assignment, hour-by-hour coverage you can read at a glance. Click a tab, or wait — they cycle.
Labor cost matches sales, not last week's gut feel.
The wedge
Built to actually help the manager, not replace them.
Every feature is here because a real small-business owner asked for it. No clock-in arms race, no employee surveillance. Just labor cost that matches demand, schedules that explain themselves, and audit trails the auditor likes.
- Schedules driven by your sales forecast
- Hit Generate and labor cost matches projected demand for the week — built from this period last year plus last week. Forecast labor weeks ahead, not after the fact.
- Why this person? — every shift explained
- Every assignment shows its reasoning: which constraint drove it, who the alternatives were, what the tradeoff cost. No black box. No surprises when you read the draft.
- Imports your daily-sales report
- CSV from Chowbus, Toast, Square, Clover, and more. Drop the file, the forecast picks up the pattern. No POS integration debt.
- Availability that actually works
- Recurring weekly availability plus one-off "can't do April 27" overrides. Employees set it once, managers stop asking.
- Shift swaps with approval
- Employees trade shifts in-app. Manager approves in a tap. Audit trail on every change — so you know exactly who was supposed to be where, and when.
- OT warnings before they hit
- Assign a shift that pushes someone into overtime and BetterWayIQ warns you before you publish. No surprises on payroll Friday.
From signup to first schedule in an afternoon.
Four steps. No demo call, no professional services, no weeklong onboarding.
Add your team
Import from a CSV or type them in. Set hourly rates, roles, and availability.
Set your hours and coverage
Open hours per day, role coverage you need on the floor, any rules unique to your shop.
Import 4 weeks of sales
CSV from your POS — Chowbus, Toast, Square, Clover. The forecast picks up the pattern.
Generate, review, publish
Click Generate, read the why-this-person reasoning, drag-and-drop tweaks, hit Publish.
Pilot · 2 modern tea shops
“Two locations, twenty employees, weekend rushes that destroy our margin. We needed labor cost to match the sales forecast — not the other way around. That's the dial nobody else is letting us turn.”
Who is this for?
Small businesses with hourly staff and recurring availability — wherever labor cost has to match a sales forecast.
The verticals we fit
- Cafés, bakeries, modern tea shops
- Salons and boutique fitness studios
- Specialty retail with scheduled shifts
- Any small business with hourly staff and a daily sales report
The owner we built for
- 2–25 employees per location, single or small multi-location
- Currently writing schedules by hand in Google Sheets
- Watching weekend rushes and weekday lulls eat margin
- Drowning in “who's closing Saturday?” texts
Pricing
One price per organization. Not per location, not per employee.
Free during the pilot. When we launch, the math is honest — your bill doesn't scale with your headcount.
Starter
For single-location small businesses ready to retire the spreadsheet schedule.
$39/month
1 location · up to 15 employees
- Drag-and-drop week grid
- Recurring + one-off availability
- Employee directory with CSV import
- Time-off requests with approval
- Email on schedule publish
- Audit trail on every change
Pro
Most popularWhere the wedge unlocks: forecast-driven scheduling that matches labor cost to projected demand.
$79/month
Up to 3 locations · unlimited employees
- Everything in Starter
- Forecast-driven generation
- Daily-sales CSV import (4 POS systems)
- "Why this person?" decision-log
- Forward-looking labor-cost projection
- OT warnings before publish
Multi-location
For café groups, salon chains, and any operator who has outgrown three locations.
$179/month
Unlimited locations · unlimited employees
- Everything in Pro
- Unlimited locations
- Custom roles + permissions
- Audit-log access for compliance
- Priority email support
- API access (on request)
Need something custom? Talk to us
Frequently asked questions
The things prospects ask before signing up. Full FAQ
- Do you connect to Chowbus, Toast, Square, or Clover?
Yes — via daily-sales CSV. Most operators already export their daily totals; drop the file in and the forecast picks up the pattern. Direct API integrations land once volume warrants the maintenance cost.
- Is my employee data secure?
Yes. Postgres on Supabase with row-level security at the database level — every query is filtered by your organization_id before the database returns a byte. HTTPS only, bcrypt-hashed passwords, no cross-tenant sharing.
- How long does setup take?
About an afternoon. Add your team, set your hours and coverage, import four weeks of sales, generate your first draft. No demo call, no professional services, no week-long onboarding.
- Why is this priced per organization, not per location or per employee?
Because pricing that scales with headcount punishes you for hiring. Our cost to serve you is roughly flat across plans, so we keep your bill flat too. Pick the tier that matches your location count, scale your team without dread.
Your next schedule shouldn't take 2 hours.
Free during the pilot. Your feedback shapes the product. Sign up takes a minute, the first schedule takes an afternoon.