Shift scheduling for cafés
A café runs on a small team, early opens, and shifts that are often one or two people deep. There is no slack for a missed open or a double booking. Shifta gives you a clear week without the weight of software built for chains.
Built in Switzerland, priced in CHF, in English, French and German, with data in the EU. The free plan covers a single café, so you can run your whole rota without paying for features you will not open.
Where café scheduling gets fiddly
The open cannot slip
If the early shift does not show, the doors stay shut and you lose the morning. A rota that lives in one head or one spreadsheet is fragile.
Small team, overlapping roles
The same people make coffee, serve, and cash up. Scheduling is less about departments and more about who can open, who can close, and who is free.
Students and part-timers
Availability changes with lectures and second jobs. Planning around it from memory leads to shifts no one can actually work.
Margins leave no room for waste
An extra pair of hands on a slow morning is real money. You need to see scheduled hours and cost while you plan, not after.
How Shifta handles a café week
A week anyone can read
Build it by dragging shifts into place and publish once. Every barista sees the same plan on their phone, including who opens.
Availability before you plan
The team marks when they cannot work, so you build around real availability instead of guessing and reshuffling later.
Opening templates
Save your standard opening shift and reuse it every day, so the most important shift of the day is never improvised.
Cost in view
Scheduled hours and estimated cost update as you build, so a quiet morning stays lean.
Light enough for a small team
- Free for a single café, no card to start
- Availability and time-off requests in the app
- Opening and closing templates in one tap
- Hours logged on the phone, worked hours next to the plan
- Push notification the moment the week is published
- English, French and German for the whole team
Café scheduling questions
Is Shifta too much for a café with five people?
No. The free plan is built for exactly this: a small team, one venue, the essentials done properly. You only add features when you ask for them.
How do I make sure the open is always covered?
Save an opening template, schedule it each day, and publish. The barista on the open gets it on their phone with a push notification, so nothing is left to memory.
Can staff tell me when they cannot work?
Yes. They mark unavailability and request time off in the app, and you see it before you build the week.
Does it cost anything to start?
No. You can run a single café on the free plan. Paid plans in CHF add time tracking and analytics if you want them later.
What languages does it support?
English, French and German. Each person uses Shifta in their own language.
A calm café week, planned in minutes
Start free, invite your baristas, and publish a rota everyone can see. No card, no setup.