Sling

Sling is a workforce scheduling app for businesses that run on hourly shifts. Managers build schedules from templates, handle availability, time-off requests and shift trades, and get alerts about overlapping shifts and overtime. Staff can clock in and out on their phones, with optional geofencing, or at a kiosk device, and timesheets can be exported for payroll. It also covers group and private messaging, announcements, a newsfeed, and per-shift task lists such as opening and closing checklists. Restaurants make up much of its user base, and Toast bought the company in July 2022. It also sells to retail, hospitality, healthcare, education, nonprofits and other shift-based employers. Pricing is per active user. The Free plan covers scheduling and messaging for up to 30 users. Premium costs 2 USD per user per month, or 1.70 on annual billing, and adds mobile time tracking, labor cost and overtime tracking, and calendar sync. Business costs 4 USD, or 3.40 on annual billing, and adds kiosk clock-in, reports, PTO management, and tracking of no-shows and sick call-outs. Paid plans come with a 15-day trial. Integrations are mostly point-of-sale and payroll systems: Toast, Square, Shopify, Harbortouch, Restaurant Manager and POSitouch, plus Gusto and ADP according to reviewers. Sling is not a general project management tool. It has no Gantt charts, boards or project planning, its integration list is short, reports require the top plan, and support is by email only.