Why teams choose ElShift — and what they should expect.
Clear answers about workforce scheduling, Auto-Assign, trust, public pricing, Employee Hub, working rules, larger-team testing, exports, and plan limits.
ElShift is constraint-aware workforce scheduling software for shift-based teams. It combines employee scheduling, staffing demand, Auto-Assign, employee work preferences, repeating work patterns, leave, weekly-hour limits, locations, configured working rules, timesheets, exports, and Employee Hub in one scheduling workflow.
ElShift is built for schedules that depend on more than putting names into a calendar. Managers can configure staffing demand, employee eligibility, work preferences, work patterns, leave, weekly-hour limits, locations, and working rules, then use Auto-Assign to handle repetitive employee-to-shift matching while keeping shortages and exceptions visible.
ElShift verifies scheduler behavior against hard scheduling conditions including leave, weekly-hour caps, inter-shift rest, continuous weekly rest, work patterns, location handling, deterministic output, and preserved coverage. When no valid candidate exists under a configured hard constraint, the scheduler can leave the staffing need uncovered instead of silently breaking the rule just to make the schedule look complete.
When staffing demand is feasible and the relevant employee, coverage, and working rules are correctly configured, Auto-Assign is designed to perform the repetitive employee-to-shift matching without the manager manually resolving each assignment. In internal synthetic benchmark scenarios with 50 and 200 employees, feasible configurations completed without managers needing to manually repair rule violations after Auto-Assign. Managers still retain control to review, adjust, rerun, and publish.
Yes. ElShift has internal synthetic benchmark data for 50-employee and 200-employee workforce scenarios. These are product-verification scenarios, not customer case studies or independent third-party benchmarks, and they do not guarantee that every staffing problem or constraint combination will achieve full coverage.
ElShift does not invent employee capacity. If configured hard constraints leave no valid candidate for a required position, the scheduler can leave that staffing need uncovered and report diagnostics explaining the shortage rather than silently assigning an ineligible employee.
Auto-Assign evaluates staffing demand, existing assignments, leave, work patterns, weekly-hour limits, weekday and shift-template preferences, location eligibility, configured transition rules, working-rule enforcement, and workload-balancing signals across the selected scheduling range.
ElShift Starter is €30 per month for up to 40 active employees. It includes core scheduling, constraint-aware Auto-Assign, scheduling preferences and work patterns, timesheet review, and the overall schedule export.
Starter is €30/month for up to 40 active employees, Professional is €75/month for up to 69, and Business is €125/month for up to 100. These prices are public. Applicable taxes are calculated at checkout.
No. ElShift's self-service prices are publicly listed. Scheduling a free trial is optional and can be used to assess product fit before choosing a plan.
Yes. Multiple locations are included from Professional. Departments and department management are included from Business.
Employee Hub access is included with Business and Enterprise. Starter and Professional do not include Employee Hub access.
Employee Hub gives employees a secure workspace for published schedules, work preferences, attendance, leave, calendar updates, actions such as requests and swaps, profile, and timesheets. Managers continue planning and publishing from the manager side of ElShift.
ElShift can evaluate weekly-hour limits, scheduled overtime exposure, inter-shift rest, overlapping assignments, and continuous weekly rest using the schedule context available and the organization's configured enforcement settings.
ElShift supports overall schedules, all-employee schedules, individual employee schedules, and PDF, CSV, or Excel formats depending on plan. Professional, Business, and Enterprise also include custom export branding.
Self-service plans are managed through ElShift billing. Your organization data is preserved if billing becomes inactive, while paid write functionality is restricted until reactivation.
Yes. Employee Hub supports direct employee shift-swap requests with eligible colleagues. The colleague can respond where relevant, a manager makes the decision, and any approved assignment change is applied through the manager scheduling workflow before the updated schedule is republished.
Yes. Employees can clock in and clock out from the Attendance area in Employee Hub, record break minutes at clock-out, and review attendance history including worked duration. Attendance is connected with published-shift and timesheet context where available, and supported attendance events can be queued while offline and synchronized after connectivity returns.
Yes. ElShift preflights supported manual assignments, removals, shift clears, and template changes against the current schedule. Physically invalid changes are blocked. Reviewable scheduling-policy exceptions are shown before an allowed manager override, and deliberate overrides are recorded.
Manual schedule review can surface approved leave or full-day unavailability, configured availability, disliked weekdays or shifts, work-pattern and rotation mismatches, transition rules, weekly-hour limits, minimum inter-shift rest, continuous weekly rest, consecutive-day avoidance, location rules and minimums, and staffing coverage shortages.