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Time tracking and scheduling for retail stores

Open/close coverage, sale-day surge staffing, and loss-prevention-grade audit trails — without enterprise procurement.

14-day free trialNo credit card needed5-minute setupWorks with your existing payroll
retail team using ShiftDeck on the job

Pain points every retail owner knows

These aren't hypothetical — they're the exact headaches that eat your Friday afternoons and make payroll week miserable.

  • Open and close shifts have one person and a manager codes the alarm — if the punch is wrong, the audit is wrong.
  • Black Friday and product-launch surges need 30% more staff for one day and your scheduler doesn't know how to flex.
  • Returns dispute time on the floor and you have nothing but the camera footage to back the manager up.
  • Multi-store managers cover holes by phone all weekend instead of seeing live coverage on a board.

Features that fix it — mapped to your workflow

Every bullet below links to a feature page with full details, screenshots, and FAQ. Nothing vaporware — it's either live or on the 90-day roadmap.

Open/close patterns

Templates for open, mid, and close shifts — clone them across stores in one click.

Live multi-store board

See every store's coverage right now — fill open shifts before customers walk in to an empty floor.

Field-level audit trail

Every edit captures who, when, why — invaluable when LP needs to validate timecard accuracy.

Surge-day alerts

Set higher coverage targets on sale days and ShiftDeck flags coverage gaps before publish.

Monday-to-Friday in ShiftDeck

Here's what a typical week looks like for a retail shop running ShiftDeck. No theory — just the steps.

  1. Mirror your store list as ShiftDeck sites with addresses and manager assignments.
  2. Build open/mid/close templates once; clone across stores with role-based permissions.
  3. On surge days, publish a higher coverage template — open shifts go to qualified part-timers first.
  4. Live board shows every store's status; managers fill gaps with one tap, no calls.
  5. Friday: audit trail and labor reports per store, exported clean for payroll and P&L.

Retail FAQ

Yes — role-based permissions scope schedule edits per site. Corporate keeps visibility and override across all stores.

Run your retail team on ShiftDeck

GPS-verified clock-ins, drag-and-drop scheduling, one-click payroll export — built for owner-operators, not enterprise procurement.

$69/mo · $690/yr (save ~17 %) · $499 Founders Lifetime (100 spots)