Rotations that run themselves while keeping you informed and in control. From a complex 24/7 on-call schedule to a simple kitchen rotation, set it up once and everyone always knows who’s on.
Use cases
Most teams run more than one rota. Shiftly handles the demanding ones, like round-the-clock on-call with overrides and escalation, and the simple ones, like whose turn it is to run standup. All of them in one place.
Round-the-clock cover with daily or weekly handoffs, overrides for holidays and sick days, and escalation to a backup when nobody responds.
Know who’s covering the support inbox today, with clean handoffs across time zones.
Share out the shifts nobody wants evenly, and publish the schedule months ahead.
A named reviewer every day, so pull requests don’t sit waiting.
Rotate who runs standup, retro and planning so it’s not always the same person.
Kitchen, plants, recycling. The rota nobody remembers until it’s their turn.
Features
Setup takes a few minutes. From then on, Shiftly builds the schedule, keeps it fair, and makes sure the right person hears about their shift before it starts.
Shifts are spread evenly over time, including the weekends and holidays nobody wants. People on leave are skipped, and Shiftly steers clear of booking anyone on two rotations at once or past the limits you set, like 40 hours a week or two weekends a month. When nobody else can take a shift, it’s still covered, and flagged so you can see it.
A heads-up by Slack or email, anywhere from 15 minutes to two weeks ahead. If nobody responds, Shiftly escalates to a backup.
Connect Slack and the schedule lives where your team already talks. Mention @platform-oncall to reach whoever’s on call right now, type /shiftly to see who’s on, and ask a teammate to cover your shift straight from a DM.
Swap a shift with a teammate, pick up an open one, or cover a single day for a sick colleague. The rest of the schedule stays as it is.
Shifts appear in Google Calendar and update when anything changes. Any other calendar app can subscribe with iCal.
Add a team once and use it in as many rotations as you like, or have it follow a Slack user group. When someone joins or leaves, every rotation updates.
Route alerts from your monitoring tools to whoever’s on call, share a read-only schedule with anyone, or show the current on-call person on your own dashboards.
How it works
Moving off a spreadsheet or another tool takes minutes, not a project.
Invite people by email, or reuse a team you’ve already set up.
Daily, weekly or every other Thursday. Pick the handoff time and the time zone.
Shiftly builds the schedule, reminds people before their shift, and keeps Slack and calendars up to date.
FAQ
Shiftly is rotation and shift scheduling software. You tell it who’s in a rotation and how often it changes hands, and it builds the schedule, reminds people before their shift, and shows everyone who’s on right now.
Yes. You get daily or weekly on-call rotations, overrides for holidays and sick days, escalation to a backup when someone doesn’t respond, and a Slack handle that always reaches whoever’s on call.
If you mainly use it to manage who’s on call and to notify them, yes. Shiftly covers rotations, overrides, escalation and Slack. It doesn’t place phone calls, so if your team relies on those, keep your alerting tool alongside it.
It rotates through everyone in order, skips people who are on leave, and keeps track over time so weekends and holidays don’t keep landing on the same people. It also passes over anyone already on another rotation at the time, or past the limits you set on how much each person does, whenever someone else can take the shift. When nobody can, the shift is still covered and flagged.
Yes. Anyone can ask a teammate to take their shift or pick up an open one, and managers can override a single shift without touching the rest.
Yes. Shiftly posts handoffs in Slack, gives each rotation an @handle that reaches whoever’s on, and lets people ask a teammate to cover a shift from a DM. Shifts sync both ways with Google Calendar, and other calendar apps can subscribe with iCal.
No. It works for any rota: support coverage, meeting rotas, weekend shifts, even the office kitchen.
Yes. Share a read-only link with anyone, no account needed. The API can also show who’s on call on your dashboards or status page.
Stop keeping the rota in a spreadsheet, a pinned message and one person’s head. Set it up once and nobody has to ask who’s on.