Managing the schedule of supermarket employees requires precise organisation. Between variable opening hours, busy weekends, restocking shifts, and customer service, balancing the workload is a constant challenge. Shyfter provides a dedicated scheduling solution tailored to supermarkets, helping employers coordinate work shifts, leave requests, and absences across all roles: cashiers, stock clerks, department managers, and delivery staff.
Shyfter offers a remote time tracking tool that records each shift in real time. Managers can monitor employee attendance, shift compliance, and actual working hours directly from their dashboard.
Whether your supermarket operates on fixed shifts or requires flexible scheduling, the system automatically creates custom work schedules that match both business needs and legal requirements.
Employees submit leave requests directly through the platform. Managers receive real-time notifications and can immediately review and approve requests based on operational needs.
The system also tracks unexpected absences, giving managers immediate visibility into staffing gaps. This allows quick adjustments to the schedule, ensuring operations continue smoothly despite last-minute changes.
Shyfter automatically calculates overtime hours, ensuring they are accurately recorded and either paid or compensated with rest days according to labour laws. This helps avoid excessive overtime costs and ensures legal compliance.
The tool tracks work hours versus productivity, helping managers spot inefficiencies. By analysing staffing data, you can adjust schedules to better match workload peaks.
Shyfter’s clock-in system takes just a few minutes to install. Employees clock in using a personal code, ensuring accurate tracking and compliance with working time regulations.
Supermarkets can also link clock-ins to uniform checks, ensuring staff comply with dress code policies before starting their shift.
The system exports accurate work hours data directly to your payroll system. This reduces errors and simplifies payroll processing, including overtime payments.
HR documents such as contracts, shift agreements, and absence records can be stored safely in the system. Employees can also sign documents digitally, further streamlining administrative processes.
The platform offers productivity forecasts, allowing supermarket managers to estimate revenue based on historical staffing data and predicted customer flow.
Managers can also forecast labour costs, helping them adjust staffing levels to meet financial targets while maintaining service quality.
Shyfter adapts to the specific staffing needs of supermarkets. From cashiers to department managers, it considers required skills, peak hours, and individual availability to generate schedules that meet both operational and employee needs.
The system takes into account expected foot traffic and adjusts staffing levels accordingly. This ensures you never face understaffing during peak hours or overstaffing during quiet periods.
Employees and managers receive instant updates on schedule changes, approved leave requests, or shift swaps. This transparent communication reduces confusion and ensures everyone is informed.
Supermarket managers can create a free account to test key scheduling features and understand how Shyfter supports daily operations.
For a complete overview, supermarkets can request a free 20-minute demo, showcasing all features, including productivity tracking, overtime control, and custom shift planning.
Effective schedules consider:
HR teams should analyse store activity patterns, plan fair work rotations, and ensure compliance with working time laws. Shyfter automates this process, showing who is available, what skills are needed, and ensuring shifts are assigned fairly.
A clear absence policy helps manage unexpected situations. Employees should report absences through the system, which immediately alerts managers. This gives managers time to adjust shifts and find replacements. Shyfter’s absence management tool allows employees to upload medical certificates directly and managers to validate changes in a few clicks.
Shyfter supports scheduling for all supermarket roles, including:
