FREE Employee Scheduling Software

Still using whiteboards, paper or spreadsheets to manage your shifts and schedules? You don’t have to!

With our free scheduling software, cut down on admin time - free of charge. A BrightHR Lite package allows you to:

  • Plan and adjust staff shifts
  • Schedule and send employee schedules
  • Automatically calculate working hours
  • Give staff 24/7 access to their schedules
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Create schedules for your business needs

Simply choose to start from scratch, or edit previous schedules from weeks ago. Make weekly and monthly staff planning as easy as can be!

  • Name your schedule
  • Set a schedule duration; weekly, bi-weekly or monthly
  • Select a start date so your staff know when to review their schedule
  • Add employees from the employee hub to your schedule
  • Create individual shifts with start time, end time and break durations
  • Add notes for employees and colour code shifts
  • Use shift labels to help staff identify unique shift types
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Add and edit team members in your employee hub

Quickly set up your team with names and email addresses to get started. You can add further information such as:

  • Job title
  • Profile picture
  • Start date
  • Phone number

Our free schedule software makes it easy for you to identify individual team members and assign shifts for any day you require.

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A free scheduling tool ideal for small businesses

Our free staff schedule software is ideal for small businesses. Easily manage your shifts, spend less money on HR and get time back to focus on running your business.

Keep your business effortlessly organised, at no cost. Many Canadian businesses are already using our online schedule tool for free, so why not join them?

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Upgrade anytime to unlock even more features

While using our free schedule software, you can upgrade to our core HR software package anytime.

Transform your people management and upgrade for access to even more time-saving tools:

Boost your bottom line with BrightHR. Discover how much you could save with our payback calculator.

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What our customers say about BrightHR

Huge reduction in admin time, removal of all paper based HR/Timesheet processes, easy ‘one-place’ access for our employees, rota planning, GDPR compliance.

FG Transport

I would definitely say to go with BrightHR having used it. I like the platform, it’s very easy to use and I think that’s important.

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What our customers say about BrightHR

There is now a lot less paperwork to fiddle about with, and a lot of time has been freed up in the processing and accessing of information.

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Optimize Your Employee Scheduling

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Why choose free roster software?

Automate and simplify your shiftplanning

Ditch the paper and clunky spreadsheets. Our free digital shift planning software does the hard work for you, so you can build accurate schedules in minutes, not hours.

Make workforce planning effortless

Quickly adjust shifts and keep your team in the loop with automatic reminders and instant notifications.

Stay organized and stress-free

Share shifts with your staff ahead of time and enjoy your weekends without the Sunday-night scheduling panic.

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